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Atoll. Artist installations to attract the public to a new pedestrian route

British artist Morag Myerscough designs a series of works and installations on the ground floor of a public space in Finsbury Avenue Square, Broadgate. Atoll and the artist's other colourful installations act as a focal point towards a new pedestrian route

The heart plane, pure reflection of a myriad of emotions

The concept project "The plane of the heart" is considered the centerpiece of any residential, hospitality, care or any other space as a pure reflection of a plurality of emotions: color and textures can completely soften or invigorate the space and atmosphere

A wooden tower-house as a contemporary and sustainable answer to the traditional farms

In the village of Frastanz - Gampelün in Austria, in the midst of majestic pre-existing country dwellings, stands a wooden tower-house with a structure made entirely from trees on the client's property, cut at a propitious lunar phase. All the material used for the construction was produced within a maximum radius of 50 kilometers from the site

JJ House as part of Sydney's suburbs. Recovery of an old cottage

The JJ House project is an inspiring case study of how to intervene in an existing building, while establishing a new sense of individuality in traditional housing stock. A harmonious and playful example of combining old and new in Sydney's suburbs

Projet Pilote, a unique place in Montreal

From the outset, Guillaume Drapeau gave ACT's architectural design an ambitious task: to create an original environment by combining a micro-distillery, a brewery, and a restaurant into a single hospitable experience

A flower vase with a message: FCK Vase, we FCKing love you!

With their trademark irony, the Dutch creative movement WERKWAARDIG, presents the FCK Vase with a message for all of us: "We fcking love you!"

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Tribuna Pública, a project born from a spirit of inclusiveness

Local government, cultural institutions and citizens gave birth to Tribuna Pública, a social and cultural activation facility whose goal is to create a space for reflection and debate on the future of the historic docklands

Turbosealtech: The Iranian platform for research and innovation

Turbosealtech is a medium-sized, 2,500-square-meter project whose design approach focuses on the interaction between technology, site, function, and landscape

"Habitacion Fundamental' for a surf camp. 21 prefabricated elements in a living module

"Habitacion Fundamental" is the prototype of a tourist expansion project by the Republica PortaTil studio for surf camp "Puntas del Maule", located in the centre of the Chilean coast in the town of Pelluhue

House-art showcase in the former Zamenhof Clinic in Tel Aviv: a Bauhaus-style loft

A Bauhaus-style loft located in the iconic Zamenhof Clinic building in Tel Aviv, whose form has been preserved in the building's 21st-century transformation into a luxury residential complex

The chameleon-like Sterling Forest House which blends into the environment

Set into the rock of the steeply sloping site, the Sterling Forest House blends into nature with its gray and salmon-colored granite cladding, green roof, and mahogany windows

Children's dental clinic among Zelkova trees: wood, nature and architecture as a way to care and build the community

In Saitama, Japan, the family of the developer of this children's dental clinic has for generations owned the land on which it stands, which is largely occupied by Zelkova trees, some of them centuries old. Surrounded by greenery and trees, not only does the clinic create a relaxing atmosphere for young patients it also proposes a space to welcome and nurture all children in the community

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The elastic perspective: a path which becomes a sculpture, between continuity and infinity

The project The elastic perspective consists of a circular staircase which leads the visitor to a height that frees the view of the horizon: a continuous path projected to the infinity

House II and its elegant fiber cement facade

Architect Kyu Sung Woo designs House II for his wife, a concert pianist, and himself: a couple in their 70s who are still active and beginning to think about their changing needs

Mediterranean house in Israel. Properties among lush green fields, orange and cactus groves

The house, belonging to one of the founders of the town where it is located, Bitzaron, a small town off the east coast of the Mediterranean, dates back to 1935 and the surrounding orchards inspired the structural rearrangement of the house.

Hotel Val Di Sogno in Malcesine, lake view rooms with an original concept

Making the Guest feel at home, inserted in an environment with a domestic atmosphere, with all the spaces and rituals connected to the life of a couple. The Hotel Val Di Sogno in Malcesine is an adults only property in an exceptional location overlooking a magical corner of Lake Garda and allows guests to experience absolute intimacy and peace

Living in the incomplete space: CPJ House

The architecture of CPJ House built so far is the fundamental essence of the project: where despite its incompleteness, its inhabitants have already begun to experience it

Solar Quartz, an enigmatic and dreamlike installation designed on the island of Tenerife

Vincent Leroy envisages Solar Quartz as a unique stone, different from all others in the volcanic desert of the island of Tenerife and made of perforated stainless steel. The light reflecting on a geodesic structure plays with the installation and passes through it and is reflected in it at the same time