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Machado House / BTE-ARQ

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000

The BTE - Casa Machado project is situated on a plot measuring 13 meters in width by 44 meters in depth, resulting from the subdivision of the garden of a former grand residence, located in a residential neighborhood of Castelar characterized by its traditional houses. This dwelling stands out for its commitment to sensitive habitability, achieved through the fragmentation of a compact volume by creating internal courtyards that seek a careful synergy between interior spaces and the surrounding vegetation.

Beyond the Dropped Ceiling: 10 Interior Projects for Making Services and Conduits Part of the Architecture

Jonathan Yeung — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 07:30:00 +0000

In contemporary interior architecture, service provisions—mechanical, electrical, HVAC, plumbing—are almost always treated as elements to be concealed. Thickened wall cavities, extensive dropped ceilings, and, in regions where solid construction such as brick or concrete prevails, furred-out walls are routinely employed to hide these systems. This approach has become so normalized that it often forms the starting assumption for spatial planning, inherently constraining imagination and reducing the range of spatial possibilities. The priority shifts towards covering-up, rather than exploring how these systems might coexist visibly within a design language.

Diletto Pastas - Barrio Chino / Cupla Arquitectura - Lucia Vallve & Tomas Mielnikowicz

Paula Pintos — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:30:00 +0000

Diletto III is the third gastronomic venue of the brand developed by our studio. The first location opened in 2019, followed by the second in 2024, the same year this new project was completed in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires. The brand continuously faces the challenge of merging the tradition of fresh pasta with the dynamic experience of fast food.

8 Houses That Defined Modern Architecture in Argentina

Belén Maiztegui — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Modernism played an undeniable role in the renewal of architectural ideals, contributing a new attitude toward understanding new ways of living, construction techniques, and aesthetics, marking profound changes in the general perception of the world. In Argentina, while it is complex to define modern architectural production periodically, it is possible to mention some architects who began, starting in the 1920s, to engage with these ideas. The intellectual contributions and architectural creations of Alejandro Virasoro, Alberto Prebisch, Ernesto Vautier, Fermín Beretervide, Wladimiro Acosta, Alejo Martinez, Antonio and Carlos Vilar, Juan Kurchan, Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Antonio Bonet, Abel López Chas, Eduardo Catalano, Eduardo Sacriste, and Amancio Williams, among others, often included original approaches associated with new modes of thought, manifesting an architecture resulting from the analysis of the local and regional conditions of their cities.

Integrating the Past: Contemporary Projects that Preserve Preexisting Façades

Belén Maiztegui — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Operating in urban environments often requires us to make decisions regarding pre-existing structures. The increase in city density has directly impacted the availability of space for developing new and independent constructions, sparking debates about what stance to take toward built heritage that has become obsolete—either due to deterioration or because it no longer meets the functional needs of the contemporary population. In cases where buildings have seriously deteriorated or new projects differ greatly from the spatial possibilities an old building can offer, preserving only the façade—as an exterior envelope, almost like a superficial element—can be seen as a partial solution that allows for the preservation, in part, of the urban character of a structure if it holds some public or cultural value. The controversy arises, certainly, from the lack of relationship or connection between the transformed interior and the preserved exterior.

Hobby - Specialty Café / cupla arquitectura

Clara Ott — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Hobby is a café located in the Chacarita neighborhood of Buenos Aires City. Its name arises from the shared enthusiasm of its owners, who find a genuine passion in the art of making coffee. They discover joy in exploring new flavors, pairings, and dishes.

Fraga 586 Extension / Arqtipo

Valeria Silva — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000

The proposal questions current modes of production, seeking the restoration and expansion of a heritage building located in the Chacarita neighborhood, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. It develops by proposing the enhancement of the preexistence and hybridizing it with an expansion through the manipulation of project tools and an austere use in its expression.

Moretti Gin Bar / Estudio Grizzo Arquitectos

Valeria Silva — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000

In the design of the first Moretti distillery location, we sought to create a unique identity for their family-owned company specializing in the production of craft gin. We took as our starting point the copper stills, which are responsible for the traditional gin distillation process.

