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Arquitetas Invisíveis Presents 48 Women in Architecture: Part 7, Sustainable Architecture

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we asked the Brazilian non-profit group Arquitetas Invisíveis to share with us a part of their work, which identifies women in architecture and urbanism. They kindly shared with us a list of 48 important women architects, divided into… Sigue leyendo

Open Call: Inside 2015

Inside 2015 invites students and young professionals to submit a collection of their "inside" work comprised of up to three digital images. By submitting your work, we invite you to share your voice with the collective intelligence of a community of visual thinkers. The competition is open to all design disciplines including architects, interior designers, furniture designers, digital fabricators, graphic designers, lighting designers, product designers or any other creative field that creates for the inside. The competition is free to all entrants. Learn more, here

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Goettsch Partners Prepare to Start Work on Warsaw Tower

Envisioned with a height of 130-meters and comprising a combined total of 41 floors and 63,800-square-meters, the bipartite Mennica Legacy Tower project in Warsaw has been slated for construction, to commence in the last quarter of 2015. Featuring two adjacent towers designed… Sigue leyendo

Family House In Palanga / UAB Architektu biuras

Architects: UAB Architektu biuras
Location: Vanagupės gatvė, Palanga, Lithuania
Architect In Charge: Gintautas Natkevičius, Adomas Rimšelis, Sigita Kundrotaitė
Area: 253.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Leonas Garbačauskas From the architect.… This is a four-member family house in a seaside resort town Sigue leyendo

Egypt Unveils Plans for “New Cairo”

In an effort to combat the economic conditions that have plunged one-fourth of its population into poverty, Egypt’s ambitious development plan for a massive new capital city is soon to be underway. Roughly the size of New Cairo, the privately-funded city hopes… Sigue leyendo

Your Home by Mail: The Rise and Fall of Catalogue Housing

Housing is one of the most persistent challenges faced by the construction industry, and over the course of decades certain trends rise and fall, as entrepreneurial housing providers carve out new niches to provide for expanding populations and changing demographics. … Sigue leyendo

Casa Na Mouraria / José Andrade Rocha

Architects: José Andrade Rocha
Location: Rua Mouraria, 1100-341 Lisboa, Portugal
Area: 64.0 sqm
Year: 2015
Photographs: Ricardo Oliveira Alves From the architect.… This house in the historic neighbourhood of Mouraria, Lisbon,  suffered many transformations over the years that compartmentalised the Sigue leyendo

Spectacular Attic Duplex With Glass Flooring in Stockholm, Sweden

This elegant attic duplex reflecting light in every room is located on Norrbackagatan, a picturesque street in Stockholm, Sweden. Covering a total surface 1,260 square feet and spread on two levels, the refined Scandinavian apartment beckons for up close exploration. White walls and furniture visually take over the space, rivaled in tone only by red-brown […]

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Video: Frei Otto Experimenting with Soap Bubbles

“The computer can only calculate what is already conceptually inside of it; you can only find what you look for in computers. Nevertheless, you can find what you haven’t searched for with free experimentation.” – From A Conversation with Frei … Sigue leyendo

SHIFT Restaurant / Lama Arhitectura

Architects: Lama Arhitectura
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Architect In Charge: Dan Enache,CalinRadu
Design Team: AliceIonita, Ioana Stan
Landscape Architect: Alexandru Gheorghe-Poteca Studio
Area: 165.0 sqm
Year: 2015
Photographs: RaduMalasincu From the architect.… The idea behind The Shift Restaurant was to obtain Sigue leyendo