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Rumah Padang Linjong / Patishandika

November 27, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

The residence was built in 3 years, located in Bali Indonesia. Main materials chosen were concrete and wood. Staying to a minimum choice to complement the natural landscape and environment. The house has a split leveling, so as you enter you can see into different spaces on different levels.

Prefab house modules by James Whitaker link like a “daisy chain”

November 26, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

The architect behind a splayed shipping container house in California has revealed plans for a Canadian lakeside residence, comprising a string of prefabricated modular units. The Anywhere House is set to be completed in Canada’s Alberta province in 2019. It will be the first property built using James Whitaker’s prefabricated modular system, which the London-based architect

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Alternate Scenario 01 / Taller General

November 26, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

New vs. Old
Every so often we meet a client who is faced with the decision to buy a new property that might be out of his budget or buy something already built and recondition it. Our advice always stands out the second option. We believe that is better to take advantage of an existing building and with doing so strengthen the city as it, the challenge is visualize the possibilities.

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Sacha / SABO Project

November 26, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

The apartment for a young Parisian family results from the combination of two identical overlapping apartments with double exposure. Bedrooms are gathered on the lower floor and protected from neighboring noise while the social upper floor benefits from unobstructed views of Paris.

Mexico City housing by HGR Arquitectos surrounds circular Japanese-style garden

November 25, 2018 James Brillon 0

This housing block in Mexico City, designed by locally based HGR Arquitectos, is arranged around a large circular courtyard where a Japanese guava tree grows. The MX581 residential building is located in the city’s southern San Jeronimo Aculco district, near to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Completed earlier this month, the housing block

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Mexico City housing by HGR Arquitectos surrounds circular Japanese-style garden

November 25, 2018 James Brillon 0

This housing block in Mexico City, designed by locally based HGR Arquitectos, is arranged around a large circular courtyard where a Japanese guava tree grows. The MX581 residential building is located in the city’s southern San Jeronimo Aculco district, near to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Completed earlier this month, the housing block

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Marta Nowicka swaps a garage for a three-bedroom house in east London

November 25, 2018 Jon Astbury 0

Designer Marta Nowicka has built a three-storey house on the site of a former garage in London’s Dalston, featuring walls clad in cedar shingles. The Gouse – a combination of the words house and garage – stands on a site that Nowicka bought online “without even seeing it”. The plot measured just 45 square metres,

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The Green Miracle is a Berlin flat featuring colour-block cabinetry and an indoor swing

November 25, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Sage-green storage closets and a swing seat are among the quirky details in this renovated 19th-century apartment in Berlin, designed by local studio Club Marginal Architekten. The Green Miracle is located in the city’s buzzing Schöneberg district, in a residential block built in 1899. The 90-square-metre flat had been an empty shell for years, but has

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Apartment LC / Bogdan Ciocodeică Studio

November 25, 2018 Rayen Sagredo 0

The main axis of the center of Bucharest, stretching from North to the South of the city, between the two World Wars underwent its most important architectural development. The existing 19th century urban tissue, with its boulevards, parks, impressive palaces and villas, all very much alike the European high class neighborhoods, was redefined, extended and brought into the 20th century with exceptional modernist housing buildings of all scales and sizes, from family villas to large apartment buildings. Many of the architectural landmarks of 21st century city are from this era and they still strongly influence the architecture of the contemporary collective housing scene. However, compared to the new buildings, the original 1930’s buildings still seem to be more sophisticated, mainly probably due to their patina, charm and uniqueness. One such building houses an apartment that was in need of a renovation project.

Bovenbouw transforms trio of historic buildings into apartments on Antwerp’s busiest shopping street

November 24, 2018 Anna Winston 0

Antwerp-based studio Bovenbouw has combined three 19th-century buildings on the city’s main shopping street, creating a new residential development boasting sculptural openings and coloured marble details. Located at the far end of Meir, the busiest shopping street in Antwerp, the project brings together a trio of historic buildings that have shops at ground level. Bovenbouw won

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