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24-07-2020

TAO builds a concrete factory for making bamboo rafts

A raft factory in Xingcun, China, made entirely out of simple concrete elements.

17-07-2020

ALENCASTRE 360, a house in Mexico City by HEMAA

With ALENCASTRE 360, the Mexican architectural firm HEMAA has created an outstanding private home in Mexico City. Underlying the project is the desire to preserve the existing trees and incorporate them into the architectural concept.

14-07-2020

Vintage-style ceramic solutions for today’s bathrooms

Pastel colours, materials with a lived-in look, graphics, decorations and bon-ton: these are only a few of the principal aesthetic solutions for the bathroom that draw inspiration from the past to represent the present. Iris Ceramica dedicates several attractive collections of ceramic surfaces to the most intimate room in the house, focusing on the utmost refinement and customisation thanks to the creative potential of aesthetic high-tech ceramic

30-06-2020

The best way of organising outdoor spaces: porcelain surfaces

The key goal of outdoor design is creating extremely relaxing spaces. The advanced performance of the high-tech ceramics in FMG’s Twenty system makes it easy to focus on identifying your favourite style and combining it with creative furnishings. 20 mm thick, Twenty stands out for its many technical benefits, including resistance to atmospheric agents, easy installation and cleaning, and the possibility of coordinating indoor and outdoor surfaces

26-06-2020

A minimalist reconstruction in concrete and steel by LAPS arquitectos

A minimalist reconstruction in concrete and steel has made Montevideo’s mid-twentieth-century marketplace into a multipurpose building.

16-06-2020

Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados designs LG Residence in Bragança Paulista

In Bragança Paulista, a town north of São Paulo in Brazil, architecture firm Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados designed a house in the vicinity of a lush forest. The presence of the large garden and swimming pool suggested a traditional layout of the rooms, split into a living and dining room on the main floor and bedrooms on the upper floor. Instead, architects stepped outside the confines of this traditional system and designed a more flexible distribution of the spaces, which responds to the client’s needs.

05-06-2020

Concrete, timber and aluminium towers by Helen & Hard Architects

Helen & Hard architects’ three concrete, timber and aluminium towers on the top of a hill overlook a Norwegian fjord

02-06-2020

The DROM studio transforms a monotonous square - Azatlyk Square - into a lively public space

The recently completed Azatlyk square in Naberezhnye Chelny, in west-central Russia, is a contemporary, dynamic and multifunctional space dominated by a panoramic orange spiral-shaped platform. The renovation project, which gave the square its own, unique identity and the city a public space well-appreciated by its inhabitants, was designed by the DROM architecture studio in collaboration with the Strelka KB firm.