Architects: Mishack. Lovingly called GD27 this weekend house, is where the client would rather be. This contemporary house is poised on an elevated lot overlooking an enviable strand of woodland with nearby bubbling brook.
Design: Estudio Ramos, architects. The building was designed on two levels: the upper, with the best views for the social rooms and restaurant, whilst the secondary program such as storage, locker rooms and the gym are placed at the ground floor.
Inaugurated in 1912, this is the only great luxury hotel in Montreal to have survived to the present day without changing vocation. Famous for its façades and its elegant Adam-style interiors, the building is one of the gems of Montreal architecture.
Design: Matthias J Pearson Architect, Bella Vista residence on a rural wooded hilltop: two 20’ x 84’ volumes are set perpendicular to each other and rotated an additional 15 degrees in response to site attributes and to create a dynamic interrelationship
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Design: Salt & Water. Each apartment is a catamaran that can be easily separated from the dock and navigated, allowing guests to choose the perfect location for their vacation by themselves.
Design: Balance Associates Architects. Project focused on a 1940’s house in Seattle: the kitchen, garage and basement were all that remained standing after demolition. The basic layout remained but spaces were opened up to the view and to each other.
Design: Yamazaki Kentaro Design. Located in Itoman, Okinawa, the aim of this project is to support and promote local tradition and culture through its cuisine. The restaurant is covered in Ryukyu limestone and constructed via a “masonry workshop” organized by the project collaborators.
Design: Mateo Arquitectura
The architects conserved and repaired the beautiful structure that supports that roof. Beneath they dug into the site to introduce new services that complement sales activity: logistics, parking, installations.
Design: RTA-Office, architects
Six office towers: two tall buildings of 160 m, two of 100 m and two adjacent buildings of 70 m each. The architecture design was made under rigorous volumetric constraints that included a symmetrical configuration.
Design: Graeme Massie Architects
The new building design stems from both an understanding of its role as a civic building in a historic European capital city and its need to respond to the requirements of a twenty-first century museum.
Design: Genton Architecture. Located on three street frontages, the compact 26 townhouse design and contemporary façade treatment with distinctive timber elements and soft cream bricks, blend harmoniously with the older post World War II houses in the area.
Architect: SPACESPACE. Located in a residential area in Ikoma-city, Nara: the architects stacked the garden and the parking lot at the same planar position by laying a concrete plane which is the roughly same size as living space, and lifting up the part of it to use its downside as the parking lot.
Design: Marks Barfield Architects. A pair of curved glass pavilions, linked by a clear-span canopy, are inspired by geomagnetic lodestones which were used as early compasses enabling the great world voyages of discovery – the maritime heritage for which Greenwich is famous.