Architects: 3+1 Architects Location: Tallinn, Estonia Architects in charge: Markus Kaasik, Andres Ojari, Ilmar Valdur & Merjer Müürisepp Garden Design: atelier le balto / Marc Pouzol, Véronique Faucheur, Chloé Sanson Project Year: 2002-2004 Construction Year: 2004-2005 Constructed area: 694 sqm (renovation) / 1,267 sqm (extension) Photographs: 3+1 Architects Building is located close to the Kadr..
Green renovations like this one in London are really exciting, because they show how much potential there is for taking something you already having and making it so much better, through the application of smart design. Crawford Partnership, a London based architecture firm, was responsible for this remodel and extension. They replaced a dilapidated lean-to shed with a modern and spacious extens..
Obra: Casa Tuscania Ubicación: El Salvador Arquitectura: Cinco Patas al Gato / José Roberto Paredes Equipo de diseño: José Roberto Paredes, Fátima Guevara, José Luis Cruz, Luis Herrera, Helen Navas (diseño de interiores). Construcción: Lopéz-Hurtado S.A. de C.V. Estructuras: Narváez-Hinds S.A. de C.V. Superficie terreno: 1500m2 Superficie construida: 260m2 Año proyecto: 2006 Año construcción: 20..
Designer: Neil M. Denari Arhitects Location: Los Angeles, California The clients for this house renovation / extension, a couple with three daughters, are a creative, democratic unit. The father directs film trailers, the mother is a graphic designer and illustrator, while the high school / middle school / elementary school aged daughters are all immersed in their own versions of their parents v..
Architects: OMA + LMN Location: Seattle, Washington, USA Key Personnel: Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus (Partner-in-Charge), with Mark von Hof-Zogrotzki, Natasha Sandmeier, Meghan Corwin, Bjarke Ingels, Carol Patterson Consultants: Arup, Bruce Mau Design, Davis Langdon, Dewhurst Macfarlane, Front, HKA, Hoffman Construction, Inside/Oustide, Jones & Jones, Kugler Tillotson, Magnusson Klemenci..
When architect Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen's Entenza House, aka Case Study No 9, went on the market a month ago, the listing photos were a bit confusing. The house, it seems, had been converted to a guest house or maid's quarters, while owner Barry Berkus built his main residence adjacent to the Entenza House. While Curbed commenters exercised their usual restraint ("The Berkus house is an A..
Designer: Spacebox Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands Spacebox® is a new and innovative building system. Spacebox® is a registered trademark for a light weight prefab building system for semi-permanent and permanent solutions. What is Spacebox® ? Spacebox® is a new and innovative building system. Spacebox® is a registered trademark for a light weight prefab building system for semi-permanent and p..
The Wyly Theatre in Dallas is almost finished. This project is very interesting, and REX shows once again how designing a building goes way beyond that working on the volumes and the skin, but to rethink the program itself. Anyone familiar with a theatre knows the program order hasn´t changed much, as it´s pretty much the same you find on Neufert. But REX takes this a step further, by re-studyin..
New Country House - Fernden Lane, Haslemere, West Sussex Since its conception the project has been driven by the idea that a design of exceptional value can become an important heritage for the area in which it is located. Moreover if the landscape surrounding the site is of outstanding natural beauty then there is potential for a strategic synergy where the two components, natural and manmade, ..
Elliot White, a 3rd year architecture student at Pratt Institute in New York has sent us these images of his conceptual design for a redevelopment of Queens Museum of Art at the World’s Fair site in Queens, New York. The design is raised off the ground, creating a public space underneath that can be used for events when the museum is closed. The building would be constructed using a lattice stru..
