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Architects: Christian Pottgiesser - architecturespossibles (Paris) Location: Paris, France Client: private Design Team: Christian Pottgiesser (architect) , Alejandro Ratier (designer), Pascale Pottgiesser (artist) Engineer: Joël Betito Assistant: Dr. Florian Hertweck Furniture design: arch. Raphael Budin (low table + dining table) Contractors: ERCN (main construction), Carrières du Bassin Parisi..
The house is hided behind a harmonious sculptural set of curved walls made of stone dark granite and marble travertino that seem to emerge from a big water plate arranged in the house entry. In addition to the beauty of this structure, it offers a high grade of privacy and tact between the exterior (street) and the house. Other more, this structure goes to the back part, as a front, where is a n..
A-cero Architects have sent us a house in Galicia, Spain that they have designed. The house is located on a 2.000m2 plot presenting a strong slope. The site is delimited by the access road on the East, North and Northwest sides, and by a cliff on the West border, a natural balcony with great views over A Corunna’s coast. The form of the building that evolves starting from these constraints consi..
Architects: Rangr Studio Location: Cabrera, Dominican Republic Design Team: Jasmit Singh Rangr, Eivind Karlsen, Josh Weiselberg Construction: Paradise Investments, Rolando Widman Project Area: 1,000 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Hilary Ferris White A New York based client commissioned Rangr Studio to design a Caribbean get-away large enough to accommodate his family and groups of friends. ..
Architects: 3XN Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Client: Carlsberg Ejendomme Engineering: Rambøll Project Area: 10,000 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Adam Mørk Danish law firm Horten wanted their new headquarters to present itself in a contemporary as well as classical and solid way. Our solution was to design a modern office with a new interpretation of the classical stone-clad facade. Inside..
In 2006, with its centennial approaching, St. Albans School, a private boys’ school founded in 1909, decided to embark upon its first new construction project in nearly 30 years. The institution hired Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) to complete a 25,000-square-foot expansion and 30,00-square-foot of renovations to provide a student center, new classrooms, faculty offices, library and auditorium..
A-cero Architects have sent us photos of a house they designed in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid. The balance on which rest the three principles defining this construction, beauty, firmness and utility give us the key to confront its forcefulness, which emerges as a great sculptural work. It is a plastic reality: the singularity of the house defines a researching purpose that places value on aesthet..
Paris architects Laetitia Delubac and Christian Félix have completed a holiday home and guest house in Siwa, Egypt. Called Ecolodge and situated overlooking the desert, the building is constructed from locally-available materials including mud, sun-fired bricks, palm wood, reeds and stone. The walls are made of a traditional local building material called kershef that consists of mud, sand and ..
Architects: Max Pritchard Architect Location: Kangaroo Island, SA, Australia Engineering Consultant: Engineers Pocius & Associates Project year: 2008 Project Area: 1,548 sqm Photographs: Sam Noonan & George Apostolidis Sam noonan - Copyrighted 2009-05-6422-06-Southern Ocean Lodge-George Apostolidis Sam noonan - Copyrighted Sam noonan - Copyrighted Southern Ocean Lodge is being described as Austr..
