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The Chromatic Canvas: 10 Vibrant Courts Activating Community Space

Susanna Moreira — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:30:00 +0000

Unlike most popular sports, the origin of basketball has a precise year and creator: it was invented in 1891 in the United States by Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith as an indoor sport for athletes at Springfield College during the winter, after the end of the football season. The sport quickly expanded beyond U.S. borders, being included in the Olympic Games in 1936 and achieving international popularity after the Second World War. As basketball became more widespread, it also left the controlled environment of gymnasiums and began occupying a wide range of locations: playgrounds, public plazas, school courtyards, driveways, and backyard patios became informal courts for play and community life, reinforcing the role of physical activity as a catalyst for social interaction and neighborhood regeneration.

House Ona / Juliana Mondinalli - Franco Palacios Beltran

Paula Pintos — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:00:00 +0000

"Houses dream that are boats when at night there is wind, darkness, and rain." Silvina Ocampo, Nocturno

Olivos House / Estudio GLAD

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Located in the neighborhood of Vicente López, this house was designed looking for a permanent dialogue with the exterior.

Forbici Academy / Hargar Studio

Andreas Luco — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0000

The Forbici Academy is a renovation project of an existing building that lacks a façade in the center of the city of La Plata. A foundational "chorizo" house that over time has filled its remaining patios, occupying 100% of the lot and depriving most of its rooms of air and light.

Why So Many Banal Boxes? Because Architecture Reflects the Ethos of Its Time

Duo Dickinson — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 03:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

J House / Pirca Arquitectura

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:00:00 +0000

The house is situated on a corner lot in Puertos Escobar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Terrazas de Saavedra / Drei Arquitectura y Desarrollos

Valeria Silva — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Located within the urban area of the city of La Plata, the building is situated on Av. 38 near Plaza Alsina. The area stands out for being purely residential but with proximity to the city center.

Arena House / ZIM arquitextura

Clara Ott — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The project involves designing and constructing a house on the Argentine coast, specifically on a plot with a very particular topography. This terrain features a sand dune, a natural accumulation of sand common in coastal areas. Instead of viewing this dune as an obstacle, the project was based on harnessing this unique feature of the land to our advantage.

House in Cauquén / Federico Craig + Jesica Bava

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 16:00:00 +0000

The house is conceived as a prism leaning against the south side of a square corner lot of approximately 30m on each side, releasing a large void towards good orientation. The absence of pre-existing vegetation, a condition of new private urbanizations in the periphery, made it necessary to design a "porous" house that includes a large number of intermediate shaded spaces.

Vegetable House / Facundo S. López

Valeria Silva — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000

This house involves a technological exploration based on wood and thatch materials and seeks a sustainable, fast and low-budget construction. It appeals to constructive and spatial types that can be traced in the history of vernacular architecture, articulating with contemporary materials and construction processes.

Dominga House / RBK arquitectura

Valeria Silva — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000

There are processes of renewal and recomposition that form the directive structure of the development of this sustainable architecture. The totalizing objective of the project coexists constantly throughout the work with the purpose and conviction of enriching the (pre) existing, in order to achieve a superior transformation.

Grid House / Estudio VA arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 17:00:00 +0000

This project is part of a set of 3 houses that were commissioned to us in a new urban development that`s taking shape on the outskirts of La Plata.

H – House Saul / Parada Cantilo Estudio

Benjamin Zapico — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 03:00:00 +0000

In the Estancia Puesto Viejo country club in the town of Cañuelas, this vacation home is located on a corner with a rural environment on a large lot.

Container Experience Home / Estudio Nómade

Valeria Silva — Thu, 11 May 2023 16:00:00 +0000

There will be stories guarded in this piece, ports and remote places impossible to enumerate. We can only affirm that it provided the basic raw material for discussing concepts, and ideas and proposing project operations that required simultaneous actions between technology and space.

Pekin House / TIM

Andreas Luco — Tue, 02 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

“As a designer for TIM Architects, I always try to maintain the design guidelines that characterize our studio, such as the absence of ornaments and moldings, the accesses as protagonists, the glazed spaces, the purity of the facades and the wise division of the internal spaces according to their use as, for example, the separation between the kitchen and the social space -says the architect Felipe Aracama, in charge of the Casa Pekin project-.

LABT-20 Modular Home / Estudio Borrachia Arquitectos + GB Arquitectos (Guillermo Badano)

Benjamin Zapico — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000

The "Labt-20" modules are part of a serial execution and workshop production system that can be modified and adapted to different climates and user needs by simply altering their size and some particular characteristics, adding comfort and services. They try to be compact buildings, with a little covered surface, versatile and surpassing the very trendy idea of "Glamping" by proposing much more than a simple shelter, from a small habitat to implant in extreme landscapes, such as the slope of a mountain, a forest, the edge of a lake or a river, etc., to a house or a tourist complex that feeds on these pieces of architecture and is completed with the necessary infrastructure, achieving balanced interactions with nature, flora, and fauna, and understanding architecture, its inhabitants and everything around them as part of a continuous and joint organism.

Shelter / BILBAO | LOPEZ

Andreas Luco — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0000

This housing module, which we baptized refuge, was a special request from a principal, owner of a field located in a rural area near the city of La Plata, which sought to have a covered space, where not only could it be protected from the wet Pampas climate in which he would find, but also to enjoy the natural environment that surrounded him.

H-446 House / Parada Cantilo Estudio

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 16:00:00 +0000

The single-family home H - 446 is located in the "Las Banderitas" neighborhood of the town of City Bell on a large plot of land.