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This is the project for a weekend home along the river. The site on which the house stands is tilted towards the river, and the wind runs along the slope. The house is drawn parallel to the river and the form that comes out of the slope is that of a ship waiting to leave. The two volumes of the house are divided. One is the private space of the house with master bedroom and children’s rooms, the other is public space with kitchen and living room. The external bridge between the two volumes is used as an outdoor dining area. On top of which is parallel to the river, there are the bathroom and the closet. This house is designed as a holiday home to spend time with family and friends. A large dining table with the concrete base is located in the great hall, which leads to the area of the bridge to the river. The precast concrete panel is used for the external wall is the wall of the north side and east side. This protects the house from the north wind and the sun pomeriggio.La house on the river has been designed and built to be light as a style and aesthetic because the model has a strong presence. Read the rest of this entry »

Jorge Hrdina Architects The Australian study has designed this original house called Lilypad House. This residence has a unique history and is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Lilypad House was designed to Accommodate ease of access by wheelchair and Provide the Inhabitants with a typical suburban sanctuary from consolidation. The Refined twin portal frames of radial laminations timber stands as freestanding structures anchor the two ends That of the house. Rather than consume the site as the Completely neighboring houses, the house lilypad employs low walls and ceilings while wrapped around a sun filled garden Itself That courtyard forms a connection with Directly opposite the park. No physical boundary exists Between the house and the natural landscape, Allowing for a thoughtful meander Between public and private.

Lilypad House by Jorge Hrdina Architects Read the rest of this entry »

Hassell, in collaboration with Parsons Brinckerhoff, has undertaken a very interesting project to create a new railway station at Wendouree and related infrastructure, in the west of Ballarat (Australia). The new station, which opened in June 2009, expects to serve more than 27,000 people living in areas of Wendouree, Alfredton and Lake and neighboring countries to Learmouth. The project idea is to minimize the distance between the various destinations that are particularly remote and therefore offer an attractive and comfortable through the rail. The materials used to create this modern train station were selected for resistance to long term to reduce maintenance costs. The new station was designed to include best practices in sustainability, as well as aesthetic ones. Read the rest of this entry »

To dream the homes of celebrities sometimes you just flip through magazines such as Architectural Digest, which this month goes into dream villa Elle DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi. The couple’s passion for real estate is now known, so that they admitted to have lost the accounts of the houses purchased over the years. A look at the Beverly Hills mansion, situated on 2.87 acres just outside the prestigious Coldwater Canyon, immediately made clear their love of luxury residences. Purchased for $ 30 million, is now on sale for $ 49 million. Like any self-respecting celebrity villa, the couple is also the home of true luxury. In addition to huge rooms, rich in details of design language, the property also includes the surrounding land, purchased with a view to extension work of the building.

Now the house is sold, but the pair seems to be looking for a new home of your dreams. Read the rest of this entry »

Folded to the notice of competition idea, Terry Pawson Architects also gets the enlargement of the area. And his work, and massive ethereal at the same time, the scoops architecture awards In the architectural competition, winning often and those who dare. Then if the design constraints imposed on the rebels, then the win and almost always assured. In fact, and a game, through which the jury can express their disagreement with the bankruptcy issue or prove all his visionary wisdom. Sometimes this alchemy of intent questionable effect, other times accadorno small miracles, such as occurred in lreland, Carlow Town, a small town about eighty miles southeast of Dublin. Terry Pawson Architects, a London firm founded in 2001 and in 2004 won a competition organized by the Royal Institute of Architects Ireland (Riai) for the construction of a new cultural complex, called Visual to be carried out in Carlow town. The proposal was so aggressive that had covered an area more extensive than indicated in the notice. Boldness rewarded first with the claim in the bankruptcy and then with the decision by the local authority to demolish a stone wall that enclosed the area to allow more room for ‘intervention. Within a year, and earned Visual study led by Terry Pawson (1957), which in 2012 will finalize the new grand opera in Linz, four major awards, a further confirmation of a successful and reminder of the degree of maturity reached in achieving perfectly massive tectonic forms and at the same time transparent. The main force in the design concept is to have Visual cast in one body the two souls of the complex – an art gallery and a theater – in a coherent form, where the element of combination and the light. The new building, costing 18 million euros, and the importance for Ireland, as it has created a new cultural center in which contemporary art can easily communicate the relevance of combining visual arts with theatrical research in impostasi a home now, not only nationally but internationally. The new Visual Art Gallery, with its 12 meter high exhibition spaces, allows you to organize exhibitions with large sculptures and installations, typical of many current trends, that could not be exhibited in the republic. The complex was built in the heart of Carlow town, near the historic architecture of St. Patrick’s College, thus defining the closure is missing the big square of grass that lies between the city’s cathedral, the seventeenth century, and the school. The new structure and thus become a cornerstone of the urban configuration of the city. Read the rest of this entry »

