Architects: Plan B Arquitectos (Felipe Mesa) + Giancarlo Mazzanti Location: Urbanización Aposentos, Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia Collaborators: Viviana Peña, Jose Orozco, Jaime Borbón, Andrés Sarmiento, Juan Pablo Buitrago Contractor: Jaime Pizarro Structural Engineer: Nicolás Parra Design Year: 2006-2007 Construction Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Rodrigo Davila House to enjoy a native garden and t..
A-cero Architects have designed the Sotogrande House in Cadiz, Spain. from contemporist
A new house, guesthouse, and garage form a community of buildings on a rural hilltop site, evoking a rural homestead. The buildings define a formal courtyard that opens to specific views of the Berkshire and Catskill Mountains. Copper, wood, and bluestone are the primary materials, deployed to affect a minimal and sculptural vocabulary. The buildings are embedded to varying degree within the roc..
Architect: Harald Opitz Location: Camino a Ensenada, Puerto Varas, Chile Contractor: Inmobiliaria Cielos del Sur Ltda Structure Engineer: Jose Torres Herrera Site Area: 14.000 sqm Constructed Area: 1.500 sqm Project Year: 2006 Construction year: 2007-2008 Materials: Wood, Steel & Concrete Photographs: Francisco Negroni Young chilean architect Harald Opitz shared with us this impressive hotel lo..
Australian studio b.e. Architecture have completed a house in Melbourne clad in basalt slabs of varying size and thickness. The house, 57 Tivoli Road, is located on a sloping corner plot and has internal courtyards. A six metre-long window in the living room slides open over views of the city. The interior is primarily fitted out in wood, with a staircase twisting through the space and guest bed..
Architects: IwamotoScott Location: North Beach, San Francisco, CA, USA Principals in Charge: Lisa Iwamoto & Craig Scott Collaborators: Dan Sullivan & Blake Altshuler Diagrams: Ryan Gollenberg Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Craig Scott PS House offers a way of densifying the inner block of an already fairly dense San Francisco neighborhood (North Beach), while bringing an unexpected degree of sp..
Architect: McBride Charles Ryan - Rob McBride & Debbie-Lyn Ryan Location: Melbourne, Australia Project year: 2007 Photographs: Trevor Mein This is a new 4 storey building located in a largely pedestrian lane (Ridgway place) at the East end of Melbourne’s CBD. Dominant in the lane is the historic Melbourne Club wall and the gigantic plane trees emanating from the Melbourne Club Garden which ar..
Architects: Murtinho y Asociados Arquitectos Location: Calle Holanda Nº64, Providencia, Santiago, Chile Client: Los Héroes Caja Compensación Architect in Charge: Santiago Raby Pinto Collaborators: Miguel Angel Contreras Ch. y Alejandra López Contractor: ALTIUS Refurbishment Area: 3.350 sqm Photographs: Pedro Mutis Johnson CONTEXT The challenge was the rehabilitation of a ‘70s building for a new ..
Architects: Choi Ropiha Location: Mona Vale, NSW, Australia Client: Graeme Jessup & Barbara Elkan Environmental Systems: Graeme Jessup Landscape: ExParrot Engineering: Simpson Design Associates - Northrop Engineers Construction: Graybuilt Photographs: Brett Boardman The client for the project has a long standing interest in building sustainability developed through working at the Sustainable Ene..
About a month ago the Rolex Learning Center designed by SANAA opened its doors and we feature it with a great video and some images they shared with us. Now, Iwan Baan sent us this great photoset he made for March’s issue of Domus magazine, where we can see much more of the sloped interiors and some amazing images of the perforated curved concrete+glass volume that gives form to the building. fr..
