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dot.ateliers / Adjaye Associates

April 6, 2024 Paula Pintos 0

dot.ateliers is a community-oriented and ecologically responsive destination that offers a robust space for artistic production. Located within the Osu waterfront neighborhood in Accra, this artist residency is conceived as an “architectural tool” for rethinking the possibilities of sustainable design. The monolithic three-story structure serves as an incubator, showroom, and gathering point that advances both the Ghanaian arts scene and architectural innovation.

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Revitalization Kriechere 70 / Innauer-Matt Architekten

April 1, 2024 Paula Pintos 0

Whole generations of villagers and valley residents have pressed their noses against the large shop windows facing Bezau’s village street to admire the latest photographs. The barn, where cows used to dwell in earlier times, was later home to the business of the Hiller family of photographers. Johann Kaspar Hiller laid the foundation as the Bregenzerwald’s first photographer. His daughter Hedwig later continued the legacy – as Vorarlberg’s first female professional photographer – and commissioned young Bezau architect Leopold Kaufmann to set up her photo studio.

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PLATO Contemporary Art Gallery / KWK PROMES

March 29, 2024 Paula Pintos 0

By saving a historic building and turning it into an art gallery, we introduced a solution that makes art more democratic. Thanks to the revolving walls, it goes outside the building in an unusual way. We transformed the space around the gallery, which was previously contaminated, into a biodiverse art park for the benefit of the residents.

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Central Goldfields Art Gallery / Nervegna Reed Architecture

March 24, 2024 Hana Abdel 0

Maryborough is situated in Dja Dja Wurrung country in central Victoria, Australia. The project comprises an Art Gallery and an Indigenous Interpretive Sculpture Garden. Nervegna Reed was engaged to design the gallery, and Djandak (an arm of Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation) designed the sculpture garden, which is due for completion later this year. The two aspects of the projects are integral to the indigenizing of Maryborough. The CGAG project is an adaptive reuse of an 1861 Victorian fire station. The site is at the end of the 19th-century civic spine, which extends to the Maryborough train station.

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Matsumoto Sannomaru Square / MORIIS Atelier + Ouvi + Atelier and | Tatsuo WAOKA Laboratory

March 21, 2024 Andreas Luco 0

Simultaneously, exposed and concealed architecture creates a new interaction with the surrounding environment. This project involved housing relocation and reconstruction for a clinic and road expansion work adjacent to the south side of Matsumoto Castle Park in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The new site was provided by the government and partially overlapped with the previous site as the line of view to Matsumoto Castle. This allowed it to retain the picturesque scenery of the castle and an old house’s garden. The site surroundings are expected to be redeveloped as the center of what was formerly a castle town to cultivate an independent cultural area. The area is also referred to as the Sannomaru Area, which is located between the castle’s outer moat and the Metoba River.

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Dscape Café / DENOVA

February 16, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

We listened attentively to the woman’s story of studying painting and enduring loneliness alone in a foreign country at a young age. When we received the painting named ‘ Mureungdowon’ which means ‘ Paradise’ in East Asia, we realized anew the value of art. D-SCAPE represents the desire for it to become a Dreamscape, a space resembling a pleasant dream.

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WKM Gallery / CASE-REAL

February 13, 2024 Hana Abdel 0

Interior design plans for the newly opened “WKM GALLERY” in the Wong Chuk Hang district of Hong Kong. Wong Chuk Hang neighborhood has thrived in recent years as a hub for contemporary art, with various galleries and artist studios occupying old buildings. WKM GALLERY, based in such an area, has been established as a global platform for emerging artists in contemporary art and street art and established artists, including those from Japan.

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Tanatap Frame Garden / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

January 29, 2024 Hana Abdel 0

Frame Garden Café called Tanatap is another iteration prototype of a multi-leveled greenspace with dynamic platforms that rise and fall to create a walkable roofscape that acts as an extension for the public to enjoy the public parks from a better and grander perspective. Pursuing a façade-less architecture, the design was started with the question, what if the flexibility of community activities, art exhibitions, and garden spaces acted as an unlimited permutation of functional façade that defined the space and shaped the identity of the architecture itself? The design was to demonstrate a selfless approach to creating many sheltered indoor spaces hidden within a simple multi-leveled garden. Spaces that were created became a sequential space and were not an initial space.

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Gallery Home in Gran Via, Granada / Annona + Ana Frias

January 26, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

The requirements for the project and its genesis were the transformation of a 1920s apartment, which belongs to a building signed by the architect Francisco Prieto Moreno, into a short-term residence for a couple whose permanent house is between London and Singapore. They also needed the apartment to be an exhibition space for their art collection.