Pizzeria Cacto / Estudio Grizzo Arquitectos

Valeria Silva — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000

The project develops from a main piece, a large fire that organizes the space. In line with the clay tiles and bricks that were found on the original facade, it was decided to continue with the same line of rustic materials, generating textures and interlocks that capture the attention of pedestrians. A special cladding was designed for the facade by cutting colonial tiles, resulting in six pieces of different sections that formed the placement modules.

Cervantes Building / Grizzo Studio

Benjamin Zapico — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:00:00 +0000

This project crosses us from two perspectives, on one hand, the identity of the neighborhood where we were born and at the same time the identity of the house where we were raised, whose architect was our mother, although the sentimental value was immense, it did not prevent us from taking advantage of it to, from the connection of the original with new morphologies, materiality experiments and the combination of different construction systems, contribute to the desired architecture that characterizes us, and that would also become the presentation card of our studio.

10 Houses with Sofas Built in to the Architecture

Agustina Iñiguez — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Implemented as a means to take full advantage of space, built-in furniture has grown in popularity as well as ingenuity as designers tackle the needs and tastes of a wide range of users. It's ability to adapt and integrate into architectural spaces allows it, through a variety of configurations and materials, to fulfill various functions; however, this poses an interesting question. Is it truly the furniture that adapts to our living spaces? Could it not itself become the protagonist and creator of the spaces that we project?

Bars and Restaurants: 50 Examples in Plan and Section

Fabian Dejtiar — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 07:30:00 +0000

The spatial distribution of a restaurant or bar is essential to its success. Faced with this design challenge, several architects have experimented and proposed configurations that both enhance the use of space in different culinary experiences.

House Plans Under 100 Square Meters: 30 Useful Examples

José Tomás Franco — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 07:30:00 +0000

The challenge of designing a house with a tight budget and space constraints, together with the essential duty of responding correctly to the requirements of the user, is sometimes one of the most challenging and motivating tasks an architect can face. How can you take advantage of space most effectively? How can you avoid wasted material? How do you anticipate the possible future expansion of the house? And how do you develop a simple design that also delivers value to its inhabitants?

To help you in this process, we scoured our projects archives to select 30 houses that provide interesting architectural solutions despite measuring less than 100 square meters.

Concrete Wonders: 40 Impressive Details Using the Cement-Based Building Material

Fabian Dejtiar — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Due to its ability to mold and create different shapes, concrete is one of architecture's most popular materials. While one of its most common uses is as a humble foundation, its plasticity means that it is also used in almost all types of construction, from housing to museums, presenting a variety of details of work that deserves special attention.

Stella Artois Stand / Hitzig Militello arquitectos

Agustina Coulleri — Tue, 02 May 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Stella Artois - mercat project is the result of research conducted by Hitzig Militello architects during the development of the identity for the Artois café project, in which we developed a language that represents the Stella Artois brand for its headquarters, the company that commissioned us.

PAU House / María Victoria Besonías + Guillermo de Almeida

Valeria Silva — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 03:00:00 +0000

The place. Casa Pau is located in a private neighborhood 35 km from the city of Buenos Aires. It is a new urbanization, developed in lands of rural origin that, due to its proximity to the freeways, have been transformed into places suitable for living. In a place with very few neighboring houses, with little original vegetation, and with a new plantation still very incipient, the house had to be designed lacking all the data provided by a consolidated neighborhood.

Ocampo Building / Estudio Morton 51st

Benjamin Zapico — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:00:00 +0000

In a corner of Ituzaingó, in the west zone of the Buenos Aires suburbs, is the residential building of Ocampo. Its environment currently displays various multi-family housing projects under construction, responding to the new urban planning code that contemplates greater densification for the area. However, one premise was to generate a project that is respectful of its environment, understanding that its modification will take time and, meanwhile, the building will have to coexist with low-rise neighbors and houses with gardens.

M 5605 Housing / Arqtipo

Benjamin Zapico — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 16:00:00 +0000

The M 5606 building questioned us about the possible ways of approaching our design practice. The proposal recognizes the temporal and spatial instances inherent to the project, based on the recognition of the categories of contextualization (between insertion and implementation), configuration (between a material object and the system), and disposition (between what is determined and the indeterminate).