With Casa Encinos, Architect Lilian Rebollo from the APT arquitectura para todos studio has created a small architectural gem that respects the breathtaking natural context of the Santo Domingo Ocotitlán village situated in the El Tepozteco National Park, in Mexico. The use of local materials, techniques and labour makes the project particularly sustainable.
In their transformation of the old outdoor cinema in the Czech town of Prachatice, Mimosa Architects drew their inspiration from the imagery of film, with its reels and projectors. The complex now has a new face, offering a new attraction for summer evenings with a special focus on urban greenery and maintaining all the charm of its past.
Peruvian architect Marina Vella has designed Casa Entrecopas, a home that draws both inspiration and materiality from its location: the interior of a large historical farm located North of Lima, in Peru. Thanks to the construction techniques and to the local materials used, the result is an architecture that is intrinsically sustainable and in close harmony with the idyllic surrounding landscape.
Mexican studio RED Arquitectos, founded by Susana López González, built a holiday home on the island of Holbox off the north coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula using ecologically friendly local coconut palm wood.
Canadian architectural studio Smith Vigeant Architectes designed a building for the Montreal aqueduct, a delicate project in the natural setting of the green banks of the canal in a public park which has conquered the local citizens and been awarded the Order of Architects of Quebec’s Prize for Excellence in Architecture 2022 in the industrial buildings category.
The Artist's House is the most recent project by the British architects of AR Design Studio in Winchester, Hampshire: an extension and renovation of a protected historical building of national importance. The project eliminated later additions and reconnected the various components of the house.
The Czech PAPOUSEK & SILHAN ARCHITECTS studio has designed the maintenance complex for the Golf & Ski Resort in Ostravice. Three houses and a courtyard accommodate the necessary functions, without sacrificing beauty, all in full respect of the natural context in which the complex is set, in the Beskydy Mountains.
The US architecture firm Wittman Estes has designed the transformation of an apartment inside Lakeside West, a condominium complex originally built in 1961 by John Graham, who at the time had already created his iconic Seattle Space Needle. The intervention carried out by the Wittman Estes studio has adapted the residence to contemporary needs, with simple and functional spaces.
The Earth and Glass House project designed by Studio Lotus in New Delhi is a house conceived to create a harmonious dialogue between architecture and nature. Those who come here for weekend retreats are able to regenerate themselves, in full respect of the environment and in line with the tradition of designing according to the Vastu principles, the ancient "teaching on proper dwelling".
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