Design: Eduardo Hernandez Ch. Located in Valle de Bravo lake in Mexico, this bold building is located on a steep slope, and with boundaries irregular in its geometry. Bordered by a brook of clear water and by the lake itself, at one very narrow end there is a bridge that provides the only access to the site.
Architect: Enrique Browne
Contemporary Summer House in Chile
The site of this holiday house is long and very inclined. It falls from the North to the South. On its upper edge it sits on a road that unites different seaside towns.
From the upper section it offers splendid views of the seaside resort and of the bay. However, the tree-filled site had many problems.
‘Foster + Partners: the Art of Architecture’
“The Art of Architecture” will be staged at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre from 4th April to 29th June 2014, with Permasteelisa being a major partner of the exhibition.
Following the success in China and Malaysia last year, the exhibition celebrating the historic and most representative projects of Norman Foster’s architecture practice is now open in Bangkok.
20th Century home in New Hampshire, USA. An unusual Frank Lloyd Wright House from 1950. The architectural style is ‘Prairie School’.
The Zimmerman House is a house located in the north end of Manchester, New Hampshire. It is a Usonian house designed in 1950 by Frank Lloyd Wright for Dr. Isadore and Lucille Zimmerman.
Design: Pierre-Stephane Dumas. This frameless, virtually roofless Bubble is inflated by a special turbine which keeps it in shape, renews the air and eliminates pollen, humidity and condensation problems.
Inside, the air is fresh and filtered, there are no mosquitoes and the acoustics are particularly soothing. You can set up your Bubble in next to no time, to make a cosy nest wherever you like, whenever you like.
Architect: Amyas Connell. Famous Modernist English house. The head of the British School in Rome seems an unlikely person to commission the first Modern house in England. But it was the archaeologist, Professor Bernard Ashmole who, in 1928, asked one of his students, a young New Zealander called Amyas Connell to design his family home. The building design evolved as a Y-shaped plan to optimise views and sun.
Design: Barrionuevo Sierchuk Arquitectas. The site for this property is 2.000 sqm, facing the northeast, looking at the Canal Arias river, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. The new building is 450 sqm in area and it is designed for a couple without kids.
What Herzog & de Meuron’s completion of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) means to the revitalization of Downtown Miami.
The government of Miami approved a revitalization plan—a plan that includes the taxpayers of Miami paying costs to the Herzog & de Meuron’s firm. Miami taxpayers paid $100 million toward the cost of the museum.
Worthy of asking but not of discussion here: Are taxpayers getting what they paid for?
Design: Parque Humano. Contemporary residence in Mexico: living, dining, kitchen and multipurpose room, 3 bedrooms, gazebo and swimming pool. This house is an exploration on the trace of a variety of formal and architectural lineages in the ongoing transformation of the modern dwelling that ranges from Neutra’s Kaufmann House to the Case Study Housing Program.
Brooklyn Navy Yard to stage “Making It in NYC” exhibit at BLDG 92 ‘Making It in NYC: the Era of New Manufacturing’ From 19th Century warships to 21st Century high-tech military gear, lifesaving drug discoveries to life-changing technologies, world-renowned furniture to world-class fashion, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and greater New York City have long been fertile ground for entrepreneurial manufacturers and makers.
Design: P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S. This is a 2,000 sqft single-family house located in the outskirts of Rosario. The building is a spatial and physical attempt to challenge the planar stability and homogeneity of the Pampa’s landscape in a domestic setting
Winners of the Montréal Space for Life architecture competition, inspired by the Space for Life mission: designs for 3 major projects: the Insectarium Metamorphosis, the Biodôme Renewal and a new Glass Pavilion at the Botanical Garden.
The two-stage architecture competition – open to multidisciplinary teams of architects, Living Building Challenge and LEED certification experts, scenic designers, landscape architects and engineers – was designed to source creative architectural solutions.
Design: SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects. “The clients, a couple from New York wanted a holiday home in the Southern hemisphere for summer vacations. Aware of contemporary architectural trends, they requested a sculptured building with clean horizontal lines, large areas of glass and screens creating a space that is ‘open as well as private’.
Their brief was a 2-bedroomed home with indoor / outdoor living spaces and a studio to be used in their photographic and film related occupations,” says Project Partner, Stefan Antoni.
Design: Fahlander Arkitekter AB. The summerhouse is located between two fjords on the Swedish northern west coast. The site is surrounded by a national park and nature characterised by rounded granite rocks and windswept trees.
For many generations, members of a large family have spent their summers here. There are no visible plot boundaries, living standards are simple, the sea and the surrounding nature are the main attractions.
Architect: (se)arch architekten bda. In some ways, the architect duo of Stefanie and Stephan Eberding have followed the tradition of avant-garde flexibility projects of Classic Moderne with their experimental living House G12 at Überlingen on the lake Constance.
This new design was also based on the idea of extending the available space and experience of space by making the inner space configuration flexible.
Design: Benoy. DreamCenter has been released as the leading element of the ‘West Bund Media Port’ project; one of the largest cultural investment projects currently undertaken in China. Located along the Huangpu River in Shanghai’s Xuhui District, the integrated development is the result of a dynamic collaboration between Lan Kwai Fong Group, DreamWorks Animation and CMC Capital Partners.
Design: Urban Salon. This store building is located in Spinningfields, central Manchester, off the main high end retail street, Deansgate. The ground floor debuts a new store design for the luxury shoe brand, which is being rolled out across its store portfolio.
The glazed façade is mullion-free in order to achieve views deep into the store interior. The façade is the first of its kind. Horizontal steel rods act as wind bracing between the glazing and the building superstructure.