Seismic-proof Television House by Noriyoshi Morimura Architects. Japanese Studio Noriyoshi Morimura Architects has completed the Television House. This single family contemporary house is located in Suita, a city located in northern Osaka, Japan. Television House by Noriyoshi Morimura Architects: “This site is located in Satakedai, which is in Suita City in Osaka Prefecture. This area was originally developed in 1970 when the World Expo was held in Osaka. This building was specially designed incorporating a seismic isolation or earthquake absorbing unit, creating a durable home with a sleek industrial design. The property sits about 1.5m above the overall street level. In the past, seismic isolators were merely buried into the foundation of the building. The building is entered from the street level. This building encompasses the latest technology into the balance of design of the home. Photos courtesy of Noriyoshi Morimura Architects Source: Architizer Click any photo to see a larger image - Use buttons or j/k/arrow keys to navigate through the articles.
A-cero IN Store in Madrid by A-cero Architects. A-cero presents the interior of the store A-Cero IN located in Madrid, Spain, and dedicated to the interior design services provided by the architects firm. Impressive work! Photos courtesy of A-cero Click any photo to see a larger image - Use buttons or j/k/arrow keys to navigate through the articles. New Underground Eco-friendly Hotel Bella Vista By Matteo Thun. ShareThis We've seen a couple of very interesting eco-friendly, semi-submerged underground hotels and homes lately. (e.g. Villa Vals, The Underground home of Gary Neville) And here's yet another one that I cant wait to see finished. Designed by architect and designer Matteo Thun, the latest KlimaHotel© in Bozen, Italy, is a redesign of the Bella Vista Trafoi, and is the first certified eco-friendly hotel that guarantees KlimaHotel© criteria and has a holistic approach to sustainability.
In the catalog of criteria KlimaHotel© three pillars of sustainability are the concepts "nature" (Ecology), "Life" (socio-cultural aspects) and "Transparency" (Economy). The design consists of 11 individual hostels built into the Italian hillside that utilize economical and ecological methods of heating, cooling and building.
Bella Vista's dominance over the place transformed into a co-existence with the earth. Above: Matteo Thun images and information courtesy of Matteo Thun and casaclima. Hilltop Compound in Bel Air by Landry Design Group. By Eric • Sep 16, 2011 • Selected Work Los-Angeles-based studio Landry Design Group has completed the Hilltop Compound project. This 40,000 square foot, 28 bedroom compound sits on a 1.5 acres of land in Bel Air, an affluent residential community in the hills of the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California. Made up of several buildings, including the main house and separate quarters for staff, guests, and entertaining, the project was a three-year endeavor from groundbreaking to its conclusion in June 2010. This residence have been awarded Robb Report’s Ultimate Home 2011 last April.
Photos by: Erhard Pfeiffer Source: Robb Report Click any photo to see a larger image - Use buttons or j/k/arrow keys to navigate through the articles. Spiral House by Joeb Moore + Partners Architects. Connecticut-based studio Joeb Moore + Partners Architects has designed the Spiral House. Completed in 2009, this 3,900 square foot contemporary home is located in Lower Fairfield County Coast, in the southwestern corner of the state of Connecticut, USA.
Spiral House by Joeb Moore + Partners Architects: “Situated along the Connecticut shoreline of Long Island Sound, the Spiral House seeks to engage, enhance and reflect the surrounding coastal climate and its atmospherics of light, air, water. Formally and spatially, the house is a direct and pragmatic response to the strict environmental (FEMA and flood elevations) and local zoning restrictions and regulations (height, building setbacks, FAR, footprint) imposed on the building and site (see sectional diagram). Conceptually, the house is the resultant form and operation of an interface and tension between two systems of geometry, one projective (fixed) and the other, radial (dynamic). Half-Finished First House by Zaha Hadid Towers 70 Ft High. Baghdad-born Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid is best known for her gravity-defying works of deconstructivist institutional and commercial architecture – it should come as no surprise, then, that her Capital Hill Villa overlooking Moscow should be a massive wonder more luxurious than any mere mortal home.
