Designer: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects, Inc. Location: Marin, CA The site is fifteen acres of wooded grasslands with a ravine running through. The house, a continuous twenty-two-foot-wide two-story bar, bridges the ravine from east to west. from spaceinvading
ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies. We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, please send us a message. Background The clients required a permanent home/office on their small property, located one hour’s drive from A..
Dutch architects Cepezed have designed a wind responsive façade for their office building in Utrecht in collaboration with Ned Kahn Studios. The façade is made of a 300 square metre area of stainless steel mesh which holds thin transparent plastic disks. Wind causes the mesh to vibrate and move the disks which ‘ripple and create intricate patterns in the light’. As the disks move, they catch the..
ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies. In this special series of ShowCase features, we are profiling a single project from each of the eight Architectural League's "Emerging Voices", as profiled in our recent feature 3 Questions for 8 Emerging Voices. We are always accepting nomination..
Architects: Una arquitetos / Cristiane Muniz, Fábio Valentim, Fernanda Barbara e Fernando Viégas Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Collaborators: Ana Paula de Castro, Gabriela Gurgel, Jimmy Liendo, José Carlos Silveira Junior, Luis Eduardo Menezes, Maria Cristina Motta, Sílio de Almeida Structure and Fundation: Stec Engenharia Hydraulic Instalations: Nestor Caiuby Electric Instalations: Pascoal d´Apri..
German practice Kadawittfeldarchitektur have completed a kindergarten in Sighartstein near Salzburg, Austria, clad with metal elements designed to look like blades of grass. This green ornamentation shelters the upper floor of the two-storey building and is made of powder-coated aluminium. The building houses a kindergarten on the ground floor with access to the gardens and floor-to-ceiling wind..
Architects: Vaillo + Irigaray / Antonio Vaillo + Juan Luis Irigaray Location: Huarte, Navarra, Spain Project manager: David Eguinoa, architect Riggers: SIAT Structure: Tadeo Errea - DASEIN Contractor: OBENASA Project year: 2003 Finished year: 2004 Photographs: José Manuel Cutillas The genesis of the project starts from a basic minimum cell, which as the minimal optimal space can be multiplied, a..
Dutch design studio Bloomming have designed a modular system where diamond-shaped components can be individually rotated to vary the amount of light allowed to penetrate. Called Lightfacet, the product can be used as a room divider or window blind. It is produced in the Netherlands and made of an injection-moulded, polycarbonate-ABS blend and stainless steel. Its “smart click” modular constructi..
Architects: Rodrigo Duque Motta / Rafael Hevia García-Huidobro Location: Talca, Chile Client: Gran Casino y Hotel de Talca Collaborators: Cristóbal Martínez / Catalina Ventura Structural Engineer: Eduardo Valenzuela Interior Design: Francisca Varela Lighting Design: Ramón López / Matías López Technical Inspection: José Tomás Vargas Contractor: Inarco Constructed Area: 15.000 sqm Project year: 20..
The new Dublin Veterans Park (in Dublin, Ohio) was awarded to PLANT after an invited international two-stage competition. Our project, entitled The Grounds of Remembrance, is organized into a Walk, Loggia, and Grove, all surrounding an historical 1840s cemetery. Together they define the limits of the grounds and guide movement through the site on days of significance, including Memorial Day and ..
