The story of the phoenix is a well-worn metaphor for the history of Atlanta. Reborn from its own ashes, the mythological bird symbolizes reinvention, difficulties and breakthroughs, a resurgent spirit and a shining unwritten future full of hope.
A Photographer’s Studio Over a Boathouse on Stony Lake is a re-imagination of the archetypal glass house in a landscape in the Canadian Shield.
Design: William O’Brien Jr.
Allandale House is an A-frame(s) house for an idiosyncratic connoisseur and her family. Along with its occupants, the Allandale House also provides space for an eccentric collection of artifacts that resist straightforward classification. Wines, rare books, stuffed birds and an elk mount are among the relics on display in this small vacation house.
The interior renovation of the Swiss-based Schindler Elevator Corporation transforms an existing mundane 1970’s office building into a distinctive U.S. Headquarters.
The McGee Art Pavilion is an expansion to the School of Art and Design at the New York State College of Ceramics in Alfred, New York. The Pavilion is designed as a large ceramic vessel for holding art and light.
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Exceptional contemporary houses from Chile to Croatia to China. Designing private homes offers architects more freedom than corporate projects to express their ideas and try out new concepts.
This project is in a privileged topographic situation, due to its visual condition of greater height in relation to the surrounding neighbors. This allows the house to enjoy excellent vistas towards the National Park of Chipinque in the south.
Facing the extreme: this is the drive that leads us, from the desert, through civilizations, techniques and architectures to an idea.
Domaine des Vignes, Palhes Building, Languedoc-Roussillion houses arranged as interlocking elements to allocate each one a southern aspect and view over the terraced vineyard: French residential design
Spiral Cafe aka Costa Seashell cafe due to be relocated to make space for a design by Chapman Taylor Architects for Hammerson. Spiceal Street Birmingham replaced this curved bronze roof building at The Bull Ring
Marrakech House. Improving the quality of life has long been my professional creed, where the core value is space rather than the object. A demanding personal commitment to clean space and well lit volumes.
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Bluebell Cottage is a large detached private home that is situated in Crawley, near Winchester. The house, occupying the last development at the end of a track, faces north with a large ‘front’ garden as the main usable space
The Float Home is situated on Lake Union, and inhabits what was one of the last unoccupied slips. The Seattle Houseboat and Float Home community is unique.
On the beginning, Leeuwarden village was located by an inlet that in fact was a lake. The big water determined the city sprawl. Then the lake was changed into grid of canals, and fields.
The beauty of Istanbul, and this particular place is due, largely, to the environment, the landscape, the Bosporus, the Marmara Sea, the Black sea, the Golden Horn, the nearby mountains.