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Nature Conservancy Lodge / Toro Ferrer Arquitectos

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:40:00 +0000

This residential complex, designed for a family dedicated to land conservation in the central mountains of Puerto Rico, offers a welcoming retreat for family members, friends, and visiting researchers. The project is conceived as an architecture deeply connected to the landscape, where the spatial experience is guided by views of the Tres Picachos reserve and a direct relationship with the natural surroundings. The main entrance features a terraced water garden that frames the view toward the mountains, establishing a gradual transition between arrival and the living space.

Madrid Río Park / Burgos & Garrido arquitectos

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:42:00 +0000

The Madrid Río project is the most important work carried out in the city of Madrid in recent decades and is likely one of the most ambitious public space projects built in Europe in recent times.

AKQA Venice / zaa zanonarchitettiassociati

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 18:00:00 +0000

The AKQA offices venue, located in a plot once occupied by a livestock building, is an elongated one-level pavilion with an open plan, ending on the north side with a large conference hall, nestling on the ground and open to the countryside view.

House G / ARP studio

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:00:00 +0000

On the banks of the green hinterland of the Slovenian coast, among the olive groves of the Istrian landscape, a family of four has made a new home among the houses of the border town of Škofije. The low ground-floor house is set on the edge of a terrace. The layout of the house is simple and based on a square, half of which is covered by a flat roof and half by a classical, gabled, cornice roof. The position and choice of materials do not make the house stand out in any way from its surroundings, and with its full front façade, it even appears to be somewhat restrained towards them. However, its restraint is only apparent and part of a spatial journey that begins when you enter.¸

AAC / Demo Working Group

Andreas Luco — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 03:00:00 +0000

Atelier AC is a low-cost teaching facility and community center in Aachen. Located in a public park adjacent to a school, it complements the existing functions of sports facilities, gardens, rehearsal rooms and recreational areas with a multifunctional space. In order to achieve the predetermined budget, the design was conceived as a usable shell that leaves open possibilities for appropriation and further construction as a permanent intermediate state.

The Cliff Hotel Jeju / Soltozibin Architects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Narrative Landscape - The Jeju Landscape Plan is a hyponymy of the Narrative Landscape, which is a continuous combination of the environment, facilities, and human activities. While respecting the Jeju landscape plan, the hotel is placed towards Yeryecheon and its scenery instead of leaving the axis from Hanlla Mountain to the ocean as an empty space. Yeryecheon is a stream that begins at Hanlla Mountain, but it hasn’t been recognized for a long time. As you approach closer to Yeryecheon, the vast valley forms breathtaking scenery that overwhelms visitors. In the outer stream next to the hotel, there is a waterfall named 'Eongtto Falls' that only falls loudly after rainfall. Yeryecheon's scenery expands more at higher levels of the hotel. As the view continues from the gates of the hotel to Hanlla Mountain, the hotel seems as if it is floating above an ocean of green. By connecting nature and people, the hotel creates a unitary scenery.

Point Loma Nazarene University Science Complex / Carrier Johnson + Culture

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) is a 3,500-student university in San Diego, California located on a lush coastal campus with landmarks predating the 1800s in the theosophist vernacular. PLNU life is grounded in a strong sense of faith guided by the tenets of personal salvation, a life of service, and the Bible’s primacy. PLNU is also known for its acclaimed science programs and successful medical school placements. Its existing Rohr Science building was 52 years old and the needs of the Chemistry, Biology, Physical, Math, and Computer Science Departments had grown beyond the capacities of that facility.

Green Solution House / 3XN

Valeria Silva — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:00:00 +0000

The vision for Green Solution House is to be a demonstratorium for circular sustainability with three goals 1) to demonstrate green solutions 2) to promote continuous improvement and 3) to enable knowledge sharing. The design of the building itself is based on several parameters to show a holistic approach to sustainability. The building has been certified to DGNB standards, documented as an Active House and accepted in the Cradle to Cradle registry.

International Broadcasting Center of Universidade de São Paulo (CDI-USP) / Onze arquitetura

Susanna Moreira — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:00:00 +0000

The University of São Paulo has international renown, and within this context, the construction of a new reference center that would encompass various activities related to the academic practice of international relations was proposed.

