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CCA shades Mexican baseball stadium with concrete umbrellas

October 10, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican design studio Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica (CCA) has created a series of buildings in Jálpa de Mendez, Mexico, centred around a sports complex and baseball stadium shaded by monumental concrete umbrellas. The design of the stadium and surrounding complex was completed in 2023 to revitalize public life in Jálpa de Mendez and “renew the

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Airy Group and Andrea McLean open Vancouver beach house with folding facade

October 9, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Local designers Andrea McLean Studio and the Airey Group have teamed up to create a light, urban beach house with open roof decks and a folding screened facade in Vancouver, British Columbia. The 2,360-square foot (219-square metre) Big Sky Beach House is located on a narrow, 3,960-square foot (368-square metre) lot in a low-rise neighbourhood

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Donaldson + Partners creates arched house “for the twenty-first century”

October 1, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

California-based studio Donaldson + Partners has designed a circular house partially embedded in the landscape with large concrete parabolic arches in Montecito, California. Seven years in the making, the 14,000-square foot (1,300-square metre) house is sunken into a four-acre lot between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, outside Santa Barbara. Robin Donaldson, founder

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Lemay creates mass-timber chalet with sloped green roof in Quebec

September 24, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Canadian architecture studio Lemay has designed a chalet prototype with a sloped roof and extensive glazing using mass timber in Potton, Quebec. Used as an extension of founder Louis T Lemay’s personal residence, the design for the 2,500-square-foot (232-square metre) house came out of Lemay’s in-house sustainable design lab called the Phénix. “Chalet Vale Perkins

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Campos Studio creates descending off-the-grid house in Baja California

September 23, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Vancouver-based design firm Campos Studio has created a sculptural white house with a large cantilever on the rocky coastline of Los Zacatitos to celebrate both the sea and the sky in Baja California, Mexico. When Campos Studio first visited the 1,780 square metre (19,160 square foot) site, the team was reminded of a quote by

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Wheeler Kearns wraps Michigan lake house with two tones of wood

September 4, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Chicago-based studio Wheeler Kearns Architects has created a wood-wrapped lake house with three separate structures whose design was informed “by the natural beauty and tranquillity” of Lake Michigan. Completed in August 2022, the Meadow Lane Retreat is a multi-structure house on a wooded site in Michigan. “By using natural materials and optimising the home’s orientation

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Atelier Chardonnat and Salem Architecture overhaul mid-century Montreal house

September 3, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Local studios Atelier Chardonnat and Salem Architecture have renovated and expanded a mid-century modern house in Montreal, dividing the original residence from the addition with a monumental skylight. Architects Morin & Cinq-Mars originally constructed Residence Ave Duchastel on Mount Royal in the Outremont district in the 1950s, drawing inspiration from Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs. Completing

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Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados creates bird cage-like house on Chilean coast

August 29, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has cantilevered a glass and red-painted wood house off a forested cliffside near the sea in Chile with layers that create “increasing levels of intimacy”. Painted a vibrant red, the elevated 2,100-square foot (195-square metre) house is located in Detif, Chiloé, Chile. Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados (GAAA), a studio based in

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Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados creates bird cage-like house on Chilean coast

August 29, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has cantilevered a glass and red-painted wood house off a forested cliffside near the sea in Chile with layers that create “increasing levels of intimacy”. Painted a vibrant red, the elevated 2,100-square foot (195-square metre) house is located in Detif, Chiloé, Chile. Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados (GAAA), a studio based in

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