Month: December 2023

A cabin stands on the edge of a hill overlooking the valley of Cota, a municipality in the savannah of Bogotá, at an altitude of 2566 meters above sea level. The house finds its origin in the story of another built in 2007 in Sisga, which served as the founding project of our office: a butterfly-cut cabin built with the selvages discarded by sawyers when cutting down a pine forest. The vocation to dispense with the unnecessary is the common thread that connects the questions of then with those of now, and as a whole with that appreciation of the primitive life that is in the promise of inhabiting a cabin.

New York architect Nate McBride was making the hourlong ferry ride from Rockland, Maine, to the island of North Haven when the site of a retreat he was designing on the island came into view. As he pondered how to keep the new home from overwhelming t…

The modernization of the Main Building of the Wybrzeże Theater in Gdańsk was a very difficult, arduous but also extremely fascinating task for me and my team. The studio’s portfolio includes theater, opera and performance buildings but none of them was so close and so personal to us. We started the design work in 2015 with the winning competition for the new auditorium and practically, with varying intensity, we continued it until July of this year.

Have you trimmed your Christmas tree yet? If so, we’d love to hear about your tree trimming traditions and stories and see your tree. Please photograph your tree and share a picture or two with the Houzz community! If you haven’t put up a tree yet, pl…

Pavilion E4. Efficient Outdoor Educational Space (E4), is a research project of the University of Malaga to provide with a replicable avant-garde classroom that allows teaching outside. 

the design prioritizes the preservation of the building’s historical integrity, emphasizing existing structural elements.
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Located in Arucas, in the north of Gran Canaria, House A is inserted, through a contrast operation, in a plot between party walls and with a steep slope that forms part of a building plot of little architectural interest. The house is presented as a neat and simple volume that relates to its environment away from any urban reference nearby, formalizing itself autonomously, attending to other stimuli such as sunlight, the views, or the intrinsic conditions of the architectural object.