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Alex Proba’s graphic swimming pools are “a celebration of colour and pattern”

by Dezeen | Mar 6, 2021 | Uncategorized

Designer Alex Proba hand-paints swimming pools with graphic murals, including the pools of two Palm Springs houses and a mural on the deck of a public pool on Manhattan’s Roosevelt Island. These three designs showcase Proba’s signature shapes and playful...

Orense Arquitectos creates closed facade for Mocoli House in Ecuador

by Dezeen | Mar 6, 2021 | Uncategorized

Opaque concrete walls and wooden lattices enclose a family house on an island in Guayaquil designed by Ecuadorian practice Orense Arquitectos to feel tranquil and secluded. Mocoli House is located on Isla Mocolí, a small island n the town of Samborondón, in the...

Haus im Obstgarten is a geometric timber house in a traditional Austrian village

by Dezeen | Mar 6, 2021 | Uncategorized

Austrian office Firm Architekten used timber from the client’s own forest and materials sourced within 50km to build this cuboid house in an alpine village. Located in Frastanz-Gampelün, close to the border with Liechtenstein in the west of Austria, it sits atop...

Ten inspiring outdoor living spaces for dining and socialising this summer

by Dezeen | Mar 6, 2021 | Uncategorized

As spring approaches in the northern hemisphere, it’s time to start preparing for sunnier days and warmer evenings. For this lookbook, we’ve rounded up ten inviting spaces featuring outdoor furniture for relaxed al-fresco dining and socialising. Getting...

One Photo Challenge: 10 Jurors Selected for Architecture’s Biggest Photography Competition

by Architizer | Mar 5, 2021 | Uncategorized

Architizer’s One Photo Challenge has launched, and the amazing entries are flowing in. $5,000 in cash prizes are up for grabs for winners in the student and non-student categories, along with cameras from Fujifilm and global media coverage. Capture a single photograph...

The World Is at a Crossroads. Which Side of History Will Architects Be On?

by Architizer | Mar 5, 2021 | Uncategorized

Submit your firm’s best projects in the 9th Annual A+Awards for a shot at worldwide recognition and global publication. Click here to get started, and hurry: The final entry deadline is March 12th, 2021. It has now been 12 months since the word “coronavirus” entered...

These 7 Sun-Drenched Mediterranean Residences Are an Architect’s Dream

by Architizer | Mar 5, 2021 | Uncategorized

It’s not too late to enter the 9th Annual A+Awards, the world’s largest architectural awards program! Submit your best new projects before April 23rd, 2021 for a shot at international publication and worldwide recognition. The Mediterranean has long hosted...

Cobe Architects’ Artist Wins One Rendering Challenge With “Magic Hour” Visual

by Architizer | Mar 5, 2021 | Uncategorized

Francisco Tirado, a visual artist at Danish architecture firm Cobe, was the Non-Student Grand Prize Winner in Architizer’s 2nd Annual One Rendering Challenge with his submission, entitled “Sun Hit”. The image depicts what you might think is a straight-forward,...

10 Top Commercial Architecture Firms in the World in 2021

by Architizer | Mar 5, 2021 | Uncategorized

The 9th Annual A+Awards are open for entries! If you have a new project you’d like to submit for worldwide recognition, click here to submit it before the final entry deadline on March 12th, 2021. What makes for great commercial architecture? It is vital that...

Kingston Lafferty Design creates “otherworldly” interiors for Dublin skin clinic

by Dezeen | Mar 5, 2021 | Uncategorized

A palette of plaster, marble, terrazzo and stainless steel was chosen to create interiors that customers want to “reach out and touch” in this Dublin skin clinic by Kingston Lafferty Design. The local firm was commissioned by the Fitzgerald Private Clinic...
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“A bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her honeycomb cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.”
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Karl Marx – Das Kapital

Refugio bee shelters by MaliArts – source: Dezeen

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