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Ten stories from last month, commented and shared by those who follow us on our social networks.

party/space/design, Shugaa, Bangkok, Thailand
Houses designed for kids, bars inspired to sugar and culturally mixed design projects are among the ten most popular stories on Facebook and Twitter of the past month.

– Parisotto Formenton Architetti renovated a holiday apartment on the Swiss Alps highlighting the space design with wood, stone and raw concrete.

– Florian Busch-designed restaurant, adjacent to one of Kyoto’s most intricate network of night alleys, is a coherent, continuously varying space stretching over eight levels.

Mills is a complex home, full of ideas, with a floor designed as a giant toy box and a rear facade which filters and softens the strong sunlight, conceived by Austin Maynard Architects for a new mum.

– For this house on the Italian Alps, Alfredo Vanotti - EV+A Lab Atelier d'architettura & Interior Design created big windows to bring natural light inside and to maximise the views.

– From Talia Mukmel, a project of cultural mix, traditional techniques combined with modern technologies in search of a new identity, perhaps the rising of a new culture?
Austin Maynard Architects, Mills, the toy management house, Melbourne, Australia. Photo Peter Bennetts Studio
Top: party/space/design, Shugaa, Bangkok, Thailand. Photo F Sections. Above: Austin Maynard Architects, Mills, the toy management house, Melbourne, Australia. Photo Peter Bennetts Studio

– In Bangkok the sugar molecule and its crystals become a bar in pastel colors, with large polygonal installations hanging from the ceiling and a sugar crystal staircase.

Casa Santana is a space for people to come together, made of wood and other local materials, that blends with the lush Mexican natural landscape.

Drawing Ambience offers an excellent number of thoughts on what the AA school was in Boyarsky’s years. Questioning how and to what degree can a drawing exist independently of its project, and how/whether it must simply be at its service.

– Letters in war times – lost, found, buried, discovered or delayed in reaching their destinations – are the subject of several works by the Libanese artist Akram Zaatari, guest of the British School at Rome.

– Formal austerity and low maintenance generated a single volume pierced by a courtyard, made of concrete and wood and settle among the dunes of the coast of Buenos Aires.
 
CC Arquitectos, Casa Santana, Valle de Bravo, Mexico. Photo Rafael Gamo
CC Arquitectos, Casa Santana, Valle de Bravo, Mexico. Photo Rafael Gamo

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