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A new star in serviced residences
Beautiful complex in Mont Kiara with a good mix of commercial and residential areas. Still the most central and strategic location in Mont Kiara. ARCORIS, MONT KIARA features accommodation with an outdoor swimming pool, free private parking, a fitness centre and a garden.
Convenient & beautiful place. It’s like centre of mont kiara. All cafes, pubs, malls, restaurants nearby. Very relaxing environment for lunch, coffee, salon, pharmacy, desserts and even grocery shopping at QRA.
The property has sauna and free WiFi throughout the property. Each room includes a wardrobe, complete with a private bathroom fitted with a bidet and a hairdryer. The rooms at ARCORIS, MONT KIARA have a flat-screen TV and air conditioning, and certain rooms have a balcony. At the accommodation rooms include bed linen and towels.
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Caro Residence (Willa Caro)
Willa Caro - a historic residential residence of the industrialist Oscar Caro located in Gliwice.
The residence is located in the center of Gliwice at Dolne Wałów Street. The villa has an almost completely preserved interior design. In addition to the permanent museum exhibition depicting the 19th-century residential interiors of urban industrialists, the building houses an ethnographic exhibition presenting the folk culture of the Gliwice region. This exhibition complements the trail of wooden architecture of the Silesian Voivodeship.
In front of the building there is a statue of a vigil lion on a plinth. The villa is an example of a perfectly preserved 19th-century residence in the style of Renaissance villa architecture. It once belonged to Oscar Caro, an industrialist from Gliwice, and in 1934 it was donated by the city for the permanent seat of the Museum. Built in the years 1882-1885, the one-story residence (the second floor was added in the 1920s) had a large, eclectic garden. Currently, the villa and the garden are surrounded by a faithfully reconstructed stone and metal fence. The interiors have well-preserved decor: richly decorated ceilings, wood paneling, parquet floors, door and window joinery.
Currently, the permanent exhibition of 19th-century residential interiors of Upper Silesian industrialists is presented in the villa. In addition, numerous temporary exhibitions, concerts, meetings, conferences and workshops accompanying exhibitions take place here.
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Western Cape, South Africa
The spiralling form of this South African garden cafe draws inspiration from two sources: the ‘Matjieshuis’ (Mat House) of the San, who first inhabited the Western Cap, as well as the first dwellings of the Dutch settlers, ‘KapHuis’ (Truss House), a cultural hybrid. Matjieshuis were portable, curved, slat-framed structure covered with woven mats, used by San herders as they migrated seasonally with their cattle during precolonial and early colonial times. Meanwhile, KapHuis consisted of A-frame trusses covered with thatch, their interiors lowered to allow for more headroom. Both structures were part of this historical landscape and blended subtly with their surroundings. Now, in the garden context, the ‘mounds’ of the new structures have an uncanny resemblance to the nearby surrounding hills and their intricate, trellis-like extensions further integrate the buildings with the landscape.
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Katowice, Poland
This multifamily housing project is distinguished for its unique balconies, which contribute to the cost-effective design. On one side, the terraces are narrow and veer outward; however, upon reaching the other, they become wider, as if at the intersection of two invisible planes. These extraordinary forms create a distinct profile, all the more impressive given the project’s extremely limited budget. The grey color of the apartment references the soot that over time covered Katowice’s modernist architecture and transformed their appearances.
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Katowice was an important center of modernism after the rebirth of the Polish state following World War I. The standout structure from the period is the Drapacz Chmur (literally “skyscraper”), a spectacular example of functionalism designed by architect Tadeusz Kozłowski and engineer Stefan Bryła from 1929-34. The corner lot and distinctive balconies vaguely recall the forms of Drapacz Chmur, bringing to mind the city’s significant historical and contemporary role in European architecture.
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