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Located in Chicoutimi, Saguenay, l’école de l’Étincelle is a shining example of architecture firmly rooted in its context. The architectural approach rethinks the conventional school and proposes a scale that is friendly, accessible, and reassuring for children. Fragmented into small houses around a central courtyard, the architecture becomes familiar and warm, creating a calming and reassuring atmosphere that encourages students to love school and feel comfortable, just like at home.

The Lefferts Manor section of the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District in Brooklyn is a remarkably well-preserved series of historic houses from the late 19th to early 20th-century: stately and large enough for families, the interiors can pose challenges to contemporary living, with outdated building systems, a lack of storage, and dark, divided spaces. New owners of a corner house—a couple with backgrounds in marketing and journalism, raising two children—came to ABA for something “clean, bright, natural, highly purposeful/functional, and kid-friendly.” While the exterior of the building is protected by landmark status, ABA approached the interiors not as restoration, but as reinvention. Looking to retain character while minimizing complexity, ABA suggested unifying spaces and bringing calm and simplicity by using as few ingredients as possible, consistently throughout. In doing so, the design process simultaneously references the house’s historic form, borrows from early modernists like Adolph Loos in material usage, and unapologetically eliminates detail.

Flanked by the sea on one end of the site, Eventide Coffee is truly and well blessed by abundant eastern light. Uninterrupted views and the constant presence of the sea become the quiet narrators of the space, shaping what is both a passion project and a place of pause. The café emerges as an intuitive response to site, climate, and context. “From the beginning, the brief was never about creating a statement café,” the architects share, “It was about facilitating calm, something that felt natural to the place and its people.”

Every architectural project is shaped by a unique story. At Estúdio HAA! we believe that spaces should reflect the personal rhythm and intentions of those who inhabit them and Refúgio Mirzé is a direct response to that principle.

the two-week workshop combined academic research with on-site construction.

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nivan sky gardens by studio symbiosis integrates 9.37 acres of urban nature into a vertical residential ecosystem with modular garden terraces.

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