New York-based architectural firm Morris Sato Studio has designed the YN-13 House located in Shelter Island. The house was organized on its site as three independent volumes (Main, guest house and garage) enclosing a swimming pool and a courtyard, conceived as a buoyant mass and inspired by historic Japanese residential structures in Kyoto and Kanazawa, [...]

Denmark-based Hvidt Arkitekter has completed the new headquarters for the American software company ‘ESRI’ (Environmental Systems Research Institute) located in California, USA. + Project description courtesy of Hvidt Arkitekter HVIDT ARKITEKTER BEHIND NEW HEADQUARTERS FOR ESRI – CALIFORNIA, USA The new headquarters of the American software company ’ESRI’ in Redlands, east of Los Angeles, California, has been [...]

Florida-based Evoke Design recently has completed the Tooth Tales – Pediatric Dental Office located in Miramar, Florida. The project begins to rethink the dental typology and creates a more playful and fresh environment that appeals to the imagination and the senses of both the parents and kids alike. Evoke Design – Daren Chen + Project Narrative courtesy of [...]

American architect Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has designed the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center located in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. The center was organized as an U-shape to form a central courtyard, the roof tilts upward and away from the courtyard, its jagged edges celebrating the peaks of the Teton Range beyond. + Project description [...]

In Chicago, Krueck & Sexton Architects created Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies to accommodate 400-seat multi-use theater, college classrooms, library, permanent and temporary exhibition space. The faceted, folding wall of glass is an expression of light, both metaphorical and actual, which is fundamental to Jewish religious and intellectual traditions. + Design statement by Krueck & Sexton [...]

Brininstool + Lynch has designed the Claremont House located in Chicago, Illinois. Due to its long lot site, the house was designed with the full width of window walls at both front and back sides of the house to maximize the penetration of the natural daylighting into the interior spaces, and also to create a [...]

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 + [...]

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 [...]

The Habitat 15 by Los Angeles-based Predock Frane architects is a four story apartment building which features the rhythmic openings on the elevation. The project is deceptively simple – the rectangular exterior forms reveal an interior of multi-story interlocking and spatially dynamic volumes. Predock Frane architects + Project description courtesy of Predock Frane Architects The Habitat 15 project is [...]

Los Angeles-based Predock Frane architects has designed the Twin Houses located in the Palisades, a hilly region between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Monica Mountains. The project consists of two twin houses sited adjacent to each other on a steep slope above a seasonal watershed. In this project we were interested in exploring the intersection [...]

Designed by Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza. The high transparency of living and dining spaces in Olnick Spanu House are planned on the top of the cement box to get the best view over the landscape, while giving a sense of privacy to the sleeping zone in the solid cement box which is anchored [...]

UNStudio’s New Amsterdam Pavilion unveiled today in Battery Park, New York. The New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion, commissioned by the Battery Conservancy, is a gift from the Netherlands to New York in honour of 400 years of friendship. + Press release courtesy of UNStudio September 9, 2009, NEW YORK, NY Today the official unveiling ceremony of Ben van [...]

New York-based Studio ST Architects has designed a Zero Energy Home - Slice House located in Atlanta, Georgia. The Slice House is an extruded box from which slices were cut to reduce the square footage and create an intelligent and beautiful house. Cuts into the basic form reveal its shape and functions. A slice in [...]

Peter Pran & Jonathan Ward of NBBJ recently has completed the Akerselva Atrium mixed-used building located along the Akerselva/Aker River in Oslo, Norway. The project composed of two distinct architectural forms split by the central lift core with a dramatic striking color glass atrium, where the entrance of the project is defined. One part of [...]