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Pascali Semerdjian creates Aurora Apartment to hold “two universes” in Brazil

September 30, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Gut-renovating this São Paulo apartment has allowed Brazilian studio Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos to incorporate the personalities of it occupants, particularly in the bedrooms of the family’s two children. The Aurora Apartment is home to a family of four, and sits on a private street in the Alto de Pinheiros neighbourhood to the west of the

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Muda Building Weefor / NNArq

September 30, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

Located in Curitiba, a city renowned for its urban quality, this project stands out in a neighborhood full of isolated houses, large gardens, and tree-lined streets. For many years, the site housed a substation for a metallurgical company that operated there until the increase in population density made industrial activity incompatible with the surroundings.

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Ninkasi Factories / LFA, Looking for Architecture

September 30, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

The project is located at the western entrance to the town of Tarare. This redevelopment of industrial and logistics sites within the urban fabric has enabled us to enhance the value of this traditionally marginal suburban area, offering factory employees a site that is fully accessible to soft mobility and integrated into the urban fabric. Our mission was to work with the project owner to support the emergence of a new productive city.

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Olgoo critiques overdevelopment in Iran with The Inside Home

September 30, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Iranian architecture studio Olgoo has completed a subterranean holiday home near Tehran, topped by a green roof that merges with the surrounding landscape. Named The Inside Home, the residence near the village of Ammameh is designed in response to rapid development in the area, which has seen many of its green spaces replaced by construction.

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Eight kitchens islands that have sleek waterfall edges

September 30, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

For our latest lookbook, we spotlight eight contemporary kitchens that centre on islands with waterfall countertops made from concrete, stone and chunky terrazzo. As its name suggests, a waterfall edge is a style of kitchen island or cabinet where the countertop appears to flow seamlessly from the surface to the ground. The feature, also known

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Baitridana Hut / Rinaldo Del Nero

September 30, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

Baitridana Hut is the restoration of an old stone structure located at 1900m in the Orobic Alps of Valtellina, within the municipality of Albaredo per San Marco in the Sondrio Province. The Baitridana maggengo (alpine pasture) is characterized by steep terrain which forms a stunning natural backdrop for scattered ancient buildings, some in use as temporary residences and others partly abandoned.

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Dezeen In Depth reports on Chinese architects working through the night as pay plummets

September 30, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

This month’s Dezeen In Depth newsletter looks at Chinese architects’ nightmare working conditions and features an interview with the first Black president of the RIBA. Subscribe to Dezeen in Depth now. Chinese architects told Dezeen they are regularly working through the night while their pay plummets as the country’s property industry deals with a severe crisis. Dezeen

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Urban Discourse Machine, Dr.Moghimi’s Laboratory / Darkefaza Design Studio

September 30, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

This project is located in the Safayieh region in Yazd, which is one of those modern civil contexts in this city. Most of the constructions in this area are single materialled with the same form and without any dialogue with the city. The separator walls of these buildings in the street are all the same height and also, and they are all solid in material with no transparency, no matter the function of the building; because of that, the possibility of visual communication between passers and people with the buildings are very low and minimum.

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This week we revealed Shrek’s Swamp in the Scottish Highlands

September 30, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, rental website Airbnb unveiled its latest themed holiday home, a grass-and-mud-covered hut underneath a tree hosted by Donkey from the movie series Shrek. Named Shrek’s Swamp, the small house, which is being hosted by Donkey while Shrek is away for Halloween, was described as “a stumpy, secluded haven fit for a

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