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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand, Landscape architecture, Steel, Timber, View point, Waterfront architecture
Australian landscape design firm ASPECT Studios has completed the Bondi to Bronte Coast Walk Extension in Calga Reserve & Waverley Cemetery, Sydney NSW Australia. The walk has been designed to traverse the cemetery by elevating the boardwalk above the Eastern cliff tops, this is to minimize the damage to the cemetery monuments and heritage walls [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Arquitectos Anónimos, Minimalism, Poland, Timber
Portugal-based Arquitectos Anónimos has designed the FFAT House located in Vila Nova Gaia, Portugal. two criteria led to the final solution: on the one hand, by using the urban plan statutory regulations restricting the perimeter and the possible location of the building; and on the other hand by manipulation of the interior space in relation [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Arquitectos Anónimos, Minimalism, Poland, Stone, Timber, Wood
The NG House in St. Tirso, Portugal was designed by Arquitectos Anónimos to sit on the existing stone wall, the house is finished in wooden skin and full glass at both sides, creating a beautiful contrast on the materials. + Architectural concept courtesy of Arquitectos Anónimos Sometimes we dig up foundations only to cover them [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Belgium, Random pattern, School, Timber, VBM architecten
VBM architects has designed the BSBO School in Halmaalweg Sint-Truiden, Belgium. The school was built to take care of mentally handicapped and autistic children, this is the good attempt of the randomized openings on the elevation which is the result of the program to stimulate the visual sensitivity of the children. + Project description courtesy [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Brininstool + Lynch, Cottage, Landscape architecture, Lattice screen, Timber, USA architecture
Coffou Cottage in Michigan City, Indiana, USA, was designed by Chicago-based Brininstool + Lynch with a simple structural system, and was enhanced by a horizontal wood rain screen of Western Red Cedar to privatize the entry sequence on the North, and a wall of operable glass on the South. + Project description courtesy of Brininstool [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Peter Gluck & Partners, Timber, USA architecture
Bar House by New York based architectural firm Peter Gluck & Partners is located on a deep narrow valley, bounded by a river on one edge and a road on the other. The geometrical form designed to give a sense of floating across the valley, while providing the best view to the valley from the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Concrete, Glass, Mexico, Pascal Arquitectos, South American architecture, Stair, Timber
Mexico city based architect Pascal Arquitectos has designed the Galileo Apartments Building located in Polanco, Mexico. The combination of materials are used to achieve the degree of privacy to the residential units, meanwhile creating the variation of pattern on the facade. it’s façade achieves transparency and at the same time privacy by combining different cristal, [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Francisco J. del Corral & Federico Wulff, Spain, Swimming pool, Timber
Spanish architect Francisco J. del Corral del Campo recently has completed the semi-detached house – House Zafiro located in Huetor – Vega, Granada, Spain. Next to the low-lands (Vega) of Granada, still a rural zone with spread constructions, we propose a volumetric disintegration as an answer to the compact volumes of the new housing placed [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Japanese architecture, Miyahara Architect Office, Stair, Timber
Japan-based Miyahara Architect Office has designed the House TTN located in Tokyo , Japan. The house was designed to accommodate three families with independent kitchen unit, bathroom, and toilet. The main spaces are separated by outdoor common decks which also act as buffer zone between families. + Project description courtesy of Miyahara Architect Office, text [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Landscape architecture, Norway, Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Timber
Inside out cabin by Norway-based firm Reiulf Ramstad Architects is located on top of the hill in Hvaler – Norway, overlooking the ocean and the horizon. The house was designed to harmonize with its surrounding, by the choice of the raw material and big glasses, it blurs the edge between inside and outside. + Project [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Europen architecture, Exhibition, Landscape architecture, Library, Museum, Norway, Steven Holl, Timber
Steven Holl Architects has designed the Knut Hamsun Center located in Hamarøy, Norway. This is an historical museum for writer Knut Hamsun including exhibition areas, library, reading room, cafe and 230 seat auditorium. The concept for the museum, “Building as a Body: Battleground of Invisible Forces,” is realized from inside and out. Here the wood [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: China architecture, Landscape architecture, Marco Casagrande, Shelter, Taiwan, Timber
Chen House by Finnish architect Marco Casagrande and Frank Chen. It was built as a shelter for farmers on an old japanese cherry farm in the Datun mountains of North-Taiwan. + Project description courtesy of Marco Casagrande The house is realized on an old Japanese cherry-farm in the Datun – mountains of North-Taiwan. It is [...]
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