With Casa Encinos, Architect Lilian Rebollo from the APT arquitectura para todos studio has created a small architectural gem that respects the breathtaking natural context of the Santo Domingo Ocotitlán village situated in the El Tepozteco National Park, in Mexico. The use of local materials, techniques and labour makes the project particularly sustainable.
In their transformation of the old outdoor cinema in the Czech town of Prachatice, Mimosa Architects drew their inspiration from the imagery of film, with its reels and projectors. The complex now has a new face, offering a new attraction for summer evenings with a special focus on urban greenery and maintaining all the charm of its past.
Peruvian architect Marina Vella has designed Casa Entrecopas, a home that draws both inspiration and materiality from its location: the interior of a large historical farm located North of Lima, in Peru. Thanks to the construction techniques and to the local materials used, the result is an architecture that is intrinsically sustainable and in close harmony with the idyllic surrounding landscape.
Canadian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited has been working since 1998 on what we could call a kind of architectural testing ground to explore ideas of form, materiality and building at Shobac farm in Nova Scotia, Canada.
German firm KTP Generalplaner GmbH has designed the complete makeover of the outdoor municipal swimming pool in Waldkirch, a town in Germany's Black Forest.
Architect Daniela Colli from Collidanielarchitetto operated inside the Santa Maria Novella railway station in Florence, a masterpiece of Italian rationalism designed by Giovanni Michelucci in the 1930s.
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