Architects: LOHA Architects Location: Mill Valley, California, USA Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy Project Manager: Kuo-Huei Tsai Project Team: Michael Poirier, Juan Diego Gerscovich, Su Yingzi Structural Engineer: Paul Francheschi Client: Tony and Rachel Sherman Project year: 2005 Constructed Area: 386 sqm Photographs: LOHA The house sits on a south facing hillside on a ridge overlooking ..
The program is for a residence of approximately 6,700 SF, with a detached 3-car garage. The site is very steep, long and narrow ? it’s 50’ wide by 400’ long with an average slope of 35%. Located on the west side of Mercer Island, there are panoramic views west towards Seattle and the Olympic Mountains beyond. Zoning requirements allowed us to only occupy 35’ of the 50’ property width, and limite..
Design of dressing area, including custom milled Plexiglas cabinet faces with integral handles. Also opposing mrrored wardrobe with sliding doors. Completed 03/2007. from 4-pli
The project aims to scale the space to the object that will be displayed, providing order and rhythm to an exhibition that wants to be intimate. The models of public sculptures done by Susana Solano are treated as jewels that relate to each other visually as they do historically. A single system is designed to suit two spaces with opposed spatial attributes, allowing for a single reading of the ..
Architects: LAVA - Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck Location: Sydney, Australia Project year: 2008 Project Team: Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck Collaborators: Jarrod Lamshed, Esan Rahmani, Kim Ngoc Nguyen, Anh Dao Trinh, Erik Escalante Mendoza, Pascal Tures, Mi Jin Chun, Andrea Dorici Materials: Specially treated high-tech Nylon and light Area: 300 sqm Volume: 3,..
Tim Fishlock's What Watt? chandelier is a memorial to and a celebration of the humble incandescent lightbulb. By 2011, all forms of incandescent light bulb will have been phased out in favour of greener alternatives. What Watt? marks the passing of a beautiful design that has remained relatively unchanged since its invention 130 years ago. Don't be fooled by the enormous amount of bulbs, the pie..
I can remember my mother telling me that in order to fall in love, you must put your energy towards the heart and the stomach. Studio Arne Quinze (SAQ) out of Brussels, Belgium clearly understands the recipe for love. Located in the heart of the city, at the Mont des Arts, lies a small yet big idea restaurant, KWINT. It sits within the recently renovated Congress Palace that was inaugurated duri..
A-cero Architects have sent us a house in Galicia, Spain that they have designed. The house is located on a 2.000m2 plot presenting a strong slope. The site is delimited by the access road on the East, North and Northwest sides, and by a cliff on the West border, a natural balcony with great views over A Corunna’s coast. The form of the building that evolves starting from these constraints consi..
Qb Design have completed the Split-Level House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Total Area: 3,800 sq.ft Sited on a vacant corner in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia, this newly constructed house stitches itself into the neighborhood by responding to local cues. Curved brick corners negotiate the irregular street grid, while the cadence of typical rowhouses and a palette of brick volu..
SITUATION: MENORCA, SPAIN AREA: 180 Sqm TEAM: MODO, Arquitectura y Diseño ARCHITECTS: Christian Sintes, David Dominguez This small project (180 sqm) is located near the seaside, in an urbanization on the northface of the port of Mahon, in Menorca. The area is very quite, caracterized by the existence of several isolated houses mainly composed by the intersection of cubic blocks. As the site is s..
