Month: May 2019

Terrarium House was created by bringing together layers of memories from the owners’ childhoods and their travels through adult life. It began as an exercise in pragmatics, managing problematic site conditions and a 100-year-old cottage crumbling into a backyard jungle.

Ieoh Ming Pei, known as I. M. Pei, died today at the age of 102, according to The New York Times.

The Chinese-American architect (born April 26, 1917) was arguably the greatest living member of the modernist generation of architects. When he received his Pritzker Prize in 1983, the jury citation stated that he “has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms.” His most notable work is the Louvre Pyramid.

Octave 9 offers a hub for artistic and high-tech partnerships to explore new worlds of musical expression. Located in Benaroya Hall at the corner of Union Street and Second Avenue, Octave 9 provides new access to music education and experimentation in downtown Seattle.

saarinen’s cathedral to aviation has been reborn as a landmark new york hotel.
The post TWA hotel opens inside eero saarinen’s terminal building at JFK airport appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

We went along with the client to visit the small, modern building where the plan for an up-and-coming healthcare business. I was surprised by the high ceilings and the hulking bare concrete columns.

Eco-friendly, long lasting, continuously recyclable, antimicrobial, versatile; copper is a great choice for use all around the home. There are a multitude of different ways in which to incorporate a copper aesthetic into an interior, from small decor accents, fixtures and fittings, to all out statement pieces of furniture, entire kitchens, or showstopping feature walls. […]

We intended to change the language of the existing house with the implemented renovation project. In addition to a Retrofit design of the facade, we also altered its internal land use zoning, creating broader and integrated spaces. We chose to make the ground floor plan with open spans, where the only existing masonry is the one that divides the interior with the external area. In the renovation, all the spans were opened and the structure of the house strengthened.