Architects: Corben Architects Location: Sydney, Australia Project Architect: Andrew Vingilis Project Team: Mark Clark, Carlos Correa, Mie Mie Ohn Structural & Hydraulic Engineering: Acor Consultants Interior Designer: Cressida Kennedy, Space Control Design Project Year: 2007-2009 Photographs: Steve Back This project involved converting a large empty warehouse into a florist workshop and a luxuri..
Architects: Studio Guilherme Torres Location: Londrina, Brazil Client: OM Floor Area: 250 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: MCA Studio Guilherme Torres, a young Brazilian architect, was hired by an elderly couple to design a contemporary house in a residential condominium in Londrina, Brazil. The clients requested a house which would be suitable for a couple to live on regular basis as well as..
The Scholl Residence expands on the ‘Case Study’ series of the 1950’s. The steep site possessed challenges with drainage, topography, a small footprint, restrictive easements and was required to address very limiting neighborhood design review standards. Contextually, the area was developed in the 1960’s and surrounding residents were quite resistant to the architectural direction. Although the ..
Robles Architects have sent us a recently completed project, the ISEAMI House in Playa Carate, Península de Osa, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. ISEAMI concept eradicates in the education and awareness of its occupants and its community,that will be capable tolearn about sustainable living thru its spatial living. The house promises a responsible approach to the nature of its location, Peninsula de Osa,..
Architects: Davide Macullo Architects Location: Lumino, Switzerland Project Architects: Davide Macullo, Marco Strozzi Design collaborator: Michele Alberio Works supervision: Ennio Maggetti Structural engineer: Ingenere Andreotti & Partners Building engineer: IFEC Consulenza SA Client: Cristina e Curzio De Gottardi Site area: 497 sqm Building area: 133 sqm Total floor area: 221 sqm Project Year: ..
This is a summer beach house in the resort community of the Pines on Fire Island New York. The typology of the homes in the Pines is recognizable to anyone who has visited an East Coast Shoreline resort town. It is a builder- driven typology reflecting the pragmatism of the inhabitants of these coastal communities. Almost always the “good sense” pragmatism that allows these homes to be built aff..
Architects: 56.02 (Mauricio Bruna-Fruns, Ursula Oliva, Alejandro Gandarillas, Pablo Muñoz) Location: Huentelauquen, Chile Client: Familia Bruna-Fruns Contractor: Arturo Cuevas Project Area: 91 sqm Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Alejandro Gandarillas The B8 House is located 270km north of Santiago, in an area characterized for strong winds that run through the pacific coast. The original scheme ..
Architects: SPBR Arquitetos Location: Ubatuba, Brazil Principal in charge: Angelo Bucci Project team: Ciro Miguel, Juliana Braga, João Paulo Meirelles de Faria, Flávia Parodi Costa, Tatiana Ozzetti, Lucas Nobre, Nilton Suenaga Client: Antônio Carlos Onofre / Regina Silveira Onofre Structural engineer: Ibsen Puleo Uvo Landscape architect: Raul Pereira Lightning design: Ricardo Heder Construction:..
Architects: A-cero, Joaquin Torres Architects Location: Pozuelo de Alorcón, Spain Partner in Charge: Rafael Llamazares Contractor: Helio Construcciones Interiors: A-cero Project Year: 2008-2010 Photographs: Luis H. Segovia The architecture studio A-cero presents one of its last works about a big single-family house. It takes place in the outskirts of Madrid on a 5,000 m2 plot. It is a single sto..
Photographer Edmund Sumner has shared with us his photos of this house by Matharoo Associates in Ahmadabad, India, featuring shutters weighted with concrete balls. Called The House with Balls, the building was designed for the owner of an aquarium shop and houses four huge tanks for breeding fish. It also doubles as a weekend retreat. The long narrow main room is lined on both sides by shutters,..