As in many of her more public works, a mix of steel, glass and concrete towers over its surroundings, definitely an object-in-the-landscape approach. However, a complimentary on-the-ground strategy responds to the adjacent topography and engages the forest as well. On the lowest level, swimming pools and entertainment spaces compliment essential living, cooking and dining spaces, connected upward via a glass elevator to higher-level bedrooms, lounges and decks shooting up nearly seventy feet into the air.
Mountains and Opening House by EASTERN Design Office. This house in Takarazuka city by Japanese architects EASTERN Design Office has a studio supported above the residence on two mounds of crushed marble. Called Mountains and Opening House, the project on a sloping site is a home and studio for a footwear designer. The living areas are on the lower floor, sheltered on three sides by the earth of the sloping site. Meanwhile the studio above cantilevers out and overlooks the Osaka Plain. More about EASTERN Design Office on Dezeen: Horizontal House (October 2009)Slit Court (October 2009)MON Factory/House (October 2009)Slit House (October 2009) Photographs are by Koichi Torimura.
Here's some more information from the architects: Mountain/Opening Deck on the Mountain The Material of the Mountain The outside (exterior) mountain is formed into a mound by piling up soil excavated from the slope. One of the two white mountains functions as a structural support for this building, while the other mountain conceals the bathroom. The Structure of the Deck. Wacky Buildings on Rise in China. China caught the world's gaze with its innovative "bird's nest" design for Beijing National Stadium, which took center stage during the Summer Olympics in 2008.
And the view has remained riveting as China continues to push architectural design way beyond traditional boundaries. Clearly, China is going all out to attract more attention -- and the accompanying revenue. Among the architectural wonders built, planned or under construction: a building in the form of a piano and glass violin, a ping pong paddle-shaped hotel, an airplane-shaped airport terminal, and a comic book museum in the form of massive 3-D speech bubbles. See article: China's Curious Architecture Plans for the Comics and Animation Museum on the drawing board in Hangzhou challenge the principles of architecture and play with design, perspective and proportion.
Netherlands-based architecture firm MVRDV designed the museum so that visitors can take in the entire circular space of each building at once. Scott Campbell. L’artiste tatoueur de New-York Scott Campbell expose ses dernières oeuvres à la galerie OhWow de Los Angeles. Intitulée « Noblesse Oblige », cette exposition dévoile des créations réalisées au laser dans des planches de billets de $1. Un rendu impressionnant à découvrir dans la suite. Hidrosalud Headquarters Offices by Cuartopensante Arquitectura.
Hardanger Retreat by Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen. By Eric • Nov 2, 2011 • Selected Work This log cabin retreat was designed and built in 2003 by Todd Saunders, principal of Saunders Architecture, in collaboration with Tommie Wilhelmsen. The 215 square foot cabin sits on a wood lot in Kjepsø, Hardanger Fjord, Norway. Hardanger Retreat by Todd Saunders: “This is our own personal project. We bought this site ourselves in order to create experimental architecture. We found a site about 2 hours drive from Bergen in Hardanger, on the edge of one of Norway’s most dramatic fjords. We are building both structures ourselves together with a carpenter. Facts about the retreat Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen together with Mats Odin Rustøy (architecture student and carpenter) built the first phase (atelier/writing room) in 2002-2003. The second phase will begin in June 2003 and will be completed in August 2003. The atmosphere of this project The project will be used a retreat for friends and ourselves in the next year.
Links. INTERVIEW: University of Maryland Wins Big at the 2011 Solar Decathlon. Here at Inhabitat we’re suckers for the Solar Decathlon — the biennial design/build competition in which university design teams from all around the globe battle it out on the National Mall in Washington DC to see who can design and build the best solar-powered home. This year’s Solar Decathlon was a nail-biter of a competition, but it was the University of Maryland team which ultimately triumphed over all the other teams with an elegant, water-conservation focused home called WaterShed. We were fascinated by this beautiful winning home, and sat down with project design lead and student designer David Gavin to find out more about how the house came together.
