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FMT Estudio expands 1980s Mexican house to merge “architecture and life”

March 13, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican architecture practice FMT Estudio has renovated and extended a 1980s house adding clean white facades accented by wooden and wrought iron details in Mérida on the Yucatán peninsula. Completed in April 2023, La Posmoderna measures 350 square metres (3,767 square feet) on a square, walled 630-square metre (6,781-square foot) property. The private, internally focused

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Boyd Architects creates monolithic-metal forms for South Carolina residence

March 7, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

US studio Boyd Architects has wrapped a house in standing seam metal and pine boards and articulated each form with a vernacular hip roof in Summerville, South Carolina. Based in Charleston, Boyd Architects completed the 3,611-square foot (335-square metre) Summerville House in 2023, as a “process of form-making”. “This inspiration for the project was the

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Suspended bridges connect round cabin hotels in Mexico

March 4, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican architect María José Gutiérrez has placed a series of round, pine-clad cabins connected by suspended bridges onto a vineyard in Mexico to serve as vacation rentals. Located in Valle de Guadalupe, Ensenada on the Baja Peninsula, Zeuhary Hospedaje Campestre includes a community lounge and four vacation rental cabins. “Beyond creating spaces we aim to

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Tall Architects wraps X-shaped Alabama cabin in black metal

March 1, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

US studio Tall Architects has created a cabin that has two stacked gabled forms that are rotated into an X-shape and clad in corrugated metal near a river in southern Alabama. Known as Fowl River Cabin, the 2,100-square foot (195-square metre) residence was completed in 2023 in Theodore, Alabama – a small community along the

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RED Arquitectos integrates corn millstone into facade of Mexican house

February 27, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican architecture studio RED Arquitectos has completed a cement-covered residence with screens made of stones used for preparing food on the coastline of Cerritos, Mexico. The 130-square metre Casa que Da was completed on a 2,000-square-metre property in Baja California Sur in May 2023. The town – located between La Paz and Cabo San Lucas

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Inaba Williams creates mirrored stucco-clad residences in California

February 21, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

US studio Inaba Williams Architects has created two mirrored houses with courtyards in Santa Monica, California that are clad in white stucco and have net-zero energy use, according to the studio. Completed in 2023, the twin five-bedroom houses measure 3,900 square feet (362 square metres) each and are divided by a privacy wall and rectangular

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Cesar Mancillas distributes patios throughout narrow Mexican house

February 15, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican architect Cesar Mancillas used high concrete walls while creating a linear house with spaces focused on relaxation in the often-changing urban landscape of Ensenada, Mexico. With a floorplan of 251 square metres, Casa Malbec was completed in 2022 by Cesar Andrés Mancillas de la Torre, an architect based in the northern Mexico state of Baja

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DB Arquitetos stacks house with wooden screens on Brazilian coast

February 13, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Brazilian architecture studio DB Arquitetos has completed a holiday home surrounded by a wooden screen in a forested site outside of São Paulo, Brazil. Known as Casa VJC Iporanga, the 660-square-metre summer retreat is located in a residential condominium complex in Guarujá, roughly 100 kilometers southeast of São Paulo on the Atlantic coast. The home

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Saunders Architecture creates steel-clad house for Carraig Ridge in Alberta

February 12, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Norway-based Saunders Architecture has created a Y-shaped house clad in Corten steel with floor-to-ceiling glazing in a design-focused neighbourhood near Calgary, Alberta. The aptly named Y House has a footprint of 190 square metres and was completed by design firm Saunders Architecture in 2022. The residence is located in a designed-focused community called Carraig Ridge,

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Bloco Arquitetos drapes screens over cantilevered steel house in Brazil

February 7, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Brazilian studio Bloco Arquitetos has used prefabricated elements to create a house with two stacked, perpendicular volumes clad with screens in Brasília. Known as the 350 House, the 500-square metre residence can be completely opened to light and views or closed for privacy because of the many screens along its side. BLOCO Arquitetos – which

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