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Friday 14 June, 2013
Elegant Approach to Family Home Design in Belgium: House K
Located in a quiet, wooded area, House K by GRAUX & BAEYENS Architecten offers a family refuge equipped with high living standards. The owners’ brief requested a building that would provide enough light and views, but with no compromises in privacy. A light brown/beige brick was chosen for the exterior finish, contrasted elegantly by white [...]
Sunday 03 March, 2013
Video: Louis Kahn Talks to a Brick
Click here to view the embedded video. In this jaunty little clip, Louis Kahn stresses the importance of honoring your materials to a group of students at the University of Pennsylvania. Estonia-born in 1901, Louis Kahn had a steadfast belief that all materials had their own destiny and wouldn’t tolerate any attempt to deviate from that. During the age of [...]
Saturday 02 March, 2013
Video: Louis Kahn Talks to a Brick
Click here to view the embedded video. In this jaunty little clip, Louis Kahn stresses the importance of honoring your materials to a group of students at the University of Pennsylvania. Estonia-born in 1901, Louis Kahn had a steadfast belief that all materials had their own destiny and wouldn’t tolerate any attempt to deviate from that. During the age of [...]
Sunday 06 January, 2013
The Stack Stove: Cool Masonry Heater Design by Adriano
Updating the classic Scandinavian ceramic stove, also referred to as a masonry heater, Italian company Adriano Design has come up with the Stack Stove, a chic and modern yet classic and (literally) warm take on the original. In the words of the brand itself: “Stack reinterprets the ancient tradition of ceramic stoves, through a contemporary [...]
Tuesday 01 January, 2013
Zaha Hadid Seeing Double in China
Eleven Zaha Hadid design projects are currently being construction in China, however one of them has the international architecture mogul seeing double. Unfortunately, Hadid has found herself in a race to finish the Wangjing SOHO office and retail complex in Beijing before pirates complete their doppelgänger version in Chongqing, a megacity near the eastern edge [...]
Friday 14 December, 2012
Cadogan Cafe by NEX
UK studio NEX has won a competition to design a cafe outside the Saatchi Gallery in London’s Chelsea with plans for a spiralling pavilion and rooftop garden. The Cadogan Cafe will be constructed in the Duke of York Square beside the gallery’s brick perimeter wall, which originally formed the perimeter of a nineteenth century army barracks. NEX drew inspiration from [...]
Tuesday 04 December, 2012
Passive House School Winning Proposal / Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture
Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture (KKA) shared with us their winning proposal for Nya Kollaskolan, which is expected to be the largest passive-house school in Sweden, as well as one of the largest passive house buildings in the country. A centerpiece in the new Kollastaden area in the center of Kungsbacka, the school will supplement the existing [...]