Architect: Fearon Hay Architects Location: Closeburn Station, Queenstown, New Zealand Constructed Area: 100 sqm Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Patrick Reynolds The mountain retreat is a small structure set within a high country station occupying 1,300 hectares on the south facing shores of Lake Wakatipu, Central Otago. This region of New Zealand is also known as the Southern Lakes. It is an alp..
Architects: Rojkind Arquitectos Project Principal: Michel Rojkind Project leader: Agustin Pereyra Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project team: Juan Carlos Vidals (3D massing) Alejandro Biguria, Moritz Melchert, Mónica Orozco, Phillip Jung, José Moreno, Laura Rodriguez , Roberto Gil Will, Tere Levy, Alan Rahmane Structural Engineer: Juan Felipe Heredia Design year: 2008 Construction year:..
Casa en la Cala Galiota, Mallorca, Spain, by Joan Riera + Francisco Barceló from dailyicon
Ansicht auf Vorder- und Seitenfront, die röhrenförmige Haushülle besteht aus Betonfertigteilen, die Fassade und Hausrückseite aus Glas und schwarz eloxiertem Aluminium. Ansicht auf die Seitenfront mit Toreinfahrt in die Werkhalle. Der Handlauf, aus einer Stahlplatte gearbeitet, überspannt das insgesamt zehn Meter lange Treppenhaus und geht an seinem oberen Ende fugenlos in die Balustrade über. A..
Who: Junichi Sampei/ A.L.X. (ARCHITECT LABEL Xain) What: Single-family residence (2 adults and a child) w/ dance studio Where: Yokohama, Kanagawa When: May 2008 How: Three-story reinforced concrete construction Site Area: 1,093 square feet Construction Area: 634 square feet Total Floor Area: 1,224 square feet/ 1st Fl - 185 sf., 2nd Fl - 609 sf., 3rd Fl - 430 sf from whatwedoissecret
This contemporary live / work home in Nikko, Tochigi by architect Japanese Katsutoshi Sasaki artfully balances life’s essentials with a modern aesthetic, all in a compact 1,752-sq.-ft. space. This small but sweet structure houses a single-family home and a hair salon, all within its two-storey frame. The home's slanted-pentagon shape is covered by an innovative roof that extends from the top alo..
Bluepoint Sales Pavilion Area: 63 m2 Location: Phuket, Thailand Status: Built Serving as the sales pavilion for the Bluepoint Residences in Phuket, Thailand, this project provides an ideal lounge setting for potential clients to enjoy spectacular views while reviewing development plans and observing construction progress. The pavilion’s expression responds to the powerful contextual site conditi..
image courtesy designboom.com image courtesy designboom.com 완 벽한 하나의 방이다. 욕실, 화장실, 책상, 침대, 심지어 해먹까지, 그 모든 것이 작은 정육면체 속에고스란히 들어 있다. 조 나가사카+스키마타 건축사무소(Jo Nagasaka & Schemata Architecture Office)가 선보인 ‘파코(Paco)’다. image courtesy designboom.com image courtesy designboom.com 가 로, 세로, 높이 3m의 입방체 형태로, 채 1평이 되지 않는 공간이지만, 생활에 필요한 최소한의 요소들이 모두 이 백색 상자 안에 들어 있다. 창문이 없어 갑갑해 보이지만, 개폐식 지붕을 열어 창을 대신할 수 있다. 방 안..
Architects: Aristide Antonas Location: Hydra, Greece Collaborators: Katerina Koutsogianni & Niki Dimopoulou Project year: 2007 Photographs: Aristide Antonas The amphitheater house is built in Hydra, a traditional small town, situated in the homonymous island, close to Piraeus, the port of Athens. The building was built above the ruins of an older quasi-orthogonal foundation wall but none of the ..
Architects: Sander Architects Location: Culver City, California, USA Constructed: 353 sqm Budget: US $500.000 Photographs: Sander Architects Case Study House for the 21st Century? Whitney Sander, principal architect and founder of the firm, has developed a way of creating residential buildings that is both very green and extremely efficient in terms of construction costs. He calls this Hybrid Ho..
