A house designed for a particular family, even when one always creates a project suitable to anyone. Tending to be more feminine than masculine, the house embraces a 50-year-old fruit tree (a Jabuticabeira) at the center of the plot. It shapes a small courtyard towards which every room opens: a porch, a living room, a dining […]
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The new garden pavilion completes the historic renovation of a small villa built by the important Swiss architect Hans Bernoulli. The new structure is slightly sunken into the garden, offers a large terrace and a music room and builds a strong contrast to the beautiful house built in the early 1900’s.
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Like a grand concrete monolith being elevated out from the steep hillside, Guna House in Llacolen, Chile, is a private residence designed by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen from architecture studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Completed in 2014, the narrow plot of land of this 410 square meter home and its location between a wood […]
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Descripción de los arquitectos. La casa MeMo implantada en un terreno en San Isidro, zona norte de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, surge con la premisa de una clienta apasionada por el paisajismo con fuerte convicción sobre la sustentabilidad y el cuidado del medio ambiente de realizar un proyecto en un lote entre medianeras […]
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House Perdrizet (1955-57) in Champigny-sur-Marne, France, by Claude Parent
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Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture AB. Villa Nyberg. Borlänge, Sweden. photos: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture AB
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The project is a renovation-extension of a villa of two screenwriters and their children located in Shunyi, Beijing. The initial client’s requirements were a volumetric expansion to accommodate new programs such as a double-height studio, roof terraces, an exterior projection space, a tea room and the transformation of the existing garden. The original structure, composed […]
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Quebec is known worldwide for its picturesque landscapes and natural beauty – and along the horizon a new technology is disrupting how North Americans are building their homes. At the forefront of high-performance custom homes lies BONE Structure®, a company devoted to designing and building energy efficient steel structure homes. Situated two hours northwest […]
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Clinicaurbana – Casa Gianìn (historic house renovation and addition), Zoldo Alto 2015.
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lyon st just (1984-85) Vouloir utilser une construction issue du monde industriel pour un usage domestique n’est certes pas une idée nouvelle. Pourtant les exemples de réalisation sont rares. L’originalité de notre réalisation provient d’une part du fait qu’il ne s’agit pas de l’utilisation de composants industriels assemblés mais d’un produit complet, et d’autre part, […]
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The Tea House, located in the backyard of Archi-Union’s J-office, is constructed from the salvaged parts of the original warehouse’s collapsed roof. The site was extremely constricted with walls on three sides, and with only one side facing towards an open space that contains a pool. The space was further restricted by a mature tree. […]
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A concrete volume projects from the top of a sand dune to form the upper level of this holiday home on the Argentinian coastline by local architect Luciano Kruk (+ slideshow).
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Japan Architect Mar 1989, 12 “This is a house. A house for/like a thief, stealing space from the city.”
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Often when we are young, our childhood dreams are constructed after the places we see on TV or in pop culture. Barbie houses, castles, or batcaves all serve as inspiration for our pillow forts. But it appears the late radio and television personality Dick Clark has taken that to another level. He and his wife […]
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