Residential buildings have always been an issue among architects. From on side, you have a developer who wants the best out of his money, usually leaving behind what we think matters - which sometimes does, but most of the times doesn´t… out of several -complex- variables which at the end have to make a project feasible. It´s not that i´m a pesimist. Actually, there are great residential buildin..
Architect of record: Hagy Belzberg, A.I.A. Interior designer: Elizabeth Paige Smith Engineer(s): Structural Dan Echeto Consultant(s) Landscape: Bill Nicholas of Nicholas Budd Dutton Architects Other: Furniture Elizabeth Paige Smith Special Fabrication Spectrum Oak General contractor: Belzberg Architects Photographer Benny Chan (Fotoworks) According to Hagy Belzberg, AIA, principal of Los Angeles..
This villa is located in plot #80 of the ORDOS project. Architects: Rocker-Lange Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project leaders: Ingeborg M. Rocker & Christian J. Lange Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm The project called “Inside Out|Outside In” is part o..
The Cornerstone Arts Building at Colorado College was conceived from the Colorado Arts Initiative (CAI), which began as a series of conversations and brainstorming sessions among faculty in the arts and humanities as a way of living in the creative arts. The goals of the CAI evolved into the creation of a relationship where artists are brought together for the production, presentation and discus..
The journey into the site begins with a spatial contraction where aspens grow denser. The house settles into the site as if becoming displaced strata, inscribed by adjacent origins from the land. Spatial faults and outcroppings are heightened as hidden copper planes refract light, suggesting the landscape’s dynamism by transforming the interior space throughout the passage of the day. A sheltere..
Architects Aboday have completed a holiday home called Villa Paya-Paya in Bali, Indonesia. The two-storey building is arranged around courtyards and surrounded by water of varying depth, which creates a shallow pond at the entrance, jacuzzi and large swimming pool. The building itself consists of a concrete, box-shaped facade with a separate master bedroom, made using traditional wooden construc..
XTEN Architecture have designed Sapphire Gallery, an extension to a house for art collectors in Los Angeles, USA. Cantilevered above the existing 1960’s house, the structure is clad in perforated aluminium to protect the artwork from direct sun but allow views of the gardens beyond. Solar cells are arranged in a similar pattern on the south facade and sloping roof. Radiant heating and cooling sy..
Architect: Smiljan Radic Clarke Location: Los Lirios, Rancagua, Chile Collaborators: Danilo Lazcano, Gonzalo Torres Structural Engineer: Claudio Assar Olguín Technical Inspection: Smiljan Radic Contractor: Eugenio Durán Constructive System: Masonry Project Year: 2005 Construction Year: 2006 Site Area: 1600 sqm Constructed Area: 210 sqm Photographs: Gonzalo Puga These two houses -actually there´s..
Architects: Shuhei Endo Location: Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan Structure System: Suspended Steel Sheet Project year: 2005 Principal use: Public Lavatory Site Area: 580 sqm Constructed Area: 103 sqm Photographs: Shuhei Endo
Architects: KWK PROMES Location: Katowice, Poland Project Architect: Robert Konieczny, Marlena Wolnik Structural Engineer: Jaroslaw Kaminski Design Year: 2000 Construction Year: 2001-2002 Site Area: 3,500 sqm Constructed Area: 330 sqm Photographs: KWK PROMES The building is located on the outskirts of Katowice, near a forest, on land deteriorated by 4th category mining damage, where tectonic fau..