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How Screens, Shadows and Landscape Shape a Jaipur Home | Newness Architecture

Pari Syal — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:32:27 +0000

Newness Architecture uses layered screens, shaded spaces and open planning to balance privacy, climate and nature. How much enclosure does a home need to feel private? For Newness Architecture, designing a 4,000-square-foot weekend retreat in Kanota Village, near Jaipur, involves exploring the relationship between boundaries and openness. The family's desire for a close connection with nature informs an architectural approach where screens, shaded spaces and landscape become integral to everyday living.Reimagining Boundaries: The first challenge comes from the development's regulations, which prohibit compound walls beyond the existing two-foot boundary. The architects introduce sandstone slabs of varying heights, punctuated by circular […]

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How Revery Architecture’s Monumental Mass-Timber Roof Transforms a Vancouver Amphitheatre

Dedipya Challagulla — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:16:21 +0000

A sweeping mass-timber canopy brings structural innovation, environmental responsibility and public experience together in Vancouver. The Freedom Mobile Arch, designed by Revery Architecture at Hastings Park in Vancouver, shelters an amphitheatre beneath a sweeping roof supported at just three points on the ground. The structure's dramatic form creates an expansive covered venue, with open edges that preserve views of the surrounding landscape. Its openness and sweeping geometry establish a strong connection between the performance space and its setting.Architecture Shaped around the Audience: The park’s history and the North Shore mountains framed the ambition of a world-class covered venue for up […]

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A Little Room for Big Imaginations | Kando Studio

Aksheeta Shah — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:01:33 +0000

Bold colours, sculptural furniture and interactive details turn a compact children's bedroom into a space for discovery. For a six-year-old with a love for every colour of the rainbow, Kando Studio creates a room that celebrates his imagination. Within 17 square metres in Greater London, bold furniture forms, playful details and carefully considered functions come together to accommodate his everyday activities and changing interests.Drawing on Memphis design, the designers use geometric forms, playful shapes and vivid accents inspired by the child's building blocks and wooden toys. The sculptural furniture, colourful surfaces and graphic details give the room a distinctive character, […]

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Can Meaningful Encounters Be Curated? | 11°N

Teresa Simon — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:25:58 +0000

Can meaningful encounters be curated? Can an environment be designed to encourage conversations and collaborations that might otherwise never happen? The creative community has no shortage of opportunities to meet. Conferences, exhibitions and festivals regularly bring people together. Yet some of the most memorable conversations happen between scheduled events, when there is time to exchange ideas, discover common interests and encounter unfamiliar perspectives.This understanding shapes 11°N, an initiative of the MATRA Design Foundation, scheduled for December 2026 in Kerala. Bringing together an anticipated 400–500 participants from architecture, design, art, craft, film, music, food and technology, the retreat explores how time, […]

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