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  • Brown Hill House / Eldridge Anderson Architects
    by Andreas Luco on March 28, 2024 at 4:00 PM

    Brown Hill House has been envisaged as a simple, robust form that reflects the natural fall of its site. Accommodating stepped floor plates delineating family zones, the design shapes a generous central courtyard cut from the form to allow natural light to penetrate. The central open space was designed around the tall gum trees scattered across the site, allowing the built environment to integrate with the existing natural one. A curved roofline is a further mediation, bending graciously around the treed landscape and inclining in sync with the slope of the site. Bunkering farther into the landscape as it falls from back to front, Brown Hill House is composed of a robust material selection arranged in clean volumes, leavening the elemental qualities of the surrounding landscape while finding an accord with them through a complimentary palette of soft greys and warm browns. Concrete brick walls provide weight and clarity, defining the perimeter of the building and allowing the roofline to extend gracefully above. The courtyard, which has been designed as a visual extension of the house, is constantly present through generous glazing and ensures a further sense of visual connection between rooms.

  • Lourosa-Fiães Transport Interface / Atelier d'Arquitectura Lopes da Costa
    by Valeria Silva on March 28, 2024 at 2:00 PM

    The Interface de Transportes Lourosa – Fiães is a transport interface, located on a plot of land with around 11,500m2 on the border between these two parishes, comprises a vast parking and manoeuvring area and a support building of around 500m2, which was chosen to be located perpendicular to the road that gives it access. This location allows a better integration into the existing topography, and also clearly separates the access to the car park at east from the buses access at west, so there are no crossroads or possible conflicts between cars and buses traffic.

  • Atelier Casa GO / MAGarq
    by Valeria Silva on March 28, 2024 at 12:00 PM

    The Atelier is located in a low-density neighborhood in the city of Posadas, within a one-hectare plot, surrounded by abundant and lush vegetation. It is also where the artist's residence is situated, in constant contact with the surrounding nature. This special context set a fundamental guideline for the placement of the Atelier, to not cut down any trees. In this way, the project is surrounded by trees with large foliage that provide shade on extremely hot days.

  • SOLO luminosa / CONTRA arquitetura
    by Pilar Caballero on March 28, 2024 at 10:00 AM

    Solo Luminosa is SOLO's first project, a nature-based accommodation chain. With the architecture signed by CONTRA, the chain's main pillars are remote nature and biocontemporary architecture.  

  • The Architecture of Dune: Leveraging the Past to Create a Myth of the Future
    by Maria-Cristina Florian on March 28, 2024 at 7:30 AM

    Imagine a world thousands of years into the future, one where humanity has conquered planets from galaxies away, only to default to a neofeudalistic social order in a constant power struggle, all built upon an intricate tapestry of cultures and religions and set in a harsh yet vivid landscape that becomes a character in and of itself. This was the challenge faced by director Denis Villeneuve and production designer Patrice Vermette in creating the cinematic adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel. The two Dune movies, released in 2021 and 2024, were conceived as a whole and therefore share a coherent style and cinematic expression. Beyond aesthetics, the environment and architecture of Dune present a lived-in, believable world, one that anchors the action and characters, silently offering invaluable insights into the values and mythology of each civilization.

  • The Stoic Wall Residence / LIJO RENY architects
    by Hana Abdel on March 28, 2024 at 7:00 AM

    Immersed within the captivating embrace of a hot and humid tropical climate, 'The Stoic Wall Residence' harmoniously combines indoor and outdoor living. Situated in Kadirur, Kerala, amidst its scorching heat, incessant monsoon rains, and lush vegetation, this home exemplifies the art of harmonizing with nature. Courtyards, landscape pockets, and biophilic features effortlessly integrate with the house, transforming the act of dwelling into a holistic experience of well-being.

  • Ana Skobe Wins the Architecture Photography Category at Sony World Photography Awards 2024
    by Maria-Cristina Florian on March 28, 2024 at 6:30 AM

    The Sony World Photography Awards 2024 has announced its category winners and shortlist, showcasing the best single images from around the world captured during the last year. With over 395,000 submissions from 220 countries and territories, the competition aims to highlight established and emerging photographers from around the world. The Open Competition is divided into 10 category sections, covering a diverse range of themes, from Architecture and Landscape to Portraiture, Lifestyle, and Wildlife photography.

  • Gotham House / Plan:b arquitectos
    by Andreas Luco on March 28, 2024 at 6:00 AM

    This small apartment building for rent is located in the middle of a block of the urban fabric of the Provenza neighborhood in Medellín. The typical lots in this city area have party walls and are elongated. In this case, the principal and narrow faces of the lot are located in the east-west direction with greater solar incidence. Therefore, we proposed a single apartment for each floor with deep facades and intermediate spaces - balconies, terraces, gardens - at the ends, allowing cross ventilation, natural lighting, and shaded areas. 

  • Exploring the Grand Egyptian Museum Through Photography: Bridging Past and Present in Cairo
    by Nour Fakharany on March 28, 2024 at 5:30 AM

    Showcasing millennia of Egyptian history and culture, the Grand Egyptian Museum is a monumental project in Cairo, Egypt, designed by the Irish firm Heneghan Peng Architects. Home to over 100,000 artifacts spanning Egypt’s storied past, the museum is on the brink of opening its doors to the public after multiple setbacks. Recent updates offer glimpses of the structure’s progress, with photographs captured by Egyptian photographer Farida Bustani providing sneak peeks of the architectural landmark.

  • When Sunlight Meets Tadao Ando’s Concrete
    by Thomas Schielke on March 28, 2024 at 4:00 AM

    If there is any consistent factor in his work, says Pritzker-winning architect Tadao Ando, then it is the pursuit of light. Ando’s complex choreography of light fascinates most when the viewer experiences the sensitive transitions within his architecture. Sometimes walls wait calmly for the moment to reveal striking shadow patterns, and other times water reflections animate unobtrusively solid surfaces. His combination of traditional Japanese architecture with a vocabulary of modernism has contributed greatly to critical regionalism. While he is concerned with individual solutions that have a respect for local sites and contexts Ando’s famous buildings – such as the Church of the Light, Koshino House or the Water Temple – link the notion of regional identity with a modern imagining of space, material and light. Shoji walls with diffuse light are reinterpreted in the context of another culture, for instance, filtered through the lens of Rome’s ancient Pantheon, where daylight floods through an oculus. Ando’s masterly imagination culminates in planning spatial sequences of light and dark like he envisioned for the Fondation d’Art Contemporain François Pinault in Paris.