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Architectural Ingredient: 15 Brazilian Restaurants Where Design Meets Gastronomy

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The relationship between architecture and gastronomy goes beyond the simple function of providing a place to eat. It is a sensory symbiosis in which the environment prepares the palate as much as seasoning does. The visual composition of a dish can be understood through principles such as volume, balance, contrast, and rhythm — concepts that are equally fundamental to architectural design. In the same way, a restaurant’s architecture — its colors, lighting, and material choices — acts as an invisible ingredient, capable of elevating the dining experience and shaping the perception of flavor even before the first bite. Both disciplines are dynamic, directly reflecting social behaviors and cultural trends that influence how we occupy space and how we nourish ourselves.

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The Gym-Bar Hybrid: Interiors That Integrate Sports and Healthy Habits Through Architecture

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From the interior design of sports facilities to wellness spaces, contemporary architecture continues to experiment with incorporating different uses, installations, and materialities that make it possible to reach broader audiences, generate new spatial experiences, and enhance the simultaneous development of various activities. While each sport requires its own type of architecture, such as climbing training, for example, architecture and design professionals are striving to create atmospheres where exercise becomes more than just a physical experience, but also a psychological one, connecting mind and body through a state of physical renewal, relaxation, and sociability.

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Interiors of Bars and Restaurants that Blend Cultures, Arts, and Materials: El Equipo Creativo and Their Works in Barcelona

How does the design of contemporary interiors create different experiences through its materials? How does the adaptability and reuse of certain materials make it possible to generate contrasting and/or complementary atmospheres within a single space? According to each material's textures, proportions, colors, or properties, interior architecture currently recognizes the opportunity to create environments where materiality plays more than just an aesthetic role. With special attention to the final experience of its users, El Equipo Creativo aims to combine designs where landscape, nature, culture, and art stand out in interior compositions that accommodate broad programs and audiences.

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Prix Versailles Celebrates 24 Projects for Their Outstanding Commercial Architecture in Africa, West Asia and Europe

On April, the continental ceremony of the Prix Versailles 2018 took place in the International Center of Conférences d'Alger with the announcement of the selected projects in shops, shopping centers, hotels and restaurants for the "Africa and West Asia" and "Europe" regions.

The 24 new projects are now incorporated into the list of 46 continental winners -from Central America, the South and the Caribbean; North America; Central Asia and the Northeast; and South Asia and the Pacific regions- resulting in 70 projects that will compete in the 2018 Prix Versailles World Final at the UNESCO Headquarters.

See the selected projects after the break.