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• Circular rooflight illuminates meditation room in Mexican beach house

  30-11-2019 16:00
  
  A serene meditation room overlooking the Pacific Ocean is lit by a large round skylight in this seaside retreat designed by Mexico City studio Colectivo Lateral de Arquitectura.The project is located in Playa Blanca, in the Mexican beach town Zihuatanejo. Perched above the Pacific, the area has long been a popular vacation destination, due to its sandy beaches and warm climate.
  Colectivo Lateral de Arquitectura designed the home around a courtyard wrapped by a colonnade, to give the owners the m
  
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• FREAKS wraps French warehouse conversion in corrugated steel

  30-11-2019 13:00
  
  Architecture studio FREAKS has clad an old printing warehouse in France shiny corrugated metal cladding and converted it into a research centre for lighting company Sammode.Located in Lamotte-Beuvron close to Orléans, the converted offices combine highly controlled testing areas and well lit work spaces.To achieve this, four wooden boxes clad with spruce house testing areas, spread across the warehouse like buildings-within-buildings.
  These rooms are connected by a series of open spa
  
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• Studio Ben Allen designs artichoke-shaped garden room

  30-11-2019 07:00
  
  Green shingles cover the exterior of this octagonal, flatpack garden room in south west London, designed by Studio Ben Allen.
  The design of A Room in the Garden was informed by the bizarre and playful 18th-century Dunmore Pineapple pavilion in Scotland, as well as the form and colour of an artichoke.Inside, the space can be used as a study, lounge or bedroom, lit by a large window overlooking the garden and a central skylight.
  Studio Ben Allen built it from flatpack kit of CNC-cut timber element
  
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