ARCHITECTURE AND NATURE IN SYMBIOSIS ON THE CARIBBEAN COAST

The work of Co-Lab Design Office, based in Tulum, is inspired by the beauty of the Yucatan and encourages a connection between the landscape and the built environment. Zoom in on three projects. The studio, founded by Joana Gomes and Joshua Beck, has been creating contextual and sustainable designs for thirteen years, working directly with […]

SUSPENSION HOUSE: A MAGNIFICENT BALANCING ACT BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND NATURE

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For thirty years, the Fougeron Architecture studio has been deploying its modernist vision to find the perfect alignment between architectural idea and built form. The Suspension House is an example of this vertiginous challenge. To look at it, it’s like a cross between Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and M.C. Escher’s Impossible Constructions. The redesigned home, […]

NOMAD HOUSE, A SERENE RETREAT IN THE ARIZONA DESERT

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“Creativity and discovery flourish alongside expertise and experience” is one of the credos of Tucson, Arizona-based studio Rick Joy.  For twenty years, this cooperative practice has been creating committed architecture that blends into its environment to become real scenes of everyday life. Respect for craftsmanship gives rise to designs and materials that respect the culture […]

FORMER USSR SOVIET BUS STOPS UNDER THE EYE OF CHRISTOPHER HERWIG

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This Canadian image-hunter and filmmaker sublimates these underappreciated architectures in a photographic road trip through the former Soviet republics. “Bus stops disappear so quickly. If I come back in a year, they could be gone, demolished or rebuilt. These images may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them a kind […]

FENWICK’S DISCREET ARCHITECTURE BY EDITION OFFICE

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Australian architecture firm Edition Office has designed Fenwick, a building with a raw silhouette that blends seamlessly into the surrounding vegetation.  Edition Office has installed its latest project, Fenwick, on one of the banks of the Birrarung River, perched on an escarpment overlooking the river, not far from Yarra Bend Park in the Melbourne suburb […]

ARCHITECTURES IN MOTION

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With the Curved Line and Ribbon projects, the Greek studio GNB Architects offers incredible, undulating, original and playful architectural line play in the heart of the Cyclades.   For ten years, the GNB Architects studio has been exploring materiality, rural landscapes, urban environments, vernacular and contemporary architecture on Greek soil. While the island of Mykonos […]

ARCHITECTURE: DISCOVERING ITALIAN BRUTALISM

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A singular movement in the history of architecture, Brutalism has charmed architects the world over, not least in Italy. Two transalpine photographers have chosen to capture these massive, unusual silhouettes in “Brutalist Italy”, published by FUEL.   “Brutalist Italy” compiles a selection of over a hundred Italian Brutalist buildings, photographed in 146 images by Roberto […]

GALERIE JOSEPH, PLACES WITH STORIES

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FRANCE – PARIS Who hasn’t dreamed of opening their own showroom in the heart of Paris, organising an exhibition in a magnificent gallery, or shooting in an atypical location?  It was certainly in response to this type of question that Michael Timsit had the good idea of founding the Galerie Joseph group in 2008. The […]

A TREEHOUSE-LIKE HOUSE IN BRAZIL

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BRAZIL – NOVA LIMA The architecture studio Tetro, founded by Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, and Igor Macedo, explores new design approaches in harmony with local ecosystems. This modernist 500 m2 house, located in Nova Lima in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, aims to be a response to a sensitive interpretation of the steep slope […]

K-STUDIO CELEBRATES GREEK VINEYARDS

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Greece – Vourliotes Head for the island of Samos, known for its long and rich winegrowing tradition. Metaxa, creator of the iconic amber spirit, wanted to embrace its history by reconnecting the brand to its roots through a project designed by K-Studio. And to tell that story, the ideal location was the ancient vineyard where […]

ENSO II OR ARCHITECTURE IN HARMONY WITH GUANAJUATO

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Mexico – Morelia Located in the heart of Mexico, Enso II is a building full of character, just like the capital of its namesake state, Guanajuato.  Indeed, there are few places in Mexico with as strong an identity as Guanajuato. This character is clearly reflected not only in its architecture, but also in its traditional […]

AERIE, AN IDEAL SPACE FOR REFLECTION

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États-Unis – San Francisco San Francisco-based architecture firm OPA has once again made a name for itself with the “Eyrie” project. Architects Zoë Prillinger and Luke Ogrydziak, who specialise in designs that impact perceptions and emotions, rethink the home office environment. Here, they create a physical and psychological space installed on the roof, for a […]

