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 ..
Slade Architecture designed the Pup Tent as a contribution to the annual auction for New York’s Design Trust for Public Space, a not-for-profit organization committed to improving New York City’s parks, plazas, streets, and public buildings. This piece was an exploration in materials and fabrication. An invitation from the Design Trust for Public Space to contribute a piece for their Annual Auct..
Thailand’s X2 (pronounced “cross-to”) resorts are about soul, freedom and simplicity. These credos add up to an earthy philosophy that beautifully continues at X2 Koh Samui, on the Hua Thannon beach on the southeastern coast of Koh Samui island. The newly built resort’s 27 villas rest on a largely undeveloped beach surrounded by old tree growth; the buildings’ sleek, horizontally oriented design..
Bark Architects have designed the Marcus Beach House, located on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. The Marcus Beach house celebrates a natural, coastal setting providing its occupants with an inextricable relationship to the landscape and sensitive surrounding environment. The dwelling explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdo..
Middenin de Jordaan in Amsterdam zijn de onderste twee lagen van dit monument uit 1748 getransformeerd tot een woonhuis en is het oude gebouw voorzien van een nieuwe fundering. Alle ruimten staan in open verbinding met elkaar (alleen het toilet is een aparte, afsluitbare ruimte geworden), maar door de indeling in dit relatief diepe grachtenpand en de vele niveauverschillen heeft iedere woonfunct..
Italian designer Giancarlo Zema has created the Bright Woods collection for the Avanzini Group. The limited edition of 120 stools and 60 coffee tables are made from wood and resin with an integrated LED light. from contemporist
This modern tropical bungalow encapsulates the essence of living in the hot and humid climate of Singapore by creating open spaces which encourage natural ventilation and offer residents views to the ocean. The main design concept is to create a house which has close relationship with nature and this is achieved by having a swimming-pool linking the house with the landscape and ultimately visual..
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This project is almost a statement of how to accomplish architecture in Latin-america. The process was so unsteady, that all possible architectural design resources available where exercised to cope with the challenge of this house in the Chilean Central Valley. Everything was in constant change: the program, the surface, building permits, the contractors, even the view! The modus operandi is ra..