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SARCO / HACEDOR:MAKER/arquitectos

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:00:00 +0000

SARCO is an adaptive reuse of an industrial facility, converted to serve as the new administrative headquarters for the South American Restaurants Corporation, a regional restaurant franchise operator. The original 50,000 ft2 structure, assembled with tilt-up concrete walls, and steel roof, beams and columns, was built by Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals in the 1980’s, distributed as a larger 32,000 ft2 warehouse, and a smaller 18,000 ft2 administrative-industrial wing.

Alhambra House / URBANA

Amber P — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:00:00 +0000

The Alhambra house is located in an upper-middle class neighborhood composed of single-family residences arranged on a garden-city type urban lay-out . The residence sits on a lot of 950 square meters, and is flanked by similarly sized parcels on both of its sides (east and west); the south side of the property is defined by the street, whereas the north side butts the metropolitan train system.

VS Houses / Ramírez Buxeda Arquitectos

Nico Saieh — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The project is a speculative development and the client is a for-profit corporation. The program was dictated by the needs of the market: four bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms with all the other spaces typical of sub-urban living. The houses exist between a “rural feeling” access road in the fringe of suburbia and a high speed expressway.