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Bassano Residence / Tom Robertson Architects + Simone Haag
Vilarinha House / TRAMA arquitetos
Marcinelle II School / OPEN ARCHITECTES + LT2A
Collective Housing Bel-Air / Deschenaux Architects
Canoa: A Design Tool and Marketplace That Helps Create Low-Carbon Offices
Casa Las Olas / Young Projects
Five Decades of SCI-Arc Celebrated with a Year of Public Programs
Angelo Candalepas and Associates Selected to Design Australia’s Largest Contemporary Art Gallery
Take a Breath Cafe / ASWA
MVRDV Reveals Plans to Transform Palma de Mallorca's Cultural Neighbourhood
The History of Kitchens: From the Great Banquets to the Built-in Furniture
Call for ArchDaily's Next Content Editors
Designing With (And For) Flowers: Beauty and Sensitivity in 7 Flower Shop Projects
What’s the Point of Architecture Criticism?
Bevel Apartments / ODA New York
South House / Woonpioniers
Kindergarten in Opole / PORT
Sorrento Beach House / Pandolfini Architects

Bassano Residence / Tom Robertson Architects + Simone Haag

Posted: 18 Mar 2022 09:00 AM PDT

architects: Tom Robertson Architects
architects: Simone Haag
Location: Red Hill VIC 3937, Australia
Project Year: 2021
Photographs: Derek Swalwell
Area: 112.0 m2

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Vilarinha House / TRAMA arquitetos

Posted: 18 Mar 2022 07:00 AM PDT

architects: TRAMA arquitetos
Location: Porto, Portugal
Project Year: 2021
Photographs: João Morgado
Area: 5705 ft2

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Marcinelle II School / OPEN ARCHITECTES + LT2A

Posted: 18 Mar 2022 05:00 AM PDT

architects: LT2A
architects: OPEN ARCHITECTES
Location: Charleroi, Belgium
Project Year: 2021
Photographs: Utku Pekli
Area: 1050.0 m2

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Collective Housing Bel-Air / Deschenaux Architects

Posted: 18 Mar 2022 03:00 AM PDT

architects: Deschenaux Architects
Location: 1752 Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland
Project Year: 2021
Photographs: Rasmus Norlander
Area: 2030.0 m2

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Canoa: A Design Tool and Marketplace That Helps Create Low-Carbon Offices

Posted: 18 Mar 2022 12:30 AM PDT

Providing an end-to-end design and construction framework for creating low-carbon workplaces, Canoa is a design tool with an embedded marketplace that aims to reduce the environmental impact of commercial interiors. Operating under the circular economy principles, Canoa seeks to keep goods in use for as long as possible, design out waste, and help preserve natural resources while supporting businesses, designers, and suppliers in carrying out commercial retrofits.

Selected as one of Archdaily's Best New Practices of 2021, Canoa is a New-York based start-up founded in 2019 by designer and entrepreneur Federico Negro, with the purpose of delivering environmentally conscious working environments for a wide range of businesses. Canoa is a business-to-business marketplace for low-carbon office products, ranging from furniture to lighting and accessories. The company focuses on providing conscious, durable furniture and prefabricated units with traceable materials and manufacturing that can be easily moved and reused.

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Casa Las Olas / Young Projects

Posted: 18 Mar 2022 12:00 AM PDT

architects: Young Projects
Location: Playa Grande, 33000, Dominican Republic
Project Year: 2021
Photographs: Iwan Baan
Photographs: Karla Read
Area: 20000.0 ft2

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Five Decades of SCI-Arc Celebrated with a Year of Public Programs

Posted: 17 Mar 2022 11:45 PM PDT

Top left to right: Bernard Tschumi, Anupama Kundoo, Catherine Opie. Middle left to right: Erin Besler, Héctor Esrawe, Ana María León. Bottom left to right: Mario Gooden, Sekou Cooke, Liam Young. Image Courtesy of SCI-Arc

SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) was created in 1972 and based on the concept of a "college without walls". Its original name was New School, which symbolized a paradigm shift in teaching architecture, focusing on a horizontal relationship between teachers and students and on experimentation, making it one of the few independent architecture schools in the world. In 2022, the institution turns 50 and has planned a calendar full of events and projects to take place throughout the year.

