A new house, guesthouse, and garage form a community of buildings on a rural hilltop site, evoking a rural homestead. The buildings define a formal courtyard that opens to specific views of the Berkshire and Catskill Mountains. Copper, wood, and bluestone are the primary materials, deployed to affect a minimal and sculptural vocabulary. The buildings are embedded to varying degree within the roc..
Architect: Harald Opitz Location: Camino a Ensenada, Puerto Varas, Chile Contractor: Inmobiliaria Cielos del Sur Ltda Structure Engineer: Jose Torres Herrera Site Area: 14.000 sqm Constructed Area: 1.500 sqm Project Year: 2006 Construction year: 2007-2008 Materials: Wood, Steel & Concrete Photographs: Francisco Negroni Young chilean architect Harald Opitz shared with us this impressive hotel lo..
The Polish design studio MOWO have created the Bufa chair. Inspired by attire and tailoring detail: puff and pleat. An attempt to find furniture pattern and a search of the new solution to replace the traditional upholstery. With the pull of the string on both sides, the proper pattern makes it possible to transform the two-dimensional felt into a spacial shape. The pleated material creates a sp..
Architects: White arkitekter AB Location:Kastrup, Denmark Landscape:White arkitekter AB Engineering:NIRAS Rådgivende ingeniører og Planlæggere A/S Contractor:Københavns Dykkerentreprise A/S Construction year: 2004 Photographs: Ole Haupt, White Arkitekter, Erco Lighting, Åke E:son Lindman Reaching out into the Øresund from Kastrup Strandpark in Kastrup, Kastrup Sea Bath forms a living and integra..
Australian studio b.e. Architecture have completed a house in Melbourne clad in basalt slabs of varying size and thickness. The house, 57 Tivoli Road, is located on a sloping corner plot and has internal courtyards. A six metre-long window in the living room slides open over views of the city. The interior is primarily fitted out in wood, with a staircase twisting through the space and guest bed..
Ball State University’s i.M.A.D.E. Throughout the Spring semester of 2009 as well as this summer, CASE had the opportunity to collaborate with the students from Ball State University’s i.M.A.D.E (Center for digital fabrication) on their Inconvenient Studio. One of the more impressive parts about this program, and this group, is the breadth of work that they have been able to produce and to what ..
Architects: IwamotoScott Location: North Beach, San Francisco, CA, USA Principals in Charge: Lisa Iwamoto & Craig Scott Collaborators: Dan Sullivan & Blake Altshuler Diagrams: Ryan Gollenberg Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Craig Scott PS House offers a way of densifying the inner block of an already fairly dense San Francisco neighborhood (North Beach), while bringing an unexpected degree of sp..
Architect: McBride Charles Ryan - Rob McBride & Debbie-Lyn Ryan Location: Melbourne, Australia Project year: 2007 Photographs: Trevor Mein This is a new 4 storey building located in a largely pedestrian lane (Ridgway place) at the East end of Melbourne’s CBD. Dominant in the lane is the historic Melbourne Club wall and the gigantic plane trees emanating from the Melbourne Club Garden which ar..
Designer Fabio Novembre has belatedly sent us these images of Insegna Anche a Me la Liberta delle Rondine, a retrospective exhibition of his work at Rotonda di via Besana in Milan, which ended last month. The exhibition title means ‘Teach me too the freedom of swallows’. Open from 11 April to 8 June, the exhibition was designed by Peter Bottazzi and curated by Beppe Finessi.
Architects: Murtinho y Asociados Arquitectos Location: Calle Holanda Nº64, Providencia, Santiago, Chile Client: Los Héroes Caja Compensación Architect in Charge: Santiago Raby Pinto Collaborators: Miguel Angel Contreras Ch. y Alejandra López Contractor: ALTIUS Refurbishment Area: 3.350 sqm Photographs: Pedro Mutis Johnson CONTEXT The challenge was the rehabilitation of a ‘70s building for a new ..