Juniper House in Gotland, Sweden by Hans Murman Architects
In Gotland, Sweden the house designed by Hans Murman Architects, the Juniper House becomes barely visible, mirroring its surroundings with its façade. A wall of glass from ceiling to floor stands towards the minimal yard. From the interior you have a strong feeling of being in the nature. Both light and the path “flow” through the house and a terrace of white local limestone separates the kitchen from the master bedroom.
The façade is a playful comment to the Gotland authority’s ambition to not let modern architecture be visual in the landscape. It is also an experiment and investigation in what you see and do not see of a house and how this affects you and how you experience colour, texture, surface, material, transparency, inside contra outside light on and through the façades. Read More…
Casa Jondal by Jaime Serra from Atlant Del Vent
Casa Jondal was designed by Jaime Serra from Atlant Del Vent and it’s located in Ibiza, Spain. The Ibiza dream house is a home perfectly adapted to its environment and modern necessities. Occupying 380 square meters, the residence captures the barrier between Spanish rustic style elements of architecture and modern design elements.
Two large volumes were adjoined to shape a structure that displays concrete bricks on the outside and ceramic bricks on the inside. The 485 square meters Mediterranean-style courtyard exploits the outside space as a continuation of the inside space.
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Rainbow Millefeuille Bank by Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture
Horizontal layers of colour protrude out from the facade of this bank branch in Tokyo by Tokyo-based french architect Emmanuelle Moureaux.By night each of the twelve colour bands of the Sugamo Shinkin Bank are brightly illuminated. Inside, an ellipsoid-shaped open ceiling allows natural light to spill into the lobby from skylights on the third floor. The light is carried through clear curved glass tubes that pass through the floors and ceilings into the central atrium.
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Deception of Reflection Mirror by John Leung
The “Deception of Reflection” Mirror by John Leung for Clarke Hopkins Clarke Architects is designed as an analogy of this phenomenon – an ordinary mirror with an extraordinary mirror frame. This effect, which works with any mirror, is created by a special honeycomb surface on the frame, manufactured using colored 3D printing. Two different colors are embedded into each of the concave honeycomb cell walls so that at most viewing angles, our eyes see one color and the mirror reflects another. The optical illusion serves as a reminder that, whenever one reviews oneself, bias exists depending on your frame of mind and point of view. Read More…
“Cité du Surf et de l’Océan,”in Biarritz, France by Steven Holl Architects
The “Cité du Surf et de l’Océan” by Steven Holl Architects intends to raise awareness of oceanic issues and to explore educational and scientific aspects of the surf and sea and their role upon our leisure, science, and ecology.
The building shape, derived from the spatial concept of “under the sky” and “under the sea”, creates a central gathering plaza open to the sky and focused toward the horizon, and takes full advantage of its seaside resort location. This ”Place de l’Océan” with its concave “under the sky” shape, forms the character of the main exterior space, while the convex structural ceiling forms the “under the sea” exhibition spaces. The dynamic curved underside provides a surface upon which films and video exhibitions will be projected, creating spaces enlivened by plays of light and images. Read More…
L-and Houses in Alentejo, Portugal by Marcio Kogan
Our favorite architect Marcio Kogan from Studio MK27 has designed this amazing resort called L-and Houses in Alentejo, Portugal. As usual with Marcio Kogan, the proportions and the choice of the materials are just perfect in their simplicity.
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Uboat, Floating Home by Wyatt Little
Wyatt Little came up with an inexpensive housing solution for water surfaces called the Uboat. This little floating home boasts a deck on all four sides extends out to form both entry and porch space and includes a matched roofline above providing shelter and area for an extensive green roof and solar panels to generate your own green energy.
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K House in Bellarine, Australia by ARM Architecture
The dazzling K house on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula is the work of Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM) Architects. The purpose was to create a house where they could retire for the family whose name begins with letter “K”. The house was planed to be painted in entirely red but due to council regulations it become gray with a lot of red furniture pieces inside.
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House in Melides, Portugal by Pedro Reis
The house in Melides, Portugal designed by Pedro Reis represents the desire for a holiday house as a getaway from the bustle of a big city. Two volumes intersect, a modern white glazed rectangle with public areas above, and a lower volume clad with earth colored concrete with private rooms below.
To leave in his area means “find a place”within the meaning of “a strong geometric footprint”, hit by two volumes out of date in the form of a “cross. ” The aim of this dialectical strategy to not only reduce the “scale and presence” of construction, but also “split” the program in two areas, a more “exuberant ” and exposed and a more “intimate” and contained. If the top light volume recalls the image from bringing modern house with large glazed areas open to the scenic landscape, the lower volume “anchored”, covered with layers of earth-colored concrete, pre-fabricated in situ, sits on the floor providing support and stability to the house.
