Insights
Look at the world with the look of who discovers what we seemed to know. To look at the world with a new look is to break with the established. It is to renew without fear of discovering that life is an eternal rebirth.
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MVRDV e BIG criam novo bairro no distrito de fabricantes de Abu Dhabi
Curadoria de Jessica Mairs A empresa holandesa MVRDV revelou planos para construir um conjunto de torres de uso misto em Abu Dhabi, com cantos pixelados que formarão uma praça pública projetada…
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Escola Secundária Chongqing Nankai LiangJiang / gad
Curadoria de 韩爽 – HAN Shuang Descrição enviada pela equipe de projeto. Na cidade montanhosa de Chongqing, existe uma escola de ensino médio que integra o pensamento educacional individualizado no ambiente do campus. É…
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Ello Restaurante / Mareines Arquitetura
Curadoria de Matheus Pereira Descrição enviada pela equipe de projeto. Enquanto fazíamos o projeto do Resort Jericoacoara “Dune Village” o cliente nos pediu um projeto de restaurante no centro da vila de…
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Centro de Exposições do Planejamento Urbano de Ningbo / Playze + Schmidhuber
Curadoria de Paula Pintos Descrição enviada pela equipe de projeto. O projeto está localizado no coração da recém-construída “Nova Cidade Oriental de Ningbo”, adjacente à prefeitura e à praça cívica. O Centro de Exposições de…
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Casa em Yatsugatake / Kidosaki Architects Studio
Curadoria de Paula Pintos Descrição enviada pela equipe de projeto. Localizada no topo de uma encosta no sopé das Montanhas Yatsugatake, esta casa foi projetada em um terreno que oferece vistas espetaculares raramente…
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Casa Kaleth / Di Frenna Arquitectos
Curadoria de Clara Ott Descrição enviada pela equipe de projeto. Perante à natureza, e emoldurado por uma vasta vegetação, existe um terreno com dois eixos claramente marcados que se abrem excessivamente em forma…
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Restaurante PACO / Pure’s Design
© Xiaokai Zhang Curadoria de 韩爽 – HAN Shuang Descrição enviada pela equipe de projeto. O PACO é um restaurante de fusion food com três pavimentos. Brunch e café são servidos no primeiro nível. O…
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Edifício residencial One Thousand Museum / Zaha Hadid Architects
Curadoria de Paula Pintos Descrição enviada pela equipe de projeto. O One Thousand Museum é um edifício residencial de sessenta e dois pavimentos situado em frente ao Museum Park, reinaugurado em 2013 na…
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Construção em taipa: 15 projetos impressionantes
Escrito por María Francisca González | Traduzido por Romullo Baratto Esta semana, apresentamos uma seleção das melhores fotografias de projetos construídos em taipa. São 15 obras que mostram o potencial estético dessa técnica que consiste…
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Como são construídas as paredes de taipa
Escrito por Lilly Cao | Traduzido por Eduardo Souza A terra batida tem sido usada na construção há milhares de anos, com evidências de seu uso que datam do período neolítico. Comumente usada especialmente na…
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Espaço Espelho D’ Água / DC.AD + Victor Vicente
Curadoria de Pedro Vada Descrição enviada pela equipe de projeto. Em 1940 decorreram em Portugal as comemorações dos centenários da Independência de Portugal e da sua Restauração. Do programa sobressai a Exposição do Mundo Português, determinada a…
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Kamyaran Project Proposes New Concept of School-to-City Facility
Written by Dima Stouhi The Kurdish city of Kamyaran – which sits on the transit borders of Kurdistan and Iran – is a developing city that experienced a devastating earthquake a few years ago. The city is located in a…
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LocHal Library / CIVIC architects + Braaksma & Roos architectenbureau + Inside Outside + Mecanoo
Curated by María Francisca González Text description provided by the architects. The LocHal redefines the library typology. It has already been coined ‘the next big thing in public libraries’ by experts. While keeping…
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Heatherwick Studio Releases Renders of the Lobby Pavilion at Lantern House
Written by Christele Harrouk Heatherwick Studio offered a first look at the freestanding glass lobby pavilion at Lantern House, the firm’s first residential building in the United States. The project consists of 2 volumes,…
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What is the Future of Concrete in Architecture?
Written by Niall Patrick Walsh Concrete is the second-most used material on earth. It is also the second-largest emitter of CO2, with cement manufacturing accounting for 5 to 7 percent of annual…
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Which Materials are Easiest to Recycle?
Written by Eduardo Souza The construction industry is responsible for 75% of the consumption of earth’s natural resources. Stone, sand, iron, and many other finite resources are extracted in huge quantities to…
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A House / REM’A
© Ivo Tavares Studio Curated by Matheus Pereira Text description provided by the architects. The house is sited in a typical peripheral region lot, in Guimarães city, characterized by a surrounding high-density residential…
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OMA + Being Development to Renovate VDMA in Eindhoven
Written by Christele Harrouk In collaboration with Being development, OMA has won a competition to redevelop Van der Meulen-Ansemsterrein (VDMA) in central Eindhoven, in the Netherlands. The central site will be rehabilitated into “a vibrant urban hub with…
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WERK12 / MVRDV
Curated by Paula Pintos Text description provided by the architects. Forming the nucleus of the Werksviertel-Mitte district, an urban regeneration plan on a former industrial site, the 7,700m2 mixed-used development located…
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BIG Unveils New Gateway for Milan’s CityLife District
Written by Eric Baldwin Bjarke Ingels Group have unveiled their design for The Portico, a 53,500-square-meter development on the last two remaining plots of the CityLife masterplan in Milan, Italy. CityLife presented the proposal with…
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Concrete Blocks in Architecture: How to Build With This Modular and Low-Cost Material
by José Tomás Franco Concrete blocks are a prefabricated material mainly used to build walls. Like bricks, the blocks are stacked together and joined with a mortar, usually consisting of cement, sand,…
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Wohnregal Apartments and Ateliers / FAR frohn&rojas
Curated by Paula Pintos Text description provided by the architects. The “Wohnregal” is a 6-story building housing life/work ateliers. It was built using pre-cast concrete elements common in industrial warehouse construction. Underlying the…
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Shane Homes YMCA at Rocky Ridge / GEC Architecture
Curated by Paula Pintos Text description provided by the architects. Nestled in the rolling foothills of northwest Calgary, Canada, the Shane Homes YMCA at Rocky Ridge (Shane Homes YMCA) is one of the…
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Oodi Helsinki Central Library / ALA Architects
Curated by María Francisca González Text description provided by the architects. Oodi occupies a hugely significant site in central Helsinki: facing the steps of the Finnish parliament building, the Eduskuntatalo across the Kansalaistori…
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How Does Photovoltaic Energy Work?
By Eduardo Souza Once restricted to space stations and satellites, photovoltaics are now gaining popularity and becoming an increasingly viable option. Every day, the sun releases an enormous amount of energy, far…
