Posts Tagged ‘Architecture’
Underground House Design in the Greek Isles
By Ty Wenzel • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Architecture
What a cool example of creative architecture designed for fashion and function! This gorgeous underground house design by Deca Architecture is built right into the idyllic landscape of the Cycladic Islands in Greece. The hill house was designed to withstand the windy climate off the Aegean Sea. It was carved into the earth with just [...]
Innovative Forest Architecture enables constant contact with the forest!
By Ty Wenzel • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Featured
When Netherlands architecture firm Grosfeld van der Velde Architecten designed this striking forest home in Teteringen, near Breda, they took into account some important must-haves for the homeowners, namely an eco house design. The move toward sustainable architectural design sets the tone for this project among the trees; a wood clad house that is “green” [...]
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By Ty Wenzel • Oct 4th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Interiors Exteriors
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Sustainable Residential Architecture Surpasses LEED and Style Standards
By Ty Wenzel • Aug 10th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Featured
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Architect Robert M. Cain has wearing his Green thinking cap when he came up with this fabulous, sustainable residential architecture design in Decatur, Georgia. The modern two-storey, 2,800-sq.-ft. RainShine House was named for its innovative design feature, a “butterfly” roof suspended over continuous clerestories that allow for sun-drenched interiors. This unique feature’s inverted winged [...]
Dezeen’s top ten: schools
By Ty Wenzel • Jul 19th, 2009 • Category: Interiors Exteriors
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Dezeen’s top ten: this month’s top ten features our most-viewed Dezeen stories about projects for education, from kindergartens to universities and classrooms to sports halls. (more…)
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Out of the Box by Cadence
By Ty Wenzel • Jul 19th, 2009 • Category: Interiors Exteriors
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Indian architecture firm Cadence have completed a residence in Bangalore, India, which features cast-concrete external walls decorated with perforations. (more…)
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Raffles City Hangzhou by UNStudio
By Ty Wenzel • Jul 19th, 2009 • Category: Interiors Exteriors
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Dutch architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio has unveiled plans for a 60-storey building with two towers in Hangzhou, China. (more…)
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Dorobanti Tower by Zaha Hadid Architects
By Ty Wenzel • Jul 19th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Interiors Exteriors
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Zaha Hadid Architects have designed a high-rise building for the center of Bucharest, Romania, which has a structural, lattice façade. (more…)
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The Highgate Hill Residence by Richard Kirk Architects
By Ty Wenzel • Jul 14th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Interiors Exteriors, Style Trend Forcasting
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Oh my. This is what I called fabulous.ness. By Richard Kirk Architects. More pictures here.
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Book Review: Yes is More
By Ty Wenzel • Jun 2nd, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Books & Periodicals
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Yes is More by Bjarke Ingels Group
DAC, 2009
Paperback, 400 pages
The monograph has become a fairly predictable format for architecture books, varying, it seems, only in terms of how much content is presented and what the page looks like. Collecting photographs of finished buildings, renderings of unbuilt or soon-to-be-built projects, conventional architectural drawings, descriptive [...]
Marmol Radziner + Associates
By Ty Wenzel • Apr 17th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Books & Periodicals
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We’ve featured a few articles about MR+A’s work in the past, from furniture to prefab, so I was pretty stoked to open the mailbox today and find a copy of Princeton Architectural Press’ recent book, Marmol Radziner + Associates: Between Architecture and Construction. Published in July 2008, this book runs the gamut of MR+A’s [...]
Swiss Ski Chalet Designs Meets Modern Architecture
By Ty Wenzel • Mar 28th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Interiors Exteriors, Style Trend Forcasting
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It’s been a while since I’ve fully enjoyed myself during a New Year’s Eve celebration. Since I live in a young area of the city and work at a company filled with energetic twenty-somethings, there’s always been talk of the latest open bar special or New Year’s party. Don’t get me wrong – [...]
Boston’s Boylston St. Apple Store
By Ty Wenzel • Mar 28th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Style Trend Forcasting
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Unfortunately my iPod has started to die after three years (is that normal?). It’s come to the point where it just won’t hold the charge for more than 15 minutes and I’ve already been faced with the fearful battery/lightning symbol across my screen. I think I felt even worse when I pulled it [...]
Guest Blogger, Kelly Kilpatrick
By Ty Wenzel • Feb 4th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Interiors Exteriors
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Modern Furniture Design – A Brief History
Near the end of the nineteenth century, many changes were transpiring the world over. Social change, new inventions, and new philosophies helped pave the way for innovations in many different fields, among them furniture design. These new methods [...]
La Vardera Architecture
By Ty Wenzel • Feb 4th, 2009 • Category: Architecture
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Gregory La Vardera is an Architect located in Merchantville, NJ. He has been developing plans for modern homes that have something for everyone. There are three great things about his work. You buy plans for houses that are already designed, saving a great deal of money while still having the creative design of [...]
Queens Builds
By Ty Wenzel • Jan 29th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Featured
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On the heels of 2007’s opening of the administrative/visitor center at Queens Botanical Garden, the borough I call home has a string of high-profile public projects in the works, many under construction. Below are some details.
[Museum of the Moving Image by Thomas Leeser | image source]
One of the borough’s cultural gems is the [...]
