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Itaipava Farm / Lucas Jimeno Dualde

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:01:00 +0000

There are projects that begin long before the design. In Itaipava, in the Fluminense mountains, an old stable from the São João de Icaraí Farm stood as the last vestige of a rural past: an isolated, silent volume, surrounded by vegetation. When we were invited to intervene in the property, the central question was not just to renovate a building that is almost 80 years old, but to understand how to transform this agricultural space into a contemporary country house, without erasing the geography and identity of the place.

Eduardo Longo’s Futuristic Spherical House in São Paulo to Open for ABERTO5 Exhibition

Antonia Piñeiro — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:30:00 +0000

From 7 March to 31 May 2026, Brazilian architect Eduardo Longo's Casa Bola will open to the public for the first time. The futuristic ball-shaped house in São Paulo will host one of the two parts of the ABERTO5 exhibition, alongside a project on Faria Lima, a major avenue at the heart of the city featuring landmarks by architects such as Ruy Ohtake and Isay Weinfeld. Founded in 2022, ABERTO is an exhibition platform that promotes the encounter of architecture, art, and design in Brazil and internationally. After its first international exhibition at Maison La Roche in Paris, ABERTO returns to São Paulo for its fifth edition, presenting over 60 art and design pieces by 50 Brazilian and international artists. According to architect and curator Fernando Serapião, Casa Bola represents one of the most radical works of Brazilian architecture, challenging conventional domestic space and reflecting Eduardo Longo's experimental vision for housing.

Le Corbusier and Brazilian Modernism: ABERTO4 Exhibition Opens at Maison La Roche in Paris

Antonia Piñeiro — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 05:30:00 +0000

Founded in 2022 by art advisor Filipe Assis, ABERTO is an exhibition platform celebrating the convergence of art, design, and architecture in Brazil and beyond. Staging exhibitions in private and public modernist spaces, its past editions have highlighted the global connections forged by Brazilians from the 20th century onwards. Following three exhibitions in São Paulo, "ABERTO 4 – Brazil After Le Corbusier" marks its first international edition, taking place at Le Corbusier's Maison La Roche in Paris, from 14 May to 8 June 2025. The exhibition presents around 35 design and art pieces by Brazilian artists, spotlighting Le Corbusier's seminal connection to Brazilian modernist architecture and exploring his influence on contemporary Brazilian creatives. Previous editions of ABERTO have featured over 100 artists from Brazil and abroad in houses designed by Oscar Niemeyer (2022), Vilanova Artigas (2023), and Ruy Ohtake and Chu Ming Silveira (2024).

Botteh Store/ Felipe Hess Arquitetos

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Botteh, located in São Paulo, is more than just a rug store; it is a fusion of architecture and culture, designed to reflect the essence of Persian rugs and the roots of its owner, an Iranian merchant who immigrated to Brazil several decades ago.

LGM House / Luciano Dalla Marta Arquitetura

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:00:00 +0000

This project was developed for a couple of clients who have been working with our office for several years, this being our third project together. As a young couple, the idea was to have a large social area to entertain friends but also allow parallel uses, avoiding one activity impacting the other. Located in the countryside of São Paulo, the region is very hot in the summer, so the defined proposal was to explore natural lighting and protect areas facing West (the most exposed facade to the sun in the southern hemisphere). The lot has a gentle slope in front of the golf course. A crucial aspect that directly influenced the development of the project was the accessibility standards adopted in all leisure areas, as well as the other environments, including circulation and bathrooms, the idea is promoting inclusive architecture.

How to Virtually Enlarge Spaces Using Good Lighting

Lilly Cao — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 08:30:00 +0000

One of the most essential aspects of interior design is lighting – an element that can make or break an interior space of any size or material. Yet good lighting can be especially important for smaller or more crowded spaces, making them feel larger and more open even when their literal dimensions haven’t changed. In turn, larger spaces with poor lighting may feel smaller and less welcoming than they have the potential to be. To make interiors feel aptly large and well lit, designers can rely on several tried and true methods that make the most of a space, from using the right shades and types of lights to placing them in the best locations to integrating other elements that best complement existing lighting. These strategies, as well as several examples of their application, are listed below.

Itaúna House / Siqueira + Azul Arquitetura

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Within the project’s lot lays an original Oscar Niemeyer house, it is compact given the metropolitan location. Through the acquisition of the next-door property, the resulting intervention and expansion allowed the transformation of the urban landscape, which welcomed a garden marked by vertical and horizontal delineations of its surroundings. A new leisure annex was constructed over an expressive plane that extends, as if hovering, between the pool and garden.

