Japanese Toru sākumā has designed a stylish house with a wooden and plastered facade. The house is a one-family house and has beautiful graphics properties, and a well balanced color composition. The warm dark wood gives a delicate contrast to the white plastered facade. Normally in Denmark you place the windows near the facde, but in this case they are withdrawn from the facade which gives a ni..
Architect: Kiyonobu Nakagame & Midori Omori Structural Engineer: S.FORM structural design office Contractor: Kikushima Co.Ltd Structure: Reinforced Concrete Partialy Steel Structure, 3 stories Photographs: Katsuhisa KIDA Description The house is located in the urbanized area in a suburb near downtown Yokohama city, the Japan’s second largest city. After walking though the small shopping district..
Architect: Kiyonobu Nakagame Architect and Associates Structural Engineer: Structural Environment Contractor:Kanesho Photographs: Structure: Wood structure (partly steel structure), 2 stories Description The house sits right across the street from the park that has relatively large open space. The client requested us to design a house that as if it had a one big room containing bedroom and even ..
Kiyonobu Nakagame & Associates designed a villa on the Boso Peninsula, east of Tokyo. Even though the residence is less that two hours from the city, the natural setting surrounding the home could not be any more different from the chaotic streets of the downtown Tokyo area. The secluded setting allows the home to take full advantage of the landscape and provide a great space for relaxation. The..
Andrés Remy Architects have sent us photos of the RM House they’ve designed. The home is located on the outskirts or Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was designed for a young couple and their two kids. from contemporist
Hong Kong architects Cheungvogl have designed two identical houses to be built side by side in Tokyo, Japan. Each house will have a long, thin courtyard planted with a single tree. Made of rough concrete and aged timber, both buildings have smaller structures with pitched roofs perched on top. Here’s some more information from Cheungvog – 2 houses in Tokyo, cheungvogl Looking out, seeing people ..
Architects: Blank Studio Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA Structural Engineer: BDA Engineers Landscape Design: DBLD Electrical Engineer: Tony Woo Engineering Mechanical + Plumbing: Kunka Engineering Civil + Solis: Fugro South General Contractor: 180 Degrees Constructed Area: 209 sqm Project year: 2006 Photography: Bill Timmerman The Xeros project is sited within a late 1950’s era neighborhood where th..
Architect: SPG Architects Location: Kechum, Idaho, USA Partner in Charge: Caroline N. Sidnam Project Team: Sandra Aranguren-Langston & William Petrone Contractor: Englemann Inc. Structural Engineering: Purdy & Associates Constructed Area: 558 sqm Project Year: 2005 Photographs: Tim Brown This 6,000 square foot vacation home is located in the high desert of central Idaho. A 5-Bedroom house with a..
TSC Architects have completed a 1,180 square ft single family residence in Ichinomiya City, Japan. The two story home is constructed primarily from reinforced concrete. The materiality gives a strong character to the residential design as the concrete creates a harsh and bold exterior. The architects do not attempt to soften that effect as the concrete stays exposed throughout the interiors. Sli..
This project to us is a platform to establish a critical dialogue within our built environment; to raise questions as much as it is to finding solutions. The project is a critique on our cultural attitudes and how we determine them. A critique on what we consider to be of heritage significance and how to narrate such ideas in a critical and contemporary manner. This once vacant site is nestled a..