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02/02/2024

Santo Shop by UID Architects, located in Fukuyama, Japan, is an architectural project that rese blues the products manufactured by the client encourages public participation in an industrial area. An open factory that invites the public to participate in manufacturing and a shop that sells Sangyo’s unique products - The client’s vision was to combine a shop, an office, a lounge space for customers, and an adjacent factory where customers can have a hands-on experience. The client asked us to create an outdoor space that is roughly half the size of the entire property, where visitors can use their handcrafted cookware on a fireplace and an outdoor kitchen. The client endeavors to create an open factory where they can conserve and promote their traditional manufacturing techniques.

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31/01/2024

The Library in Ice-Chrysanthemum Field, project by ATELIER XI, is located in Jiaozuo, China in a vast ice-chrysanthemum plantation at the foot of Yuntai Mountain. The architect was invited to design a multifunctional building for community use. It accommodates ice-chrysanthemum tea tasting, book reading, small-scale musical performances, workshops for agricultural education, and storage for farming tools.
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28/01/2024

The Twisted Brick Shell Concept Library, project by HCCH Studio, is a spiral by a high grass field, located in the rural area of Zhejiang Province, China. It tries to explore the possibility of the fusion between contemporary formal expression and vernacular material culture. The Concept Library is 10 meters in diameter and 5 meters high. The continuous surface is generated by two semicircles sweeping from one to the other, blurring interior and exterior. The shell is made of red bricks, not by masonry, but all casting in situ. Sunlight sheds into the dim interior through the opening at the top. Visitors can read text inside the acrylic balls through the small holes in the walls. The text overlays with the landscape, creating a poetic moment to connect body, mind, and nature.

Photographs courtesy of Qingyan Zhu, Fangfang Tian

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27/01/2024

The Red Box Exhibition Center is located at the foot of Red mountain, Naning, which is also in the Hongchuang park designed by Mix architecture. With the forest surrounding Red mountain, the sculptural volume of the Red Box makes it unique. The Red Box is made up of red concrete. “Red” responds to the environment, which has three different meanings. First, the Red Box responds to the “red” of chronological memory. Hongchuang PARK, which is formerly known as Nanjing Combat Machinery Factory. Nanjing Combat Machinery Factory was founded in the 1950s and has experienced vigorous development since the founding of New China. The “red” memory has accompanied the growth of several generations. Secondly, in response to the “red” of the original red brick building of the Hongchuang PARK factory area, Mix Architecture decided to make the Red Box a unique building with the same rhythm as the factory.

Photographs courtesy of Arch-Exist, Haiting Sun, Xiaobin Lv

26/01/2024

Avorio Renovation, Madrid, Spain. Project by Estudio Gonzalo del Val. The housing in Madrid at the beginning of the 20th century was characterized, in general, by an elongated distribution of the domestic program, resulting in very long corridors and small interior courtyards. Our proposal for this traditional typology consists of unifying a series of spaces, eliminating distributors and corridors as much as possible, to turn them into programmed rooms.

Photographs courtesy of José Hevia

25/01/2024

Harudot, projetc by , is a stand-alone café in Chonburi, a famous beachside town in Thailand. This cafe is a result of a collaboration between the Nana Coffee Roasters brand owner and the landlord, who has a particular interest in plants with unique forms. The name “Haru” translates to “Spring” in Japanese, referring to “new beginning” and “growth,” while “Dot” symbolizes a “starting point.” The two main requirements for this cafe are to, firstly, design a “destination” with an interesting experience that is able to attract visitors, and secondly, to include the landlord’s identity into the design in order to signify this unique collaboration. The architect chooses to focus on the concept of new beginnings and growth by including the trees at the heart of the design. Here, a bottle tree (baobab) has been placed in an inner court where the gable form of the architecture is pulled apart to allow for its growth towards the sky. This makes it appear as if the seed of the baobab had been planted long before and grew out through the architecture as time passed.

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21/01/2024

Building doors and entrance halls in Paris made in the 1970s.

