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Daria Sheina Studio designs off-grid British Columbia cabin

November 26, 2025 Kate Mazade 0

Daria Sheina Studio has designed The Nest, an off-grid cabin with cedar-wrapped rotated volumes that allow panoramic views of the Howe Sound off the coast of British Columbia. The 1,063-square-foot (99-square-metre) house sits on the highest point of a 10-acre site on Keats Island, a remote getaway with only 50 full-time residents near Vancouver. Daria

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Estúdio Rossi Arquitetos “transforms memory into architecture” at Brazilian beach house

November 20, 2025 Kate Mazade 0

Local practice Estúdio Rossi Arquitetos has completed a house with a glued-laminated timber structure on the coast of São Paolo that opens to the surrounding landscape through multiple screens and brise soleil. Known as Casa Guaecá, the 465-square metre (5,005-square foot) vacation home was completed in 2024 in the neighbourhood of São Sebastião on the former

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JSa transforms Mexican factory for its own architecture studio

November 13, 2025 Kate Mazade 0

Mexico City-based studio JSa has adapted a mid-century factory into an office and studio space for its practice, maintaining many industrial details as a “manifesto in regenerative design”. Constructed in 1954, the Ice Factory building was part of the Cervecería Central beer factory. Most of the once-full-block factory was demolished after the Mexico City earthquake

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Nitsche Arquitetos focuses on “broad adaptability” for modular house in Brazil

November 12, 2025 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Nitsche Arquitetos has completed a modular, cross-laminated timber house with a rectangular dogtrot-style plan outside of São Paulo, Brazil. Located in Piedade, the 140-square metre (1,500-square foot) house is the first modular prototype developed by Nitsche Arquitetos to make house construction faster, more affordable and more sustainable. “The system allows for multiple arrangement

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Fernanda Canales orients circular Mexican house as “solar clock”

November 3, 2025 Kate Mazade 0

Mexico City-based studio Fernanda Canales Architecture has tucked a circular house into a remote site, allowing for views in every direction of the landscape outside of Valle de Bravo, Mexico. Completed in 2024, House 720 Degrees spreads 1,115 square metres (12,000 square feet) across 2 acres in an area outside of Valle de Bravo called

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nArchitects designs twin park pavilions on either side of the Hudson River

November 1, 2025 Kate Mazade 0

Brooklyn-based studio nArchitects has designed two waterfront park pavilions that address the conditions of flood-prone sites along the Hudson River in New York and New Jersey, USA. Both completed in 2024, the Gansevoort Peninsula Pavilion is located on the western side of Manhattan and projects into the Hudson River, while the ResilienCity Park Pavilion sits

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Lake Flato Architects evokes “feeling of being on a porch” at Texas library

October 27, 2025 Kate Mazade 0

Texas studio Lake Flato Architects has created a library with a porch-like scheme, featuring mass-timber elements and a designated space for children, outside of Austin, Texas, USA. Completed in 2024, the 47,000-square-foot (4,365-square-metre) Cedar Park Public Library sits on two tree-filled acres and was the first building constructed in the new 50-acre Bell District, which

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Reyes Ríos + Larraín Arquitectos extends pink beach house along narrow Yucatán property

November 4, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Reyes Ríos + Larraín Arquitectos stretched out a beach house along a narrow plot and coated it with rose-coloured stucco on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Completed in 2024 in Dzemul, Yucatán, the San Bruno Beach House has 700 square meters of built area separated into three pavilions on a 1,460 square meters

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Vaga Arquitectura and Pistache Ganache wrap Brazilian store in undulating “membrane”

October 31, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Brazilian studios Vaga Arquitectura and Atelier Pistache Ganache teamed up to design a “consumer-first” boutique outfit with curving coral walls for a mattress company in Sāo Paulo. Renovated in 2024 by design studio Vaga Arquitetura and luxury retail designer Atelier Pistache Ganache, the narrow store sits on the end of a block in the Pinheiros neighborhood.

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DataAE and Xavier Vendrell balance Barcelona housing block on steep site

October 30, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Spanish architecture studios DataAE and Xavier Vendrell have balanced two rows of social housing on a hillside in Barcelona overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The project includes 39 units – a total of 4,785 square metres (51,500 square feet) – broken into three volumes that are oriented towards the water. Claudi Aguiló and Albert Domingo, who

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