Glen Lake Community Schools / Mathison | Mathison Architects
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Architects: Mathison | Mathison Architects
- Area: 4000 ft²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Sherwin-Williams, Corian, Fórmica, Michigan Certified Concrete
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Professionals: Mathison | Mathison Architects
Huma Itaim Building / UNA Arquitetos
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Architects: UNA Arquitetos
- Area: 7000 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: ACFC4, Arterra, Atlas, Atlas Schindler, Cyberglass, +11
Unnamed House / Associates Architecture
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Architects: Associates Architecture
- Area: 240 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Grupo Arca, Mikrocem, Ohla Studio
The Plus for Vestre / BIG
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Architects: Bjarke Ingels Group
- Year: 2022
Reimagining the Bathroom: Contemporary Bathtubs for Total Relaxation
Throughout the years, bathrooms have been viewed as purely functional spaces strictly programmed for hygiene and privacy. Becoming smaller and more practical, the utilitarian, space-saving shower stall has often been considered the norm, pushing the bathtub into obsolescence or as an additional luxury for those with extra space (and money). Recently, however, as lifestyle changes driven by the pandemic have placed wellness as a top priority, the notion of the bathroom as a sanctuary has really taken hold. Contemporary bathrooms have thus been reimagined, shifting towards open spaces of relaxation, comfort and recuperation. And tubs – with their inherent meditative nature – have returned to the spotlight.
Architectural Interventions and Exhibitions Taking Place at the 2022 Milan Design Week and Salone del Mobile
Only a few days left until the annual inauguration of Milan Design Week 2022, one of the biggest international design events which features the Fuorisalone and Salone del Mobile. From the 7th till the 12th of June 2022, the streets of Milan will be hosting an array of architectural interventions and exhibitions curated by local and international designers as part of the Fuorisalone. And at the Fiera Milano | Rho, Salone del Mobile 2022, the awaited furniture and interior design event of the year, will be celebrating its 60th anniversary with themes and projects that reflect on “inclusive” design, fostering "autonomy, comfort, movement, usability, interaction and safety for all".
o’flower Shop / Plainoddity
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Architects: Plainoddity
- Area: 78 m²
- Year: 2022
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Manufacturers: Bolon
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Professionals: Okkot
French Architect Renée Gailhoustet Receives the 2022 Royal Academy Architecture Prize
French architect Renée Gailhoustet has been awarded the 2022 Royal Academy Architecture Award for her pioneering work designing public housing and neighborhoods in and around Paris. The award is given annually by London's Royal Academy to individuals or practices whose idea or body of work has positively contributed to the public.
Disabled Are the Cities, Not Their Citizens
Cities with disabilities are those that present spaces and environments that impede or make it difficult for citizens to access, participate and interact, regardless of any loss or abnormality related to their psychological, physiological or anatomical structure or function. I invite readers to, with me, change the focus of the approach on disabilities, transferring to cities and built environments the inability to meet in a dignified and effective way the diversity of abilities and capacities inherent to human beings.
New Photo Series Captures Casa Zalszupin, Jewel of Brazilian Modernism
Located amidst the vegetation, almost invisible to those who see it from the street, a jewel of modern Brazilian architecture is hidden in the São Paulo neighborhood of Jardim América. Casa Zalszupin, designed in 1960 by the Polish architect based in Brazil, Jorge Zalszupin, combines traces of local modernism with influences that the architect brought with him from Europe, notably Scandinavian architecture. In a recent photo series, Paul Clemence sought to capture through this house, "the architect's and designer's essence".
The Corrugated Iron Roof: Avant-Garde or Unaesthetic?
It’s an essential architectural element, one we tend to immediately take note of when we look at buildings new to us – the roof. The roofs that shelter the buildings we see in our cities today are diverse in their typology. Flat roofs are a common sight in the city centers of urban metropolises, hip roofs are a popular choice for dwellings around the world, and the gable roof is arguably the most common of all, a roof type popular in stylized depictions of what a standard house looks like.
What Can Metaverse Planners Learn from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
We are still at the dawn of the Metaverse, the next wave of the Internet. The current “mainstream” Metaverse platforms serve as experimental containers to host the wildest dreams of virtual worlds where we are supposed to unleash the imagination. However, from a spatial design perspective, they have so far been lame and ordinary. Without the constraints in the physical world, how do we draft the urban blueprints in the metaverse? I believe metaverse planners can find inspiration from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, in which he revealed a poetic and mathematical approach to “urban planning” in the imaginary worlds.
Malu House / Aguirre Arquitetura
House Tokyo / UNEMORI ARCHITECTS
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Architects: UNEMORI ARCHITECTS
- Area: 51 m²
- Year: 2019
110 Housing Units / CoBe Architecture & Paysage
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Architects: CoBe Architecture & Paysage
- Area: 5396 m²
- Year: 2022
Vahadivan House / Design Work Group
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Architects: Design Work Group
- Area: 2420 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Bossini, Kohler, Mitsubishi Electric, Simens