When Blobs Disappear
By Ty Wenzel • Jan 29th, 2009 • Category: Architecture
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The rear section of the Juan Valdez Flagship on 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan used to look like this:
[photograph by Paul Warchol]
When I visited the 2004 storefront designed by Hariri & Hariri Architecture for first time two years ago that was the case. The undulating walls gave the space character, but they also [...]
House Tour: Farnsworth House
By Ty Wenzel • Jan 13th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Featured, Flickr Files, Home & Room Tours
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Charles Pictet Architecte
By Ty Wenzel • Jan 3rd, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Style Trend Forcasting
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Charles Pictet Architecte designed this house in Frontenex, France as an addition to an original building. I love how the new structure is visually integrated into the old through the use of concrete.
Personally, the interiors are a little too stark for me to imagine living in them, but it is a beautiful project!
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Alphaville – W-Window House
By Ty Wenzel • Jan 3rd, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Style Trend Forcasting
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The W-Window House is the home of the architecture duo, Kentaro Takeguchi and Asako Yamamoto of Alphaville. The architects were interested in blurring the distinction between commercial and residential, as can be seen in several elements – the concrete floors on the entry level, the corrugated metal facade, and the relative blankness of the [...]
Eco Cabin, Bundeena, Australia
By Ty Wenzel • Jan 3rd, 2009 • Category: Green Me Baby!, Interiors Exteriors, Style Trend Forcasting
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Marmol Radziner prefab homes
By Ty Wenzel • Jan 3rd, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Interiors Exteriors, Style Trend Forcasting
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garden and sea
By Ty Wenzel • Oct 25th, 2008 • Category: Interiors Exteriors, Style Trend Forcasting
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Clare Cousins Architects
By Ty Wenzel • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Interiors Exteriors
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Wonderful modern homes designed by Melbourne architectural and interior design studio Clare Cousins Architects. I love the use of unusual materials and colour particularly the turquoise colour blocking. These are great examples of integration of internal spaces with the outdoors, so important in climates like Australia’s. It’s all to do with sympathetic orientation, materials [...]
PAPER HOUSE BY LI XIANGGANG
By Ty Wenzel • Oct 20th, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Green Me Baby!, Style Trend Forcasting
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Chinese architect Li Xianggang’s latest project is a house made out of paper tubes, paper boxes, and adhesive tape. Awesome.
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20 Grafton Crescent
By Ty Wenzel • Oct 14th, 2008 • Category: Architecture
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Richard Shaw at the Crawford Partnership has just completed a project to extend a house in Camden, London in the UK. The project was to replace an existing dilapidated small lean-to rear extension with a new glass extension at ground floor level and a new timber and glass pod addition accessed off the existing [...]
Prefab For The Kids
By Ty Wenzel • Oct 3rd, 2008 • Category: Gadget Garage, Product & Merch
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These are fun modern structures for the kids to play with that wont break the bank the way some modern play structures will. They even have furniture to finish off the home.
Miniature dollhouse Family Four/Brunettes 1:12 Modern
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The Molting City
By Ty Wenzel • Sep 20th, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Books & Periodicals
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In the September 15 issue of New York Magazine, Justin Davidson admirably tackles the building boom of the last 15 years, looking at how buildings have transformed their immediate context. “The Glass Stampede” is a lengthy article (one I’ve yet to tackle, so I can’t comment at length on the text here) with [...]
Houses To Die For
By Ty Wenzel • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Architecture
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Well it seems my blog block may have almost passed…phew! Thanks for all of your encouraging comments!! Look at these beautiful old houses captured by Erika over at Urban Grace. She and her friend Annmarie recently packed the kids in the van and went for a drive around Boston to ’stalk’ some [...]
The house that flows
By Ty Wenzel • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Green Me Baby!, Interiors Exteriors
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Forget what you thought you knew about architecture, because this house will blow your mind; the layout of the house, the views and the sheer architectural artistry and imagination which made it come to life.
The Wilkinson Residence, designed by architect Robert Harvey Oshatz, is a one of a kind piece of architectural art. Located [...]
House in Nakadai1
By Ty Wenzel • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Style Trend Forcasting
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Atelier in Tsurumi
By Ty Wenzel • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Interiors Exteriors, Style Trend Forcasting
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Neil M. Denari
By Ty Wenzel • Aug 28th, 2008 • Category: Architecture
I like the fluid lines and the openness of Neil M. Denari’s renovation of the Alan-Voo House, which was extended by 1000 sq. ft.
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Urban Nomad: Smallest Portable Homes 2008 Email from 8.12.08
By Ty Wenzel • Aug 19th, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Interiors Exteriors
The Micro Compact Home
When you think about getting away, you usually think about a tent and boots or a suitcase and a hotel room, but there are a few enterprising folks who have really pioneered the art of nomadic living, urban or otherwise, with a high degree of comfort. Here then is my list [...]
Greening the Hamptons
By Ty Wenzel • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Green Me Baby!, Interiors Exteriors, Style Trend Forcasting
Laurie Lambrecht for The New York Times
Published: 20080731
A look inside the fifth annual Idea House, a show house presented by Hamptons Cottages and Gardens magazine.
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Green Architecture: A Guide to Sustainable Design by Mi
