Architects: XTEN Architecture Location: Manhattan Beach, California, USA Principals: Monika Haefelfinger & Austin Kelly, AIA Client: Jennifer & Nick Hall Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Art Gray Photography The Surfhouse appears as an abstract block of ebonized cedar a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean in Hermosa Beach. The site is very small. While typical lots in the area measure 120′ x 40′, t..
The concept for Line of Work is inspired by the “ripple effect” or more specifically the notion that single elements working together can become more than the sum of their parts. The sculpture is composed of a changing series of individual elements that together create a giant wave-form that reaches out towards the sea. The elements grow in both size and reach along the edge of a pedestrian path..
Architects: x Architekten Location: Ebelsberg, Austria Client: Mrs. and Mr. Seebacher Construction: Mixed Structure Constructed Area: 215 sqm Project Year: 2004-2007 Photographs: Max Nirnberger Task: The existing building from the 1920s proved itself valuable to the client mainly due to the surrounding garden landscape. Nevertheless, there was the aim to create more space and living quality whic..
The site is located in Kanagawa Prefecture on a mountainside that overviews a sea and a city. The client couple, who are friends of mine, and I visited there, when the project was initiated. Walking around in the pre-project site, where too many tall trees stand on, views changed variously, because of the slanted land’s height differences. The experience was comparable to a pleasure of wandering..
The architects at the Zurich based Smolenicky & Partners, designed the Tamina Thermal Baths for the Grand Resort in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. COMPETITION The project for the Tamina thermal baths is the result of a two-stage competition from 2003. The aim of the first phase of the process was to coordinate the large pending architectural interventions in terms of town planning. Where should the new..
Temporarer Pavillon fur die skulptur projekte munster 2007. Der ?Vorplatz“ des ehem. archaologischen Museums erhalt fur die Zeit der Ausstellung eine temporare Platzgestaltung und einen Pavillon als Unterbringung einiger zentraler Servicebereiche (Infopoint, PDA-Ausgabe, Katalogverkauf und einen thematischen Bookshop). Der geplante Pavillon funktioniert als eine Art ?urbane Weiche“ - ein bewegli..
Architects: Belmont Freeman Architects Location: Atlantic Beach, New York, USA Principal in Charge: Belmont Freeman Project Architect: Devyn Osborne Client: Antoni and Joanna Kowalewski Construction Manager: Anko Contractor Structural Engineer: Ross Dalland, PE Site Area: 7,500 sft Project Area: 3,600 sqf Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Christopher Wesnofske Atlantic Beach is an established beac..
CLIENTS Vakko and Power Media PROGRAM Headquarters for a Turkish fashion house?including offices, showrooms, conference rooms, auditorium, museum, and dining hall?as well as the television studios, radio production facilities, and screening rooms of its media sister-company AREA 5,400 m² (58,000 sf) and 3,700 m² (40,000 sf) COST Confidential STATUS Commenced 2007; under construction; completion ..
Architects: XTEN Architecture Location: Hollywood Hills, California, USA Principals: Monika Haefelfinger & Austin Kelly, AIA Client: Randolph Duke Contractor: Peddicord Construction Interior Area: 418 sqm Total Area: 697 sqm Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Art Gray Photography The Openhouse is embedded into a narrow and sharply sloping property in the Hollywood Hills, a challenging site that led..
Architect: Jager Janssen architecten BNA Design team: Alex Jager, Rogier Janssen, Sanne Braakenburg Location: Blauwestad, Netherlands Client: Michel Dijk & Karin Berrelkamp Gross area: 318 sqm (incl. souterrain) Completion: July 2007 Consultants: Solke Abbring (installations) Contractor: Marcel van der Sluis Photography: Rob de Jong/SAPh, Michiel en karin Dijk House Dijk - Make Room! The facades..