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Alpedrete, Madrid, Spain VALDIVIESO ARQUITECTOS

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Madrid, Spain cumuloLimbo Studio

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Liverpool, England Assemble

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106 · OKI

Madrid, Spain elii (oficina de arquitectura)

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5 social dwelling in Regal Street

Palma de Mallorca, Spain Institut Balear de l'Habitatge (IBAVI)

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A Place To Perceive

Ixtlahuacan de Los Membrillos, Jalisco, Mexico MO+G Taller de Arquitectura

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Aldo van Eyck. Le Musée Imaginaire

Loenen aan de Vecht, The Netherlands Alejandro Campos Uribe

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Baralla House

Baralla, Lugo, Spain OLAestudio

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Bathyard Home

Madrid, Spain Husos Architects

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BF Residence

Guadalajara, Mexico Luis Aldrete | Estudio de Arquitectura

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BIO EDIBLE LANDSCAPE HOUSE

Güímar, Canary Islands, Spain SOSREthink

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Border Crossing House

Polverigi, Ancona, Le Marche, Italy simone subissati architects

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Bosc d’en Pep Ferrer

Formentera, Spain Marià Castelló

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Brouwhuis

Oisterwijk, The Netherlands Bedaux de Brouwer Architecten; Studio INA MATT

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Carol and Marti passive house

Ametlla del Vallès, Spain Slow Studio

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CASA ANICETO House and workshop for a sculptor

Sevilla, Spain B+M+L estudio de arquitectura

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Casa Cruce

Barcelona, Spain Cierto Estudio

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CASA PALERM

Lloret de Vistalegre, Mallorca, Spain OHLAB

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CASA RIO “three little houses hanging on the wall”

Gondomar, Portugal PAULO MERLINI architects

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Demolitions are common in the historic center of Olot. For different reasons, the same consequences: abandoned lots, loss of urbanity, disfigurement of the street, destruction of the ordinary landscape. Given that half of the Can Sau house was affected by street alignment, it was all de…

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Studio: unparelld'arquitectes (Spain)

Authors: Eduard Callís Freixas, Guillem Moliner Milhau

Location: Olot

Program: Public space,

State: Renovation, extension, transformation

Video: Martí Pellicer & unparelld'arquitectes: Eduard Callís, Guillem Moliner

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Casa Ter

Baix Empordà

MESURA

SINOPSIS

Though in everyday life we tend to think we passively occupy our spaces, architecture is the optical instrument that can help us be aware of it. As filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s 1938 essay Montage and Architecture first suggested, architecture guides us through space, much like the mo…

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Studio: MESURA (Spain)

Authors: Benjamin Iborra Wicksteed, Jordi Espinet Roma, Marcos Parera Blanch, Jaime Font Furest, Carlos Dimas Carmona

Location: Baix Empordà

Program: Housing, single,

State: New construction

Video: Ricard López

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A Place To Perceive

Ixtlahuacan de Los Membrillos, Jalisco

MO+G Taller de Arquitectura

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The project is located in a hillside called “El Divisadero,” best understood as a place to perceive and best known for its spectacular view to the west to the third largest hill in Jalisco, Cerro Viejo . Such view was a fundamental guideline for the creation of the project. …

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Studio: MO+G Taller de Arquitectura (Mexico)

Authors: Andres Mayorga GarciaRulfo, Leopoldo Orendain Ruiz Escoto, Diego Gonzalez Diaz Ochoa

Location: Ixtlahuacan de Los Membrillos, Jalisco

Program: Housing, single,

State: New construction

Video: Video: Alejandro A. Del Castillo
Location Sound: Sebastian Santana

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House in the woods

Nuevo León

W.E.Y.E.S Estudio

SINOPSIS

Casa en el Bosque is single family house, indeed, not the traditional family home. Physically the program is fragmented in pavilions, linked by exterior walkways, blended with the forest, covered by the treetops and floated off the ground. Located in a residential area in the mun…

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Studio: W.E.Y.E.S Estudio (Mexico)

Authors: Moisés Morales, Chente Tapia, Mariana Montoya, Adela Mortera, Axel Ochoa , Vania Ibarra, Jose Borrani, Roman Cuellar

