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Chicken Point Cabin

Construction Blog — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:28:52 +0000

The idea for the cabin is that of a lakeside shelter in the woods - a little box with a big window that opens to the surrounding landscape. The cabin’s big window-wall (30 feet by 20 feet) opens the entire living space to the forest and lake. Materials are low maintenance - concrete block, steel, [...]

House Ijburg

Construction Blog — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:11:42 +0000

Designed by Marc Koehler in Netherlands, the house is located on a very small plot in Ijburg, a recently developed suburb of the city of Amsterdam. The house is designed as a monolythical sculptural mass, expressed by contrasting introverted private spaces (that form the mass) with open collective spaces that seem to have been ‘carved [...]

Manchester Civil Justice Centre

Construction Blog — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:51:09 +0000

Located in Manchester, UK, Manchester Civil Justice Centre was designed by Denton Corker Marshall. An international competition-winning design for the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice in the North West of England, the biggest court complex to be built in the UK since the Royal Courts of Justice in London. The building provides accommodation of around [...]

New Waterfront in Rimini

Construction Blog — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:55:04 +0000

Foster + Partners has designed a major new waterfront development for Rimini, Italy, a seaside city in Italy. The plan calls for a new seaside promenade, a 1,000-foot-long pier, a hotel tower, and a museum for filmmaker Federico Fellini, a Rimini native and famed director of 8½ and La Dolce Vita. The scheme comprises a new [...]

RBW Core House

Construction Blog — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:45:44 +0000

RBW Core House is a rice building workshop project by Nonya Grenader & Danny Samuels. Nonya Grenader is principal of her own small firm. Her most recent three architectural projects have each received design awards from the American Institute of Architects. With the insertion of a new core (bath, kitchen, and mechanical elements), modern conveniences [...]

Park Slope Revival

Construction Blog — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:30:52 +0000

This mid 19th century rowhouse on a quiet street in Park Slope was in relatively poor condition when purchased by the client. The house next door had burned down many years before, leaving the lot vacant and overgrown, and the new owners wanted to build a structure in its place that would connect to the [...]

Green Residence in Austin

Construction Blog — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:39:42 +0000

Perched on the edge of a limestone bluff, this 5,500-square-foot home was designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects for a young father of three. An art lover with a deep interest in Buddhist culture, the Client provided inspiration for both the form and serene aesthetic of the structure. A koi pond at the front and a lap [...]

Dancing trees, Singing birds

Construction Blog — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:40:04 +0000

Located in Ebisu, Tokyo, Dancing Trees, Singing Birds is a housing complex designed by architect Hiroshi Nakamura. Bird Park is an apartment where people and birds can live in total harmony. They believe that the pleasure of living with nature can be communicated through architecture, and by living face to face with nature can raise the [...]

Pilgrim’s Lane in London

Construction Blog — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:10:00 +0000

A superior contemporary house was designed by Woollacott Gilmartin. Located in the heart of historic Hampstead Village, the house displays much subtlety and invention in the inter-relationship of spaces and interior detailing. The house is set discretely behind a garden wall and plantings. The building steps up and back to a rooftop studio. Large fixed and sliding [...]

Rooftecture M

Construction Blog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:24:21 +0000

Rooftecture M was designed by Japanese-based architect Shuhei Endo. It’s a house comprising an atelier of a client. It exists in local city for about 3 hours by a train from Osaka and is located in a flat, general residential area. The site has the small frontage is small, and its shape of a long [...]