TBONE House by Coast Office Architecture
TBONE House built by Coast Office Architecture based in Stuttgart, Germany is a house that features Ecological Aspects such as Geothermal Heat Pump, Vertical Earth Connection Loop, Floor and Wall heating system, Cooling system through activation of thermal mass and the use of rainwater as valuable natural resource for water supply in the house and reduce water bills costs. The house has a very minimalist style thanks to large windows connecting the indoor and outdoor and a purity of lines. Read More…
Apartment Building in Luxembourg by Metaform Architects
Luxembourg City-based studio Metaform designed a contemporary 4,000 square foot apartment building in Luxembourg.
The sculptural project stands out and contrasts the surrounding neighborhood buildings. The architects developed a 4-storey apartment block combining elements of dynamic and vibrant art with discrete and geometrical architecture.
Live Work Home by Cook+Fox Architects
Cook + Fox Architects’s ‘Live Work Home’ in Syracuse, New York is an innovative sustainable structure designed to suit various needs that change over time. The project was recently presented with a LEED Platinum Certificate and won the From the Ground Up Competition.This 1,400 square foot project reconsiders the understood definition of ‘home’ for a new, urban context- and demonstrates how small-scale sustainable architecture can be delivered at the highest level.
Cook+Fox Architects inserted a custom-made perforated screen system onto the western and northern sides of the building to filter light into a dappled pattern reminiscent of the sun’s rays through a tree canopy. This screen also incorporates a large, garage-style front door which can be folded down to create an indoor/outdoor space similar to a front porch. Light also enters the volume through skylight tubes which penetrate the roof and the entire building unit is specifically angled to maximise solar exposure.
‘Illoiha Omotesando,’ Climbing Wall by Nendo Nendo
Designers Nendo have sent us some images of their climbing wal from the new Illoiha Omotesando club in Tokyo.They used mirrors, picture frames, a birdcage, and other items found on walls in a home re-purposed as climbing hand holds.
They used mirrors, frames, birdcage, and other objects of decoration that can be found in a house instead of the usual rock-shaped holds.
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Brooks Avenue House by Bricault Design
For the house located on Brooks Avenue House in Venice, California, the clients asked more space to accommodate the needs of a growing family, but they were reluctant to leave their location in Venice – one of the few walkable neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The solution was to maintain and remodel their existing 2000 square foot home, while creating a 1700 square foot addition and courtyard on the rear lane side.
With an ideal climate for much of the year, a primary design driver was to create a seamless connection between inside and outside, while eliminating the need for air conditioning. To this end, a central sculptural staircase links the ground floor with the rooftop deck, while doubling as a chimney to draw cooling breezes through the house. On the main floor, a sequence of pivoting doors opens the house to the courtyard, while on the second floor, windows fold back and full-height exterior panels slide into walls. A system of cedar battens serve as a shading device along much of the addition.
Casa Ponce, Mexico by Coutiño & Ponce Arquitectos
Mexican Coutiño & Ponce Arquitectos have sent us photographs of their lastest project in Tabasco, México.
At night, from outside the house is colored by the rooms that are illuminated from different color and with the facade that is illuminated by colored LEDs.
Bamboo that grows near the facade through the roof allowing the bamboos to rise and let in light. Inside the room it gives the impression that the house is an integral part of the landscape.
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Beekman Tower, 8 Spruce Street in New York by Frank Gehry
8 Spruce Street, originally known as Beekman Tower and currently marketed as New York by Gehry, is a 76-story skyscraper designed by architect Frank Gehry in the New York City borough of Manhattan at 8 Spruce Street, just south of City Hall Plaza and the Brooklyn Bridge.
Gehry has accomplished: the finest skyscraper to rise in New York since Eero Saarinen’s CBS building went up 46 years ago. At 870 feet tall, New York by Gehry is the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere and a singular addition to the iconic Manhattan skyline. For his first residential commission in New York City, master architect Frank Gehry has reinterpreted the design language of the classic Manhattan high-rise with undulating waves of stainless steel that reflect the changing light, transforming the appearance of the building throughout the day.
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‘Panteón Nube’ in Murcia, Spain by Studio Clavel Arquitectos
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The Panteón Nube located in Murcia, Spain and built by studio Clavel Arquitectos is a modern tomb, which features an asymmetrical design and ambient and an ambient light provided by the onyx stone. The tomb’s entrance can only be opened by turning its four doors in a certain way.
Clavel Arquitectos say:
‘In this project we worked with two images.The first one was the medieval unfoldable boards, which used to work as removable façades or altarpieces, and now get remade in the zigzag façade. Death inspires human beings with something between mystery and fear. To die means a transition between this world and others that nobody knows. The tomb is where this transition takes place. In this project we worked with two images.
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O House by Philippe Stuebi & Eberhard Tröger
O House located in Vierwaldstättersee, Switzerland is designed by architect Philippe Stuebi with Eberhard Tröger. On both, the front and the lake side, this sculptural villa shows very expressive and ornamental facades.
