For the fourth Holiday Collector’s Series by Lacoste, Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have created a range of polo shirts for Lacoste.

The special edition is based on their famed Alligator Chair, which shows how the reptiles pile up in mud beds during the dry season in their natural habitat.

This is replicated by embroidering a cluster of eight crocodile logos onto a classic men’s and women’s white polo shirt.

This Paraty’s reinforced concrete boxes house design is a modern residential design located in in Paraty, Brazil.

The Osler House, designed by Marcio Kogan, is located in Brasilia, Brazil.

The plan of the Osler house is structured by a ground floor volume, a suspended volume and a deck with an outdoor pool.

On the ground floor we find the rooms that open to the outside using rotating wooden panels, and a small lobby that connects the second floor with a delicate staircase.

A reference in modern architecture and originality, Unique’s spacey, green copper façade alone makes this hotel unlike any other. The imposing hotel, shaped like a modern Noah’s Arkbalances on two thin concrete walls, which anchor the semi-circular monolith to the ground.

Located in the well-heeled residential area of Jardins, and just meters from Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo’s largest green area, the building rises like a gracious ocean liner in dry-dock.

The funny thing is that when pharmaceutical heir Jonas Siaulys decided at the last minute to scrap a shopping mall project and build a boutique hotel instead, his architect Ruy Ohtake delivered new sketches within 48 hours. “I think he realized that the possibilities for a hotel were greater than for a mall,” says Siaulys. “And he knew that we’d give him creative freedom.”

Shielding dark glass and a desert garden of mini, sand-toned cubes of rock, palms and agaves are the first impressionsthat the hotel offers. Dramatic high internal spaces such as the lobby are excentuated and illuminated with walls of beige marble, and sharp, geometric themes make the spectacle even grander.

In the rooms, the bathrooms borrow a page from the driver’s manual of a Ferrari convertible. Pop open the vertically sliding divider and guests can soak in the bathtub with a full view of the bedroom and television. Pop it closed for privacy.

And when the time comes to go for a swim, backstrokes can be done in a slender red pool on the top floor. The sun deck offers a privileged view of São Paulo’s imposing skyline.

Source : designhotel
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