From City Scale to Details: 27 Projects for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

In many countries around the world, October is dedicated to raising awareness for breast cancer. Pink ribbons that represent this cause, are a tribute to Susan G. Komen, responsible for the Cure's 1990 campaign in the USA. To celebrate this month and add spread awareness efforts, ArchDaily selected some projects that incorporate the color pink into façades, interiors, and details.

Plaza del Mar House / Alejandro D'Acosta

Casa del Mar is the retirement home for a couple, facing the Pacific Ocean on a 195 m2 parcel in La Misión, Baja California, Mexico. It consists of a simple program: two rooms, a study, a library, and a common space. In a limited area, the public and private areas had to be divided into two levels linked by the lobby. The slight slope of the terrain is used to configure the sections: the lobby remains at street level; the public area is raised to frame the views of the sea and the private area is partially excavated to generate privacy and an intimate relationship with the gardens. The construction is a complex configuration of different systems, a mixture of crafts and industry, tradition and innovation; contemporary indigenism. Site soil, metal, excavation stone, second-use wood.

The Lazlo / Henley Halebrown Architects

The Laszlo is on a largely residential street in a conservation area close to Highgate in North London, and a neighbor to the University of Arts, London. The 5-story building dates from c. 1900. Originally the Batavia Mills, it was used for manufacturing and printing. During World War II gas masks were stored in the building. The facades are brick, with pronounced piers and arched set-back window openings layered to create a facade with depth and shadow. Inside the structural frame is steel.

12 Social Housing Units / MARS Architectes

The boulevard Poniatowski establishes itself inside the former city wall of Thiers, one of the reasons allowing the creation of a way at this scale. The quality of the boulevard Poniatowski lies in its clarity: alignment of the building, large and wooded sidewalk linked with commercials ground floors allowing a direct connection between the public and private space, between solid and void. An urban continuity emanating from guidelines of classic urbanism widely resumed by Haussmann which made and is still making the quality of a city like Paris.

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