Facing mount pilatus the white concrete elements are dotted with circular openings that allow glimpses into the two-levelled orangery with its exotic plants, as well as the lounge, the guest tract and the staircase accessed through one of the openings at the ground floor. The lake side with superb mountain views of the rigi and the bürgenstock shows off a protruding, glistering loggia made of round glass bricks. Very decorative, such elements are a strong contrast to the rough renderings of the side facades.
Villa Welpeloo, Holland by 2012Architects
Created by 2012Architects, Villa Welpeloo was designed for clients Tjibbe Knol and Ingrid Blans. “Reused materials account for 60 percent of the structure,” says Jongert. “And that goes up to as much as 90 percent when it comes to the interior.” The benefit of this approach, which Jongert and Bergsma like to call “recyclicity” or “superuse,” is, of course, a greatly reduced construction carbon footprint, due to material recycling and lower transportation costs. But it’s also, insists Jongert, “a way to reach a very high level of lively aesthetics.”
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Zig Zag House, Washington by David Coleman Architecture
This 2400 square foot house built by David Coleman Architecture explores the notion of edges and intersections. From the street, the building is understated and deceptively simple. A garden wall defines the edge between public and private. A wooden bridge leads over a reflecting pool, accessing the entry courtyard. Read More…
Rock it Suda, Six Houses by Hoon Moon
Breaking the boundaries of simple architecture, Hoon Moon, Korean architect gave birth to Rock It Suda, a guesthouse with six bedrooms, each characterized by a specific theme: From Barbie to Ferrari, from Spain to the caves to finish with traditional Korean style. The six different ways to capture the landscape inspired Moon, who decided to give birth to the Same Spatial Concentration of Expansion and Compression reasoning on issues completely dissociated from the context such as Spain, Barbie, Stealth, Ferrari, Caves and Traditional Korean Style.
The hotel is located on the outskirts of Jeongseon in South Korea, on the banks of a river and has magnificent views over the mountains surrounding it.
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Euclid Avenue House by Levitt Goodman Architects
Architects Dean Goodman and Janna Levitt, of Toronto-based Levitt Goodman Architects , designed this lovely downtown Toronto house for themselves and their teenage children. The house comprises two stories and a basement, and is both surrounded and topped by ample native foliage, both wild and cultivated, so the views from the windows give it an unexpectedly rural feel for its urban location.
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House in Paço de Arcos, Portugal by Jorge Mealha Architect
Jorge Mealha Arquitecto have completed a house facing the sea, located in Paço de Arcos, suburb of Lisbon. The house features clusters of rectangular volumes and courtyards. A set of restrictive regulations, defined in the city council urbanistic project, from distances to borders, access and total amount of construction area and volume were also a condition to be addressed and surpassed. The metal screening/shading devices, create large smooth textured surfaces on the facade of the house emphasizing forms and controlling the relationships between indoor and outdoor or between external and internal spaces.
Anamorphic Illusions by Felice Varini
Felice Varini is a Swiss artist who is known for his geometric Anamorphic Illusions. Anamorphic Illusions are images which only make sense from one view and can only be truely appreciated from a certain vantage point. His pieces range in scale from covering a small area in a room to covering a cityscape.
Varini tends to use simple geometric forms: squares, triangles, ellipses, circles, rectangles, and lines. These forms are usually created in one of the three primary colors: red, blue or yellow, occasionally employing some secondary colors, as well as in black and white. He justifies his choice of simple geometric shapes and basic colors by saying “If you draw a circle on a flat canvas it will always look the same. The drawn circle will retain the flatness of the canvas. This kind of working is very limiting to me, so I project a circle onto spaces, onto walls or mountain sides, and then the circle’s shape is altered naturally because the ‘canvas’ is not flat. A mountain side has curves that affect the circle, and change the circle’s geometry. So, I do not need to portray complicated forms in my paintings. I can just use the simplicity of forms, because the reality out there distorts forms in any case, and creates variations on its own accord.
Pawson House, London by Catherine & John Pawson
British architect John Pawson and CAtherine Pawson have designed their own house based in London.
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Aichinger House, Austria by Hertl Architekten
Called ‘Aichinger House,’ this two storey apartment building reinvented by Hertl Architekten was a restaurant with two bars but the challenge for the architects was to renovate one of the bars into two flats. The most intriguing element of the project is the light grey curtain covering the external walls: a decorative object, normally used indoor, is building a fascinating facade.”
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“Nowhere But Sajima,” House in Japan by Yasutaka Yoshimura
“Nowhere but Sajima House” by Japanese architect Yasutaka Yoshimura is a vacation residence located at 1 hour from Tokyo. Its facade is characterized by eclectic variations of openings and large windows which provide view to Mount Fuji and to the peninsula Enoshima. The side facing towards the ocean is the northern area, and a road with a row of condominiums and heavy traffic run by its side. while the large building aperture enables an open view to the ocean, it also draws all the attention from the road and condominiums.
