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B+U's Housing Tower Rethinks Window DNA

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Courtesy of B+U

Los Angeles based B+U Architects, a design office recognized internationally for its digital techniques and use of new technologies and material resources, is once again pushing the boundaries of architecture and urban design with its Animated Apertures Housing Tower project in Lima, Peru. The conceptual framework for the design arose from a "clear interest in emphasizing an architecture that can exist between nature and technology," inspired by natural patterns, movements and colors with the overarching goal of creating an "interactive and intelligent building organism". According to the architects, its design aesthetic embraces incongruence, disruption and deformation rather than homogeneity and parametric smoothness - a common solution in many digital designs that the firm wished to avoid.

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"Universidad del Pacifico" Branch Office / Metropolis

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© Juan Solano

Architects: Metropolis Location: Lima, Peru Project Year: 2012 Project Area: 17,000 sqm Photographs: Juan Solano

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Pescados Capitales Restaurant / GonzalezMoix

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© Juan Solano

Architects: GonzalezMoix arquitectura Location: San Borja, Lima, Perú Architect : Óscar González Moix Project Year: 2012 Project Area: 763.2 sqm Photographs: Juan Solano

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CyD House / V.Oid

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Lima, Peru
  • Architects: V.Oid
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  450
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012

Viewpoint House

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Lima, Peru
  • Architects: 2.8x arquitectos
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  800
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2011

Las Palmeras Beach House / RRMR Arquitectos

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Lima, Peru
  • Architects: RRMR Arquitectos
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  200
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2011

House in Las Arenas / Javier Artadi

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Lima, Peru
  • Architects: Javier Artadi: Ing. Jorge Indacochea (Structure), Ing. Roberto Mayorga (Electrics), Ing. Angel Dall´Orto (Plumbing)
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  238

Loft Tower / XTe a+d

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Courtesy of XTe a+d

Designing in Lima, a city of marked eclecticism is more a provocation than a challenge. The vibrant movement of forms, heights, colors, reflections, textures and all kinds of elements competing for the leading role is a particularly interesting framework for XTe a+d‘s proposal for an exclusive, loft apartment building. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Alvarez Beach House / Longhi Architects

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Lima, Peru
  • Architects: Longhi Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  580
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010

CC House / Longhi Architects

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Lima, Peru
  • Architects: Longhi Architects: Longhi Architects / Luis Longhi
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  389
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010

Beach House Q / Longhi Architects

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Lima, Peru
  • Architects: Longhi Architects: Longhi Architects / Luis Longhi
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  404
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010

House in La Encantada / Javier Artadi

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Lima, Peru

Beach House in Las Palmeras / Javier Artadi

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Lima, Peru
  • Architects: Javier Artadi
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  348
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2011

El Camion Restaurant / LLONA + ZAMORA Arquitectos + Fernando Mosquera

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  • Architects: Fernando Mosquera, LLONAZAMORA: LLONA + ZAMORA arquitectos + Fernando Mosquera
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  220
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2009

El Mercado Restaurant / OZ Arq

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  • Architects: OZ Arq
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  550
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010

The 22 / JSª

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  • Architects: JSa:  JSª: Javier Sánchez, Irvine Torres, Juan Reyes, Héctor Hernández and Francisco de la Concha
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  995
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010