News. Europaconcorsi. Architecture Archives. A Daily Dose of Architecture. Travel Norway. The Architectural Way. | Nido. Located in the beautiful Finnish archipelago of Sipoo, lies ‘Nido’, a small cabin built by twenty-two year old Robin Falck. Robin Falck had planned on building ‘Nido’, which means ‘birds nest’ in Italian, without a permit, so it only measures about nine square meters. By only leaving the essentials and stripping away anything unnecessary to living in the woods, the young industrial design student, managed to maximize the living space. With the help of a local carpenter Falck built the whole hut with his own hands and created a small two-story hut with a small lounge/living room at the bottom and bed as well as a small storage place on the top floor in only two and a half weeks time.
The result is a cabin made of local wood and material that fuses with its environment perfectly. All images © Robin Falck | Via: treehugger. Architecture. Imagine the renovation dilemmas. A huge penthouse of a converted 1930s office building in TriBeCa, New York, is to be turned into a functioning home for a family with three teenagers. In fact, we can not quite imagine the issues that faced Steven Harris Architects when the family showed up, literally, at the doorstep of the celebrated architect and asked if he’d like to work on their home.
Harris said yes and proceeded to make his magic. The scale of the apartment is huge and the freedom from budget constraints allowed for some spectacular solutions. Harris’s work is often distinguished by clarity and light, by the use of glass, by the maximization of views and, above all, bold solutions. What emerged as a result of the TriBeCa Penthouse project, is a multi-level (27th and 28th floors) nearly 8,000 square-foot (743 square meter) family-friendly residence that includes self-contained guest quarters and a new glass-and-teak-beam rooftop pavilion that functions as a recreation room.
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