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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Brazil, Coletivo arquitetos, Color architecture, Lattice screen, LED, Refurbishment / Extension
Brazilian architect Coletivo Arquitetos designed a temporary sales office for a real estate enterprise in the waterfront city of Santos, Brazil. To permit reuse of the same structure in other sales stands, the project conceived modulate metallic structure. The idea was to create a covered and open plaza to suggest the continuity of the boardwalk [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: Brazil, Courtyard architecture, Progetto arquitetura, Stair, Swimming pool, Timber
Brazil-based architectural firm Progetto Arquitetura designed the house in Jardim Pernambuco 2. + Architect’s statement by Progetto Arquitetura +What was the guideline of the project? The guideline was to promote a maximum integration between the internal and the external areas, using a contemporary language. +Please comment the implementation of the Project in the site area. [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Brazil, Progetto arquitetura, Stair, Swimming pool, Timber, White
This house, project by Progetto Arquitetura, is situated in a rich neighbourhood in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Its construction has been finished in 2010. The house is developed in an “L” shape, divided in 2 blocks, the smallest one housing only leisure activities, and support for outside activities, (swimming pool’s showers, barbecue, SPA, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Biselli + Katchborian, Brazil, Color architecture, Concrete, Reflective pool
Brazil-based architectural studio Biselli + Katchborian architects completed the Center of Arts and Education of Pimentas in São Paulo, Brazil. + Architect’s statement by Biselli + Katchborian architects The Center of Arts and Education of Pimentas is located in Guarulhos, in Pimentas neighborhood, a place with few community equipment directed to education, leisure and sports. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic Tags: AUM arquitetos, Brazil, Competition, Random pattern
Brazil-based AUM arquitetos won the competition for the headquarters of the Regional Council of Administration of Santa Catarina. + Architect’s statement by AUM arquitetos The strategy of implementation of the Regional Council of Administration of Santa Catarina was based on the exploitation of the topography and its potential visual axes. The program is distributed in [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: AUM arquitetos, Brazil, ESD design, Zinc
The design for the administrative headquarters of Carglass, a British automotive glass company, had the intention to create a large structure, similar to an industrial hangar, but with unique and striking characteristics able to denote the use of the building. The trapezoidal configuration of the site and the care of local law suggested an unusual [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Brazil, MMEB
Brazil-based architectural firm MMEB architects has designed the house GB in Alphaville, Cuiabá/MT, Brasil. The project is the result of a reflection on the live. Searches redeem a little of the qualities of the old houses “cuiabanas”, as present in our imaginary, expressed through the patio, balcony, foot high duty of large openings, and natural [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare Tags: Brazil, Clinic, Concrete, South American architecture
Architects Elvis Vieira and Ricardo Hatiw Lú have completed the outpatient clinic of medical specialties in São Paulo, Brazil. Consisting of a volume set in concrete and glass, the building is organized by sector and by “key elements”, reinforcing its importance for the spatial organization on the ground and the landscape. Architects Elvis Vieira and [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Brazil, Courtyard architecture, Minimalism
A young architecture office AR Arquitetos recently has completed the Cube House in São Paulo Brazil. The house is a small cube of 6X6X6m in a very tiny urban plot. It was designed with a goal of maximizing the area, physically and visually both the internal and external spaces were merged, allowing maximum use of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: AUM arquitetos, Brazil, Concrete, COR-TEN, Refurbishment / Extension
Araras Cultural Centre designed by Brazil-based AUM arquitetos, is a winning project in the national competition in 2004, the goal of the project was to restore an old railway station and transform to a cultural center. + Project description courtesy of AUM arquitetos The growth of the center east of São Paulo was supported with [...]
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Category: Commercial, Interior Tags: AUM arquitetos, Brazil, Display design
Brazil-based AUM arquitetos has designed a concept store for Centauro at Shopping Cidade Jardim in São Paulo, Brazil. The use of the red and white colors, which are characteristics of the brand, and exploring the race track, which exists in all stores, were important elements in the new project. AUM arquitetos + Project description courtesy [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Brazil, Color architecture
Brazilian designer Fabiane Giestas has designed the playful male public toilet for Casa Cor Brazil, located in Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil. + Project description courtesy of Fabiane Giestas Public toilets demand a strong identity since, in general, they belong to places with an atmosphere very connected to design, as restaurants, shoppings and clubs. My objective [...]
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