Local architecture studio Stanaćev Granados has created an oceanside holiday house shaped like a cube and clad in wood on the coast of Chile. Located in the village of Matanzas, Casa Kuvo was designed using simple, geometric forms and has a largely white palette to complement its coastal site. At 70 square metres, the two-bedroom,
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Local studio LMN Architects has completed a convention centre in downtown Seattle with a six-storey central atrium and large wooden staircase. Centrally located in the city, the Convention Center Summit building is a detached expansion of the original Seattle Convention Center Arch building, which sits nearby. The 5.1-million-square-foot (473,805 square metre) building was designed using
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Following British studio Apollodorus Architecture’s proposal for a stadium styled like the Colosseum, Dezeen has rounded up 10 architecture designs that capture the imagination but are unlikely to be realised. From a 93-kilometre cycle highway encircling Dubai to satirical proposals responding to events in the news, the list includes sports centres, skyscrapers, parks, and residences
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Architecture studio ZGF has completed phase one of Amazon’s HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia that includes a park designed by James Corner Field Operations. The Metropolitan Park campus completes the first phase of online retail firm Amazon’s headquarters located in Arlington’s National Landing neighbourhood, a 20-minute drive to downtown Washington, D.C. The new 2.1 million square
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Local studio Montalba Architects has renovated American architect Edward Durrell Stone’s Perpetual Savings and Loan Bank building in Los Angeles and added a sunken garden in the building’s plaza. Built in 1961, the eight-storey building now called 9720 Wilshire features a Romanesque facade of repeating arches and remains a landmark of the Beverly Hills neighbourhood.
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Local architecture studio Lorenzo Botero Arquitectos and interior designer Martín Mendoza used a palette of natural materials to transform a three-storey house into a restaurant in Bogotá. Located in the city’s Zona del Nogal, a popular shopping destination, Ideal Restaurant takes cues from the materiality of the deserts of the southern United States and the
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Mexico City-based architect Ludwig Godefroy has cut circular openings into the slanted ceilings of a series of dwellings in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, to create semi-exposed pools and gardens. Godefroy placed a series of circular openings in a cast-concrete structure to create cave-like interiors that remain open to the tropical climate of the Pacific coast site.
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Architect Jesús Vassallo and a team of graduate students at Rice University have added a pavilion made of cross-laminated timber panels to the Houston campus. The Johnson Owl Deck Pavilion was constructed using cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels to demonstrate the material’s potential as a carbon-negative and sustainable building method while serving a specific function. “We
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Local studio FGMF Architetos has used translucent screens and metallic panels to enclose a residence on a sloping site near São Paulo. Located in the town of Campinas, Casa Brisa stands within an expansive shell-like structure that protects the residence from inclement weather and the high temperatures of the area. “It is an investigation into the
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A research team at the University of Michigan has created biodegradable formwork out of sawdust in an attempt to mitigate wood waste in the process of laying concrete. The wood-based material is a result of the BioMatters project by the Digital Architecture Research and Technologies (DART) Lab at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
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