Shimotoyama House Renovation / ALTS Design Office
In the surrounding is the countryside landscape, in a 53 yr old Japanese house of 80 tsubos, the young couple and their children purchased it for residence and decided to renovate.
Month: May 2018
Rafael Viñoly plans angled residential towers for One River Point in Downtown Miami
Images of a mixed-use development for Miami by Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly show a pair of perpendicular towers connected at the top by a wedge-shaped sky bridge. One River Point – the architect’s first project in Miami – comprises two towers that are positioned at a right angle to one another, with a gap in
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MRTN Architects Have Designed An Extension For A Victorian-era Home In Melbourne
Photography by Tatiana Plitt MRTN Architects were asked by their clients, a family with three children, to create a contemporary extension to house a living room, kitchen, and dining room, for their original Victorian weatherboard home in Melbourne, Australia. Connecting the original house with the new addition is a hallway that provides access […]
Sky Farm / VRAP
China, a country where farmers accounted for 97 percent of its total population one hundred years ago, has been run by farmers for four thousand years. Chinese folk wisdom about construction is, more often than not, hidden in some seemingly “heretical” ancient books including Guanzi. Diyuan Chapter, The Book of Burial, The Book on Agriculture and Exploitation of the Works of Nature. The history of traditional rural settlements in China demonstrates how Chinese agricultural techniques have evolved. These traditional rural construction works, led by small-scale peasant economies, are multi-field and trans-scale projects that have admirably inte-grated geography, irrigation works and agriculture. This type of production-promoting compound construc-tion has captured our attention and we have dubbed it “agri-tectonic”
Robitaille Curtis pairs dark and light hues in renovated Montreal kitchen
Grey cabinetry, brass accents and ash flooring have refreshed a kitchen within a 1960s home, updated by Canadian studio Robitaille Curtis. The Hampstead House, which belongs to a young doctor and his family, is located in the affluent Hampstead neighbourhood in Montreal. The project entailed the renovation of a home that had been occupied by
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DWA NBD Studio / Dan Webster Architecture
The shared studio of Nathan Burkett Design and Dan Webster Architecture was created by the pair in collaboration with renowned interior stylist, Simone Haag.
14 Beautiful Container Gardens for Shady Spots (14 photos)
Take advantage of shady spots in the garden to play with a quieter, maybe even more romantic, style of container gardening that works with light and shadow. Create magical ferny vignettes that entice you to slow down and look a little closer. Or, pot …
Carbondale Branch Library / Willis Pember Architects
“Of Carbondale, not in Carbondale” was the team’s statement of intent in achieving a meaningful, organic connection to the community as well as an interconnection to the site that would inform the architecture’s making. Carbondale was voted among the “the fifty next great towns” in the US in 2008 by National Geographic and is home to an eclectic mix of artists, architects, foodies, environmentalists and recreationists. The design team researched this history in depth to lay the groundwork for working in this exceptional setting.
Carbondale Branch Library / Willis Pember Architects
“Of Carbondale, not in Carbondale” was the team’s statement of intent in achieving a meaningful, organic connection to the community as well as an interconnection to the site that would inform the architecture’s making. Carbondale was voted among the “the fifty next great towns” in the US in 2008 by National Geographic and is home to an eclectic mix of artists, architects, foodies, environmentalists and recreationists. The design team researched this history in depth to lay the groundwork for working in this exceptional setting.