Location: West Lake Hills Dates: 2002-2005 402 Redbud Trail is a speculative modern residence in the wooded hills of Austin, Texas. The project was programmed for a family of five with multiple living areas for simple living. With few gadgets, the house focuses on permanence and craftsmanship. The house is sited to capture the views from the rear of a steep site that is accessed from the bottom...
The Istanbul, Turkey based Erginoglu & Calislar Architects designed a contemporary restoration and conversion of a historical stone walled salt barn, so it could be used as the offices of the advertising agency Medina Turgul DDB. from contemporist
Designer: Ernesto Neto Location: New York, NY Image Credits: Giorgio Benni Park Avenue Armory launches its first commissioned art installation with anthropodino, a large-scale, interactive work by world-renowned artist, Ernesto Neto. Using hundreds of yards of translucent material, Neto suspends a gigantic canopy from the drill hall’s latticework truss, spanning 120 feet wide and 180 feet long. ..
Architecture: Morphosis Architects Location: Pasadena, California, USA Project Manager: Kim Groves Job Captain: Salvador Hidalgo Project Architect: David Rindlaub Project Designers: Martin Summers, Shanna Yates Project Team: Irena Bedenikovic, Pavel Getov, Debbie Lin, Kristina Loock, David Rindlaub Project Assistants: Patrick Dunn-Baker with Adam Bressler, Laura Foxman, Brock Hinze, Amy Kwok, Hu..
The Local Motors competition to design a car for Detroit closed earlier this month and the winners have been announced. First prize of $1500 went to German student Dmytro Zyubyairov for his Michigan concept, a sleek and slightly Citroenesque-looking front-engined 2+2 shooting brake. Dymtro’s design mixed sharp styling with the practicality and cargo capacity afforded by a shooting brake. As with..
For a lake residence on a diminutive lot in rural Iowa, we conceived of a house as a series of spatial frames that offer a focused and private experience on an otherwise densely populated shore. This second home sits in a resort area that appears as an oasis in the midst of the Midwestern “corn desert”. Not at all nostalgic for the cottages of years gone by, the owners nevertheless wanted a hous..
Samoo Architecture PC, with the project lead Samsung C & T Corporation and Samoo Architects & Engineers in Seoul, Korea, have been awarded first prize and the building/construction commission for the new Taekwondo Park World Headquarters in Muju, Korea. To be located on 570 acres of beautiful old growth woodlands, natural streams and valleys, the Park and associated building complexes are to bec..
Architects: Slade Architecture Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox SITE STRATEGY The masterplan proposes an exhibit of very large houses each encircled by a public footpath juxtaposing two conflicting desires: priva..
toronto based photographer ian pool imagines the lives of superheroes if they were average people. in comic books and movies, superheroes are extraordinary people. they save lives and have super powers that allow them to do almost anything. that being said, it may be difficult to imagine what batman would do on a tuesday night, or how the incredible hulk walks his dog. these questions and more a..
Architecture photographer Leonardo Finotti shared with us a photo set for the JH House (Sao Paulo, 2008) by brazilian architects Bernardes + Jacobsen. I really like the intermediate spaces, putting several common spaces on semi covered outside areas. from archdaily