Amid Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano, two lodges emerge from a quarry's stones and history | Designboom
Francesco Russo Francesco Russo

Amid Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano, two lodges emerge from a quarry's stones and history | Designboom

Nestled within the heart of Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador, two lodgings emerge from the very quarry that once echoed with the sounds of excavation. Overlooking the Tungurahua Volcano, which had been active for two decades, the structures by architectural studio La Cabina De La Curiosidad transform into serene observatories, promoting tranquillity, reflection, and contemplation.

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Uniform skin of bricks coats Casa Perucho's facades in Ecuador | Designboom
Francesco Russo Francesco Russo

Uniform skin of bricks coats Casa Perucho's facades in Ecuador | Designboom

Designer Pedro Calle and El Sindicato Arquitectura construct Casa Perucho, a single-family house nestled in Perucho, a rural enclave within the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador. Embracing its natural surroundings of mountains and green landscapes, the residence harmoniously coexists with nature.

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Londons - The Polycentric City | PhMuseum
Francesco Russo Francesco Russo

Londons - The Polycentric City | PhMuseum

Shot by eight photographers, Londons – The Polycentric City maps out the landscape of the capital from eight different perspectives, rejecting a single, monolithic view in favour of a fragmentary, multifarious mosaic.

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These photos, shot in lockdown, exhibit a dystopian London | The Spaces
Francesco Russo Francesco Russo

These photos, shot in lockdown, exhibit a dystopian London | The Spaces

Lockdown didn’t stop London from expanding outward and upward. Nor did it stop the urban-landscape photographers of Mass Collective from documenting the city creep. Early this year they despatched a group of eight photographers to eight satellite neighbourhoods, and the results – on show at the Building Centre until 4 November – are alluringly dystopian.

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This Week's Focus: Francesco Russo | World Photography Organisation
Francesco Russo Francesco Russo

This Week's Focus: Francesco Russo | World Photography Organisation

The series is called Ruin or Rust because with my work I want to put forward a question to the public: are these structures ruins, in the romantic sense of the ruins depicted by the painters of the Picturesque art movement of the 18th century, or they are just rust that deserves to be demolished and replaced with new developments?

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