Located in Pennsylvania, this production center lies on what was previously agricultural land, beside the Susquehanna River. The site features a stretch of hills and folded mountains to the north. The aim of the project is to naturally reinvigorate the nearby ecology, the air and soil, having been damaged by industrial development.
Project concept. The architect and client had been thinking about people and dogs ever since the triangular-shaped “corner” site at the southern-most of Aranya was defined as a pet hotel. Usually, the design model of a small hotel is either a low-rise veranda, or scattered detached building, or the very popular “one big pallet with a bunch of small boxes” complex. From human standpoint, these models are all feasible. But as anyone who has ever owned a dog knows, dogs are happy when they meet other dogs from time to time, but people are not happy because of the panic. Therefore, dog-to-dog encounters should be avoided as much as possible at non-essential times. So, at the beginning of the program, the porch layout was avoided, and there was some torn between freestanding and townhouse style.
More than a city office: a new site to see – Known for its beautiful archipelago of some 700 islands, Japan’s Setonaikai (Seto Inland Sea), is the largest waterway of its type in the country. Located in the center of the sea, Onomichi is surrounded by the Onomichi Channel, a key historic point for maritime traffic, and by a trio of mountains home to ancient temples. Used as a setting for many literary works and movies, the area’s scenery has more recently been recognized as a Japan Heritage Site. It has also become a mecca for cyclists, and attracts both domestic and overseas interest.
taking shape like a sail, the curving tower will introduce 391 luxury residences to the miami waterfront.
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This resolutely internal house, sited on a steep and marginal site, successfully fulfils its purpose as an urban retreat. Providing compact but comfortable accommodation for four people, the small dwelling is a timely exercise in sufficiency and the optimisation of resources and opportunity.
Architects should reuse existing buildings where possible to reduce embodied carbon and emissions, according to Christopher Trott, head of sustainability at Foster + Partners. Other ways of lowering emissions include not building basements, reducing spans, using less materials and making greater use of wood, Trott said. “The kind of immediate things that we can do
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Intervening in such an emblematic, vast, and imposing site requires respect and humility so that the visitor’s experience is entirely dedicated to contemplation and experience of the falls. The new installations realized as part of the Experience Chute project showcase the natural beauty of the Parc by drawing on its existing character.
A House: A Village. All architecture carries implicitly its vocation of ruin, and such condition is the final form with which architecture enters in communion with nature and returns to it. From this potential fate, we were interested in the physical expression of the unfinished, what time and inclemency transform, the ways in which the work is gradually taken and constituted by the landscape, slowly dissolving its singularity in the whole. The house is conceived as a concrete and stone promontory emerging from the hill, a wall-divided house, that emerges from the organization and repetition of volumes of identical dimensions on the floor, 5 x 5 meters, with variable heights and sloping roofs as prescribed by the edification code, articulated by strategic voids, patios, passages and interstices, which on the outside give place and preserve the species from the local forest; Red Quebracho, Celtis Tala, Vachellia caven, Bacchari, among others, whereas in the inside they become the “streets” of circulation of this stone warp, as a ‘medieval mountain village’. Wall boxes that delimit empty places, which are as important as full ones, let the surrounding landscape filter and the exterior space is tempered for its use, protecting it from prevailing winds and oriented according to solar rotation.
Gold accents, luxurious marble, and wood tone elements fashion these two uber stylish family home designs. We’ll tour two very different living space layouts, each with its own light and luxe aesthetic, complete with two gloriously chic kitchen designs. The luxe marble, gold and wood tone palette is carried on through into a host of […]
Shower seats can offer stability to people with balance or mobility issues, provide a leg up for shaving and add an extra surface for storing shampoo and other products. But they aren’t just practical — they can be pretty darned stylish too. We’ve rou…
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