Brazilian Brutalism: Chez Georges Private Villa in Rio de Janeiro.Overlooking Sugarloaf Mountain, Guanabara Bay and Rio de Janeiro’s rooftops is Chez Georges Private Villa. Built in the 1970s by one of the key architects of Brazilian modernism, Wladimir Alves de Souza, the property was recently...
Stories On Design // Sliced Architecture.Sliced Architecture is an ode to skylights, primarily, but not just your regular, run-of-the-mill skylights. Puh-lease. When has regular anything been the topic of discussion around here? Exactly! Sliced Architecture takes into account...
Gir Design Showroom in New Belgrade, Serbia by Studio AUTORI.Designed by Yellowtrace favourite, studio AUTORI, GIR furniture showroom in New Belgrade, Serbia opened in 2016 by one of the largest exporters of solid timber furniture in the region of former Yugoslavia, GIR factory from...
LIFEwithBIRD Store in Sydney’s Bondi Junction by Studio Wonder.Referencing principles of architectural modernism, Studio Wonder’s store design for LIFEwithBIRD combines layered volumes, clean lines & textural...
How To Design a Corridor Like a Champion: Lisbon Apartment & Home Office by Aurora Arquitectos.It's difficult to make a super long corridor, worthy of a decent javelin throw, look sexy. But not so in this masterpiece of world-class corridor design. The apartment, located on the top floor of a 1970’s building in Lisbon was...
PRODUCTORA’s Monolithic Cultural Center in Mexico Built from Pigmented Concrete, Clay, Bricks & Timber.Mexico-city based architecture practice PRODUCTORA has recently completed a monolithic masterpiece that is the Community and Cultural Centre in the small village of Teotitlan del Valle, 31 km outside of Oaxaca city at the foothills of the...
Black Drop Coffee Shop in Kavala, Greece by Ark4LO Architecture.At Black Drop in Kavala, post-industrial urban aesthetics meets the obsession of coffee lovers, transforming the coffee experience into a social...
In the Middle of Nowhere: Sarreyer Cabin by Rapin Saiz Architects.With its stern, rough-cut log exterior, combined with a rusty stove pipe attached almost ad hoc to the side of the structure, this cabin looks anything but homely. But this less than charming effect was deliberately employed by the Swiss...
239 House in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil by UNA Arquitetos.Designed by UNA Arquitetos, this essentially Brutalist concrete building, built in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil, is not the heavy and dense structure you might otherwise expect it to be. Comprised of what is two separate buildings wrapped around...