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21/01/2024

Palm Springs, California. “The City National Bank Building by Rudy Baumfeld, 1959. Baumfeld was heavily inspired by the Adobe buildings of the southwest and famous Swiss modernist Le Corbusier’s very sculptural, expressionist chapel in Ronchamp, France. Another example of beautiful commercial design, this very sculptural bank is visually a heavy structure. However, this weight is balanced by its asymmetry and gracious organic curves. If you look closely, the bright blue and yellow wall accents are actually small mosaic tile. Other noteworthy details include the glass block clerestory window above the camouflaged rear exit in shot 5 and two unique styles of brise soleil fixed to the windows along the flat side of the building. These brise soleil can be seen on the 3 lower windows and single upper window in shots 6-7 and are permanent architectural elements intended to only allow some sunlight into the building while blocking the rest. As is the case with many modern desert buildings, this bank has a wide overhang on its roof to allow for expansive glass walls while limiting the amount of direct sunlight reaching and heating the interior.”

Text and photos by Ben King

20/01/2024

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The new volume in the series is entitled ‘Porsche Experience Centre Franciacorta. A project by ’. With a total area of 60 hectares, it is the first Porsche centre in Italy and the largest in the world. Speed, innovation and a unique and multifaceted territory come together in a project realised by GBPA Architects in collaboration with Dromo, an engineering company specialised in racetracks.

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20/01/2024

The project for the Ritz-Carlton Residences, with design by Lissoni New York and developed by Lionheart Capital, is located in a quiet corner of Miami Beach on the shores of Surprise Lake and includes 111 residences with 36 private moorings created from the reclamation of four buildings that were subsequently renovated and joined together. Formerly part of a hospital complex, the buildings have been completely redesigned to give visual and design uniformity: the idea is that of a tower that develops horizontally. The modernist-inspired architecture is surrounded by cantilevered terraces and canopies that accentuate the effect of lightness, while the courtyards and gardens on the lower level have been designed in close dialogue with nature, water and the surrounding landscape. The light color, the large windows and the louvered panels are fundamental elements that relate to the special quality of light that characterizes this place.



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18/01/2024

Porsche Experience Centre Franciacorta. A project by GBPA Architects.
It’is a transparent, dynamic space characterised by technological materials to represent the Porsche world and a more welcoming, neutral and softly shaped space to represent Franciacorta. The Customer Centre is undoubtedly the most iconic element of the entire centre and represents the gateway and beating heart of the entire complex. Another particularly evocative place of the PEC is the terrace, which is proposed as a privileged point, where visitors can enjoy an evocative and panoramic view of the track thanks to the lounge area created with shading sails Defense by Corradi.

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17/01/2024

Capri, Italy. Punta Tragara, the historic hotel has been able to transform itself over the years without betraying its soul, signed by Le Corbusier. The residence overlooking the sea has over the years renewed and refreshed its interior design. The latest, highly decorative intervention is the new suite with panoramic terrace furnished and customised by Etro Home Interiors. The historic residence has now become part of the Manfredi Fine Hotel Collection. In 2019, the creative intervention of architect Giorgia Dennerlein of Loto Ad Project had the ability to stitch the volumes of this extraordinary architectural work following the ‘suggestions’ of the surrounding landscape. In the interior spaces, the large cutouts of light amplify the spaces and accentuate colours and furnishings. The ancient soul of the villa marries and flows into the contemporary through a reasoned and eclectic compositional strategy. Today, the hotel’s refined rooms combine antiques with design elements and modern works of art.

Photographs courtesy of Manfredi Fine Hotels Collection

13/01/2024

La Chèvre, project by Atelier Pierre Thibault. Cookshire-Eaton, Canada. A small family, born and raised in Montreal, wanting to get closer to a peaceful place in the country, bought a beautiful site in the Eastern Townships in order to begin building their house. Their site majestically reveals itself, along a private road winding through the forest. A 180 degree panorama opens south, looking at the surrounding mountains, while a dense forest takes place to the north side. The house anchors itself in a slope, at the forest’s edge, to benefit from the magnificent view while having a direct contact with the dense vegetation on the other side, creating a link with various environments. To merge into the landscape and reduce its visual impact, the shape of the project adapts itself to the ground, never exceeding two floors.

