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AR+D Awards for Emerging Architecture 2013

AR+D Awards for Emerging Architecture 2013

AR+D Awards for Emerging Architecture 2013, organized by The Architectural Review magazine for architects and designers under 45. Deadline for submission of projects: August 30, 2013 [architecturalreviewawards.com]...

Argentina: 'Colegio de Médicos de Salta' - CCFGM

Argentina: ‘Colegio de Médicos de Salta’ – CCFGM

Argentina > The project for the ‘Colegio de Médicos de Salta‘  (College of Physicians of Salta) is a small-scale building where the studio CCFGM (Caron, Castorina, Francesconi, Guel and Marecelli) reinterprets the architectural tradition of northwestern Argentina. The project is linked to the street by a courtyard that links the physical and cultural landscape of […]...

Chile: Caterpillar House - Sebastián Irarrázaval

Chile: Caterpillar House – Sebastián Irarrázaval

Chile > This prefabricated house for an art collector and his family, designed by Sebastián Irarrázaval, was built in the outskirts of Santiago in a new suburban residential area. In order to reduce construction time and costs, second hand shipping containers were used as follow: Five 40 “standard containers, Six 20“ standard containers and one […]...

An interview with Rem Koolhaas. A matter of scale

An interview with Rem Koolhaas. A matter of scale

Joseph Grima takes a drive from Amsterdam to Rotterdam with Rem Koolhaas to talk about domesticity, design and ‘Tools for Life‘, his first furniture collection, recently presented by Knoll International [Domus]  ...