The corner property located on a southern slope above the village of Purkersdorf offers a wonderful view of the Vienna Woods.
The upper floor was built in timber construction and completely covered with white fir. It encloses a courtyard with terrace and natural pool on the hillside and opens to the south over a spacious loggia.
The sleeping areas are located in the massive part on the slope side and also have a covered terrace with garden access. The building is heated by a heat pump. In addition to renewable raw materials, numerous recycled materials were used.
The house was designed for a couple (he businessman, she housewife) with two children.
The idea was to greatly value leisure and socializing areas. It is a project of 560m2 that we developed from the beginning, also in a horizontal condominium.
The house has a feature that closely approximates Modernist architecture, which are these lines more straight and minimalist.
We called the house of Cobogó because one of the façades, which opened onto the street, was framed with this “Cobogó Casa”, which is also a drawing of the architect.
The lower part of the house (ground floor) is all integrated with a large investment in the gourmet and leisure area – pool, beach and sauna.
It arises from the idea of creating an architectural object of sculptural character, defying gravity, suspended in the air.
It is materialized with a large “block” of exposed concrete, with a surprising presence for the human eye.
Detached house, implanted in a corner, located in a suburban neighborhood of the city of La Plata.
It is a house of permanent use for 2 (two) people, with children who visit for what is required two bedrooms, and friends who frequent, for this the house requires a more ¨ sporadic ¨ a S.U.M.
The program called for a home for a family of six in an infill lot. The clients wished for a modern dwelling that would embrace their lifestyle, incorporate the landscape and provide a harmonious backdrop to the modern art and furnishings which they have collected over the years.
The site is flanked by single family homes and is located across the street from the neighborhood school. The design of the home aimed to provide privacy from the school street and maximize the site’s potential for private outdoor living spaces.
Bedrock House is a sequestered house for one, for two, for a couple; a house which draws its power and identity from the energy of its location and its own particular scheme. The house absorbs the natural context into which it is placed: the Mediterranean landscape, the topography of the ground, the unobstructed vista of the sea, and employs them as generators of a specific architecture. Situated in the woods, the house becomes a confluence of three different biotopes: the preexisting oak forest, the craggy Mediterranean garden with its plants and the large stretch of water – the pool – all surrounded by palm trees.
The hotel, which reopens under ME by Melia, will be replete in the style associated with the brand, and at the same time bring new life and splendour to this historic establishment.
The Barcelonese studio Lagranja Design has carried out the transformation of this historic building, which is situated on the Sitges esplanade. Artisan materials have inspired the interior and creative processes, in order to create one-off pieces of contemporary style that still maintain a traditional quality.
It is said that it was in Sitges that the Spanish term ‘chiringuito’ (open-air beach bar) first appeared, a concept imported by returning émigrés from Cuba during an epoch in which artists and the avant-garde where inspired by the town’s light and charm. The first Hotel Terramar (now the ME Sitges Terramar) opened its doors in the 1930s, when tourism here was dominated by the chattering classes. Back then, the establishment had extensive gardens and formal salons, of which very few architectural details remain. Mass tourism of the 1960s brought on another transformation, which converted the hotel into a beach holiday resort typical of the period. One of the challenges for Lagranja Design was to return the lost spirit of grandeur to the hotel, and at the same time respect the identity and signature touches of the ME by Melia brand, along with creating a contemporary new leisure experience by the Mediterranean.
Perched atop a Bel Air hilltop, Orum is a three-level, 18,800-square-foot home designed to subtly “float” above its environs.
Given its prominent positioning above a relatively developed neighborhood, the motivation behind the design of the home was to create a residence that could meld into its surroundings while maximizing views. The three-story structure, which takes on the shape of a three-winged propeller, is wrapped in glass that mirrors its sweeping views of the Los Angeles Basin, unobstructed from the Getty Center to Long Beach, Century City, and Downtown.
The clients, a couple who spend most of the year sailing on a sailboat through the Mediterranean islands, ask us to design a house in a condominium near a small village of the northeast of Brazil.
Their only conditions were that we should stick to the budget and it should be finished in only 10 months.
Given the limited time granted for design and construction, a simple volume with the rooms is proposed and connected by bridges to an outdoor living area, paved in stone as the traditional Portuguese sidewalks. This living area is protected laterally by two local- stone walls and shaded by a wooden roof.
The Treetops House, located on Austin’s west side, is a renovation and major expansion of a 1955 suburban ranch house. The original house (designed by Page Sullivan Page in the ‘50’s) was very typical for its time and place—a sprawling single-story, fairly nondescript affair that had small windows, and was clad entirely in Texas limestone. The challenge was to turn this into a modern house that was open, bright, and inviting, while not completely obliterating all traces of what had existed before. The new composition is one which is clearly of its time, but also respects and reflects the time and place in which the original house was created.
The project brief was unusual, to say the least: “Ensure me freedom in my advanced years.”
In 2013, an elderly citizen sought out the services of Gary Conrath. Both knew each other well since Indesign had conceived and constructed the co-property building where the woman had been living for a decade. The third storey dwelling was no longer suitable for her. She wanted to live at ground level, in an environment designed to meet her anticipated future needs.
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