Location: Nuevo León

Program: Housing, single,

State: New construction

Video: W.E.Y.E.S Estudio

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Casa Cruce

Barcelona

Cierto Estudio

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CASA CRUCE – Refurbishment and furniture design of a modernist dwelling in Barcelona The proposal modifies the visual, spatial and functional relations between the different common rooms of the flat. The main goal of the project is to arrange the five shared spaces: the kitchen…

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Studio: Cierto Estudio (Spain)

Authors: Marta Benedicto, Ivet Gasol, Carlota de Gispert, Anna Llonch, Lucía Millet, Clara Vidal

Location: Barcelona

Program: Housing, apartment,

State: Renovation, extension, transformation

Video: Bernat Lliteras (Director), C. G. Munté (Scriptwriter), Cierto Estudio (Producer and Art Direction), Pau Català (D.O.P.), Martí Blanché (Editor), Marc Tena (Music), David Gascón (Sound), Laura Cusí (Camera Assistant), Martí Somoza (Color Grade), Víctor Duque (Visual Effects), Partee (Graphics and titles), Maria Gasol (Translation), Jade de Robles (Voice) and the special collaboration of Maria del Carmen Malet de Travy.

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La Borda

Barcelona

Lacol

SINOPSIS

La Borda housing cooperative is a development self-organized by its users to access decent, non-speculative housing that places its use value in the center, through a collective ownership. The idea of a housing cooperative was born in 2012 as a project of Can Batlló (Sants, Barce…

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Studio: Lacol (Spain)

Authors: Arnau Andrés, Eliseu Arrufat, Ari Artigas, Carles Baiges, Anna Clemente, Lali Daví, Cristina Gamboa, Ernest Garriga, Mirko Gegundez, Laura Lluch, Lluc Hernàndez, Pol Massoni, Jordi Miró, Núria Vila

Location: Barcelona

Program: Housing, collective,

State: New construction

Video: Lacol / La Borda

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La Nave

Madrid

NOMOS

SINOPSIS

A former printshop. 227 square meters, 34 linear meters of facade, 10 meters deep. A 5 x 5 meters grid of concrete pillars and downpipes attached to the central pillars. « La Nave » is the transformation of an industrial space into a place for life, which takes place as a conti…

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Studio: NOMOS (Spain)

Authors: Ophélie Herranz, Paul Galindo, Katrien Vertenten, Lucas Camponovo

Location: Madrid

Program: Housing, apartment,

State: Renovation, extension, transformation

Video: NOMOS

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Department of Radio and Television University of Silesia

Katowice

BAAS Arquitectura, Grupa 5 Architekci, Małeccy Biuro Projektowe

SINOPSIS

The building fills the block and the frontage of St. Paul’s Street in Katowice, matching the surrounding tenement houses in their bulk. Its trimmings and colour have been modelled on the example of humble Silesian multi-family coalminers housing located in the same plot, whose demoli…

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Studio: BAAS Arquitectura, Grupa 5 Architekci, Małeccy Biuro Projektowe (Poland)

Authors: Jordi Badia, Jordi Framis, Alba Azuara, Mikołaj Kadłubowski, Rafał Zelent, Krzysztof Mycielski, Wojciech Małecki, Joanna Małecka, Anna Siwińska

Location: Katowice

Program: Education facilities,

State: New construction

Video: DRONELAND

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Institute for Molecular Sciences in Orsay

Orsay

KAAN Architecten + FRES Architectes

SINOPSIS

KAAN Architecten, in association with FRES architectes, designed the Institute for Molecular Science in Orsay, part of the future campus Paris-Saclay, 20 km south-west of Paris. Robust and elegant, while essentially open in character, the building is distinguished by a harmonic coexiste…

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Studio: KAAN Architecten + FRES Architectes (Netherlands)

Authors: Kees Kaan, Dikkie Scipio, Vincent Panhuysen

Location: Orsay

Program: Education facilities, Office facilities,

State: New construction

Video: Directed by: Romain Loiseau & Tristan Soreau, Director of Photography: Tristan Soreau, Camera Assistant: Namratha Thomas, Drone Operator: Gary Bialas, Costume Designer: Mathilde Métral, Editing: Romain Loiseau, Color Grading: Hugo Rossello, Sound Design: Romain Loiseau & Tristan Soreau, The woman and her double: Dasom Kim

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