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The 2023 World Bank and IMF village in Morocco is a circular centrepiece of alliance and celebration
Moroccan traditional design inspires the 2023 World Bank and IMF village overlooking the walled city of Marrakech
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Aviva Studios opens offering innovation, nostalgia and the Matrix reimagined
OMA’s Aviva Studios, the home of Factory International, launches officially in Manchester this week blending nostalgia, innovation and a reimagining of the Matrix movie through dance
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Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu honoured with 2023 Oberlander Prize
Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu has been awarded the 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize
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Cape Schanck house blends architectural minimalism and bespoke lighting
Cape Schanck house by Studio Goss for lighting designer and founder of Articolo Studios Nicci Kavals is a finely tuned minimalist home with an extraordinary bespoke lighting range
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Minimalist architecture: homes that inspire calm
These examples of minimalist architecture place life in the foreground – clutter is demoted; joy promoted
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Whitechapel Road warehouse conversion offers contemporary live-work interior
Whitechapel Road warehouse has been converted by Vine Architecture Studio into a contemporary live-work space
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Appleby Blue Almshouse: a blueprint for 21st-century housing
Appleby Blue Almshouse by Witherford Watson Mann Architects creates design-led space for over-65-year-olds in south London
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Casa HMZ by Lucio Muniain offers a labyrinthine sense of gradual discovery
An intriguing new build by Lucio Muniain channels the best of 20th-century Mexican architecture
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Debra Lehman Smith: why architecture needs art
Architecture studio LSM and its co-founder Debra Lehman Smith cultivate creative connections for employees, in the US and beyond
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Liminal House is a balance of threshold moments in West Vancouver
Liminal House, a cantilevered concrete dwelling on the shores of West Vancouver designed by local firm McLeod Bovell, offers a series of threshold moments
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A Maltese house is defined by a moody modern arrangement
‘Twentyfour’ is a spectacular modern Maltese house in Rabat; a carefully composed arrangement of light and shadow, materials and forms
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This colourful Athens apartment takes small space living to a new level
Pocketed away on a residential street, this colourful Athens apartment smartly utilises every inch of its footprint with segmented flooring and rich textural design
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Terunobu Fujimori’s Kodomari Fuji guest house features a roof lined with cherry trees
Cherry trees line the roof at Kodomari Fuji, Terunobu Fujimori's first accommodation facility design, a private guest house in Japan
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Floating infinity pool by Herzog & De Meuron at Lake Como is largest of its kind
Herzog & de Meuron creates the largest floating infinity pool in the world for Mandarin Oriental in Lake Como
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Castle High is a minimalist farmhouse in the Pembrokeshire National Park
We tour Castle High by Hyde + Hyde Architects, a robust and contemporary farmhouse in the Pembrokeshire National Park for a local family
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Step inside the Pringiers family’s rural retreat in Belgium
Belgian architect Glenn Sestig’s latest project for the Pringiers family is a rural retreat and private gallery featuring an award-winning concrete construction
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A woodland retreat gets a very modern makeover by SOON Architecture Studio
This private woodland retreat set in a forest clearing in the Catskills has been carved from the excellent bone structure of an existing traditional house
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A residential timber tower by Moreau Kusunoki in Paris blends minimalism and sustainability
Fast emerging French-Japanese studio Moreau Kusunoki completes a residential timber tower in Paris, making a departure from the norm in large scale housing
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At Chicago Sukkah Design Festival 2023 six pavilions bring together local communities
At the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival 2023, temporary pavilions celebrate local communities and migratory cultural traditions in the North Lawndale neighbourhood
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This Estonian treehouse was designed as a forest lookout
Designed by local architecture studio Arsenit, this Estonian treehouse, titled Piil, is a timber countryside bolthole conceived as a lookout towards the wilderness
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Sleek contemporary pavilions extend traditional Surrey house
A series of contemporary pavilions transforms the layout of a neo-Georgian house, extending the living spaces into newly landscaped gardens
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Freddy Mamani on Neo-Andean architecture and bringing a cruise ship to Bolivia
We catch up with Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani at Focus: Radical Repair, the conference curated by The World Around and Fondation Cartier in Milan, to talk about Neo-Andean architecture and his latest project, el Crucero de los Andes
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Pixel House unites a graphic identity and contemporary living in Kuwait
Pixel House by AGi architects brings together contemporary minimalism and a bold graphic approach to Kuwait living
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2 Lucca Avenue: contemporary luxury meets views of Hong Kong nature
Designed by Conran and Partners, 2 Lucca Avenue at Villa Lucca in Hong Kong, is a modern home wrapped in contemporary luxury
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Parramatta Aquatic Centre’s midcentury-inspired design sits in harmony with its context
Parramatta Aquatic Centre by Grimshaw, ABA, and McGregor Coxall brings the local community together ahead of Sydney’s swimming season
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White Rock is a minimalist Canadian retreat designed to be shared
White Rock by architect Omar Gandhi in Canada’s Gaspereau Valley is a holiday home designed as the ultimate retreat to be shared and to foster mental health
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Look inside Sixth&Blanco, Herzog & de Meuron’s first project in Texas
Step inside Sixth&Blanco by Herzog & de Meuron, as the Swiss studio reveals interior images of its first ever Texas design, a forward-thinking, sustainable and mixed-use scheme
