Making Visible: On waste and resilience with Natura Futura and BUZIGAHILL | KoozArch
Although commercial activity has faded, its history has left behind customs, systems and a strong culture that lives off the river and inhabits floating systems that live by and for the river.
Vivienda flotante la Balsanera en Babahoyo | Arquitectura Viva
Este proyecto para rehabilitar una vivienda flotante parte de la recuperación de técnicas artesanales locales y la participación de los residentes.
Amid Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano, two lodges emerge from a quarry's stones and history | Designboom
Nestled within the heart of Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador, two lodgings emerge from the very quarry that once echoed with the sounds of excavation. Overlooking the Tungurahua Volcano, which had been active for two decades, the structures by architectural studio La Cabina De La Curiosidad transform into serene observatories, promoting tranquillity, reflection, and contemplation.
Uniform skin of bricks coats Casa Perucho's facades in Ecuador | Designboom
Designer Pedro Calle and El Sindicato Arquitectura construct Casa Perucho, a single-family house nestled in Perucho, a rural enclave within the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador. Embracing its natural surroundings of mountains and green landscapes, the residence harmoniously coexists with nature.
It’s behind you! Extra-terrestrial sensations in Nine Elms | The RIBA Journal
The placeless reality of Nine Elms, where the starkly modern clashes with Victorian terraces, inspired Romantic enthusiast Francesco Russo’s photograph, Urban Beings V.
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped - Francesco Russo | Fotografia dell’Architettura
Le installazioni artistiche temporanee spesso appaiono all’improvviso sconvolgendo la percezione che abbiamo di un luogo conosciuto, come nel caso dell’ultimo capolavoro di Christo e Jeanne-Claude a Parigi.
Londons - The Polycentric City | PhMuseum
Shot by eight photographers, Londons – The Polycentric City maps out the landscape of the capital from eight different perspectives, rejecting a single, monolithic view in favour of a fragmentary, multifarious mosaic.
These photos, shot in lockdown, exhibit a dystopian London | The Spaces
Lockdown didn’t stop London from expanding outward and upward. Nor did it stop the urban-landscape photographers of Mass Collective from documenting the city creep. Early this year they despatched a group of eight photographers to eight satellite neighbourhoods, and the results – on show at the Building Centre until 4 November – are alluringly dystopian.
A shed for agricultural and community life gets a makeover | Domus
In England's Lincolnshire region, Evans McDowall Architects revisits the structure of a cooperative's exhibition center, updating its design and energy efficiency criteria.
This Week's Focus: Francesco Russo | World Photography Organisation
The series is called Ruin or Rust because with my work I want to put forward a question to the public: are these structures ruins, in the romantic sense of the ruins depicted by the painters of the Picturesque art movement of the 18th century, or they are just rust that deserves to be demolished and replaced with new developments?
Mass Collective Co-Founder Francesco Russo Caught The London Mastaba Before It Was Gone | APAlmanac
This week’s featured project comes to us from the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park, London. In the summer of 2018, The London Mastaba — created by famed Christo and Jeanne-Claude — made its debut to parkgoers as part of the Serpentine Galleries, then disappeared 3 months later.
The destiny of London’s Victorian age gasometers | Domus
The photographer Francesco Russo portrays in his project Ruin or Rust the structures that have become an integral part of the city’s urban landscape, investigating their state and potential.
The photographer immortalising London's endangered gasholders | *Wallpaper
As gasholders gradually vanish from the urban landscape, one photographer has devoted an entire series to chronicling the stark beauty and cultural significance of London's remaining gasworks.
Contemporary Cartopraghy: Architects take on modern mapping at the Building Centre | Architecture Today
Contemporary Cartography explores modern methods of mapping in the digital age, and how these address human experiences, climate change, and even the ways technology itself might perceive or misperceive the surrounding environment.
Photographs Capture Frida Escobedo's 2018 Serpentine Pavilion Nearing Completion | ArchDaily
Photographer Francesco Russo has captured the construction of Frida Escobedo’s 2018 Serpentine Pavilion, as the structure nears completion in London’s Hyde Park. The images showcase the dark cement roof tiles used to construct the pavilion, which comprises an enclosed courtyard created by two rectangular volumes.