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03-07-2020

TAO’s Forest Building of glulam, rammed earth and concrete

TAO’s Forest Building in Grand Canal Forest Park, near Beijing, China, is inspired by the trees of the forest and made of glulam, rammed earth and concrete.

09-06-2020

2020 Prix d'excellence en architecture, Quebec

The Ordre des architectes du Québec (OAQ) announced the winners of its awards of excellence and distinctions for 2020 online, during a live, interactive gathering. This year’s Grand Prix d’excellence went to the Espace Paddock, designed by Les architectes FABG.

01-06-2020

Art Villas, a resort in Costa Rica designed by Formafatal

The small, Art Villas resort sits in the lush Costa Rican jungle. A comfortable fit with its natural context, the architecture designed by the multidisciplinary studio, Formafatal, founded by Dagmar Stepanova, is based on a connection between indoors and outdoors and a very pure formal language.

14-04-2020

DYS Design Your Slabs: decorate and customise ceramic slabs for all kinds of spaces

Decoration is seeing a new phase of technical and expressive evolution thanks to DYS - Design Your Slabs, the Iris Ceramica Group’s innovative digital on-demand service. Residential, commercial and public spaces of all kinds can now be decorated with images or illustrations on ceramic maxi-slabs and appropriate submultiples. DYS is a new form of design aesthetics and communication that gives free rein to the imagination, permitting maximum customisation of design

13-04-2020

RED Arquitectos is behind Traspatio, a refurbishment in Puebla

Susana López and her team from RED Arquitectos completed the Traspatio project in Puebla, Mexico. A community project that rehabilitates a 19th-century building with a clever combination of historical and contemporary elements for an eye-catching, socially significant operation that injects new life into the neighbourhood.

03-04-2020

Jané Winestore by External Reference with Chu Uroz

A venue that’s all about wine and other alcoholic beverages: Jané Winestore in Tarragona, Spain is the project by architect Carmelo Zappulla from External Reference with designer Chu Uroz for Jané Grup, a leading Spanish wine, liquor and fine food organisation. A dynamic project with pop overtones.

17-03-2020

Panoramic views: Edge at Hudson Yards, New York

Edge, a cantilevered observation deck jutting out from the 100th floor of the Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF)-designed 30 Hudson Yards supertall, opened to the public last week at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards, only to close two days later to aid in the containment of the coronavirus.

16-01-2020

Xavier Portela, Kobe

Xavier Portela, the photographer known for his brightly-coloured images of urban nights in cities like Tokyo, New York and Bangkok is back, this time in Kobe, Japan. A city that inspired him to use warmer hues in his postproduction work for a visual narrative that captures the city’s atmosphere.

10-01-2020

Restaurant Avocado Gang in Prague by Mimosa architekti

Czech firm Mimosa architekti has designed Avocado Gang, the first “avocado” restaurant in Prague. The intense colour of the avocado and food made here inspired the venue’s interior design, with the multicoloured dining table standing in the middle underscored by the shades of grey in the rest of the restaurant.