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Oscar Ibirapuera Building / Perkins&Will

September 15, 2022 Valeria Silva 0

In 1954, the city of São Paulo received what would become one of its most celebrated postcards: the Ibirapuera Park. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer, the urban park, an icon of modern architecture, has established itself as one of the most popular destinations in the city, as well as the epicenter of the development of the surrounding neighborhood. After 68 years of this landmark’s creation, the global studio Perkins&Will updates the architectural parameters of the region with Oscar Ibirapuera, one of the most impressive residential projects in the high-end São Paulo market, with a permanent view of the city’s most exuberant green area.

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Lehrer Architects creates Willowbrook Apartments in LA for disabled veterans

September 13, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0
Willowbrook Apartments

Bright colours provide an uplifting environment for formerly homeless tenants at a Los Angeles complex with micro-apartments and a community building that was designed by local studio Lehrer Architects. The complex, Willowbrook Apartments, provides permanent, supportive housing for veterans with disabilities who have experienced homelessness. Located in the Willowbrook neighbourhood in South Los Angeles, the

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Ryuichi Sasaki creates angular community performance space near Tokyo temple

September 12, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Japanese studio Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture has completed a mixed-use development in Tokyo comprising a community performance space and apartments housed in angular concrete volumes. The Ideareve-Ikegami building was designed by Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture to provide a cultural hub and accommodation in a predominantly residential neighbourhood in the city’s southern Ota Ward. The area is named

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Coworking Sant Magì / BARRI Studio

September 11, 2022 Andreas Luco 0

Palma de Mallorca’s historic center, a three-story building renovation in Carrer de Sant Magi balances recovery of the existing with a need for updating. Two luxury flats are located on the upper floors, while a coworking space occupies the ground floor.

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Andrea Leung conceals “secret spaces” within renovated Tribeca Loft

September 10, 2022 Dan Howarth 0
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A dividing wall that’s part transparent, part mirrored separates the public and private spaces of this loft apartment in Manhattan, which architect Andrea Leung has renovated for herself. New York-based Leung discovered the 1,600-square-foot (150-square-metre) Tribeca Loft within a historic building, and gut-renovated its interiors to suit her needs and tastes. “One look at the

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77 Housing Units / CoBe Architecture & Paysage

September 9, 2022 Paula Pintos 0

A new centrality. The Armagnac sector is today a huge railway wasteland and a sector of activity at the heart of which a new centrality for the city of Bordeaux is developing. Overlooking the Place d’Armagnac, the Tri Postal block, as its name suggests, includes the city’s former mail sorting building, whose activity stopped in 2016.

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77 Housing Units / CoBe Architecture & Paysage

September 9, 2022 Paula Pintos 0

A new centrality. The Armagnac sector is today a huge railway wasteland and a sector of activity at the heart of which a new centrality for the city of Bordeaux is developing. Overlooking the Place d’Armagnac, the Tri Postal block, as its name suggests, includes the city’s former mail sorting building, whose activity stopped in 2016.

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Leyhof Apartments / Studio Ard Hoksbergen + Workshop Architecten

September 7, 2022 Bianca Valentina Roșescu 0

Leyhof is a very sustainable residential building in the new Proeftuin Erasmusveld district in The Hague. It gives shape to the desire to live healthily and consciously. Proeftuin Erasmusveld is a neighborhood that is ready for the future on all fronts. Themes like climate/landscape, energy, mobility, living together, and health are central. For Leyhof, the first residential building to be completed in the district, developer BPD selected a young design team through competition. This gave shape to the theme ‘Consciously Different Living’ in an innovative way. Leyhof has become a green and special living environment for people who choose a healthy future by connecting sustainability and collectivity. Families, starters, and seniors live in the 75 apartments and 33 townhouses. The houses are all conveniently located in relation to the sun and are adjacent to a large courtyard garden and an ecological zone.

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Toranomon Hills Tower / ingenhoven architects

September 7, 2022 Andreas Luco 0

The Toranomon Hills Tower, one of Tokyo’s tallest skyscrapers, is flanked by two impressive new companions: an office tower, 36 stories and 185 meters high, and a residential tower, Japan’s tallest residential skyscraper at 54 stories and 220 meters high. A green, publicly accessible plateau connects all three high-rise buildings at the first above-ground level.