PPAA presents ‘mar vista,’ an LA residence shaped through subtraction, where patios and large openings structure daily life near the coast.
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As one of Melbourne’s largest infrastructure projects, the West Gate Tunnel is an underground roadway designed to relieve congestion on the West Gate Bridge and establish a direct connection to the city’s western industrial, port precinct. Crossing four waterways, the project’s design narrative draws on a 60,000-year-old story of Indigenous communities fishing and harvesting eels among weaving reeds. There’s also a reference to colonial settlement around the docks and the ropes used to lift things off ships.
World Super Market is located on the basement level of MATRO Department Store, composed of a series of continuous retail units. The owner has concentrated the multi-national brand resources of Matro Luxury Centre here, creating a commercial environment that balances global vision with everyday warmth. Architect Yoshihiko Seki of KiKi ARCHi, serving as the lead designer, drew inspiration from the concept of a “color spectrum,” unifying color and texture into a woven visual rhythm. Through flowing color cues, the design unfolds an experiential commercial narrative centered on materiality and color.
paf atelier and BB architectes design the orange steel structure to reorganize living spaces without partitions.
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In South Korea, beaches with surfable waves are rare. This scarcity has fostered unique local cultures in the few coastal towns where surfing is possible. Yangyang-gun stands as the symbolic birthplace of this culture and remains a vibrant hub for the community today. Waveworks Yangyang was established here as a “workation” center—a space designed for the coexistence of work and vacation. Within its open, multi-purpose interior, individuals work with a sense of freedom that reflects the modern era of the mobile office.
Boston architecture studio Payette has completed an academic building in central Pennsylvania called ECoRE, which features a sculptural form and facades wrapped in reddish brick and metal fins. The Engineering Collaborative Research and Education Building, called ECoRE for short, is located on the university’s campus in the town of State College. It sits within a
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The objective was to reflect on the relationship between the kitchen and the other spaces of the Duvivier-Byington house, a project by the Carioca architect Lúcio Costa dated 1988, located in Rio de Janeiro. When the house was designed and built, the kitchen was a relatively small and closed environment. Over time, living patterns have transformed, and this space has come to occupy a central role in the dynamics of the house, becoming a place of great permanence, with various functions and a meeting point.
A warm contemporary interior where wood, stone, and sculptural details come together to create a calm, refined, and thoughtfully modern living space.
the smooth outline of the structure slips beyond the shadow of the house, allowing plants to thrive and daylight to spill into the dining space.
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This primary bathroom was part of the remodel of a family home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, that also included the kitchen and mudroom. A referral from another client led the homeowners to Black Forest Design and Build, which handled the redesign and…
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