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Fitzroy North (Australia): Tattoo House by Andrew Maynard

Australia, Fitzroy North > Tattoo is a house expansion designed by Australian architect Andrew Maynard, to provide more space for living and cooking to a young growing family. Many of the design choices come from the low budget. The shape, a simple box, "is the most effective for an architect to obtain with a few […]...

Penitente Waterfall (Lavalleja, Uruguay): guesthouse by g+ / Gualano+Gualano Architects

Parador Penitente, designed by g+ / Gualano+Gualano Architects, over the Penitente Waterfall, Lavalleja (Uruguay). "Bare landscape: essential architecture. The material as it is, architecture in nature, the artificial within the natural. The building pretends not to dominate nor to mimic, describes an abstract, rational architecture, with rock-like concrete unfinished exteriors. It intervenes in the landscape, […]...

When Brad is the builder…

On 12/3/07, in New Orleans, Brad Pitt unveiled the project of one hundred ecological houses to be built in Lower Ninth Ward, one of the neightbourhoods that suffered the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, two years ago. During a ceremony in the above mentioned district, heavily affected by the floods in September, 2005, the actor presented […]...