Taylor Smyth Architects have designed the conversion of a 3,500 square foot two storey office building into an urban residence in Toronto, Canada. from contemporist
Architects: SeARCH & CMA Location: Vals, Switzerland Design: Bjarne Mastenbroek & Christian Müller Interior design cardboard bedroom: Studio JVM, Jeroen van Mechelen Interior design excluding cardboard bedroom: Bjarne Mastenbroek Interior advises: Christian Müller, Monica Ketting & Thomas Eyck Contractor main structure: Kurt Schnyder Bauunternehmung, Vals, CH Structural engineering: Alex Kilchma..
Libraries are something that has been revolving my head ever since I read some writings by Kahn on the Exeter Academy Library. Part of my graduate studies focused on how this typology has evolved during this last few years, moving between the silent sanctuary of books we find at Exeter and new public spaces like OMA’s Seattle Library. As the publishing/reading platforms are changing at an unprec..
Located on the west side of Mercer Island, Washington, this house is a reconstruction of one of iconic Seattle architect Fred Bassetti’s earliest designs built in 1962. Fronting a busy street, we wanted to root the house to its sloping wooded site and provide a protective shelter for family life. The plan is opened up allowing for large family gathering spaces and perspectives throughout the ful..
Architecture: VHM I Departamento de Arquitectura: Jorge Sodré Albuquerque, Ana Luísa Almeida, José Magno Coordinator: Jorge Sodré Albuquerque Team: Isabel Flamínio, Rui Silva, Eduardo Brito, Carlos Sousa, Pedro Couto Structure: A400 Services: VHM, Gestão e Coordenação de projectos Landscape: Nuno Viterbo Construction Management: Vítor Hugo Leal Gomes, Carlos Xavier Contractor: Europa Arlindo, Sc..
Last week, Bustler reported that DawnTown, the annual international architectural competition for Downtown Miami, published a preview of all competition entries in a Flickr gallery just a few days before the official announcement of the winners on Friday, December 4. Now the results are in, and the first prize goes to the team “office 247” (Rosalea Monacella, Craig Douglas, and Armando Oliver Su..
American designer Robert Brou has sent us photos of the Barnacle Stool he has created. From the designer: The design was entirely created in the moment while in the shop. The body is constructed of 12/4 (3″) Maple lumber that is laminated together and then sculpted with a variety of grinders and sanders. This sits atop eleven Ash legs that are dyed purple. Each leg is set into the body at a slig..
A-cero Architects have sent us photos of a house they designed in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid. The balance on which rest the three principles defining this construction, beauty, firmness and utility give us the key to confront its forcefulness, which emerges as a great sculptural work. It is a plastic reality: the singularity of the house defines a researching purpose that places value on aesthet..
Last weekend, the installation “Lighttube” by German architect Marco Hemmerling was introduced at the 9th annual festival Arbres et Lumières in Geneva, Switzerland. The concept for the illumination at Square Pierre Fatio in the city center is based on two major aspects of spatial perception. In first place the installation amplifies the relation between the central column and the surrounding tre..
WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture, the design competition organized by UCLA’s cityLAB, culminated with the announcement of “Carbon T.A.P.// Tunnel Algae Park” as the winning proposal of the professional competition and “R_Ignite” and “Aquaculture Canal_New Orleans” as the winning proposals of the student competition – WPA 2.0 (SE). Winner of the professional competition: “Carbon T.A.P.// Tunn..
