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Dans la continuité des photos des bureaux de Google à travers le monde, voici ceux de Facebook, le réseau social le plus connu du monde avec ses 350 millions de membres. Un travail de Studio O+A, pour cette société basée à Palo Alto en Californie. Galerie disponible dans la suite.
The Morumbi Residence by Drucker Arquitetura
Description of the Morumbi Residence by Drucker Arquitetura: The project started when Monica Drucker found a 2,500m² site at the top of Morumbi hills, in São Paulo, it was the ideal spot for her client’s residence. The area harmonized the view to the urban skyline with a tree-lines street, addition to excellent privacy conditions assured by the 1,50m unevenness relative to the street. In the project itself, is possible to identify elements of the Paulista modernism repertoire, such as horizontal windows, the overhangs, rigid lines in angles and whiteness.
The Marcus Beach House by Bark Architects » CONTEMPORIST
The Marcus Beach House by Bark Architects The Marcus Beach house celebrates a natural, coastal setting providing its occupants with an inextricable relationship to the landscape and sensitive surrounding environment. The dwelling explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdoor spaces within dynamic patterns of light and shadow, being a simple frame to enable a contemporary sustainable lifestyle to unfold. Whilst feeling like a ‘beach house’ sited 250 meters away from Marcus Beach, the basic ‘pavilion’ plan was sketched out in the sand during an early site visit: a simple diagram of two pavilions placed either side of a venerable 100 year old Morton Bay Ash that takes centre stage to the scale, proportions and life of the house around it.
The Japanese architectural firm Edward Suzuki Associates , have sent us a project, which they say “is the first case of an industrialized house in Japan designed by an architect, Edward Suzuki, and built by a major housing manufacturer, Daiwa House Kougyo, in a collaborative effort.” Description of EDDI’s House from Edward Suzuki Associates: This is the first case of an industrialized house in Japan (and perhaps in the world) designed by an architect, Edward Suzuki, and built by a major housing manufacturer, Daiwa House Kougyo, in a collaborative effort. The house is named after the architect’s nickname and also stands for Edward Daiwa-House Design Innovation. Pre-designed and pre-fabricated and sold as a ready-made ” product,” the buyers’ characteristics, lifestyles, site conditions, etc. are not known at the time of design.
EDDI’s House by Edward Suzuki Associates » CONTEMPORIST
Le studio d’architecte Andrés Remy a pu démontrer toute l’étendue de son talent avec ce projet architectural nommé “Devoto House”. Située en Argentine et d’une superficie de 550m2, cette construction se destine à accueillir une famille comme l’illustre les visuels dans la suite.
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The Echo House by Kariouk Associates » CONTEMPORIST
Kariouk Associates have designed the Echo House in Ottawa, Canada; which involved renovating an existing 1924 Victorian-style house into an updated contemporary home. To marry eighty-four years of history by integrating a contemporary, open and functional living space inside a 1924 landmark that overlooks the Rideau Canal. Project Challenge: The starting point for this renovation was a modest Victorian home in poor condition, whose rooms with small windows and dark interior spaces were separated from one another, as was typical of homes built in an era when privacy was a cultural priority. In another gesture to Victorian public decorum, the arrangement of the existing interior spaces reinforced the antiquated ideal that work life and family life should be kept distinct.
The Nicholson Residence by MAC Interactive Architects This extensive renovation of a 1970’s brick house in Cronulla contributes to contemporary interior design practice in its re-use of an existing building, adapted and modified to suit the changing needs of its long-standing owners. The original house was dark and cluttered with separate rooms for each function with no sense of flow. The energy embodied in an existing building is such that it is generally more sustainable to renovate than demolish and re-create. Contemporary interior design also has to address an increasingly individualistic and educated client; who may or may not want an attention seeking design. In the context of residential interiors we seek to identify and isolate this at the start of a project; and if appropriate present our interiors as a spatial design program within which the client can then express themselves.
The Nicholson Residence by MAC Interactive Architects » CONTEMPORIST
House 6 by Marcio Kogan (Conteporist)
Description of House 6 by Marcio Kogan: The House 6 project was thought out after the client had made an important request. The family wanted a covered external space to be used for everyday living. This space should be used to organize all the social life of the house. The Brazilian tropical climate suggests ample use of these solutions in vernacular as well as in modern architecture.
Hidden away from the road, the site is surrounded by a verdant screen of mature trees from adjacent properties. Breezes blowing transversely across the site being another notable aspect of the location. The owner had wanted a contemporary home that prioritized environmental coolness as a consistent attribute and to be able to enjoy the luscious tropical surroundings. The concept developed for the home inverted planning and hierarchical norms common in local residential planning. To fully appreciate the mature and variegated natural environment and stretch the potential for visual depth and distance, the main living room and study were located in a pavilion on the second storey.
The Water-Cooled House by Wallflower Architecture + Design » CONTEMPORIST