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From Industry to the Living Room: Metal Furniture in Interior Architecture

Camilla Ghisleni — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:30:00 +0000

How did a material conceived for bridges, factories, and large structures find its way to the living room bench, the apartment bookshelf, or the coffee table? Metal has crossed centuries associated with labor, machinery, and monumentality—from the exposed structures of the 19th-century World Expos to the production logic of modern industry. Its presence in the domestic interior is not a given, but rather a cultural achievement: the transformation of an industrial material into an element of everyday, intimate use, close to the body.

Foundations House / Holger Cuadrado

Andreas Luco — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000

The house is located in a residential neighborhood of the city of Loja, at 2,060 meters above sea level in the lower Andes in southern Ecuador. Situated on a small plot of 7.60 m x 13.50 m, this project seeks to reflect on issues related to the structural principle in the definition of architecture and spatial flexibility as a design resource.

Tree House / FB+ estudio

Clara Ott — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 15:00:00 +0000

The project seeks to provide a refuge for the family that inhabits it (1 couple and 2 children), who frequently camp in the pine forest where it is located; we chose 5 trees, which we connected with metal beams (painted pink - color theory), to generate the structure of the floor and the roof respectively, thus creating 2 habitable levels: the transverse slope of the terrain generated the Ground Floor-viewpoint, where it is also the BBQ area, with a clay kitchen "molded" into the natural slope of the land.

Villa La Carmela / DOSarq + BUDA + BEarq

Andreas Luco — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:00:00 +0000

The commission comes from our father, a person in his seventies who learned to enjoy solitude with a good coffee, and to feel fulfilled when he can share it; he proposes a rural complex with 4 independent houses, but with common spaces, he also adds, anticipating his grandchildren, versatile and progressive areas; he will call this town by the name of the love of his life, Carmela.

How to Design a Window Display?

Giovana Martino — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Window displays are the means of communication with the customers, the transition layer between the street and the store. From its emergence in the 2nd century, in the Roman Empire, until today, many changes have taken place until we reach the current windows, which not only display products, but also the identity of brands. Here is what to consider when designing a showcase.

FB+ estudio Office / FB+ estudio

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:00:00 +0000

Located on the street Juan de Salinas in Loja, FB + is an architecture, design and construction studio whose fundamental focus is to develop multidisciplinary projects that allow the creation of spaces where sensations of the users are being intensified. The spaces created by FB + dialogue with the environment and respond coherently to the needs generated by the project.

El Palomar House / FB+ estudio

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

The house is located in Santiago de las Montañas on the street Juan de Salinas in the Las Palmas neighbourhood in Loja. It is built in 1950, and formerly known as "The Old House". El Palomar is a restoration and renovation project in which FB+estudio creates a subtle dialogue with the city, from within.

Optical Pitães / Tsou Arquitectos

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000

The new space of the Opticas Pitães, located at Av. De São Lourenço in Braga, occupies a commercial and service area with about 80 m2.
The intervention sought to conceive a visually attractive space, articulating the different functional moments.

Haight / MNMA studio

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:00:00 +0000

The intervention happened in 80 square meters of an overlap in a building of 25 floors located in Leblon, Rio de Janeiro. The biggest challenge was dealing with the pillar found literally in the middle of the considerable space. That was the premise of the project, to "embrace" the same volume with a cube made of glass superimposed on a new slab, expanding the possibilities of space.

Estar Móveis / SuperLimão

Joanna Helm — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Located in a building on the corner of the street, the store should house the contemporaneity of the collection and the brand ́s new language. It has acted in the market for over 60 years and in this new undertaking, it searches for a new esthetic language printed on its products and also in the architecture.

Edificio 03 98 / Espinoza Carvajal Arquitectos

Nico Saieh — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

THE BUILDING AND THE CITY The urban situation of 03 – 98 building is located within 500m from the center of Loja’s city; there are landscape values and street furniture around 03 – 98, the relationship with the public space becomes continuous with the entrance plaza of the project.