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Check out this Overview of Polignano a Mare, Italy. Located on the Adriatic Sea, the town is a popular tourist destination with its limestone cliffs, white-washed houses, and deep blue waters. It is also renowned for its beaches, most notably Cala Porto which is known for its white and aquamarine-colored pebbles.

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41.000000°, 17.216667°

Source imagery: Maxar

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Check out Central Park captured from helicopter by our founder, Benjamin Grant. Located in the middle of Manhattan in New York City, the park spans 843 acres – or 6% of the borough. One of the most influential innovations in the park’s design was its “separate circulation” systems for pedestrians, horseback riders, and automobiles. This concealed “crosstown” commercial traffic in sunken roadways, and densely planted shrub belts in order to maintain a rustic ambiance.

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Source imagery: Benjamin Grant

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Oil rigs checker the landscape around Loco Hills, New Mexico. Thousands of drilling platforms like these can be seen throughout southeastern New Mexico and western Texas, covering a region known the Permian Basin. This basin, which contains one of the world’s thickest deposits of rock from the Permian geologic period, accounted for more than one-third of U.S. domestic oil production in 2019.

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32.823349°, -104.128032°

Source imagery: Maxar

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Noor III is the newest stage of the Ouarzazate Solar Power Station in Ouarzazate, Morocco. This site utilizes a concentrated solar power (CSP) tower design with 7,400 heliostat mirrors that focus the sun’s thermal energy toward the top of a 820-foot-high (250 meters) tower at its center. At the top of the tower, there is molten salt, which is used in this process due to its ability to get very hot (500–1022°F / 260–550°C). The molten salt then circulates from the tower to a storage tank, where it is used to produce steam and generate electricity. The Noor III CSP tower can produce and then store enough energy to provide continuous power to the surrounding area for ten days.

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31.059494°, -6.870344°

Source imagery: Maxar

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A surprising textural tableau unfolds at the rear of this classic California Bungalow home. Designed as an extension for a maturing family of five, Alcorn Middleton have brought the romantic stylings of the Santorini coast to the Brisbane ‘burbs, celebrating the family’s close ties to Greece while respecting the elegant vernacular of the existing abode. Resort living has never looked so effortless all within this tight and existing inner-city suburban block.

The contemporary extension is visible from the street, bookending the original home. Rich in whitewashed brick, it features a high set window above a double-height booth situated off the kitchen, giving the project its namesake. Acting as a beacon, it illuminates the night sky while flooding the interior space with sunshine throughout the day.

Related: Walan Apartment in Brisbane by Alcorn Middleton.

The timeless and culture defying elegance of the bricks is the true love story here. Bridging the gap between the modernist form of the Bungalow and the boundless arches of the Aegean addition, their textural aesthetic sculpts the external form and carries through internally to form a masterful feature ceiling.

Orientated around an existing outdoor pool, a sweeping colonnade defines the semi-outdoor al fresco dining and living area. Connecting the original kitchen to the outside, the curved arches gracefully frame both the internal house and the landscaped outdoor backdrop. Its vaulted ceiling creates an internal eave that draws ambient light from the south while protecting from the western sun creating an ideal outside area all year round.

The Cycladic architecture continues upstairs where the kids reign supreme; accessed by a spiral stair the bedrooms each feature an arched juliet balcony and a shared bathroom that sits atop the new addition, their arches following the design language of the colonnade below.

While the formalities of indoor and outdoor living peacefully dissolve with the use of contrasting yet muted materials the bathrooms keep the Santorini dream alive. Striking blue and pink tiles feel as if you’re looking at a horizon off the Aegean coast. The unmistakable deep blue of the Oia church domes line the ceiling with matching bath towels. Further in a sky blue tile and matching walls submerge the view, blending seamlessly with the vista that looks out to the sky and pool.

Now home in all senses of the word this sinuous lighthouse home has the sensibility of a good mullet, business as usual in the front and excellent entertaining (party) in the back.

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Little Island is a free, public park located on the Hudson River on the west side of Manhattan, New York City. The 2.4-acre (9,712-square-meter) space, which opened to the public last week, is perched above the river on 132 concrete “tulips.” It contains more than 350 species of flowers, trees and shrubs, a 687-seat amphitheater, a main plaza area with food and cafe tables, and ample lawn space to view New York City and the surrounding Hudson.

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Source imagery: Mingomatic

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In the new Kaza furniture showroom in Israel, Baranowitz & Goldberg have woven an intricate geometric mise-en-scène that demands attention. Inspired by Luis Barragán’s fearless use of colour and Andrea Palladio’s illusory Teatro Olimpico, a system of primary hue partitions act both as a backdrop and a work of art itself.

