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Want to buy a Spanish village for less than the average semi? Here’s how.

The Spaces

It’s been empty for over 30 years and is currently facing demolition, but the Spanish village of Salto de Castro is hoping its modest €260,000 price tag will tempt a new owner to bring it back to life. Salto de Castro – originally built to house hydroelectric plant workers – has been owned by the same family for the last 20 years.

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A Monumental Home Made of Cinder Blocks and Glass Seeks $6M in L.A.

Dwell

Designed by architect Finn Kappe, the Pacific Palisades property comes with massive living areas—and a price tag to match. acres From the agent: "Designed by Finn Kappe and completed in 1992, the site originally housed a small historical Spanish structure which was honored by preserving the facade.

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Dezeen Awards 2023 winners announced at ceremony in London

Deezen

The judges said: "Mikhail Riches has taken the ruin of a concrete post-war mass housing project, which was an iconic building of its time, and shown how to care for its legacy while giving it dignity."

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Reader’s Choice: The 10 Most Popular Architecture Projects on Architizer in 2022

Architizer

A stellar drawing, rendering or photo, and a detailed project description can go a long way in making a project stand out, as does tagging the stellar contributors on a project. Klopf Architecture shows us how this is done with their intervention on this Roger Lee-designed house in Stanford, CA, which they completely gutted and expanded.

Project 101
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All the Queens Houses

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

All the Queens Houses: An Architectural Portrait of New York’s Largest and Most Diverse Borough by Rafael Herrin-Ferri Jovis , October 2021 Paperback | 4-3/4 x 7 inches | 272 pages | 244 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9783868596564 | €22.00 Rafael Herrin-Ferri is a Spanish-born architect/artist living in Sunnyside, Queens.

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KHouse Modern - Foundation Progress | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

A whole lot of something has been going on, but this house has a fairly significant and complicated structural system for a residential project and the work is deliberate and methodical. You start to get a feel for the house as you can physically move around the site and imagine the spaces (i.e. That’s it huh?

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RIGHT OF CENTER

Landscape Architecture Magazine

As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. BY ROBERTO J. ROVIRA, ASLA. FROM THE DECEMBER 2021 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. Angular and lean, the new St. Pete Pier in St. Petersburg, Florida, folds its way for 1,380 feet from land to water.