In the south of Toulouse, in the Empalot district, 90 housing units for sale and 20 social housing units are located in two volumes, a vertical one: «the belvedere», and a horizontal one: «the prairie building», sliding against each other and showing light facades with sun protections and generous balconies.
MVRDV has revealed the design for The Hills, the firm’s first project in South America. Designed for Quito-based developer Uribe Schwarzkopf, the project is located on the Guayas riverfront in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Comprising six residential towers atop a mixed-use plinth that creates a lively, landscaped “valley” on its roof, the design is inspired by the many juxtapositions found in Guayaquil itself – from the broad expanse of the river contrasted with nearby mountains, to the sight of modern high-rises on the shoreline set against the colourful hillside settlements of the Santa Ana hill.
The house is part of a small city renovation in the west of Amsterdam. Ten self-build houses and three collective housing projects share a mutual semi private entrance road. The road connects to the gardens of the houses while the main entrances are located on the park side.
The brief was to design a family house with 3 bedrooms, an office and a room for rent. Due to the orientation without a south facade, bringing in direct sunlight to the house, as deep as possible, was an essential task. Key element here is the introduction of a patio on the 2nd floor in between the kitchen and living room. This semi outdoor space acts as ventilation space, a sound sheltered outdoor, and light vent.
А residential building from Siberia has become the first Russian project that won the BREEAM Awards
European Quarters Building 17 in Tyumen (Russia) by real estate developer Brusnika has won the prestigious International BREEAM Awards 2021 in the category “Homes – Design Stage”.
The sustainable building has become the first project from Russia to receive a distinguished award in the entire contest’s history.
As conceiving the hotel-style entrance lobby that leads into the residential community, QIRAN DESIGN GROUP took “the arc of life” as the concept, and integrated architecture, landscape and interior into a whole. Every design detail reveals the lifestyle aesthetics tailored to modern elites. Natural elements blur the boundary between interior and outdoors, and reshape the relationship between nature and modern lifestyle. The combination of colors, materials and curved elements produces an ideal space featuring British elegance and luxury, which creates a complete homecoming experience for future occupants of the community.
The Mossunguê neighborhood in Curitiba is one of the most remarkable results in the history of real estate development in the city, concentrating the highest sales values per square meter. The region, commercially known as Ecoville, is marked mainly by rapid transit roads, isolated buildings, high walls and little life in the public space.
Almost as a counterpoint, José Carolo Street is configured as a quiet street, with smaller buildings and a more friendly urban scale. The site, just one block away from the main traffic roads, exemplifies the contrasts of the still growing neighborhood.
Bar Orion Architects, a leading international architecture firm based in Israel and established by Tal and Gidi Bar Orian in 1990, today officially unveils its latest project – Mapu 5 – a square-shaped, new-build residential property located on the corner of Mapu and Yehoash Streets in the heart of Tel Aviv’s White City, a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its extensive collection of Bauhaus and Eclectic Architecture-style buildings.
Article source: Benjamin Fleury Architecte-Urbaniste
Heritage and insertion
The project is established on the former open-air parking lot of the Pré l’Arpent housing estate, mainly occupied by wrecked vehicles. This housing complex, built in 1974 by the Andrault and Parat agency, consists of a three-story stepped building with a first floor parking lot at its heart. This construction of high heritage quality demonstrates a time when these architects sought to reconcile the qualities of collective and individual housing through intermediate housing. They designed several variations of the kind throughout the territory.
Studio Saxe decided to design and develop its first vertical sustainable building, proving that it is financially viable to create an architecture of value focused on quality of life through large terraces and planting, within the constraints of the local economy.
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