Photographs courtesy of Alain Laforest

12/01/2024

A new spa, Atmosphere by Krallerhof, has opened in the five-star Hotel Krallerhof in Leogang, Austria. Designed by award-winning Hamburg architect Hadi Teherani, the spa has taken two years to design and construct. Built into a spiral-shaped atrium to create a sphere of relaxation, Atmosphere by Krallerhof includes a 5,500sqm natural bathing lake with a whirlpool and a 50m infinity pool.

Photographs courtesy of Hotel Krallerhof and Hadi Teherani architect

12/01/2024

Kisarazu, Japan. Library in the Earth, project by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP . Library in the Earth is for such people. The site is located in a corner of KURKKU FIELDS, which is operated by an agricultural production corporation. The flat and dry land was sitting on top of a valley filled with construction debris. The ceiling heights inside are determined by the slope of the ground, so there are areas with low ceilings and small hidden rooms that only children can enter. At the deepest part, there is a hall for storytelling. In the womb-like space that uplifts the lawned ground, folds of bookshelves surround the stepped seats, and books from the collections of farm workers and books for children line up. The 40mm thick vertical frames of the bookshelves extend overhead to support the space.

Photographs courtesy of Koji Fujii / TOREAL

09/01/2024

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07/01/2024

Located just steps from the sea, Casa Tiny is nestled in an area of dense vegetation near the surf town of Puerto Escondido on Mexico’s idyllic Oaxaca coast. One of the first offerings built by young architect Aranza de Ariño, the tiny beach house is a compact, romantic retreat for two. Happily secluded, the apartment consists of a kitchen, bathroom and open loft bedroom, reached by simple stairs with alternating steps. Its uncluttered plan is imbued with a self-sufficient spirit, designed with Henry David Thoreau’s seminal text Walden and John Burroughs’ New York State cabin, Slabsides, in mind. The pitched roof, which catches the sea breeze, is a playful reference to the Tiny House Movement in America where, in reaction to high rents, people began building their own 100- to 200-foot houses. But Tiny House is far from makeshift; rather, it is a sturdy construction built to withstand the elements.

Photographs courtesy of Camila Cossio

06/01/2024

Favn Klyngetun Hotel, project by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter. Favn is a new development at Hafjelltoppen, Norway. The project is rooted in both tradition and innovation. A tradition for implementing the best of the cultural landscape and building art. Innovation to contribute to rethinking in relation to sustainable architecture and how to build in the Norwegian mountain landscape in the future. The project emerges as an exciting whole-year-around destination at Hafjell - a place for a multitude of activities and a place where everyone should feel welcome. Low threshold - High quality! The project’s identity is developed with a thought of proximity, security, and a high environmental and well-being factor for everyone.

Photographs courtesy of Kristian Aalerud






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06/01/2024

Silvia Porro Architects’s philosophy is based on a fundamental principle that sees Space as a reflection of the Soul of those who live it. Silvia’s work is the result of a holistic approach, given by the union of her passions: Architecture and Yoga.
Transposing the element of thought into a physical element, it proceeds by simplification and subtraction of the unnecessary, placing, as an objective of the project, the research and representation of the Essential. Silvia graduated in Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic in 1997.
She immediately moved to New York, where she began her career at the most important
international research center of innovative and sustainable materials and production processes: Material Connexion.
She continues his journey by moving to the Granadines to follow the development of the Isle of Canouan, participating as Project Leader for the construction of private
houses, hotels, casinos and sports areas on the beach. She returns to New York and founds Mimosa International Ltd. developing new Made in Italy products on the international market, materials for interior that lead her to follow important projects between California and Florida. In 2000 she returned to Italy and she began her collaboration with DStudio specialized in the decoration of hotels, private houses and offices. She found Silvia Porro Architects in 2007.

