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27-11-2020

Heatherwick’s EDEN, the studio’s first residential project in Singapore

The architects of Heatherwick Studio have completed their first residential project in Asia. EDEN is a "super-green" skyscraper 104 metres high in Singapore’s historic Newton district inspired by Lee Kuan Yew’s original concept of a "city in a garden". The entire complex contains only 20 apartments featuring crafted details and combining passive climate control with a refined concept of luxury.

06-11-2020

Raúl Sánchez: The Magic Box Apartment in Barcelona

Raúl Sánchez renovated a ground-floor apartment in a building in the centre of Viladecans, near Barcelona, on the basis of the load-bearing wall that divides the space in half. The Magic Box is a golden wardrobe that he added to act as the threshold between rooms offering the perfect setting for the two daughters’ play.

15-10-2020

Lombardini22 QUID Quintiliano District social housing in Milan

Architectural studio Lombardini22 has completed its first social housing project. L22 living, the group’s residential brand, designed QUID, which stands for Quintiliano District: an energy class A housing development complete with common areas expressly intended for promoting socialisation and interaction among residents.

11-09-2020

Raúl Sánchez: Tibbaut Duplex in Barcelona’s El Raval district

In the Tibbaut Duplex, Raúl Sánchez combines two apartments into a duplex and creates a box within a box that divides and organises the space. Two floors that were once separate and suffered the effects of a strongly longitudinal orientation are now joined with new circular routes.

28-08-2020

Contacto Atlântico’s Liberdade 40: renovating according to local tradition

Contacto Atlântico, a Portuguese architectural practice based in Estoril, renovated a twelve-floor building on Lisbon’s famous Avenida da Liberdade. The building, which used to contain offices and was covered entirely with glass, is now Liberdade 40: a luxury residential complex containing seventeen apartments of different sizes redesigned by Contacto Atlântico on the basis of the zero-kilometre philosophy, with a passive ventilation system and a truly Portuguese identity

11-08-2020

SOA Architectes: the La Fab. building for the agnès b. collection, Paris

Parisian firm SOA Architectes has designed a new multipurpose building in the heart of the 13th arrondissement of the French capital. The building contains 75 residential units, a kindergarten and, on the lower floors, “La Fab.”, which the architecture firm itself has also designed as an interior for agnès b., a stylist, patron and collector who has spent many years supporting artistic creation in all its forms. Her initiatives are also aimed towards social solidarity and safeguarding the environment, and SOA Architectes’ design has provided a home for all of the patron’s various activities under one roof.

29-07-2020

Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés and MOA Architecture two residential towers in Paris

Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés and MOA Architecture each designed a residential tower containing apartments with little offices in the heart of the 18th arrondissement of Paris, as part of La Chapelle International urban development project.