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2177 3rd Street Apartments / Woods Bagot

December 11, 2021 Alexandria Bramley 0

Light, air and transparency drove Woods Bagot’s design of this residential and retail building in the emerging Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. Sited between a formerly industrial waterfront and busy Third Street, 2177 Third Street offers floor to ceiling windows, and a spectacular green wall that’s fast becoming a local landmark.

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Przybecki Law Firm Offices / BIEN STUDIO

October 2, 2021 Alexandria Bramley 0

This interior design of a law firm is located in a historic tenement house in Jeżyce in Poznań. The project involved expanding the space by creating a new reception area, a conference room, and more office space. Wooden antique doors lead to a large open space for visitors.

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Newport Coffee House / 34-TEN

October 1, 2021 Alexandria Bramley 0

The Newport Coffee House is an interior build-out of an existing commercial space in the heart of downtown Evanston. The design process began with a casual conversation between the architect and the owner in a small café in Andersonville. Part of the discussion covered the elements required with making exceptional coffee. This inspired the notion of precision required in the laboratory setting which helped conceptualize the coffee bar- the focal point of the space. The lab concept also drove the organization of the equipment and the ash wood light rig which highlights and illuminates the work performed at the coffee bar. Pristine white Slayer espresso machines positioned symmetrically on the coffee bar reinforce the notion of a laboratory for coffee.

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The Hospitality Center / Wowhaus Architecture Bureau

September 30, 2021 Alexandria Bramley 0

One of the most important problems of modern architecture in Russia is considered the lack of identity. Nowadays, Russian architects often imitate contemporary colleagues from other countries. As a result, national identity is completely absent in the newly created environment. New objects, erected even in an open field, have also been designed for several decades without realizing that they belong to the national culture.

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Aux Entrepôts Housing / HHF Architects

September 29, 2021 Alexandria Bramley 0

Aux Entrepôts is a new quarter in Renens in the Lausanne West region with angular, shimmering facades in green, yellow, aubergine, and red. HHF Architects winning entry for an invitational competition forms part of the new master plan Parc du Simplon. The Basel architects’ office has designed four three- and four-story buildings with varying square and rectangular typologies, all with vivid brick exteriors. The ruggedness and simplicity of the chosen bricks are evocative of the site’s industrial history, while the glazed surfaces of the bricks that measure 240 x 52 x 14 millimeters contribute to the lively atmosphere of the area.

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McKinley Park Studio / 34-TEN

September 28, 2021 Alexandria Bramley 0

A Chicago photographer approached 34-TEN with a problem they needed help solving: the careful conversion of an existing 4,700 square foot bow truss warehouse into a professional photography studio. The renovated building needed to house staff offices, a client lounge, ample storage, and a large open space that could accommodate motion and still photography used in advertising.

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Hand & Flower / Paul Murphy Architects

September 27, 2021 Alexandria Bramley 0

The former Hand and Flower pub on the Kings Road have been carefully restored and extended by Paul Murphy Architects (PMA) to create a new high-quality, mixed-use development and in its own small way, mend the part of the street pattern.

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3 Attached Houses / PONT12 architectes

September 27, 2021 Alexandria Bramley 0

3 attached houses replace a villa from the 1950s in a residential area overlooking Lausanne. The project makes maximum use of the plots potential for densification while taking care, through its form and materiality, to fit into its suburban and green context.

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Municipal Technical Center / Brenas Doucerain Architectes

September 27, 2021 Alexandria Bramley 0

This project deploys itself in the great landscape of North-Isere, rationally adapted to the slope. The site, a large sloping meadow facing north, turns its back to the village. The vegetal environment is its quality, the topography its constraint. The program requires large and compact built volumes to store machinery and materials, such as those reserved for the surrounding agricultural activity.