ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1042810/the-apartment-that-began-with-a-tile-atelier-glushko Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Susanna Moreira https://www.archdaily.com/1042810/the-apartment-that-began-with-a-tile-atelier-glushko Some projects begin with a floor plan. This one began with a wall of Portuguese tiles. Located in a 36-square-metre apartment in Rio de Janeiro, this project began with a simple ambition: to transform a compact home into an open and fluid loft. Yet, as the demolition progressed, two unexpected structural columns emerged, making the original concept impossible. Rather than hiding these constraints, the project embraced them, allowing the architecture to redefine the design.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1000231/the-history-of-the-copacabana-sidewalk-from-its-origin-in-portugal-to-burle-marxs-intervention Wed, 17 May 2023 04:00:00 +0000 ArchDaily Team https://www.archdaily.com/1000231/the-history-of-the-copacabana-sidewalk-from-its-origin-in-portugal-to-burle-marxs-intervention The Copacabana calçada (Copacabana sidewalk) is one of the greatest symbols in the stunning landscape of Rio de Janeiro. What not everyone knows is that its history (and design) precedes the intervention of Roberto Burle Marx in the 1970s. The origin of the design, as well as its stones, is Portuguese.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/942547/lobby-hotel-b-and-b-copacabana-pkb-arquitetura Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:00:00 +0000 Valeria Silva https://www.archdaily.com/942547/lobby-hotel-b-and-b-copacabana-pkb-arquitetura Located in one of the most charming addresses in Rio de Janeiro, between Copacabana and Ipanema, the1st hotel of the french hospitality group in thecityand3rd in the country, needed to merge the concept of a budget hotel, but with a sophisticated and welcoming design.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/920435/the-beach-and-the-time-installation-gr Mon, 08 Jul 2019 14:00:00 +0000 Daniel Tapia https://www.archdaily.com/920435/the-beach-and-the-time-installation-gr "The beach is the place of leisure, work, meetings, sexuality, repression, sleeping, playing, the place the sun and much more. A territory of instability, transformation, and uncertainty. Its thin sand soil forms and deforms to the taste of time and according to desires. One person or several? The crossing of footprints confuses ourselves, indicates multiple possibilities, hypotheses that occupy the imaginary and defy the possibility of prediction. As the day goes on, so do the wind and the tide so that, at dawn, the territory becomes available again, always open to what will come. The beach makes you think about time, about a way of being and not being ".

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