Beauvoir Residence is a modern two-storey dwelling located in Malibu, California. The home is situated on a mountainous area surrounded by natural vegetation and has been designed by architect Bruce Bolander. Constructed with a large expanse of glass walls, residents can enjoy views of the spectacular landscape. The open plan concept features concrete floors, high ceilings and plenty of natural daylight.
The water retention tank is surrounded by a reflective pool, where it stands on top of a hill overlooking the town of Egilsstadir. The tank is clad in Cor-Ten steel, with a larch outer layer which adds depth and ever-changing shadow effects to the steel surface.
On June 23, 2011 the Greenhouse Pavilion was officially opened. A pavilion which is built around the theme of meeting. Studio Elmo Vermijs was commisioned by Landart 2011 (initiated by Groene Woud and BKKC) to create a meetingplace nearby a farm in Sint Oedenrode, the Netherlands. The pavilion was built almost entirely of residuals from the local company’s and refers to the many greenhouses present in the surrounding. To date, many organized activities, from a spontanious picnic to storytelling, from business meeting to educational projects. Until the end of September, the Greenhouse Pavilion” can be booked through www.landkunst.nl
As infrastructures inhabit and even dominate today’s cities, it is time to accept and give them value. While composed of a poetic vocabulary of sinuous curves and evoking the picturesque, infrastructures have been dedicated to the automobile. Why not offer the richness of this language to pedestrians? Why not organize an open dialectic between vehicles and pedestrians?
The sum of abandoned roads, a non-place with a degraded identity, the site is a territory in mutation, with formidable potential owing to its constituent elements; but it requires transformation in order to construct a strong identity.
Seeking a desert haven, the Engel’s relocated to Scottsdale several years ago from the East Coast. After purchasing a residence built in the late 80’s, an extensive renovation and addition was in order. As the house doubles as the Engel’s office and design studio, the addition includes a gallery and art studio that wraps around a large existing mesquite tree. The tree provides shading for the large expanses of glazing incorporated into the design.
In approaching the design for this 10,000 sq ft townhouse, every attempt was made to deliver an understated, elegant backdrop to clients’ extraordinary collection of twentieth century post-war art.
Given the national importance of the public space issues and the opportunity they present in promoting the city of Soverato, the new project aims to find a solution for city areas which will hopefully enhance the quality of urban life. On the other hand, it aims to establish a strong link with the dynamics of contemporary society through functional solutions that meet the needs of the day and night activities of the neighborhood. The building attempts to revive an entire urban area through a series of coordinated actions, implementing the best design solution that combines the diverse needs of rationalization of traffic and the revitalization of commercial, industrial and cultural sites.
House 20 presents a series of blades cantilevering over a bronze wall; pushing and pulling. A grassy knoll rises out of the earth below, being drawn up towards the jostling blades, and partially veiling the building’s elevation and under croft from the street’s vantage point. Below this point of arrival and shelter the offset rhythm and warmth of the bronze wall reveals itself.
Article source:Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos – Acciona Ingeniería
TEMPORARY JOINT VENTURE
RAFAEL DE LA-HOZ ARQUITECTOS – ACCIONA INGENIERIA
“Possibly the project could be understood like a big horizontal altarpiece which lights up, protects and informs” – Rafael de La-Hoz.
We propose a Station that pretends to be a real Terminus Station. Consequently it is not a place just to pass through, but a place where the passengers change their rate of movement and where the city of Huelva introduces itself to the traveller as well as the place where the city sees him off.
Article source: Carles Sala from SALA FERUSIC Architects, Barcelona
The Mas Rodó winery consists of a refurbishment and transformation of an agricultural warehouse built in the seventies on top of an old Catalan cottage of the XVIII century, where the structure remained and the intervention focused on defining an image and conditioning the space for a contemporary wine production.
Over an original masonry skirting, the new wooden and steel façade redefines the volume of the building and takes comfort among nature and history. A system of double skin temperates the interior of the wine-producing room to optimize the control in must’s fermentation, as well as it minimizes the energy consumption; while the thickness of the old stone wall provides great humidity and temperature conditions for wine-aging. Two volumes brake the opacity of the building and relate the exterior and the interior, that is, the vineyard and the wine: the window of the tasting room in the south, over the fields, and the porche in the west, for the entrance for grape harvest. Covered in corten steel, both inject the interior with brightness and landscape through a spring-like Pantone 375C colour.
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