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20 Rooms With Words to Inspire (20 photos)

May 5, 2020 Janet Paik 0

Words can carry so much weight. And sometimes you just need a little visual pick-me-up to help motivate you or help frame your outlook for the day. Here are 20 inspirational phrases found on walls, nooks, doors and shelves in homes from around the wor…

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Agora / unparelld’arquitectes

May 5, 2020 Andreas Luco 0

Agora Facility building in El Morrot sports complex A square-shaped public square, defined by two porches and open to the football pitches. This will be the centre of the sports complex of El Morrot. This is also the answer to the contradictions between use and site: an industrial estate and a street with hardly any sidewalks. The square connects visually with the geographical landmarks, the outline of the mountains that enclose the county. At the same time, it becomes separated from the factories and the street, busy with many lorries.

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Cities “are swamped by the exotic shapes you can make with a computer,” says James Wines

May 5, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0
Best store by SITE and James Wines

Pioneering architect James Wines laments the predominance of digitally created forms in architecture and calls for more buildings that “reach out to people” in the first of a series of talks VDF is broadcasting in partnership with Friedman Benda. “All cities are becoming exactly alike,” Wines told curator and historian Glenn Adamson in New York

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Casa Plenaire is an imaginary holiday home for lockdown escapism

May 5, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Casa Plenaire by Child Studio

As the coronavirus pandemic puts a halt on all travel plans, Child Studio has collaborated with Plenaire to envision an idyllic seaside villa for the “perfect holiday”. Designed as a “hideaway for the lockdown world”, Casa Plenaire is seen through a series of dreamy renderings created using 3D modelling programmes. The project takes its name

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Half Cave House / Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP

May 5, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

The roof plays a significant role for a “tolerance of space” that affirms and accepts others. The expanse of the roof is benevolent, silently inviting people in and watching over them. At the same time, it is physically removed and a bit reticent. We have given much thought to the roof and its ambivalent disposition where it maintains an ample space from a human body yet generously embraces us.

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AKA Patagonia Hotel / Pablo Larroulet

May 5, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

The Place: Encounter and contrast. Patagonia is one of the most important tourist destinations in Chile and the world, a geography that strikes you with its scale, untamed wilderness and the bond that’s generated between the visitor and the landscape.