This holiday home by Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld comprises three perpendicular volumes built into a slope in Piracicaba, Brazil. A half-submerged garage and storage area is the lowest of three elements and punctuated by a series of concrete pillars. Above, the ground floor forms an L-shaped plan with the living and dining space in one wing and the kitchen and services in the other. The gro..
Swedish architects Widjedal Racki Bergerhoff, designed the H-House in Trosa, Sweden. A private residence in the archipelago of Stockholm situated on a beautiful site overlooking the ocean. The setting is scenic but the climate is harsh. Summers are light but short and the wind can often be a problem in these coastal areas. As in many of our projects great emphasis is put on exploring the border ..
Architects: BURO II Location: Wingene, Belgium Structural work and surroundings: De Coene Construct nv Safety coordination: Safety Control Earthworks: Ivan Declercq Roofing: Sanividak bvba EPIC (Energy Performance and Interior Climate) reporting: Feys bvba Site Area: 3,604 sqm Project Area: 1,980 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Klaas Verdru Wvi has chosen to commission a multipurpose buildin..
A-cero Architects have designed a house in the township of Las Rozas in Madrid, Spain. A-cero presents its new house: a built set of volumes and sheets combined as a perfect play that mixes the limits between art and architecture. According to A-cero aesthetics, modern projecting, blocks and plates define the design of this residential project with sculptural references. The house is located in ..
We often find ourselves creating and designing for things that are outdated as we draw each line. The world we live in seems extremely uncomfortable and inefficient even though we have all this knowledge and plenty of case studies identifying such inconvenient truths. Karim Rashid mentions in the documentary "The Genius of Design" by BBC, that it seems absurd and at times perverse that we live i..
Architects: Norman Foster, Foster + Partners Location: 257 Bowery, New York, USA Co-architects: Adamson Associates Client: Sperone Westwater Consultants: Buro Happold, Sciame, Edgett Williams, JAM Consultants Inc. Project Year: 2008-2010 Photographs: Nigel Young Nearly 35 years after its conception, Sperone Westwater continues to exhibit the work of prominent artists of diverse nationality and a..
What do you think of Tony Owen Partners’ latest luxury apartments? The design will shortly enter its construction phase on Elizabeth Street in Sydney’s CBD in prestigious Hyde Park. With only 19 apartments, this exclusive development intends to define the new standard in luxury and contemporary design for Australia. On the exterior, the units’ varied facades are the product of parametric exercis..
Drucker Architects have completed the Makenna Resort in Itacaré, Brazil. The challenge of this project was to transform a natural place in an architectural space, or build a territory in which the physical landmark is no longer a backdrop to become an active part of their own construction, identifying those key elements of the landscape to emerge through a system of relations that go beyond the ..
For Thomas Phifer + Partners’ latest residence, the firm takes inspiration from the envisioned Long Island site’s proximity to the water. The seemingly repetitious simplistic form is actually one continuous surface that undulates to carve spaces underneath it. ising gracefully from the sand dunes, the form fluidly defines different programmatic elements, and its free flowing nature embraces the ..
Architects: Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners Location: Utriai, Vežaičiai, Klaipėda, Lithuania Partners in Charge: G.Natkevičius, A.Adomaitis, R.Babrauskas Structural Engineering: V.P.Čiras Site Area: 3,000 sqm Project Area: 424 sqm Project Year: 2006 Photographs: R. Urbakavičius The client is an entrepreneur in the agricultural production business (chickens(eggs), pigs rearing). His..
