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Journals 2000
POUR by MAYAK Architects: Winery Architecture Reimagined as a Garden City
POUR reimagines winery architecture as a garden city, joining wine production, hospitality, courtyards, gardens, and landscape in one place.
Croce, Aflalo, and Gasperini Bury a Concert Hall in the Atlantic Forest at Campos do Jordão
Four columns and a square concrete roof cap a hillside auditorium threaded into araucaria groves in São Paulo's mountain highlands.
Schapira Eskenazi's Montecarlo II Building Wraps a Curved Bauhaus Vision Around a Chilean City Block
Completed in 1962 in Viña del Mar, Chile, this residential slab folds a convex facade around collective green space near the Pacific coast.
Oscar Niemeyer's Ibirapuera Park Pavilions Define São Paulo's Cultural Identity in Concrete and Curve
A constellation of modernist volumes set within São Paulo's most important urban park, conceived for the city's 400th anniversary in 1954.
How Joaquín Toesca Built Latin America's Purest Neoclassical Palace in Colonial Santiago
Palacio de La Moneda began as a royal mint in 1784 and became Chile's seat of executive power, anchoring downtown Santiago for over two centuries.
Walter Weberhofer's Cine Tauro Brought Brazilian Modernism to the Heart of Lima
A 1960s cinema at the corner of Jirón Washington and Jirón Delgado stands as one of Peru's most compelling modernist artifacts.
Neogenesis and Studi0261 Stack Balconies and Green Veils into a Layered Urban Home in Surat
Antarvan Residence compresses 375 square meters of domestic life into a vertical sequence of rooms, terraces, and trailing plants in Gujarat.
Naso Hides a Sunken Listening Bar Behind a Mexico City Restaurant Kitchen
In Roma Norte, a 40-square-meter room wrapped in red fabric and orange light turns music listening into a spatial ritual.
TEC Taller EC Stacks a Red Steel Office Inside a 23-Meter-Tall Andean Warehouse
In Tambillo, Ecuador, a sawtooth-roofed industrial building negotiates a high water table and Andean topography with structural clarity.
Nola Arquitetura Plants a Mountain Refuge Among Araucaria Pines in Southern Brazil
Terra Catarina House pairs local stone, exposed timber, and pitched roofs with a 600-square-metre plan calibrated to the surrounding valley.
Ampuero Yutronic Fits a Family Home into Two Former Garages on a Trapezoidal Plot in Surrey
Clay tile cladding, a central structural spine, and interlocking volumes turn a narrow Epsom site into a light-filled house.
Common Wonder Builds a 14-Square-Meter Pavilion That Treats Stone and Wood as Equal Voices
A garden studio in Amsterdam distills the raw tension between French limestone and timber into a single, precise room.
Ippolito Fleitz Group Treats a Wuxi Mall's Interior as an Urban Landscape in Coppery Red Metal
Three sculpted atriums, 360 shops, and a stainless-steel Moon Garden anchor a new retail destination on the banks of Wuxi's waterfront.
FAMM Arquitectura Organizes Ten Villas Around Courtyards and Jungle in Nosara, Costa Rica
El Molino pairs two elongated volumes with deep overhangs and timber louvers to build a compact coastal community five minutes from the beach.
Tiago do Vale Turns an 18th-Century Mountain Farmstead into a Hotel That Defers to Its Own Past
On the slopes of Serra da Labruja in northern Portugal, granite, schist, and glass negotiate three centuries of rural building tradition.
Tarq Studio Rejects Air Conditioning and Builds Valledupar a Market That Breathes
On the periphery of a Colombian city where public space is scarce, a timber-trussed market plaza channels mountain air through its roof.
23 SUL Assembles a Mass Timber House in Just Ten Days in São Paulo's Pompéia Neighborhood
A hybrid of CLT, glulam, precast concrete and corrugated metal creates a lightweight urban house on a tight site in Pompéia.
A Parallel Architecture Wraps a Texas Family Home Around Heritage Oaks in West Lake Hills
San Selmo brick, Thermory wood, and generous glazing create a courtyard house that yields to the trees already on site.
arches Weaves a Nature Therapy Retreat into a Lithuanian Forest Clearing
Near Vilnius, Sanctum Retreat uses CLT construction and neuroaesthetic principles to root hospitality architecture in the rhythms of the forest.
Aamir and Hameeda Design a Hyderabad Home Around Its Trees, Not Despite Them
Coco Beans House unfolds across three levels of rocky terrain, preserving every tree on a 700-square-yard site in Hyderabad.