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Casa Mad / JSARQ

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000

This beautiful two-story residence in Costa Rica was designed around three existing trees on the site, allowing the architecture to adapt and coexist with nature rather than dominate it.

Jungle Gym / VOID

Andreas Luco — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Integrated into a lush tropical environment, Jungle Gym is designed as an open platform immersed in the abundant vegetation. This space serves as a shaded refuge, encouraging introspection and promoting both physical and spiritual well-being. Its design responds to these needs through a simple and elegant architectural gesture that seamlessly blends with the natural surroundings.

Patio House / VOID

Benjamin Zapico — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Located in San José, Costa Rica, Casa Patio is a tribute to traditional colonial design where houses open up to an interior patio and common areas surround it.

Heavenly Highlands / Casalvolone Arquitectura

Valeria Silva — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Framed by the lush nature of Costa Rica, this spectacular family residence offers a perfect fusion of modern architecture and traditional construction techniques and materials. The house, whose elegant black facade blends harmoniously with the natural surroundings, stands out as a cool and shaded refuge for its inhabitants.

AD I 28 House / KMA. Katia Marten Arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Located in a gated community next to Playa Marbella, Guanacaste; Casa AD was designed to welcome family and friends to enjoy life in a beautiful space that invites the stunning views of the tropical dry forest into the warmth of the home. The design accentuates the connection between architecture, nature, and people. The external areas play an important role where guests are immediately greeted by the main elements of design that inspire outdoor living. With Costa Rica's privileged warm climate and extraordinary biodiversity, outdoor areas are essential for connecting and enjoying the “pura vida” lifestyle. Casa AD’s architecture was created under a simple and elegant line. Its main concept was built upon three main pillars: privacy, the perfect fusion of architecture that connects with nature, and inviting the outside into the comfort of the interior spaces. Two main modules divide the social areas from the private ones, creating an "L"-shaped distribution that takes advantage of the geometry to create seclusion from the neighbors and public streets.

Cities from US and Europe Seek to Ban Fossil Fuels in New Buildings

Maria-Cristina Florian — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 05:30:00 +0000

Boston is the latest city to announce a city-wide plan that, if passed, would eliminate the use of fossil fuels in new constructions and major renovation projects. This measure expands upon the commitment to enact climate action and make Boston a Green New Deal city. Other US cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle, and Berkeley have all imposed similar measures in recent years. Seven European cities - Bilbao, Bratislava, Dublin, Munich, Rotterdam, Vienna, and Winterthur - have also developed a project to phase out fossil fuel from urban heating and cooling.

Gardenia Apartments / Studio Saxe

Paula Pintos — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Studio Saxe decided to design and develop its first vertical sustainable building, proving that it is financially viable to create an architecture of value-focused on quality of life through large terraces and planting, within the constraints of the local economy.

Piedmont Hills High School Science and Life Skills Complex / LPA

Valeria Silva — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 18:00:00 +0000

The design for the new Piedmont Hills High School Science and Life Skills Complex overcomes the challenges of a difficult site to create a modern, cost-effective, energy-efficient facility focused on indoor-outdoor learning environments and making science fun.

Google Gets Approval for Downtown West Campus Designed by SITELAB Urban Studio

Andreea Cutieru — Mon, 31 May 2021 05:30:00 +0000

The City Council of San Jose recently approved Google’s “Downtown West” mixed-use corporate campus, an 80-acre net-zero environment, also set to feature the largest multimodal transit hub on the west coast. A departure from the tech campuses of Silicon Valley, the masterplan designed by San Francisco-based SITELAB urban studio is envisioned as an integrated part of the urban environment, an extension of Downtown San Jose open to the local community.

SMAR Architecture Studio Wins International Competition to Design Silicon Valley Landmark

Andreea Cutieru — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 05:30:00 +0000

SMAR Architecture Studio has won the Urban Confluence competition to envision a new landmark for Silicon Valley. The Breeze of Innovation project is a forest of kinetic rods swaying in the wind creating a mesmerizing visual effect.

Carazo Architecture Office / Carazo Arquitectura

Valeria Silva — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Our vision of the future of office spaces is embodied in this project where the quality of life and natural comfort of its users prevail, reducing as much as possible the impact on the environment, instead of focusing on technology as the only or main element from a job site.

CROX Designs Futuristic Vertical Park for San Jose

Eric Baldwin — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 05:30:00 +0000

Design practice CROX has designed a conceptual vertical park for San Jose, California. Dubbed the San Jose Ring, the landmark project takes on a circular shape inspired by architect Lin Congran's idea of unity and historical continuity. As the team outlines, the project aims to reconnect people and nature through a huge loop, emphasizing connection through a combination of sculpture, architecture and park space.

CDK GLOBAL Offices / modulus

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 19:00:00 +0000

A global leader in data-backed insight for the motorized world, CDK Global planted its stake in Silicon Valley for a new headquarters that would combine the simple appreciation for all things automotive with the forward-thinking philosophy of team-oriented workspaces and technology-enabled efficiency. Motors meet Megabytes.

Google Releases 80-Acre "Downtown West" Campus Plan for San Jose

Eric Baldwin — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Google has released new details of a sprawling, 80-acre plan to transform downtown San Jose, California. Designed to be a corporate campus, the "Downtown West" development will emphasize public open space and parkland. Google intends to make the area feel less like a traditional corporate development by incorporating office space, housing, retail and other uses within a new urban neighborhood framework.

The Pavilion / Feldman Architecture

Valeria Silva — Sun, 31 May 2020 21:08:00 +0000

When our clients purchased a stunning lot nestled among the hills above San Jose, they dreamed of an equally stunning structure that sat lightly on the dramatic hill slope. The original building had burned down some years before, leaving behind its foundation and an unnaturally flat plot cut into the hillside

KPF Breaks Ground on an Innovative Office Complex in San Jose, California

Christele Harrouk — Wed, 06 May 2020 05:30:00 +0000

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) has just announced the groundbreaking of Platform 16, an office campus in Downtown San Jose, California. Comprising three-buildings, the 1,200,000-square-foot project is an innovative complex that favors indoor and outdoor connections.

INOUT House / Joan Puigcorbé

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 22:00:00 +0000

This house establishes an uninterrupted ̈inside-outside ̈ relationship; a sequence of layers between the open and the intermediary. Frontal boundaries are blurred by sheets of glass and vegetation, framed by two horizontal planes, floor and ceiling, where the full and the void are related via a series of matter, water, vegetation and sky. Lateral boundaries establish the ̈full-void ̈ relationship via a series of solid materials that close transversal views.

Patios House / Rama Estudio

Clara Ott — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 06:00:00 +0000

The house is located in the province of Cotopaxi, in the area of Lasso. The land is part of the area of Ranchos San José in the middle of a rural environment. The order was a family house thought to enjoy the countryside, the sowing, the landscape, and the environment. The proposal takes into account some conditions for its implementation and functioning. It was proposed a discrete architecture, almost imperceptible, thought from the raw and natural material. A heavy piece contained in the land and that almost disappear in the environment while being part of it.