All Blog Posts Tagged 'architects' (383)

+House is a summer housing project designed by WE Architecture located in Puerto Cayo, Equador.  The design takes two linear and rectangular volumes and…

The simple and other-worldly architectural design for the…

Frustrated with the current Chinatown, which it considers boring, redundant, out-of-date, and lifeless, Bejing-based architecture design firm MAD…

In a nineteenth-century Roman Catholic cemetery in Rotterdam, two chapel shave stood in years past – a neo-Gothic structure of 1880 and a pyramid-shaped building of 1963 – both of which collapsed due to poor foundations on the soft soil.  For…

Nowhere But Sajima is a vacation home located about an hour from Tokyo, near Mt. Fuji.  The home sits next to the ocean, with a view of the lush verdant island of Enoshima.  However, this same…

Packed is a pavilion constructed of cardboard that was shown in the exhibition "3D paperArt" in Shanghai, as part of the World Expo 2010.  It was designed and produced by Michele Leidi, Min-Chieh Chen and Dominik Zausinger with the help of…

This is a lovely house by Pitzo Kedem Architects. Although the images are very compelling, I'm sad to say it's the latest addition to the many projects I will probably never get a chance to visit in my lifetime. That's not to say it's not worthy of a visit, merely that an…

Martello Tower Y in Suffolk, England was originally built in 1808 to assist in protecting the coast against invasion.  It was inhabited until the late 19th century, and until recently was left derelict.  Duncan Jackson, the founder and director of…

XSmall was recently completed by Chaewon Kim and Beat Schenk of the Massachusetts-based Uni Architects.  It is the fourth…

I've always believed that architects shouldn't take themselves too seriously. The holiday season is a good time to let loose and remember that architecture isn't always about the architect. The KCN Office designed by Atelier Cosmas Gozali is a…

This distinctive plan by the Swedish architecture firm Jagnefält Milton was awarded third prize in the Norwegian master plan competition for the city of Åndalsnes.  Instead of filling in new…

The name of this project, Star House, is slightly misleading if you are to understand it's true function. To understand this project one needs to consider the difference between "House" and "Home." I work with many people every day that treat their profession like more of a home than the place they go home to in the evening, where their family and loved ones reside. When I…

Completed last year in New York, New York, the High Line turns trash to treasure.  It is built atop a 1.45-mile-long abandoned elevated railway that spans twenty-two city blocks between and through buildings along the west side of Manhattan.  It's a result of the collaboration of…

So, you’ve probably figured out by now that if a project is strongly related to trees – or even just leaves – I’ll blog about it. :D

The Tote contains 2,500 square meters consisting…

I'm a sucker for anything tree-house-like, so of course I love "Out on a Limb" by Philadelphia's …

This project is an office tower by Hoz Fontan Arquitectos located in Behobia, Irún just outside San Sebastian in Spain. There are many interesting conversations you could have about this structure. The juxtaposition of the formal components or the perceived transparency of the facade are worth talking about, but I couldn't help but wonder why such structures so often stand alone. If you look at the pictures below,…

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I'd like to start a series of posts that remind us to give thanks for some of the great predecessors that came before us. I said in another post that no architect is an island. In addition to depending on each other, we also depend on past inspiration to develop present and future designs. Past architects have given us a foundation with which to build. So we start with a…

The simple and stunning Aurland Lookout was the result of a partnership between architects Todd Saunders (Saunders Architecture) and Tommie Wilhelmsen (Arkitekt Tommie…

#5 - Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck

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