Cuatro Aguas House / DX Arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 03:00:00 +0000

The Cuatro Aguas House is conceived as a massive unique volume pierced in the center, with four independent waters, two towards the garden and two towards the interior of the volume generating a water courtyard or impluvium.

tmEK House / BLAF Architecten

Andreas Luco — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0000

BLAF-architecten built a family home in Erps-Kwerps, a seemingly authentic church village in Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish outskirts of Brussels. The building plot is determined by the man-sized wall of the adjacent garden (a gelbe: a walled garden of a presbytery, a common typology in church villages); a dead-end street paved with cobblestones, designed as an extension of the village square; a wild beech hedge that separates the plot from a footpath that bends off from the plot to leave the village; and a few short-trunked apple trees that hide a banal apartment building on the other side.

Napo Native Fauna Center Tower / Caá Porá Arquitectura + Pinxcel + Comunidad Kichwa Añangu

Benjamin Zapico — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:00:00 +0000

In 1998, the Kichwa Añangu community, located in Yasuni National Park, decided to transition from agriculture and hunting to ecotourism. This transition allowed the community to improve their quality of life while preserving their traditional activities and protecting the unique biodiversity of their territory.

Moruleng Cultural Precinct / Office 24-7 Architecture

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

The rural town of Moruleng is found along the slopes of the Mmammitlwa Mountains in the Northwest province of South Africa. It is the ancestral home of the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela people. Through a conceptual spatial layering of histories, the precinct forces a complete rethink of the notion of the cultural museum. Numerous historical influences on the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela community are at play in this space, from pre-colonial stone settlements and systems, to how Christianity and apartheid have affected this rural community, and also a future rich with possibility. The precinct talks to issues of localized identity in a global framework, as you move between age-old beliefs and traditions and present-day realities.

Graneros House / Juan Carlos Sabbagh Arquitectos

Valeria Silva — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:00:00 +0000

The assignment was to design a country house. The place should be the same that has been occupied by the old house that hosted the family for 35 years, since around it a large park had developed over the years, with great dedication. Always with the idea of doing the definitive house, the park was slowly consolidated through a masterplan that included stables, pens, water mirrors, a swimming pool, and a barbecue area.

Lindower 22 Building / Asa Studio Albanese

Andreas Luco — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 03:00:00 +0000

Lindower 22 is one of the first industrial redevelopment projects in the historic working-class district of Wedding in West Berlin and involves the redevelopment of the former Max Hasse Machinen Fabrik, an early 20th-century redbrick industrial complex. With the decline of old industries, it was initially left behind by the regeneration processes following the 1990s, which instead touched the other districts of Berlin.

Esmeralda House / Cazú Zegers Arquitectura

Valeria Silva — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 17:00:00 +0000

At the foot of the Manquehue hill, in the Lo Barnechea commune, Casa Esmeralda is located. It is part of a family settlement built within a privileged sector of Santiago. The project, for the architect's mother, bears the name Esmeralda because her daughter Clara thus defines her grandmother's eyes.

TB House / Trung tran Studio

chlsey — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The house we designed for a young couple, the husband lives and works in the lowlands in the Northwest mountains, he always cherishes a house like in his childhood he lived with his parents, where level 4 houses were hidden under the green trees. So when he searched for land to build his own house, he wanted it to have lots of trees. By chance, he found an area of land that seemed to exceed his expectations, large land with many big trees bearing the stamp of the time, located on a gentle hillside with small rocky outcrops on the ground. On this land, he wished to have a simple house, bearing the tradition of the old northern house, but still exuding the breath of the northwest mountains.

Regional Music and Dance School of Saint Paul / Périphériques Marin+Trottin Architectes

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000

The Cimendef building, designed by Périphériques architects in 2015, was supposed to be a media library. The opening of the library didn’t happen but the building itself was bought by the Region Reunion Office. The new owner decided to put different cultural facilities in it by mixing together the Regional Music School (CRR), the headquarter of an association promoting local music (PRMA), and a part of the Literature Regional Center (CLR). The building is brand new but it needs to be changed to welcome those new uses.