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Nivek Remas renovates founder’s home to serve as its office space

June 6, 2022 James Brillon 0
Nivek Remas home studio with office in mirror

Toronto studio Nivek Remas has renovated its founder’s home to create an office for the studio based on changes in working conditions due to the coronavirus pandemic. Early in 2020, the Canadian interior design studio led by Kevin Chan and Samer Shaath was poised to lease new office space for its expanding business. However, these

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Citic teams up with local builders for gabled lakeside house in Chile

June 2, 2022 James Brillon 0
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Three gabled volumes connected by glazed walkways form this home overlooking Chile’s Rupanco Lake, completed as part of as a community-driven initiative with a local organization. The project, called 3C2C, was designed by Team Citic in collaboration with Constructores de Rupanco (Rupanco Builders), a local organization of builders whose goal is the sustainable development and

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Rea Studio references “blank canvas” for Mexican beach house

May 31, 2022 James Brillon 0
Casa Veronica

Muted tones and a courtyard pool feature in this home by Mexican firm Rea Architectural Studio, who envisioned the project as a flexible space for the future inhabitants. Casa Veronica is the fourth home Rea Architectural Studio has completed in Nuevo Vallarta, a development on Mexico’s Pacific coastline just north of Puerto Vallarta, in the

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Jobim Carlevaro Arquitetos adds two bedrooms on top of Florianópolis home

May 27, 2022 James Brillon 0
Jobim Carlevaro Arquitetos house Brazil

Jobim Carlevaro Arquitetos has renovated this home in Florianópolis, Brazil adding add two bedrooms to the building and updating its finishes for a young family. Local architects Marcos Jobim and Silvana Carlevaro were tapped to renovate a two-storey home in the Lagoa da Conceição neighbourhood of Florianópolis, a coastal city in Brazil. At the onset

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Fentress Architects overhauls Norwegian Embassy in Washington DC

May 24, 2022 James Brillon 0

US studio Fentress Architects used copper and mass timber to reconfigure Norway’s embassy in Washington DC, which opened to the public this month. The project entailed a thorough renovation of Norway’s existing embassy, originally built in 1977. In addition to remodelling the building’s 30,000 square feet (2,787 square metres) of interior space, Fentress also added

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Set Ideas completes two modular home prototypes in Argentina

May 22, 2022 James Brillon 0
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Argentinian studio Set Ideas has completed two small cabins in Córdoba that aim to offer high-quality living spaces within a tight footprint. Encompassing only 40 square metres, the TINY_MOD cabins – which stands for Tiny Module – were completed in 2021. The small, black cabins are located in Córdoba, the capital of the eponymous province

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Luciano Basso raises concrete home around tree in southern Brazil

May 21, 2022 James Brillon 0

Luciano Basso has completed a concrete home in the forests of southern Brazil that is built around a mature Paraná pine tree. The project was commissioned by a young couple, who wanted a home that would integrate harmoniously with the area’s surrounding vegetation. The 240 square-metre home is located in Caxias do Sul, in the

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Light and Air updates Financial District apartment with open floor plan

May 20, 2022 James Brillon 0
Light and Air apartment

Brooklyn studio Light and Air has renovated a loft in New York City’s financial district by removing partitions to create an open, inviting space. Occupying the 12th storey of a converted commercial building in one of Manhattan’s historic neighbourhoods, the apartment has generous windows and floor area, but previously made poor use of these qualities

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Cancún apartment building is designed for workers and tourists to coexist

May 16, 2022 James Brillon 0

Split-level bedrooms and natural finishes characterise this apartment complex in Cancún, Mexico, by Kiltro Polaris, WEWI, and JC Arquitectura. The 14-unit project, dubbed Domus Peepem, is located in Colonia Donceles, a neighbourhood of Cancún that was developed in the 1980s as social housing for the many workers employed in the area’s tourism industry. “After Hurricane

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Baldio Arquitectura designs Córdoba row house around existing carob tree

May 15, 2022 James Brillon 0
tree in courtyard argentina row house

Baldio Arquitectura has completed a small apartment with light wells and a central tree as part of a residential complex in Córdoba. The project, named Three Houses and a Carob Tree, is located in Córdoba, the capital of Argentina’s eponymous province. Completed in 2021, it began as a commission for Baldio Arquitectura to design two

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