Fasano BH Hotel / Bernardes Arquitetura

Susanna Moreira — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Fasano BH Hotel is born from the mixture of influences typically from Minas Gerais with the sophisticated simplicity that its brand offers, both to corporate visitors and to those who come for tourism. From the ambiances of Minas Gerais’ historic cities to a palette of colors and textures that crosses the terracotta of the clay vases, the copper of the sweet pots and the patina of the colonial furniture, its architecture is characterized by care, combining the rusticity of Minas Gerais with a legitimate attitude. contemporary and urban.

HGB Apartment / Bernardes Arquitetura

Susanna Moreira — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 13:00:00 +0000

In the renovation project for this 770m2 duplex apartment in São Paulo, we sought to meet the residents' desire to have the main rooms integrated, visually permeable, and connected.

Dining Rooms: Their Importance and Possibilities in Plans

Eduardo Souza — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 07:30:00 +0000

The word commensality refers to the act of eating together, sharing a meal. Much more than a mere function of essential human need, sitting at the table is a practice of communion and exchange. An article by Cody C. Delistraty compiles some studies on the importance of eating together: students who don't eat regularly with their parents miss school more; children who do not have daily dinner with their family tend to be more obese and young people in families without this tradition can have more problems with drugs and alcohol, in addition to poorer academic performance. Evidently, all these issues raised are complex and should not be reduced to just one factor. But having a suitable place to have meals, free from distractions, is a good starting point for at least one moment a day that is focused on conversation and food. This is where dinner tables come in. In this article, we review some projects to classify the most common ways to deploy these important pieces of furniture.

Best Architectural Projects of 2021

Clara Ott — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 07:30:00 +0000

More than 5000 new projects published throughout 2021 make ArchDaily the largest online architecture library in the world. ArchDaily Curatorial Team researches, contacts offices, prepares, and delivers the built projects in the world on a daily basis, with the objective of providing inspiration, knowledge, and tools to our users who take part in the creation of better built environments.

Best Houses of 2021

Clara Ott — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Residential architecture is one of the most popular categories among our readers. In 2021 we published more than 3,800 projects, featuring houses from different regions of the world and offering a variety of solutions, materials, contexts, environments, scales, and typologies. Providing a broad source of inspiration for those seeking references for their own residential project.

CM House / Bernardes Arquitetura

Susanna Moreira — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:00:00 +0000

Designed as a leisure retreat in a residential condominium in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, CM House was created taking into account the land’s visuals and integration with the landscaping.

Container House / Marilia Pellegrini Arquitetura

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 17 May 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Architect Marilia Pellegrini presents the CASA CONTÊINER ( The container house) at the 2019 Casacor exhibition in São Paulo, showing how is possible to transform shipping containers into a modern and functional house. The concept of this type of project is based on the sustainability and reuse of materials. The time-frame for elaboration and execution of this model of construction is infinitely smaller, cleaner, faster, dry and with 100% reuse. Despite the many advantages, there is still a certain mistrust created, motivated especially by the popularization of industrial and simple finishes for this type of building, creating cold and impersonal environments due to the physical final aspects of construction. Her first mission was to prove the opposite.

Pipa House / Bernardes Arquitetura

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 06 May 2020 16:00:00 +0000

Pipa House was developed as a prototype by Bernardes Arquitetura, in partnership with a construction company and a couple of entrepreneurs, who wanted to build a product that could be replicated and sold to other clients, generating a fast work experience, with guaranteed deadlines, energy efficiency and technological control.

Haight Clothing Store / Entre Terras + Pablo Resende

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 02:00:00 +0000

The 260 sq m retail restoration project for the fashion brand Haight Clothing inspired us to design a contemplative lightscape, an investigation about light and about the sensory perception of spaces, a place where an internal universe can be imagined.

Best Houses of 2019

Paula Pintos — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:00:00 +0000

More than 5.000 architecture projects were published in ArchDaily this year. Year after year, we curate hundreds of residential projects, and as we know our readers love houses, we compiled a selection of the most visited residential projects published on the site.

Best Architectural Projects of 2019

María Francisca González — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 04:01:00 +0000

With a mission to provide tools and inspiration to improve the quality of life in our built environment, ArchDaily curators constantly track and share with our audience the best "built projects" in the world. In order to celebrate these achievements and thank our readers for actively participating in our community, we selected the 50 best architectural works published during 2019.