Silvia Porro has been chosen by Platform in the shortlist of designers who will participate in the event “The New Places of Living. Snapshots of everyday design” that will take place on January 11 and 12 at Milano Home _ Fiera Milano.
Her talk will be held on Jan. 11 in the session that will take place from 10 am to 1 pm.

The project that Silvia will present at Milan Home is the RIBIRTH OF A FARMHOUSE

04/01/2024

Lupettatelier - Isabella Franco, Francesca Longoni and Nicole Ravelli - is a creative container, laboratory of ideas that revolves around continuous research.
The Atelier is a workplace open to exchange and communication, Lupettatelier shapes the space to
accommodate different creative flows, which contributes to the search for beauty, that can be
expressed in many ways, starting from the architecture itself, which is its generator.
The projects made by Lupettatelier focus their attention on living the domestic space. For this
reason, the studio is open to exchanges with qualified artisans and with suppliers in the sector, able to satisfy all needs. Each project is modeled to meet the wishes and habits of everyday life.

They have been chosen by Platform in the shortlist of designers who will participate in the event “The New Places of Living. Snapshots of everyday living” that will take place on January 11 and 12 at Milano Home _ Fiera Milano.
Their talk will be on January 11 starting at 10 am

It is Lupettatelier’s opinion that every project is a mirror: it reflects a context, landscape or urban, it reflects a historical period, and it reflects those who have lived there and those who will live there. For these reasons, it is important to take a step back to ask ourselves where we start from and what is the history to be covered in listening
of architecture and those who inhabit it.

04/01/2024

Beatrice Villata, graduated in interior design from the Milan Polytechnic. Her career began in Paris at Paillard Pelizza Architecture studio and continued in JPA Jean Pierre Antorini Swiss office. As project manager, she collaborated also with Longo Palmarini Architecture & Partners (LPA) in Milan; for both these architectural firms the project she managed are principally based in France from Paris to French Riviera and in Principality of Monaco, specializing not only in private premises but specially in hôtellerie and Real Estate developments.
In 2015 Beatrice created her own design firm and she still manages various private projects (homes and apartments) as well as public projects (hotels and offices). Her cosmopolitan spirit and roots are expressed in all her projects of interior architecture and it is peculiar of her work the masterful ability to manage spaces, also through the balance of lights and colors.

Beatrice Villata has been chosen by Platform in the shortlist of designers who will participate in the event “The New Places of Living. Snapshots of everyday living” that will take place on January 11 and 12 at Milano Home _ Fiera Milano.
Her talk will be on January 11 starting at 10 am

What he will present is the interior design prject of Unico Brera: optimization of space, flexibility of environments and attention to materials and details as a design transposition of the soul of the Brera district: contextually a Milanese icon,
crossroads of cultures and container of parallel worlds.
Interior Design: ._villata
Architectural Project: .studio
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03/01/2024

In 1998, Maison Hermès asked RPBW to design its Japanese headquarters in Tokyo. The project was developed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, in collaboration with Rena Dumas Architecture Intérieure and Takenaka Corporation Design Department. Harumi-dori, the main street of the Ginza district, is chosen. The site has an atypical development: a long and very narrow lot that forces the building to be developed mainly in height. The result is a 15-story building (3 of which are underground), 45 meters long and 11 meters wide. The cladding element consists of a single 45-centimeter square glass module, repeated 13,000 times. The size of each module corresponds to a drop of molten glass-a measurement physically determined by the surface tension of the material. The sculptures installed in the building are works created by Susumu Shingu, a Japanese painter and sculptor.

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02/01/2024

Youth Sports Complex, project by L.A. firm Brooks + Scarpa, located in Pompano Beach, Florida. The new 6-acre park includes a new 2000 square foot Youth Sports Complex consisting of a concession window, offices, restrooms and equipment storage. The outdoor porch acts as an outdoor living room – for play in the shade, social interaction, and seating for athletes to rest or spectators to watch. The folding roof allows for the porch and interior spaces to harvest breezes from the East. The Youth Sports Complex will utilize materials and colors, in such a way that it complements the Centennial Park Pavilion. The project has been designed to allow for later expansion, where multi-purpose spaces will build out the porch area.

