Venice Architecture Biennale: here are some images of Symbiotic Villa, a house designed by Zaha Hadid for the Next-Gene 20 project in Taiwan. The project has invited ten international architects and ten Taiwanese architects to design houses. More info and images in our earlier story. The project was launched in Venice last week during the architecture biennale.
[ UNSUI ・Location Yamato Kanagawa ・Site area 165.07ｍ2 ・Total floor area 116.24m2 ・Function Private residence ・Structural system Timber 2F ・Finish of construction March 2008 ・Major materials exterior : plasterer finish / interior : tile finish
Masahiro Kinoshita of KINO architects and Yu Sakuma of SAK architects have designed a small house in the suburbs of Tokyo. The four-storey house is shared by the owner and a tenant, who occupies the second floor. Photographs by Hiroyuki Hira. Here’s some more information from the architects: – “Guest House Tokyo” Small piece of land / Fragment of a dream The site is in a suburb of Tokyo. This is..
Tezuka Architects have designed a hillside studio-house in Ushimado, Japan. The house has a total floor area of 152 square metres. Photographs are by Katsuhisa Kida. Lighting design by Masahide Kakudate Lighting Architect & Associates. Construction by Fujiki Koumuten.
Capital Hill Residence by Zaha Hadid Architects Here are new images of Capital Hill Residence, a private house in Barvikha Forest close to Moscow, Russia by Zaha Hadid Architects. The project, which is currently under construction, will be shown in the Russia Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale from 12 September - 23 November as part of a showcase of work by Russian and foreign architec..
Kew House Melbourne, Australia Jackson Clements Burrows Architects By Ingrid Spencer No one told Jackson Clements Burrows Architects they weren’t supposed to play with stacking blocks on a tennis court—and the Australian firm’s clients are glad. Before the Kew House, in Victoria, Australia, came to be, the clients, family friends with firm principal Tim Jackson, came to the architect with an int..
Architects: Branimir Medic & Pero Puljiz, de Architekten Cie Location: Haaksberger, Netherlands Project Team: M. de Jong, H. Hammink, R. Lambrechts, S. Moerman, S. Oehlers, J. Metz, D. Scholten Construction Year: 2005-2006 Contractor: Klein-Poelhuis BV, Haaksberger Client: Meindersma Family Constructed Area: 400 sqm Photographs: Christian Richters, Your Captain Luchtfotografie Villa Meindersma s..
Feldbalz is a new home overlooking Lake Zurich designed by Swiss architect Gus Wüstemann. The three-storey house includes space for children on the ground floor, which leads to the garden, family living rooms on the first floor and the parents’ rooms at the top of the house. A concrete path connects the garden with the house, bordering a swimming pool. Photographs by Bruno Helbing. See Wüstemann..
Chatou by h2o architectes Chatou by Paris-based h2o architectes is a garden pavilion where the furniture forms the entire interior. Arranged on four split levels, the 12m² building is intended for a teenager to live within the garden of the family home. Made from silver birch plywood, the furniture allows for sleeping, living, studying and washing. Chatou This little building, located in the own..