Those who routinely travels on the A4 motorway between Venice and Trieste has certainly noticed. Codognotto Italia’s new headquarters and an architecture that does not go unnoticed, even if not cheeky. Indeed. Let’s say, and his own sense of proportion to make it amazing and so different. For just a moment to give this opinion, even fleeting. The design of industrial-related alia changed perception of speed and a subject almost completely ignored in our country and it’s a shame, because it allows you to change for the better many of our suburban landscapes.  The Codognotto Italy consists of two buildings (offices and magazzino-hub/call center) and large areas for parking (and a logistics company) for a total of six hectares and is a recognizable landmark on the horizon confused.  The designers Paul and Roberto Vocialta Codognotto drew along the highway a factory that cultivates energy efficiency, interior comfort, with pleasant architectural impact, functionality, durability and ease of maintenance alia, do not forget to be architecture.  Built on four levels! ‘Work is characterized to the south for the big screen made of metal blinds that are backlit at night, composing a texture interrupted only by the central hole of the entrance and head east, where d is the scale’ disaster, surrounded by a permeable membrane of expanded metal. The north face offers a different solution, composed of articulated volumes.  Inside, the staircase divides two different areas of size and destination. Operating on the western ones with open spaces, directional those to the east where the ground floor, and obtained st.ata conference room, which opens onto a stretch of water. Two roof gardens bring the green inside the offices. The bio-climatic setting of the project is building the class A for energy savings.  In the vast warehouse-building (almost 15 thousand square meters by 12 meters of usable height) and was placed above the load floor, the call center: a large open space interrupted by three green patios which allow a different consistency ‘ adequate lighting and natural ventilation. At the center of the patio at the largest, has been provided a relaxing environment, made with polycarbonate panels.  The high outer walls are paged by a network of horizontal lines due to the juxtaposition of the second prefabricated panels tilted bands together. The panels rest on a base of reinforced concrete poured on site and end at the capping aluminum, high-Ia exactly half of the base. The side windows are placed at all entrances of vehicular or pedestrian, resulting in an ordered system that condenses the light from the overhead coverage, in which there are long skylights and supporting a fully integrated photovoltaic system of considerable size, which can produce up to 300 kWh, a power used only for internal consumption by 30 percent of the company.  The area to the west, above the cargo hatches, and covered with sheet aluminum, while the two side entrances to the offices have a surface exposed concrete painted cones corporate colors. Read the rest of this entry »

Symbol of design and modernity, the Netherlands confirms the country as a skilled trial on the wave of inspiration from the fairy tale that will draw it out too. It could be the title of a TV show Happy Street, with the spotlight of interior affairs and street life. And with this curiosity ready to surprise you enter the hall which is well known as the Dutch response to the theme of World Expo in Shanghai, Better City, Better Life, in a century in which the population is growing metropolitan areas. Urbanized and densely populated country, but from the undoubted sensitivity to aesthetics, livability and respect for the environment, the Netherlands presents its solutions for the future of the city with the signature of the designer John Körmeling. His idea of a street scene onto which twenty houses in which the typical style, with narrow houses of Amsterdam forms signed Gerrit Rietveld, is combined with innovation.

Cars traveling at solar energy as that developed by the University of Delft, alongside the world’s smallest chip, which also records the Netherlands, and Philips predicts an ecosystem home to transfer the garden indoors for the daily requirements. Tradition revisited the service of current and also the one that stands out in Zaandam (NL), less than 20 km from Amsterdam, where the new Inntel Hotel is a game of little houses stacked. The structure protruding sections designed by Wilfried van Winden (WAM architects) has 160 rooms on 12 floors and reaches nearly 40 feet high. Without a doubt, a monument to Holland.

Residences for the medical staff of the center of cardiac surgery at the Hospital Emergency Salam in Soba, Sudan Khartown. The project was born from the idea of ??recovering some of the hundreds of containers lying around your yard in a disused hospital in the nearby Salam and logistic center of Soba, brought Sudan in recent years as a result of the missions promoted to cope with humanitarian emergencies. Rather than leave this mountain of scrap metal to disfigure the landscape, waiting to be transformed unusable in a scrap, it was decided to develop a plan to build houses again for the medical staff, from all over the world to serve in the center of the Emergency Cardiac Surgery. On the other hand, the intention of the designers the transaction is a political act to claim the need to slow down the displacement
continuum of resources and materials that allow the containers to freeze Ia folie indiscriminate race to transport, in addition to the collapse of commodity prices, it causes problems of environmental contamination by no means negligible and landscape through huge piles of carcasses reached the end of their useful operating life. In terms of environmental impact, the 76 tons of C02 emitted into the atmosphere due to the transport of about 95 containers en route from London to Khartoum have been offset by an intervention in forestation, planting trees and taking 162 as the power absorption average a tree in its life cycle a hundred years, 0.7 tonnes of C02. A highly restrictive accounting, according to the designers, because responding to market forces alone in the environmental field. In a country where desertification and a magnet which is further impoverishing the already depleted resources, represents an important signal to begin to think proactively on these issues. Read the rest of this entry »

England is confirmed as a luxury destination of choice for the newly rich from Eastern Europe so that an anonymous Russian tycoon is the new owner of the house more expensive in the country that has spent 140 million pounds, about 160 million euros. This is a huge property, situated in the village of Remenham, near Oxon, which has as main building, the villa belonged to Frederick, Prince of Wales and son of King George II, dating from the early 18 th century. The new buyer has also purchased 200 acres of land that are home to two golf courses, a boathouse on the Thames and a dozen cottages in excellent condition.

A top supermodel wants for their residence and why Kate Moss is spending millions of tourists and more than two pounds to renovate his home in London. Among the proposed works include the construction of a gym with sauna from 850 thousand pounds, about 977mila euros, in addition to the installation of eight security cameras and a giant satellite dish on the roof. Work in progress, therefore, to modernize the house which is located north of London, a palace of 19 th century, belonged to his time the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the writer JB Priestley. For this reason, the model would be near on a war footing, against the work seen as “an affront and a bad taste.” Read the rest of this entry »