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The project is the response to a private entrusts for the design of permanent housing of a family of four members. It is developed on the outskirts of the city of Santa Fe, in the area of current growth of private neighborhoods and countries on the Santa Fe – Rosario highway. These developments, building regulations promote exempt construction with its four facades open to regulatory withdrawals. In this particular case, the terrain is characterized by two determining variables: The preponderance of the depth of the lot, with the best visuals to the bottom (public square), and the south orientation of its counterfacade, with the challenge that implies from the climatic point of view in these latitudes.

A pioneering adaptive reuse project, Mass MoCA breathes new life into a 17-acre industrial complex built in the late 1800s. The museum was completed in three phases, initially opening to international acclaim in 1999. The third and final phase, Building 6, is the realization of the architect’s 25-year master plan, which continues Mass MoCA’s “museums within the museum” concept. Two buildings with a combined 130,000sf of undeveloped space create areas for video, film, and multi-media exhibits, as well as events, workshops, and storage.  

With its massive, intricate roof and man-made pools and canals, Ateliers Jean Nouvel’s astonishingly complex Louvre Abu Dhabi was a project 10-years in the making before finally debuting to the public earlier this month. But even if the project missed it’s original completion date, it certainly wasn’t for lack of trying – and that’s proven in this new video timelapse from EarthCam.

the chinese university of hong kong has reinvented traditional building technologies, providing villagers with a safe, economical, comfortable, and sustainable reconstruction strategy that villagers could afford, own, and pass on to their children.

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A black Labrador retriever named Mister is the seventh puppy raised by Michelle Chun at her home in Alhambra, California, for Guide Dogs for the Blind, a service dog organization based in San Rafael, California, that relies mostly on volunteers to beg…

AJ+C and NH architecture’s sydney fish market proposal is awarded ‘world future project of the year 2017’ at the world architecture festival in berlin.

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ulf mejergren architects unveil their proposal for an iconic observatory, the lookout loop, combining three sculptural staircases in pape nature park.
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