AMASA Estudio’s decision to rehabilitate a 1940s house in Colonia Del Carmen, Coyoacán, represents an urban position in a city where development pressure typically leads to demolition and replacement. The …
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A 36-square-meter ground-floor flat in a 1919 building in Barcelona’s Sarrià neighborhood is not an obvious candidate for architectural ambition. The flat had belonged to the same family for generations, …
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In a 1930s beach apartment in Levanto, Genoa-based llabb worked around a constraint most studios would have tried to design past. Load-bearing masonry partitions meant the plan couldn’t be reconfigured, …
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On a sloped site in Las Rozas, just outside Madrid, Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has built a house out of five distinct cylinders, each one carrying a different part of the …
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Bucci Quentin’s renovation of a 1970s flat in Prato’s Pietà district runs on one idea carried through in restraint: a single shade of lobster red, present throughout the 168-square-meter home …
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Alkove-Design has built a four-bedroom apartment across 3,612 square feet in Kalyani Nagar, Pune, around a single material conceit: the striated, layered look of rammed earth, translated into lime plaster, …
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The street facade of the Remédios à Lapa Building has not changed, and that very restraint stands as Aurora Arquitectos’ most precise architectural decision, because everything behind it has been …
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A house named Mazha, the Malayalam word for rain, sits in Mathilagam, a quiet coastal pocket of Thrissur where a nearby beach sets the pace of everyday life. From the …
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Seen from the orchard, the old barn at Brtev gives almost nothing away, standing as it always has on a low base of stone and pale brick, its dark weathered …
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The stained glass that fills the semicircular arch on the front facade of this two-storey laterite house in Anjuna, Goa, is not decorative in any conventional sense; its scale alone …