• Concrete colonnade links educational facilities at Boys and Girls Club in Mexico

    Concrete colonnade links educational facilities at Boys and Girls Club in Mexico
    A sweeping colonnade and stepped plazas animate the concrete Boys and Girls Club that Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica has built for children living in south-central Mexico.
    The 3,400-square-metre complex is an after-school club for young people between the ages of six and 18 years who are living in unsafe or low-income neighbourhoods in Tecámac and Ecatepec.
    It comprises three buildings that host a mix of recreational and educational facilities, linked by a corridor of
  • Wohnregal is a prefabricated concrete live-work apartment block in Berlin

    Wohnregal is a prefabricated concrete live-work apartment block in Berlin
    Architecture studio FAR has built a six-storey housing block in Berlin from precast concrete slabs.
    Named Wohnregal, the warehouse-style block was constructed form prefabricated concrete elements, with pillars and beams that support slabs to create the potential for wide-open rooms.
    Sliding glass doors cover two facades
    The individual stories have no structural walls inside and span 13 metres from the facade to facade. Occupants can insert their own drywalls into the spaces to div

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