“Fonte Da Luz,” House in Portugal by Barbosa & Guimarães
Fonte Da Luz which means Source of light in Portuguese is a house build by Barbosa & Guimarãe architects located in an historical area. The architects Barbosa & Guimarães have explored all the resources of natural light that could offer the house. The housing is developed on three floors around the volume of the ladder, whose transparency guarantees the fluidity between the various functional areas.Inside of the building the architects mixed material as wood and marble. The other major objective where focused on the relationship between the pre-existing granite masonry and the new volume developing within it. The new object reveals some of the building’s history, from its remote origins in the 19th century until our intervention in the 21st century. Read More…
Kokoo Boutique, Cyprus by SuperNova Studio
Architect and interior designer, Konstantinos Chalaris, of London/Cyprus based SuperNova Studio recently finished the Kokoo boutique based in Cyprus.
The small space employs crafty methods to display products, including an array of umbrella handles protruding from walls, where accessories can hang. The shop’s ceiling is adorned with an installation made of a giant golden egg with a pair of human legs extending out. Read More…
The Eco-Wine Cube by Michael Jantzen
The Eco-Wine Cube from American designer Michael Jantzen is a concept proposal for a wine bar that will only serve sustainably grown wine. Based around sustainability, the materials, construction and continued practices of the interior are all environmentally friendly. Inside the Eco-Wine Cube, visitors can watch LCD digital display windows projecting images from the surrounding countryside. LCD screens are embedded in the tables that offer wine selection information along with other interactive entertainment.
Qing Shui Wan Spa Hotel, in Shenyang, China by Nota Design International
Qing Shui Wan is a high-end hot spring and spa club with hotel rooms located in downtown Shenyang. This is a 3 store building with a sprawling area of 7000 sqm per floor.
First store consists of solely the main reception hall/ foyer and the hot-springs. The hot springs area is divided into 2 main zone for the different genders.Second store houses 184 seater Japanese Restaurant, in-house buffet area, a VIP buffet restaurant, a cinema lounge, rest lounges, tea appreciation areas, a hair saloon, and massage rooms.
Third store houses the flagship spa with 41 massage rooms, 23 majong rooms, 14 treatment rooms, 2 Turkish Bath, and 24 hotel rooms. The designers are tasked with the Interior Architecture as well as the facade design.
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Desert Nomad House, Arizona by Rick Joy Architect
The Desert Nomad House based in Tucson, Arizona is designed by Rick Joy Architect. Three metal boxes, each oriented to a particular view. Three different sizes: S, M, and L. The simplicity of the forms and precise placement of the cubes in relation to the landscape. Although less than 1,500 square feet altogether, the three little buildings form a residential village enlivened by the spaces between and around them: one tight and narrow like an alley, another big and expansive like a piazza.
Each building is basically one space with a bathroom—a 780-square-foot living/kitchen/dining area; a 440-square-foot bedroom; and a 200-square-foot office/guest room—and its geometry is Platonic, so the smallest anomaly or imperfection would have screamed out and destroyed the intended effect.
Cubic Boutique Hotel by Sergey Makhno & Vasiliy Butenko
Cubic Boutique Hotel by Sergey Makhno & Vasiliy Butenko is rather gorgeous and not boring at all. Its lighting may well be compared to an object of art. The boutique hotel is snuggled into a green hillside, and extends out to the sands of the Dead Sea. On one side, a gorse-covered mountain closely approaches the hotel, on the other side it stands near the coastline of the Black sea. Read More…
“BGU University Entrance Square,” in Beer Sheba, Israel by Chyutin Architect
Israeli firm Chyutin Architects designed the stripes of paving, plants and lighting form the entrance to Ben- Gurion University campus in Be’er Sheba, Israel. The square serves as an entrance gate to the western side of the campus, surrounded by existing buildings and the future Negev Gallery.
The square offers an outdoor space for cultural and social activities for students and for the city population. The square is bordered by the elongated structure of the gallery facing both the city and the campus.Towards the city, the gallery’s continuous façade (160 meter in length) unifies the heterogeneous appearance of the existing buildings behind the gallery into a cohesive urban unit. The city façade is accompanied by a sculpture garden creating a green edge to the campus.The square appears as a carpet of integrated strips of concrete paving, vegetation and lighting with concrete benches and trees scattered randomly. The strips of vegetation consist of lawn, Equisetopsida and seasonal plants.
Project Name : BGU University Entrance Square & Art Gallery
Architects: Chyutin Architects Ltd.
Location: Beer sheba, Israel
Client: Ben-Gurion University
Deichmann square team: Bracha Chyutin, Michael Chyutin, Ethel Rosenhek, Joseph Perez
Art Gallery team: Bracha Chyutin, Michael Chyutin, Ethel Rosenhek, Joseph Perez, Jacques Dahan
Gallery Area: 2500 sqm
Square Area: 4500 sqm
Photographs: Sharon yeari
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.
“Twister” Restaurant in Ukraine by Sergey Makhno & Vasiliy Butenko
“Twister” is a newly opened restaurant in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The design team, Sergey Makhno and Vasiliy Butenko also work on residential and commercial interiors and architecture but we are particularly fascinated by their furniture and their sculptural approach to interiors. the project also features a double-height restaurant, with curving booths on stilts above the regular dining furniture below. The drop-shaped lamps are intended to represent rain.
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