Hart Howerton won the award for Architectural Design in Wellness at the LIV Hospitality Design

The objective of this year’s edition of the Kaira Looro international architecture competition was to design a women’s house created to promote gender equality as a determining factor for development in rural Africa.

Some people travel for a rest, some for adventure. Others want to experience the succulence of an unknown world. In the lush jungle of Costa Rica is a space that transcends ordinary. Where day and night merge in a heavenly expanse of verdant flora, pristine beaches, and exquisite style. Art Villas i...

Jaco Booyens Architect together with SAOTA restores Buffelsdrift, an award-winning farm located west of Ladismith in the arid Klein Karoo region of South Africa. SAOTA specialises in contemporary architecture and has designed luxury homes around the world, however, when SAOTA Director, Greg Truen acquired the farm in 2016 it was important to him to maintain the integrity of the heritage farm buildings and an adaptive approach to the conservation and restoration was taken. 

The project consists of a 240 sqm office building. The requirements were three premises for rent and the offices of an architectural practice. The field of 15 x 20 meters in a corner forced the building to be compacted in order to leave enough area for parking required.

In the atmospheric vernacular architecture of the colonial mansion that houses Casa Hoyos, combining all the heritage of San Miguel de Allende with a chic and eclectic character, saying ‘Yes, I do’ becomes an even more memorable moment.The hotel honors the significance of the marriage vows with an original concept that extols love and joy.

Architect Rafael Pardo's buildings are almost sculptural: concrete prisms intersecting to form domestic spaces. In each of his projects he seeks to push the properties of concrete to the limit to achieve greater formal expressiveness, so that the material becomes structure, wall and finish. This publication narrates the premises and processes of his architecture that point towards a new brutalism, through essays, an interview and eight projects built in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz.

This project consists of a complete remodeling; where facades and interiors were intervened giving a complete turn to how the spaces are lived. The leader of this project was the client himself, who took care of every detail making this collaboration much more enriching.