ANDRÉE PUTMAN AND THE MODERN MOVEMENT

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France – Saint-Paul-de-Vence The mythical “château” of the avant-garde, a model of architectural simplicity with orthogonal lines, a “minimalist cubist castle “1, the Villa Noailles, nestled in the hills above Hyères in the Var region of France, was a veritable design laboratory in the 1920s, prefiguring a new art of living. Commissioned by Charles and […]

ARCHITECTURAL BEAUTY IN THE HEART OF AN OLIVE GROVE

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SPAIN – QUESA, VALENCIA Balzar Arquitectos has designed a superb family home surrounded by olive trees in Quesa, a small town in the province of Valencia, Spain. The terracotta-coloured Casa de los Olivos is a fusion of environment and architecture, but also of inhabitants, whose history is linked to the area, founded by the Moorish […]

AN AIR OF THE MEDITERRANEAN IN HAUTS-DE-SEINE

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FRANCE – ASNIÈRES-SUR-SEINE  Parisian architecture studio Heju has transformed a studio into a luminous loft that combines art, design and nature in northwest Paris. Since 2015, founders Hélène Pinaud and Julien Schwartzmann have been asserting their boldness between “architectural compositions, furniture lines and material combinations”. While they like to mix Japanese and Scandinavian influences, they […]

CASA COOK CHANIA, A MODERNIST GEM BY K-STUDIO 

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Greece – Heraklion Casa Cook Chania,” the third opus of the Casa Cook resort brand, continues the brand’s image.  On the menu for this new hotel episode? An ambience of relaxed luxury combined with texturally rich comfort, established by the art direction of Berlin-based interior design studio Lambs and Lions. Their refined creative approach was […]

REGIS BOTTA

SCULPTOR OF SPACE France – Paris In his projects, the Parisian architect focuses on functional purity, nuances of tone, geometric lines and light, sculpting them into perfectly harmonious interiors. Régis Botta is one of the rising stars on the architecture and design scene. This former graduate of the Ecole d’Architecture de Paris Belleville founded his […]

A LOFT COMBINING ART AND DESIGN BY FRANCESCO MENEGHELLO

England – London Interior designer Francesco Meneghello expresses his creative vision through this industrial loft in London, which interweaves the languages of art and design. This raw space, sculpted with light and shadow, experiments with new possible connections. The living space, illuminated by large arched windows typical of industrial archaeology, is organised as a central […]

CELEBRATED ART AND CULTURE IN EL GOUNA, EGYPT

El Gouna – Egypt London studio Seilern Architects has designed the El Gouna Plaza to host the fifth edition of the El Gouna Film Festival. This island plaza is the first design of a three-phase development in the heart of this Egyptian seaside resort on the west coast of the Red Sea. This monumental project, […]

BRUTALIST FORTRESS IN THE MAYAN JUNGLE

Mexico – Tulum Adrian and Andrea, a young Canadian couple straight from Ottawa, are the creators of this little paradise of a different kind. Overwhelmed by their visit to Cenote Suytun, an incredible underground cave beloved by the Mayans, they decided to design a villa that would capture the natural and spatial beauty of the […]

FOCUS ON MATEO KRIES’ NEW BOOK: BAUHAUS STYLE

FRANCE – PARIS “Let us strive to imagine and create the new building of tomorrow; the one that will unite every discipline – architecture, sculpture and painting – and the one that will one day soar skyward by millions of craftsmen’s hands, as a symbol of a new belief to come.” -Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Manifesto, […]

SILENT ARCHITECTURE IN THE FACE OF NATURE BY TALLER HECTOR BARROSO

MEXICO Mexico, on a desert site in Baja California Sur, a magical place, where a new site for the Mexican Open is located. A space dedicated to sport during the season and a private sports club the rest of the year, the Cabo Sports Complex building had to blend in with the landscape without distorting […]

VINCENT FOURNIER

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FUTURE BEFORE Brazil In his series on the utopian yet very real city of Brasilia, the photographer confronts architecture and human beings. These pictures invite us to a space-time journey. Fascinated by the manifestations of the future, the artist explores its multiple facets, from space adventure to the metamorphosis of the living, through architectural utopias. […]

NORMAN FOSTER

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From the earth to the moon Spread over 2200m2, the Norman Foster exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, the largest dedicated to a living architect, presents, in 130 projects, the plethoric work of a master of urban planning developed over six decades. Present in 70 countries, having received more than 300 awards, at the head of […]