Located in an industrial area just outside of Tel Aviv, the vertical sequence of partitions discern volume throughout the colossal 1,000 square metre interior. Yet it’s the in-between space that defines areas – theatrical niches, apertures and small perpendicular sections punctuate the sea of binary colour to form different perspectives and a continuous line of visibility throughout the ever-evolving landscape. The juxtaposition continues above with protrusions in the ceiling defining yet another horizontal dimension.

Related: Yinka Ilori’s Colorama Skatepark Takes Over The 19thC Warehouse In Roubaix.

With a method to the orthogonal madness, the passage of partitions are articulated along two perspective axes that cross one another in the centre of the warehouse, providing moments of clarity for customers with dramatic sweeping gazes out to the second floor and gallery.

If the showroom is a stage, then colour is the main character. As the only raw material used all over the unique interactions of Blue, Red, Yellow and Orange, among others add tension and drama to the scene, breathing life into the sculptural masses.

A refreshing departure from the quiet, minimalism seen a lot in the architecture of late, these playful colours create a distinct visual experience that rejects ornamentation and rather acts as a device, guiding visitors through the interior. Illusion is created through contrasting colour combinations that meet at their sculptural openings.

For those lucky enough to visit the Kaza showroom, the distinct scenes created by the theatrical and emotive partitions will leave a lasting impression. Like Baranowitz & Goldberg describe it, Kaza “is a space where life, theatre, and commerce engage in an architectural dance of space and colour.” Couldn’t have put it better myself.

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Budapest, Hungary photographed at night from the International Space Station. Amid the lights of the capital city is the dark void of the Danube, Europe’s second-longest river. Budapest’s metropolitan area spans 2,944 square miles (7,626 square km) and houses roughly 3.3 million people — one-third of Hungary’s total population.

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Source imagery: NASA

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The modern house has always been linked to the remarkable experiments that define the modernist project. Shim-Sutcliffe’s masterful work at Point William intertwines landscape and architecture with ancient rock and water reshaping and reimagining a site on the Canadian Shield over two decades. Found conditions and new buildings are interwoven and choreographed to create a rich spatial experience moving between inside and out.

This project begins with architecture and then expands its territory to include landscape, furniture, lighting, hardware, and fittings. Design invention, material exploration and delight take place at multiple scales. The scale of a door handle and an architectural section are explored simultaneously. This project is a laboratory for living that results in a rich spatial experience that moves fluidly between interior and exterior spaces, while demarcating a place in the Canadian landscape.

Related: Integral House in Toronto by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects.

Point William is one of three slender peninsulas jutting into Lake Muskoka located on the Canadian Shield with a rich geographic and cultural history. This project draws inspiration from the building culture located in this part of Ontario from sophisticated Muskoka boats and elaborate Victorian cottages to heavy timber wood underwater infrastructure. An existing 1960’s building occupied the tip of the peninsula and was replaced by a new intervention that erases portions of the existing structure to reveal a large rock outcropping. The building’s exterior palette combines local granite, weathered atmospheric steel, untreated ipe wood, and bronze clad windows, choreographed to create four distinct elevations and syncopated to respond to each orientation and programme. The material palette was also selected to ensure longevity, gracious aging, and anticipation of its weathering over time.

The building’s spatial sequence begins with an entry porch which is defined by a series of deep weathering steel fins that straddle inside and outside on one side and weathering steel panels washed by natural light on the other. Canadian granite is pulled inside, defining the floor plane, while the ceiling plane is shaped by both natural light through skylights and Douglas fir panels. This cinematic space created by the deep weathering steel fins continually frames and reframes views of the landscape.

Light is manipulated and sculpted through an articulated section in this project. The reflected ceiling plan is an important aspect of this building, contributing a rich interrelated and overlapping spatial sequence. Several J-shaped double-glazed windows create poignant moments of transition throughout the project. High vertical clerestory windows in the living area pushes light deep into the space through the seasons.

The living space located at the water’s edge and is designed to act as a light reflector with high vertical clerestory windows above contrasting with panoramic windows below. This new building through its sculptural form and careful material selection fuses built form with landform to create a specific place on the Canadian Shield.

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Check out this Overview of Polignano a Mare, Italy. Located on the Adriatic Sea, the town is a popular tourist destination with its limestone cliffs, white-washed houses, and deep blue waters. It is also renowned for its beaches, most notably Cala Porto which is known for its white and aquamarine-colored pebbles.

See more here: https://bit.ly/347GTeN

41.000000°, 17.216667°

Source imagery: Maxar