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Gardens Beyond the Clouds / ARKPABI | Giorgio Palu’ e Michele Bianchi Architetti

May 19, 2017 Cristobal Rojas 0

The architect has a difficult task in creating new projects he often has to interfere with unique natural locations, each exuding its own individual atmosphere; he must therefore deeply examine each location, so that the project may be incorporated appropriately into the space that will contain it. In this project we have tried to rebalance both the relationship between human being and constructed space,and the relationship between architecture and open space, by creating many green spaces: roof terraces and gardens, accessible from luminous glass rooms,which encourage an osmotic reaction between internal and external, and between green space and mineral construction; light floods the space, shaping it, giving it structure and life; light becomes the generator of space.

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Kazuyo Sejima’s Sumida Hokusai Museum in Tokyo Photographed by Laurian Ghinitoiu

May 19, 2017 AD Editorial Team 0

Located in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward, in which Sumida Hokusai (Katsushika Hokusai) was born and spent the majority of his life, this museum—completed in November 2016 to designs by Kazuyo Sejima—is a temple to the Japanese artist’s work, including the likes of The Great Wave off Kanagawa and Red Fuji. Sejima, who was awarded the Priztker Prize in 2010, is commonly known as one-half of SANAA (alongside Ryue Nishizawa). This project, while seeking to celebrate Hokusai’s work, has also been designed as a cultural beacon. In this photoset, photographer Laurian Ghinitoiu has turned his lens to the new cultural landmark.

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Solo House / Office KGDVS

May 19, 2017 Antonia Cayupe 0

The Solo House is a country residence in a large untouched forest, in the mountainous region of Matarraña, two hours south of Barcelona. The house frames the top of a plateau, overlooking the surrounding forests and dramatical landscape. Since the scenery is so impressive, we felt architecture should be invisible, merely emphasising the natural qualities of the surroundings. A simple circular roof with a diameter of 45 meters underlines the qualities of both the plateau and its edge.

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Atrium House / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter

May 19, 2017 Antonia Cayupe 0

Atrium House is a vacation home for a family of three generations on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. It is built on a slight ridge that marks the former location of the coastline a thousand years ago. In relation to the open and expansive landscape, the building seems more like a low wall than a house. It is built around a completely enclosed atrium courtyard that is designed to serve as a fixed point, a sheltered outdoor room. The rest of the property is left undisturbed as a meadow where grazing sheep prevent the land from returning to forest.

Tandem’s Melbourne house features folded cladding interrupted by rusty steel window frames

May 18, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The curving corrugated-metal exterior of this house in Melbourne by local studio Tandem forms a continuous surface that encloses small pocket gardens. Tandem created the True North House for a tapering triangular plot in the Kensington neighbourhood of Melbourne, which was previously occupied by a decaying 1950s cottage and a stables built in the 1880s.

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This Edwardian Manor Received A Modern Extension And Reflection Pond

May 18, 2017 Erin 0

Photography by Christine Francis   Nic Owen Architects have recently completed a modern extension on ‘Marrandillas’, a 117 year old Edwardian manor, located in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.   The house, untouched for over 50 years, was purchased by a family of five that had been dreaming of living on this street and in this […]