Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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

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Published: 20080731
A look inside the fifth annual Idea House, a show house presented by Hamptons Cottages and Gardens magazine.
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Private House in Barcelos, Portugal by Rui Grazina

Private House in Barcelos Portugal by Rui Grazina

The Private House is a simple design of architecture that designed by architects Rui Grazina in Barcelos, Portugal. The plot has an area of 3,380 sq m, part of which is located in a green, protected area. The house has 304 sq m total area, and a gross building area of 288 sq m. The design for its footprint has been based on the articulation between the existing alignments and the new, proposed access road, which enables both car and foot access. Given the context, the objective was to turn the living spaces to the east, considering this is where the most interesting visual points are and to make rooms face south due to the quality of sun exposure, privacy and relationship with the existing topography. Read more »

November 1st, 2009 In Home Design

IOC/IAKS Award 2009 for Galzigbahn Basis Terminal by Driendl Architects

Galzigbahn Basis Terminal by Driendl Architects in St Anton am Arlberg Austria

The IOC/IAKS Award is the only international architecture competition for sports and leisure facilities. This year 117 teams of operators and designers from 26 countries took part in the IOC/IAKS Award. In the 20 year old history this competition for sports facilities has never previously seen such number of registered participants. IOC/IAKS Award 2009 for Galzigbahn Basis Terminal in St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria by Driendl Architects and Arlberger Bergbahnen AG. Read more »

October 26th, 2009 In Architecture Design, Architecture News

Modern Resort Living Lot 46, Malaysia by Arkitek Axis

Modern Resort Living Lot 46 in Vanda Precinct Mines South Lake Malaysia by Arkitek Axis

The Modern resort living, Lot 46 was designed by Arkitek Axis in an exclusive urban enclave, Mines South Lake, Malaysia is an extreme 3 storey luxury home. Designed as a self-contained unit for maximum comfort in the tropical heat, the project works to create a carefully measured balance between the indoors and outdoors. A series of elements such as an infinity pool, pavilion and landscaping articulate the exterior of a double volume living and dining hall and full height glazing simultaneously maximizes the views to the outside, merging interior and exterior into one seamless space. Read more »

October 26th, 2009 In Architecture Design

SOF Hotel, Poland by J. MAYER H. Architects

SOF Hotel in Krakow Poland by J MAYER H

SOF Hotel was designed by J. MAYER H.Architects is located in Krakow, Poland. When you think of Krakow you may be imagining some of the World Heritage Site’s 6,000 picturesque and historic buildings, most of which were virtually untouched by air raids during World War II. But now Krakow, lying on the Vistula River in the south of the country with a population of about three-quarters of a million, is also an important centre for culture and business in Poland with a bustling tourist trade heavily influenced by its historical architecture, such as Wawel Royal Castle and St Mary’s Basilica dated from the 11th and 13th centuries. Read more »

October 19th, 2009 In Architecture Design

Elithis Tower in France by Arte Charpentier Architects

Elithis Tower in France by Arte Charpentier Architects

The Elithis Tower was designed by Arte Charpentier Architects and constructed as the world’s most environmentally sound building, has been revealed in Dijon, France. Touted as the first positive energy office structure, the tower creates more power than it uses and produces six times less greenhouse gas emissions than classic commercial buildings. From design to material



India's Architectural rise with traditional touch

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India's Architectural rise with traditional touch

India is transforming in all sectors. Its annual GDP growth rate was 4% in the year 2000 and now it is scoring over 8%. The different sectors except some are booming and so the slick modern-day architecture is going upward signaling the booming Indian economy.

India's Architectural rise with traditional touch

India’s attraction towards modern-day architecture actually first started some 15 years back during the time of IT Revolution.

Outstanding high-rise buildings, shopping complexes, the taller, the larger, the greener complexes are growing now in every metro cities.

It seems India is in a hurry to present itself as global power.

Infosys Technologies established 270-acre, $119 million campus, Global Education Center in Mysore of cost $65.4 million. Its smooth, ultramodern design might remind corporate buildings in Silicon Valley.

India's Architectural rise with traditional touch

Wipro hired Vidur Bhardwaj to design its Gurgaon office as the traditional haveli. Tata Consultancy Services hired Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott to open a $200 million campus in Chennai. That building will look like centuries-old South Indian temples.

India's Architectural rise with traditional touch

India is taking forward its cultural heritage and architectural contributions as genuine pride even in the 21st century.

Cybertecture Egg, Mumbai, India

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‘Cybertecture’ design offers provocative intelligence systems in India with the Cybertecture Egg office
“In the 21st Century, buildings will be different from 20th Century”, say James Law Cybertecture International, “They are no longer about concrete, steel and glass, but also the new intangible materials of technology, multimedia, intelligence and interactivity. Only recognizing this will bring a new form of architecture to light, namely a Cybertecture.”

James Law have been commissioned by Vijay Associate (Wadhwa Developers) to create an office unlike any other in Mumbai, India. The 32,000 sq m egg-shaped build will accommodate 13 floors of offices bringing together iconic architecture, environmental design, intelligent systems, and new engineering to create an awe-inspiring landmark in the city.

The concept was inspired, according to the designers, by considering the world as an ecosystem allowing life to evolve. Elements of the design and intelligence systems will work together to give the building’s inhabitants the ‘best space to work in’. And this includes monitoring their health. Within the building, there will be a series of innovative systems such as ‘cybertecture health’ in the washroom which is designed to keep track of the inhabitant’s health including blood pressure and weight. The data collected may be retrieved and sent to a doctor if deemed necessary.

Technology and the working environment are united in the use of ‘cybertecture reality’ which allows you to customize your favorite view and have real time scenery all around the world instead of the view the user currently has.

The egg itself is orientated and skewed at an angle to create both a strong visual language and to alleviate the solar gain of the building, also there is a sky garden on the top of building which performs thermolysis (the dissipation of heat from the surface). PV panels will be installed on top of the building and a wind turbine on the sky gardens will generate electricity. A water filtration system will also be incorporated into the building to recycle grey water for flushing and irrigation purpose.

By using this “Egg” shape, compared to a conventional building, the structure has approximately 10-20% less surface area. Within the building, an innovative structure derived from the skin of the egg creates up to 30m spans of columnless floors. The architecture is sleek and computer designed, with engineering that creates a building of high quality and geometric sophistication. It is hoped this building will act like a “jewel” for the new Central Business District of Mumbai, and will be a worthy neighbour to other esteemed buildings in the district. The building is due for completion by the end of 2010.