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01/01/2024

”Brutalia” by . This playful and engaging book guides readers around these examples of Italian brutalist architecture, informing curious explorers about their features, failures, and successes, with a special focus on public housing estates such as “Torre Velasca” in Milan, “Lavatrici” in Genoa, “Nuovo Corviale” in Rome, “Vele di Scampia” in Naples, and “Rozzol Melara” in Trieste. The first half of Brutalia opens with a foreword by Italian architect and writer Alessandro Benetti; it includes photographs of the featured buildings and details on their histories. The second section contains five pre-cut and pre-folded models to press out and assemble.

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01/01/2024

“Nueva Nave” The Mayoral New Warehouse Logistics Center, project by Rafael Urquiza - System Arquitectura. The new building is located on the Mayoral campus in Intelhorce, Málaga, Spain, next to the protected warehouse designed by Vázquez Molezún and rehabilitated by the same team in 2018. The project’s concept revolves around urban planning within the complex adjacent to the existing warehouse. The high-storage program required the new building to reach a height of 20 meters with a floor area of over 15,000 square meters, making it a massive volume very close to the existing building, which is only 11 meters tall. Therefore, it needed to be handled with the necessary sensitivity to integrate seamlessly with its neighbor. This integration extends not only at a volumetric level but also at a conceptual level, aiming for a common language rooted in the textile industry that both buildings represent.

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01/01/2024

Portes Bonheur, Rosheim, France. Le “Chemin des Carrières”, the Quarries’ Track, project by Reiulf Ramstad Architects, is a lace undulating in the landscape, an invitation to travel as our ambition behind the reconquest of the Rosheim-St Nabor railway in Alsace, France. Ominous, sometimes hidden, the vestiges of the railway still mark the reading of the site. The desire to create a route to serve the quarries had to adapt to the undulating landscapes of the sub-Vosges hills and the very form of the tracing tells the history of the landscape and the men. The journey to discover forgotten landscapes or to take a different view on everyday landscapes is addressed to both local users and tourists.

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30/12/2023

Kite House, located in Pounta, Greece. React Architects responded to the orientation of the site and it’s a polygonal form with Cycladic “gentleness”: the Π shaped plan, protective of the northern winds, the emphasis to the horizontal with the exception of the two-story volume that projects on the second floor towards the southwest, all these elements converse with a disarming simplicity with the environment. Buildings, courtyards, roofs, and the swimming pool interconnect by two “promenades” that give the feeling of a small settlement that extends on two levels.

Photographs courtesy of Panagiotis Voumvakis

30/12/2023

APS house, project by ARP Architecture Research Practice, is located at the south of Antiparos island, Cyclades, Greece, facing a protected archaeological island, Despotikon and its ancient Apollo sanctuary. The topography is steep, creating a natural protection from the north winds, while still catching the view to the sunset. During the ‘70s, a poor urban plan was juxtaposed on the area, thus transforming it in a rare case study of Cycladic post-rural suburbia.

Photographs courtesy of Ed Reeve, Erieta Attali

30/12/2023

Antiparos island, Greece. Located on a hill overlooking a valley of olive orchards, the circular form of the “Lemon Tree House” by , means every room — as well as the curved infinity pool — has expansive views, to the island of Sifonos in the west or to Paros in the east. The building has been conceived as an adaptive structure that encourages living with the elements rather than sheltering from them. “The Lemon Tree House is designed to adapt to changing wind conditions like a sailing boat,” says Vaitsos. Large bamboo panels slide along the circular walls, providing protection from the prevailing wind. These are complemented by a circular thatched bamboo canopy that acts as a roof in the open-plan outdoor living space on the upper floor.

28/12/2023

Elva Hotel (The River Hotel) is a small hotel in Voss, Norway, project by
Mange Bekker Arkitektur. Voss is renowned for its spectacular landscape and as a popular destination for outdoor and extreme sports enthusiasts. The client’s main goal was to establish unique accommodations, connected to their existing activities center, for active guests to experience and explore the local nature.

Photographs courtesy of Sam Hughes