The Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects has announced that their 2009 Fall Home Tour will take place on October 4th, featuring a variety of architect designed homes in the picturesque community of Manhattan Beach. For one day only, architecture and design fans are welcome to wander through some of the most striking modern Manhattan Beach homes, including the Kuhlhaus 02 h..
Architects: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas Site: Mainz, Germany Client: Wohnbau Mainz GmbH Structure: Knippers Helbig beratende Ingenieure Total area: 9,000 sqm Budget: 14M Euro Project Year: 2003-2008 Photographs: Moreno Maggi The building complex is located in the middle of the city center of Mainz, Germany. Its existing “historical” facade shown to the Cathedral in Mainz and its new facade to ..
Architects: PIQUE llc Location: Tumalo, OR, USA Structural Engineer: Elemental Engineering llc Contractor: R&H Construction Project year: 2009 Photographs: Peter Jahnke This residence sits on a remote 10 acre site comprised of Sage & Juniper trees in Central Oregon. Conceived as two simple cubes in the landscape, one box for sleeping and one for living, the structure offers two distinct means of..
Nicolas Tye Architects is an award winning company that pushes the very boundaries of design to create timeless and inspirational architecture; not only in creating exclusive and persistently high quality environments for all people, but by recognising that the world around us is ceaselessly changing. Central to the philosophy of Nicolas Tye Architects is that design is generated by the needs of..
The Bamboo Lantern designed for the Gwamgju Design Biennale in Korea by Atelier FCJZ (a prominent chinese firm who is also designing the Shanghai Corporate pavilion for the Expo 2010) appears to be a solid heavy mass. Yet, as visitors separate its two halves and occupy its interior, the mere cubic form turns into something else completely. The lantern is a “ dialogue between opposites” , as its ..
Mexican architects Rojkind Arquitectos and industrial designer Hector Esrawe have designed a Japanese restaurant for Mexico City. Called Tori Tori Restaurant, the project involves converting a house but aims to make the building unrecognisable. A two-layer steel lattice will cover the facade of the original house, intended to reference ivy growing on the existing walls behind it. Esrawe has cust..
Thank you to Sergey for sending us photos of the Denispopov Bar in St. Petersburg, Russia. The bar was designed by Oleg Igolinsky. from contemporist
A few weeks ago we presented you photos from architectural offices that our readers shared through Facebook. And now, we bring to you the Facebook offices in Palo Alto, designed by Studio O+A. Studio O+A is a San Francisco based practice, founded by Primo Orpilla and Verda Alexander during the dot-com boom of the early 1990s, bringing quality design to start-ups and venture firms at Silicon Vall..
Bruce Ratner originally looked to Frank Gehry to design the Atlantic Yards’ basketball arena, a 22 acre development project in Brooklyn. Gehry’s scheme looked promising as the arena and surrounding buildings were carefully categorized in different zones and then reassembled to create “startling urban moments.” When Gehry was fired early in the summer and replaced by Kansas-based firm Ellerbe Bec..
Architect: Martin Fenlon Architecture Location: Eagle Rock, California, USA Client: Michele & Wiley Langford Contractor: Pieter Rousseau Constructed Area: 912 sqm Project Year: 2006-2009 Photographs: Martin Fenlon Architecture A dilapidated Spanish Colonial duplex sat empty and neglected on a quant hillside street in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles. As an anomaly with two legal units in a sin..
