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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Contemporary architecture, Courtyard architecture, Ecuador, Landscape architecture, South American architecture, WE Architecture
The Triangular House by WE architecture was designed and developed based on the characteristics from both colonial and original housing in Ecuador. The house seeks to join these two building styles into a contemporary house. A house which is organized around a triangulated green patio always giving you the sense of being close to nature [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Contemporary architecture, Ecuador, Landscape architecture, South American architecture, WE Architecture
Denmark-based studio WE Architecture has designed the +House located in Puerto Cayo, Ecuador. The house is composed of two linear volumes intersecting each others, one of the volumes is placed perpendicular on the coast line, following the terrain down the slope and the other is places along the same high of the hill crossing the [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Mexico, South American architecture, usoarquitectura, White
Mexico-based architectural firm usoarquitectura designed the office space for Grupo Rotoplas. Transparency and natural light are the 2 main characteristics of the project. Round and dynamic surfaces predominate in the design, filling the space with the brightness of all the different materials applied in white. All these create a very interesting contrast against the dark [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Mexico, RVdG, South American architecture, White
Thinking Beyond The Station: Aguascalentes City Suburban Train is the latest project by Mexico City-based architecture office RVdG arquitectura + urbanismo. The project was further developed from the original brief which was only to design a suburban train connecting Arellano to the south of the state with Rincon de Romos to the North. A very [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry, Office, Transportation Tags: Colombia, Entorno AID, Folding architecture, Lattice screen, South American architecture
Colombia-based architectural firm Entorno AID has designed a car service center – AutoSura Bogotá in Colombia. One of the architectural proposals for the volume of the building is to maintain a direct visual relationship with the outside through a metal lattice that covers most of the façade, and integrates advertising volumes in the large loose [...]
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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, Office Tags: Arquitectura en Proceso, Cladding, Folding architecture, Mexico, South American architecture
Mexican architect Arquitectura en Proceso has completed the Darcons Headquarters in suburbs of Delicias City in the Chihuahua state of Mexico. + Project description courtesy of Arquitectura en Proceso The site is located at a suburban lot of a middle size city in northern Mexico. As one drives towards it and away from de city, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Concrete, Glass, Mexico, Pascal Arquitectos, South American architecture, Stair, Timber
Mexico city based architect Pascal Arquitectos has designed the Galileo Apartments Building located in Polanco, Mexico. The combination of materials are used to achieve the degree of privacy to the residential units, meanwhile creating the variation of pattern on the facade. it’s façade achieves transparency and at the same time privacy by combining different cristal, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Cladding, Concrete, Mexico, Perforated, Plataforma de Arquitectura, South American architecture
Mexico-based architecture firm Plataforma de Arquitectura recently has completed 151 SA project. + Project description courtesy of Plataforma de Arquitectura The project was conceived from the will of building a space of multiple relationships between interior and exterior, maintaining the intimacy of two design studios. The program is defined by the spatial needs of an [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Architecture Award, Brazil, CHN arquitetos, Cladding, Landscape architecture, Museum, Perforated, Skin, South American architecture
Bazil-based architectural firm CHN arquitetos has won the International Public Competition for the Architectural Project of the Exploratory Science Museum – Campinas, Brazil. The surface of the facade is created from the idea of infinity: a reference to the essence of its form, recognizable from its cosmological scale to its most minimal. CHN arquitetos + [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Balcony, Concrete, Garduño Arquitectos, Mexico, South American architecture
Mexico-based Garduño Arquitectos has designed the 24 units housing development project – Monte Elbruz Building, of not more than 6 levels (local regulation) in such the small site, located in Polanco, Mexico City. The linear courtyard is introduced in between two linear apartment blocks that playing an important rule to the project. + Project description [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Office Tags: Costa Rica, ESD design, Green architecture, Iconic architecture, Moho Architects, Skyscrapers, South American architecture
Mixed use tower in San Jose de Costa Rica, designed by Spanish firm Moho Architects which is currently in schematic design stage and is expected to be completed in 2012. + Project description courtesy of Moho Architects Rising above the skyline of San Jose in Costa Rica, this mixed use tower will be a new [...]
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