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Angelo Candalepas and Associates Selected to Design Australia’s Largest Contemporary Art Gallery

Posted: 17 Mar 2022 11:30 PM PDT

NGV Contemporary – Winning Design Team Announcement. Image © National Gallery of Victoria

Australian architecture firm Angelo Candalepas and Associates has been selected by the Victorian Government and the National Gallery of Victoria to design NGV Contemporary, Australia's largest gallery dedicated to contemporary art and design. The 30,000 sqm Victorian landmark will feature dramatic arched entries, a 40-metres-high spherical hall, more than 13,000 sqm of exhibition galleries, and an expansive rooftop terrace and sculpture garden overlooking Melbourne.

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Take a Breath Cafe / ASWA

Posted: 17 Mar 2022 11:00 PM PDT

architects: ASWA
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Project Year: 2022
Photographs: Phuttipan Aswakool
Area: 500.0 m2

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MVRDV Reveals Plans to Transform Palma de Mallorca's Cultural Neighbourhood

Posted: 17 Mar 2022 10:30 PM PDT

MVRDV, together with Spanish practice GRAS Reynés Arquitectos, is transforming the iconic El Terreno neighbourhood in Palma, Mallorca, into a vibrant residential area, through renovations and new additions. After decades of decline, a series of neighbouring plots in Plaza Gomila are to be redeveloped through a public-private venture, with the aim of restoring the essence of the bohemian neighbourhood. Each executed in a different colour and material, the seven diverse buildings form a recognisable district with a variety of typologies.

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The History of Kitchens: From the Great Banquets to the Built-in Furniture

Posted: 17 Mar 2022 10:00 PM PDT

Cozinha Americana, 1946. Autor: Harris & Ewing, fotógrafo. N STREET, KITCHEN. [Entre 1905 e 1945] Fotografia. Recuperado da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA [www.loc.gov/item/2016861773/]. Imagem em Domínio Público [PD US Government]. Image via Wikimedia Commons

The discovery of fire was one of the great events that changed the social organization of human agglomerations, which gradually passed from nomadic to sedentary lifestyle. Fire, which in that context served to keep people warm and protect the group, was also being explored as a source for cooking food, which not only changed human eating habits, but also made it possible to conserve food, changing the social organization of communities. The preparation and meals were collective acts, which brought people together to feed, warm up and protect themselves. It is from this habit that we inherited the practice of large banquets and the appreciation of food and meal times. Food preparation, on the other hand, was gradually marginalized.

While the Egyptians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Persians, Greeks and Romans shared the habit of holding large banquets, the preparation gained less and less prestige, losing its collective social dimension until it was physically segregated in a specific room: the kitchen.

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Call for ArchDaily's Next Content Editors

Posted: 17 Mar 2022 09:30 PM PDT

We are hiring! ArchDaily is looking for a motivated and highly-skilled architecture-lover to join our content team, working for our English website. A job in the editorial team of ArchDaily provides a unique opportunity to write engaging, thought-provoking, and insightful articles, as well as cover the latest trends and news in the architecture world. Our main goal is to empower everyone who makes architecture happen to create a better quality of life!

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Designing With (And For) Flowers: Beauty and Sensitivity in 7 Flower Shop Projects

Posted: 17 Mar 2022 09:00 PM PDT

From celebrations of important conquests to expressions of wishes for someone who is sick to get better, the act of gifting someone (or oneself) with flowers is present at different stages of our lives and can carry numerous meanings. This kind of ritual materializes the expression of a feeling and, in many cultures, it is a delicate and sensitive choice, which usually takes into account the selection of specific species for each event.

For this reason, flower shops and stores specializing in flower arrangements are often places where the diversity of species is arranged in order to make it possible to choose the right arrangement or bouquet of flowers. In this sense, many florists take advantage of spatial organizations and design elements that seek to enhance the natural beauty of flowers. Some examples of this strategy are the use of more neutral tones on the surfaces, in contrast to the colors of the different species, and the use of innovative displays in dialogue with the arrangements.

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What’s the Point of Architecture Criticism?

Posted: 17 Mar 2022 08:30 PM PDT

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

What, exactly, is the point of architecture criticism? The word "criticism" is derived from the Greek term krinein, meaning to separate, to sift, to make distinctions, to discern, to examine, or to judge. According to Wayne Attoe, an architect and educator who writes about architecture criticism in his book Architecture and Critical Imagination (now sadly out of print), this does not necessarily mean to disapprove of, or to find fault with. It can be favorable or unfavorable; it can praise or condemn.