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• Studio Arquitectos creates holiday home-like apartments for Tulum's permanent residents

  24-11-2019 19:00
  
  Mexican firm Studio Arquitectos has created a residential apartment complex in popular Mexican holiday resort Tulum, featuring shared courtyards and traditional Mayan materials.Dismayed by the disproportionate focus on holiday housing by real estate developers, principal architect Eduardo Garcia Figueroa imagined Aldea Ka'a "with a design equal to any other aimed for tourists".
  The 873-square-metre complex comprises four buildings with two apartments in each. A covered walkway runs the longitudi
  
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• Vector Architects creates public space with Changjiang Art Museum

  24-11-2019 13:00
  
  The pale brick volume of the Changjiang Art Museum by Vector Architects includes a raised public square and footbridge for the city of Taiyuan.
  The museum is located in Changjian village at the northeast corner of the city  in Shanxi Province, in an area that was largely demolished in 2016 to make way for rapid urban development.This prompted Beijing-based Vector Architects to create a building that would not just be an isolated museum space but would also go some way to repair the urban fa
  
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• Discover our readers' top five images from our Pinterest boards in November

  24-11-2019 09:00
  
  Over 10 million users browse our Pinterest boards every month, but what are they looking at? We round up the top five most-popular pins in November.
  House for a Daughter, Vietnam, by Khuôn Studio
  House for a Daughter in Vietnam was the subject of our most popular pin this month. Designed by Khuôn Studio, a triple-height, plant-filled atrium stands at the house's centre.
  Within the brightly lit space, the floors hang over the atrium and are curved to disguise the boundaries of the voi
  
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