David is a second year Masters of Architecture student at the University of Maryland and he’s dreamed of being a Solar Decathlon contender since before he started school. This interview is brought to you by Autodesk – Removing the barriers to better business. INHABITAT: How did you get involved in the 2011 Solar Decathlon? Spaceport America by Foster + Partners. Foster + Partners have completed the world’s first space terminal for tourists in New Mexico. Flying displays by Virgin Galactic space vehicles WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo marked the opening of Spaceport America. The low-rise building is dug into the landscape beside the El Camino Real road and is entered through a cleft between the two wings. Full-height glazing wraps around the end of the building, facing onto the runway beyond. The spaceport hangar is located in the centre of the building, with administrative areas to the west and flight training and preparation areas to the east. The project was designed in collaboration with New Mexico architects SMPC and project manager URS Corporation.
Operators Virgin Galactic are currently running a test flight programme. Dezeen originally published visuals of the spaceport back in 2007 - see our earlier story here and see more stories about Virgin Galactic here. Photography is by Nigel Young, apart from where otherwise stated. See-through church, Limburg/Belgium by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh | Architecture Lab. Project Details: Location: Limburg, Belgium Type: Cultural - Public Architects: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh - www.gijsvanvaerenbergh.com Photos: Kristof Vrancken / Z33 – Mine Daelemans photo by Kristof Vrancken / Z33 The church is a part of the Z-OUT project of Z33, house for contemporary art based in Hasselt, Belgium. Z-OUT is an ambitious longterm art in public space project that will be realised on different locations in the Flemish region of Limburg over the next five years. photo by Kristof Vrancken The church is 10 meters high and is made of 100 layers and 2000 columns of steel.
The design of the church is based on the architecture of the multitude of churches in the region, but through the use of horizontal plates, the concept of the traditional church is transformed into a transparent object of art. photo by Mine Dalemans. King of the Frogs Treehouse by Baumraum. By Eric • Oct 24, 2011 • Selected Work Andreas Wenning, principal of Bremen-based studio Baumraum has sent us photos of the King of the Frogs Treehouse project. This beautiful 92 square foot contemporary treehouse and its almost 100 square foot terrace are located in a small private backyard in Münster, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Just like Solling Treehouse, King of the Frogs is not a true treehouse as it doesn’t rely on living trees for its structural support, but it is also a dream come true for its lucky owners! King of the Frogs Treehouse by Baumraum: “In a small private garden in Münster this space hovers above a flat pool, framed by high bamboo stilts.
The terrace, made of tatajuba-wood, rests on four stainless-steel stilts and is big enough to relax comfortable on it. The curved cabin in the middle of the pool is covered with a zinc-sheet and lamellas of tatajuba-wood underneath. Inside the visitors notice the big curved rooftop-window above the pale lying surface. ArchiCAD 15 - DESIGN. Commentary: Why the new Mac Pro will rock for ArchiCAD but not for Revit by Anthony Frausto-Robledo AIA, LEED AP | Architosh “Multiprocessing support is critical for the BIM database heavy processing, which involves model generation,” says Pfemeter. “And the 12 cores of the Mac Pro will also be utilized for ArchiCAD’s brand new background processing support for both data caching and populating model changes across the BIM.”Read more... Graphisoft has updated its flagship BIM modelling tool, ArchiCAD, with a host of ‘themed’ new features and enhancements.
BIM lives in the details. by AECMagazine "Every Building Information Modelling (BIM) vendor claims to be ‘BIM’, but they usually come from a 2D document-centric world and offer a far less integrated solution than the latest ArchiCAD offering. ArchiCAD 17 Goes Deep With Intelligent Building Materials by CAD Insider "ArchiCAD has been in the forefront of architecture software for some time. Product In-Depth: Looking at Graphisoft ArchiCAD 17. Shell by ARTechnic - Architecture Linked - Architect &Architectural... - StumbleUpon. Stalking a suburban&tardis - StumbleUpon. Front to Back Infill / Colizza Bruni Architecture.