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The 10 Most Popular Pools of 2022 (10 photos)

December 27, 2022 Suzanne Ennis 0

This Trending Now story features the most-saved pool photos uploaded to Houzz in 2022.A pool is great for swimming and cooling off, but the surrounding areas can also be appealing. Poolside spaces provide an opportunity to establish zones for lounging…

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Dezeen’s top 10 hotels of 2022

December 27, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

A temple-like hotel in Mexico and a converted prison in Berlin feature in this roundup of the best hotel designs of 2022, as we continue Dezeen’s review of the year. Over 50 hotel and short-stay projects featured on Dezeen in 2022. Our list includes both destination hotels, such as the idyllic Patina Maldives, and stylish urban boltholes

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Natural And Blackened Wood Create A Contrasting Design For This Restaurant And Sauna

December 27, 2022 Erin 0

Studio Puisto has designed a new restaurant and sauna in Finland, which is the first step towards rebuilding the Pistohiekka resort area which flourished until the 1980s but has since disappeared. The new lakeside sauna and restaurant boast a strong design aesthetic based on a central, curved outdoor space with the restaurant and sauna spaces […]

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AAC / Demo Working Group

December 27, 2022 Andreas Luco 0

Atelier AC is a low-cost teaching facility and community center in Aachen. Located in a public park adjacent to a school, it complements the existing functions of sports facilities, gardens, rehearsal rooms and recreational areas with a multifunctional space. In order to achieve the predetermined budget, the design was conceived as a usable shell that leaves open possibilities for appropriation and further construction as a permanent intermediate state.

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At Beta 2022, the “Another Breach in the Wall” Aims to Expose Loopholes and Empower Citizens

December 27, 2022 Maria-Cristina Florian 0

“Another Breach in the Wall’ was the chosen theme for the main exhibition presented at Beta 2022, the Timișoara Architecture Biennial, which ran from 23 September to 23 October 2022. Curated by Daniel Tudor Munteanu and Davide Tommaso Ferrando, it aimed to explore the concept of loopholes, a term referring both to inadequacies in a set of regulations and an arrow slit in a defensive wall. The exhibition aimed to inspire action an empower citizens to appropriate the urban fabric by exposing submissive urban strategies. The projects and actions presented were selected based on their potential to create novel urban spaces by questioning the laws that regulate the use of public space.

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Parramon + Tahull adds tiled floors and bespoke joinery to refurbished Barcelona apartment

December 27, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Barcelona architecture studio Parramon + Tahull has renovated a traditional apartment in the city’s Gracia neighbourhood, adding birch plywood joinery and ceramic tiling to complement the building’s original features. The apartment is home to a family of four, which has lived there for several years and wanted to carry out a significant overhaul of the

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Ephemeral pavilion LR3 Experience / NeuronaLab + Ruben Casquero

December 27, 2022 Pilar Caballero 0

The project emerged from the desire to present the new collection of the fashion brand LR3, merging virtual and digital reality with the physical one. The approach consists of creating an ephemeral space located inside the pavilion of Nuestra Señora del Carme, in the modernist complex of Sant Pau, designed by the architect Domènech i Montaner. The access to the pavilion is from the north side of the old hospital, and naked, pixelated avatars serve as a lure to the experience.