House Meets Garden: Guest Pavilion in Quintay, Chile by Tironi Bartlau.For Santiago-based architecture studio, Tironi Bartlau, designing this guest pavilion in Quintay, Chile was an exercise in balancing the intimate and extroverted. “We set out not to simply build a new building in the vacant space,”...
Stories On Design // Fierce Fireplaces.Fireplaces are kind of a big deal. The reason we all love them so much is, not only do fireplaces provide a major focus in any room, they are also the ultimate social lubricant. So much better than a television, a lot more interactive...
Stories On Design // Barn House Conversions.Barn-houses very much remind me of my childhood, and houses in which my grandparents used to live, and some of my uncles and aunties still do. I've grown up knowing so many barns looking like a "before shot", so seeing ultra sharp, modern...
Stories On Design // Room With a View.Room With a View talks about spaces that embrace their context wholeheartedly - the site, the location, the climate, vernacular architecture and more. What I love about all these examples is the demonstration of many different ways in...
Painters Studio in Bahia Azul by Felipe Assadi + Francisca Pulido.Nestled into the dramatic Chilean coastline is a modest Painter's Studio by Felipe Assadi, Francisca Pulido and Alejandra Araya. The petite rectilinear enclosure protrudes from the cliff face as an elongation of its own window frame and an...
Pullpo Advertising Agency by Hania Stambuk | Santiago, Chile.Now, now... What do we have here? Looks like another cracker example of a resuscitation and surgical enhancement of an old building. Hooray! Located in Santiago, Chile, an abandoned salt factory was transformed into a creative workplace...
