Architects: Luis Izquierdo, Antonia Lehmann, Mauricio Leniz y Mirene Elton Structural engineering: Luis Soler P. y Asociados Main contractor: Constructora Marchetti Ltda. Location: Espoz 3125 esquina Narciso Goycolea, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile Plot area: 2240m2 Built area: 2016.45m2 Project: 2007 Construction: 2008 from izquierdolehmann
Architects: Luis Izquierdo W., Antonia Lehmann S.B. Structural engineering: Luis Soler P. y asociados Main contractor: M3 Location: Lo Curro, Santiago, Chile. Plot area: 2834 m2 Built area: 585.3 m2 Project: 2006 Construction: 2007 / 2008 from izquierdolehmann
Architects: Izquierdo Lehmann - Luis Izquierdo W., Antonia Lehmann S.B. Location: Punta Caracoles, IV Region, Chile Structural Engineering: Luis Soler P. y Asociados Services: Kenneth Page (PVT) Constructed Area: 350 sqm Project Year: 2005 Construction Year: 2006-2007 Main Materials: Concrete, Stone,Glass Photographs: Izquierdo Lehman from archdaily
This remarkable residential property is a prime example of how the Dutch landscape is being transformed. Historic farmhouses are making way for new, artificial ones or abstract dwellings. The land itself is increasingly being used for recreational purposes rather than for agriculture. Where, in the past, houses were screened from their surroundings, a good view is now regarded as an attractive f..
Rojkind Arquitectos and Copenhagen architects BIG have won a competition to design a museum overlooking Mexico City. The cross-shaped museum will occupy a hillside above the city and incorporate a large viewing platform on the roof. Cantilevered exhibition spaces provide shade for the social spaces beneath. Packaging, restoration and storage areas will also be open to visitors. The information b..
Here’s another project from FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects who designed the House of Vision in our previous story: this time, House of Inclusion in Shiga, Japan. The residence includes a courtyard sheltered from the street by a high wall. Photographs by Takumi Ot. Here’s some text from the architect: – House of inclusion This house, located in a new residential area, is for a 30-something couple..
House of Vision is a private home in Shiga, Japan by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects that is designed to shield the client from neighbours. Completed last year, the house features largely blank exterior elevations but has large windows looking onto an enclosed central courtyard. Photographs are by Takumi Ota. Here’s some info from the architects: – House of vision The lot is located at the foot o..
Traditional materials of brick, concrete, limestone, steel, and zinc are used to form a non-traditional house on a typical lot on the north side of Chicago. The house further resists city conventions by uniting the front yard with the back with visual transparency, where sheets of glass more than ten feet high and fourteen feet wide terminate an open plan of sixty-three feet in length on the fir..
Switzerland based HHF architects recently have finished an invited project study for an industrial building in switzerland, it is a teaching and information center for the swiss sanitary supplier “Nussbaum“. Architects: HHF architects Project: Invited project study for an information- and trainingcenter Location: Olten, Switzerland Function: Information and Training center Footprint: 1200 m2 Tot..
Barcelona-based H Arquitectes have completed School Gym 704 in Barberà del Vallès, Spain. Commissioned by the city council of Barberà del Vallès, School Gym 704 is a prefabricated, prism shaped building with a sloping roof. The gym’s design includes a porch which provides access to the changing rooms and an outdoor running track for the children’s education centre. The structure of the gym is ma..
