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The Sponge Evangelist

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Turenscape has since realized more than 300 ecological cities and more than 1,000 projects, bringing a combination of sensitivity to the lifeways of local communities, human-scale contemporary design, and an understanding of the ecological services that natural environments can provide to civic developments and urban infrastructure.

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Homely objets d’art at the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize

Habitus Living

Gubagulabu (Y1805) adopts traditional Quandamooka weaving techniques that were once considered lost, and casts it in bronze to have it immortalised for First Nations generations to come. Most recently, a library occupied the space before being restored and reinvented as an exhibition space by Tanner Kibble Denton Architects in 2001.

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Francis Kéré announced as Pritzer Architecture Laureate 2022

ArchiDiaries

Building contemporary school institutions, health facilities, professional housing, civic buildings and public spaces, oftentimes in lands where resources are fragile and fellowship is vital, the expression of his works exceeds the value of a building itself. Gando Primary School, photo courtesy of Erik-Jan Owerkerk.

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Anna Lofts balances life and work, all with an eye to design

Habitus Living

In the end, I was ready for new challenges and started L&M Home in 2001 (previously Linen & Moore). “Art and culture can enable us to design useful and meaningful things, shaping the way we look at and understand the world around us.” I have moved homes with that piece of art so many times.

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30 Best Architecture Firms in Greece

Architizer

This vocabulary has influenced countless architects of later periods, from Vitruvius to today’s contemporary designers. The 20th century also birthed one of the most romanticized aesthetics of contemporary design: the whitewashed seaside home, otherwise known as Cycladic architecture.

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30 Best Architecture Firms in Slovenia

Architizer

Their unique architectural style amalgamated modernism, the Vienna Secession (a type of Art Nouveau) and past historical ideas and forms, which became the blueprint for the country’s contemporary architectural practice. These conditions (historical, local, global, contemporary) are the grid and tools to utilize.

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25 Best Architecture Firms in Brazil

Architizer

Home to numerous heritage sites, Brazil’s vernacular architecture is attributed to its Indigenous communities, whose traditional building techniques have been reinterpreted and embraced by many modernist designers today. And today’s contemporary designs continue to uphold this modernist legacy.