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Architects: Matteo Ferrari
- Area: 60 m²
- Year: 2022
Olivar House / Matteo Ferrari
Community Development Center in Tapachula / Laboratorio de Acupuntura Urbana
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Architects: Laboratorio de Acupuntura Urbana
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Novaceramic
It Is Possible to Add a Bathroom Anywhere: How Does a Macerator Work?
We have written a lot about the adaptive reuse of buildings and how this should become an even more important activity for architects in the future. Focusing on interiors, it consists of adapting spaces to new demands, promoting quality and comfort, and often incorporating new technologies into a space. Whether adding a new bedroom, organizing a home office, or transforming a historical building into an office, the architects' creativity allows them to create interesting environments without the need for demolishing. But one thing that tends to make designers scratch their heads in concern is how to include bathrooms and all the complication that it entails. This is because adding a simple toilet usually requires breaking slabs, walls, and floors, working with thick plumbing, and, above all, spending a lot of money and time. There is, however, the possibility of using a macerating pump system - a straightforward, affordable solution for creating a complete or half bathroom practically anywhere.
Renzo Piano’s Urban Regeneration Project Transforms Genoa’s Seafront
First drafted by Renzo Piano and developed by RPBW and OBR, the Waterfront di Levante is a project that aims to transform what was previously the back of a port into a new urban front on the sea. The development is planned to become a new landmark on the seafront of Genoa, Italy, by bringing new urban and port functions, both public and private, to an underutilized area. By controlling the built-to-open area ratio, it also seeks to enhance the connection between the city and the sea. The project introduces functions such as the new Urban Park, a new dock, residences, offices, student housing, retail facilities, apart-hotels, and a new sports hall.
MEV Cabin / Studio Jean Verville architectes
KCAP Wins Competition to Develop the Yantai Seafront in Northeast China
KCAP won the design competition for the Coastline of Yantai, Shandong Province, south of Beijing. As one of China's top 10 ports and a gateway city for communication between Japan and South Korea, Yantai Seafront Garden will transform the underused coastal area into an influential economic and technological development zone in Northeast China. The conceptual proposal was selected by its vision of 4 stages along the 95km of waterfront, including water conservation zones, a "sponge city" community, and a resident tidal shoreline.
Hartmut Thimel: A Secret Architect in Brazil
Ricardo Rocha writes about the German-Brazilian architect Hartmut Thimel. Forgotten by canonical historiography, he worked with Georges Candilis, Yona Friedman, and later with Oscar Niemeyer. His work is a bridge between 1970s Brazil, addressing the international avant-garde - Team X, Metabolism, Spatial Urbanism, and Prospective, among others.
Constructing With Concrete: Hardcore Projects and Products
Widely recognized as being responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions, concrete should be a blacklisted material, relegated to the shameful annals of architectural history. Rapid global urbanization, however, will ensure its unequaled production simplicity and structural strength help retain concrete’s firm grip on the construction industry.
If you can’t beat it, improve it: is the industry’s mantra on innovation, currently developing various alternatives to concrete or its constituent parts and admixtures. So with a concrete set for the environmental green list, the concrete revolution –using the material as an aesthetic exterior facade, interior decoration and fittings, or even in furniture and lighting, as well as a structural framework– is free to continue.
Building Community Kurfürstenstrasse / June-14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff
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Architects: June-14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff
- Area: 3700 m²
- Year: 2022
La Mejicana Refurbishment / Alba Balmaseda
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Architects: Alba Balmaseda
- Area: 380 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Cortizo, Enetres, Granitos Lalín, Grupo Lesaca
Good Design for a Museum Display Case: Pushing the Limits of Minimalism and Functionality
Museums play a critical role in preserving local cultures, promoting a better understanding of our collective heritage, and fostering dialogue, curiosity and self-reflection. In recent years –and largely driven by the Covid-19 pandemic– technological advances have enabled users from all over the world to visit exhibitions virtually, at any time and from the comfort of their own home. However, although online tours are a good way of increasing accessibility, there is something about the in-person museum experience that will never get old: the ability to witness, embrace and closely admire artefacts, paintings and sculptures in their true form, as well as the chance to experience the unique ambiance and essence of a traditional museum setting. Viewing the Mona Lisa virtually will never live up to appreciating it face-to-face at The Louvre, for instance.
House Furggaleidis / sandro durrer
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Architects: sandro durrer
- Area: 390 m²
- Year: 2022
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Manufacturers: BSV Schlanders Design Line, CEA Design, S&S Elektrodesign, V-Zug
Joybo Farm Museum / WT Architects
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Architects: WT Architects
- Area: 5000 m²
- Year: 2022
Renovation of a Hoffmann Kiln / HCCH Studio
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Architects: HCCH Studio
- Year: 2022
NIOA Timber Tower / KIRK Studio
a boat / Shu Yamamoto + Yoshinori Kobayashi
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Architects: Shu Yamamoto, Yoshinori Kobayashi
- Area: 251 m²
- Year: 2022