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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago

kapsimalis architects embeds stone-clad cave homes into greek island's hillside

A terraced Folegandros residence uses pavilion and semi-subterranean volumes that reinterpret local vernacular, integrating stone, concrete, and oak into the sloped landscape.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

mature trees and patios shape domestic life in mexican residence by estudio villagalvez

Casa Gálvez by Estudio Villagálvez stands at the edge of a dense residential and industrial neighborhood in León, Mexico, where the city unexpectedly meets a strip of greenery. This adjacency defines the identity of the residence that opens toward a communal landscape of mature trees, including a flamboyant (Delonix regia) and a eucalyptus, integrating them into its composition and framing them as thresholds, companions, and internal landscapes.
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