LOCATION: Santa Monica, California ARCHITECT: John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects CONTRACTOR: Anthony Bonomo FLOOR AREA: 4,300 s.f. (includes 2-car garage) The King Residence is a 4,300 square foot single family residence located in the Sunset Park section of Santa Monica, a neighborhood originally developed to house workers from the World War II era McDonnell Douglas Airplane Factory. About one..
In 1895, Johann Bretz created his first cosy “Kautsches” (couches) in Gensingen, a German wine village on the Rhine river. Today, his great great-granddaughter Carolin Fieber – a fashion designer and stylist trained in Milan, Paris and London – is completing the evolutionary pathway by putting the ancestral Kautsch to contemporary rebirth with new sofas, armchairs, stools, tables and rugs. from ..
Thomas Coward of Omvivo has designed a collection of bathroom furniture combining timber, stone and solid surface. The range features a deep rectangular bathtub, undercut at one end. A wooden shelving unit nests in this space to complete the brick-shaped volume. Stone basins rest on oak tables with either wooden or stone lower shelves. Here’s some more information from Omvivo: – Latis The luxuri..
Los Angeles-based architect Marcelo Spina of architectural practice Patterns has completed an art gallery on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. Called PRISM, the project is a three-storey gallery space designed to showcase work by new artists. The building incorporates exhibition space, film-viewing and lecture areas, and a bookshop. The facade is made of a polycarbonate resin-based composite, which..
Architect: Produkcija 004 Location: Osijek, Croatia Client: City of Osijek and Panteon d.o.o. Project architects: Davor Katušic Project team: Venko Ćurlin, Robert Franjo, Ivana Senjak, Mirko Buvinić, Maja Furlan Zimmermann Construction: Studio Arhing, Borivoj Pojatina; P&D, Hrvoje Petrovic Installation: Mario Josipović; Renato Majcunić; Nenad Šutevski Project area: 14,200 sqm Budget: 10 mi..
Architects: Longhi Architects Location: Punta Misterio, Peru Principal in Charge: Luis Longhi Project Architect: Christian Bottger Project Manager: Carla Tamariz Collaborators: Hector Suasnabar, Ysa Jamis Construction: Longhi Architects / Hector Suasnabar Project year: 2006-2008 Constructed Area: 530 sqm Photographs: CHOlon Photography Conceived as the place where the arid Peruvian desert meets ..
Architects: KHR arkitekter AS Location: Jyllinge, Denmark Project year: 2001-2008 Client: Jyllinge Minighedsrad Constructed Area: 800 sqm The church of the holy cross was conceived as part of the landscape around Jyllinge. With its glass facade facing the fjord and a “fishing net” dividing the space of the church, the design clearly takes the history of the place seriously. A good place to build..
It comes as a shock to discover one of the Bay Area’s most riveting examples of recent architecture is not the work of international highfliers imported to San Francisco and its environs to rev up the local landscape. To be sure, Bay Area architects have long held their own with a calmly cool regional Modernism. But with current media hoopla, cultural institutions by Herzog & de Meuron, Renzo Pi..
The Spanish architects Vicens + Ramos has designed a fantastic church in Madrid, which goes its own way without the intention of the normal conventions. Hats off for a brave developer who has dared to say yes to the wild architects plan. A trend that we see more and more, are the rusty facade panels which actually provides an interesting appearance and glow to the façade. from dagensdesign
Architects: 70ºN Arkitektur Project Team: Magdalena Haggarde, Joar Lillerust, Gisle Løkken, Kjeld Nash, Anniken Romuld, Petra Schnutenhaus Location: Tromsø, Norway Contractor: Bjørn Bygg AS Site Area: 622 sqm Outdoor Area: 1,825 sqm + 1,712 sqm Construction year: 2006 Photographs: Ivan Brodey The kindergarten is organized in a number of longitudinal zones from the exterior playground, the roofed..
