Sustainability, health, and comfort are dominating the commercial design and architecture scenes. Textural variations and biophilic elements are blurring the line between indoor and outdoor living. Multifunctional spaces and healthful spaces, meanwhile, are transforming offices into places where staff can connect as well as achieve their profession...
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Jennifer Dawson
From a Brooklyn neighborhood known for its typical brownstones on the West-side of Prospect Park, Olbos Studio completes the renovation of a double-exposed apartment in a high-end 1989 residential building for a young Italian historian who works as sport events planner, right in front of San Siro, the soccer stadium of Milan.
Project name
Apartment with a Dining Room
Architecture firm
Olbos Studio
Location
Via Tesio 19, Milan, Italy
Principal architect
Giorgia Cedro
Design team
Giorgia Cedro, Isabella Zagarese (only SD)
Collaborators
Suppliers: Carpentry: Eusebi Arredamenti Carpentry (vanities, master bedroom): Manuel Goletto Kitchen: Lube Cucine Furniture: Design Republic
Completion year
June 2022
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass
Construction
Stefano Grimaldi
Client
Manuel Alonso Carmona Berté
Typology
Residential/ Appartment
Located in the core area of Meixihu new international CBD, the project boasts breathtaking lake scenery and is adjacent to Meixihu International Culture and Arts Center designed by Zaha. The project is also equipped with the first international luxury brand hotel in Central China, Hotel Indigo. The project combines the irreplaceable lake scenery an...
Project name
Global Center DAME Palace
Architecture firm
Shenzhen 31 Design
Photography
Lvfeng Photography / Chen Weizhong
Principal architect
Huang Tao, Li Zhihong
Design team
Li Donghui, Li Sijie, Huang Jiangyan
Interior design
Shenzhen 31 Design
Environmental & MEP engineering
Typology
Residential/ Appartment
The natural configuration of the land inspired the name of Casa Colina, located at Fazenda Boa Vista, in the interior of São Paulo. Positioned in a format resembling the letter “c”, the project allowed visual contact with all the ground floor environments of the residence.
Location
Fazenda Boa Vista, Pedregulho, State of São Paulo, Brazil
Principal architect
Fernando Forte, Lourenço Gimenes and Rodrigo Marcondes Ferraz
Design team
Gabriel Mota, Juliana Cadó, Luciana Bacin (project managers)Aryane Diaz, Giovanna Custódio, Matheus Soares, Raquel Gregorio
Collaborators
Ana Orefice, Amanda Domingues, Caio Armbrust, Desyree Niedo, Eduardo Vale, Fabiana Kalaigian, Gilberto Sales, João Baptistella, José Carlos Navarro, Julio de Luca, Karina Nakaura, Lívia Veroni, Mariana Leme, Priscylla Hayashi, Thiago Costa, Victor Lucena
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel, Stone, Wood
Typology
Residential › House
Andrés Mier y Terán and Regina Galvanduque have created an integrated design, architecture, and visual identity concept for the gastronomic project of the chefs Israel Montero and Karina Mejía. The encounter of ancestral wisdom around one of the basic and most important foodstuffs in Mexican cuisine is the keystone of Siembra, the new project by...
Architecture firm
MYT+GLVDK
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Photography
Fiamma Piacentini
Principal architect
Regina Galvanduque, Andrés Mier y Terán
Design team
MYTGLVDK Team/ Pablo Serratos, Maria Carrillo, Ivan Aviles, Luna Kindler, Arturo Osorio, María José Preciado.
Interior design
MYT+GLVDK
Collaborators
Illustrator Marina Corach
Built area
189 m2 Interiors + 40 m2 terrace-exterior
Construction
MYTGLVDK / Mauricio Galvanduque
Supervision
Ivan Aviles, Mauricio Galvanduque
Material
Recinto morado, Stone, Tzalam Wood, Palm, Concrete, and Clay
Client
Chef Israel Montero and Chef Karina Mejía
Typology
Restaurant, Hospitality
Designing a perfect landscape to fit your newly renovated house can be a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. With a little bit of planning and forethought, you can easily create a beautiful outdoor space that compliments your home and suits your needs. Use our tips as a starting point, and don't hesitate to get creative – after all, this is y...
Khamar mansion is a 3 floors mansion that brings art and architecture into the structure and connects the structure lines that give interior shade from the south facade and open for the north with a unique facade that connects art with it.
Project name
Khamar Mansion
Architecture firm
Gravity Studio
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Adobe Photoshop, Lumion
Design team
Mohand Albasha
Visualization
Mohanad Albasha
Typology
Residential › House
EYE of HORUS Eco-Hotelis located on the small paradise island of Adasi Sedir in the Gulf of Gokova and is very close to the southwest coast of Turkey. The house is located next to Cleopatra Beach considered to be the world's most beautiful beach.
Project name
EYE OF HORUS Luxury Eco-Hotel
Architecture firm
Luis De Garrido Architects
Location
Sedir Adasi Island, Turkey
Principal architect
Luis De Garrido
Typology
Hospitality, Hotel
Located in the city of Dammam, KSA, the Disconnect-to-Connect proposal for Retal Mosque Design Competition which has been selected among the shortlisted projects, emerges as an icon, which intends to continue the symbolic power that the mosque represents with the pretention of expressing new modernity, a new concept of mosque architecture.
Project name
Disconnect to Connect Mosque
Architecture firm
Elshareef Kabbashi
Location
Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Elshareef Kabbashi
Visualization
Elshareef Kabbashi
Client
Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture, AIA - Retal Mosque Design Competition - RMDC
Typology
Religious › Mosque
German hotel & architecture photographer Vivien Renziehausen portrayed the newly built company building of Plangrad architects in Bremen, Germany. The building was designed and planned by the respective company itself.
Photographer
Vivien Renziehausen
Tools used
Sony Alpha 7Riii, Sony 16-35mm f/4 lens, Manfrotto Tripod
Project name
Plangrad Architects
Architecture firm
Plangrad Architects
