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Project • By BJ Arquitectes AssociatsHousing

Gavà mar house

The house is structured around a central patio. A complex series of intertwined visuals between the interior and the exterior enrich the building's relationship with its environment. The central patio also functions as an extension of the interior area, annexed by the facade that surrounds it. Pedro Pegenaute Pedro Pegenaute Meanwhile the wooden solar protection on the exterior allows to regulate the relationship with the street, allowing the preservation of the building's intimacy. Pedro Pegenaute Pedro Pegenaute The rest of the facade is finished with a big format ceramic tile used to create a ventilated facade that regulates the climatic conditions of comfort. The same format is used for the exterior doors and the r... More
Villa PANORAMAH by ARK - Manuel Ruiz Moriche
Villa PANORAMAH by ARK - Manuel Ruiz Moriche
Villa PANORAMAH by ARK - Manuel Ruiz Moriche
Villa PANORAMAH by ARK - Manuel Ruiz Moriche
Villa PANORAMAH by ARK - Manuel Ruiz Moriche

Project • By ARK ArchitectsPrivate Houses

Villa PANORAMAH

Welcome to a light and pure look villa in La Reserva, inspired by the vibrant mediterranean nature that surrounds us and designed to meet all your hopes and dreams for life. With excellent craftsmanship, durable materials and tailor-made design. Caption A masterpiece by Manuel Ruiz Moriche, the architect who has won the hearts of international clients. Villa Panoramah has the best panoramic views of Sotogrande, Gibraltar, Africa and the Mediterranean Sea.A villa designed to be enjoyed at any time of the year.With natural materials of the highest standard, modern sophistication makes its appearance in every corner of the Villa. Caption Caption Living in a luxurious villaWith an area of 1.400 SQM which is expandable it is th... More

Project • By CCBA DesignsAuditoriums

CEPT University - New Academic Block

Originally from the USA, celebrated Indian Architect and Planner, Prof. Benninger's architectural journey mirrors the life of a dedicated scholar. His firm 'CCBA Designs' based in Pune, is a multi-disciplinary design company renowned for its innovative and contextually sensitive creations. Since its inception, the firm has created a great number of institutions around the world, harbouring the identity and symbolic relationship between the built environment and the social fabric. Their latest endeavour brings them back to Benninger’s beginnings in India.  Ashish Bhonde & Ramprasad Akkisetti Ashish Bhonde & Ramprasad Akkisetti The Symbolic Endeavour: New Academic Block in CEPT University Located adjacent to the... More

Project • By BLA Design GroupPrivate Houses

Nanton House

The Nanton Residence is a modern brick home located in Vancouver, Canada. Designed for a large multi-generational family, this residence makes a bold statement from its position on a highly visible corner lot next to Vancouver’s Arbutus Greenway. The house is a collaborative project between Wiedemann Architectural and an emerging studio, BLA Design Group. The practise of BLA Design Group is built around an approach to architecture in which each project is led by the unique conditions of both the local and site-specific context, as well as the idiosyncratic needs of each client. The Nanton residence embodies these objectives as it comprises a series of large terraces which integrate into a long sloping site, and feature sweeping views... More

Project • By Franta GroupHousing

Vidok

Silesia, as a boldly changing European region, has gained a completely new skyline in recent years. It is a mine of untapped potential in the context of housing development, where opening to the panorama of the Katowice city may become an unrivaled asset. VIDOK opens up to the new face of Katowice City, transferring its energy to the outskirts and is a starting point for the further development of the city in this area. It was inspired by the correlation between the exposition of the existing urban landscape and the creation of a new important point on the panorama of Katowice. Caption Caption This is the next step in creating the silhouette of the Silesian metropolis while maintaining harmony between the created and original arc... More

Project • By Cotaparedes ArquitectosPrivate Houses

La Piedad

The name of La Piedad alludes to the city of La Piedad, Michoacán and pain like Michelangelo's Pietà. On a plot of 10 meters wide by 35 meters deep, equal to the proportion of the Gilardi house by Luis Barragán, and with a topography with a drop of 3 meters, the house is articulated through patios that emerge from the basement dividing the areas public and private house. César Béjar The piece, stereotomic, raises its walls wrapping itself in an introspective architecture, where the relationship between the interior and the exterior exists, but is not completely evident. The project arises from the basement, due to the owners' interest in having a social area so that their children can enjoy convivi... More

Project • By KUBE ArchitectureResidential Landscape

Casa Blanco

A young couple, in anticipation of starting a family, desired a new family home that reflected their cultural background and individual taste. He was Spanish, and was drawn to black and white minimalism. She was Mexican, and wanted splashes of color in a modern home. Caption Caption Their existing home in the Maryland suburbs was small and dark, and did not take advantage of the views to the green parkway behind it.  The design solution included razing the existing house, keeping the basement, and building a new 2 story home with a double height living space open to views and abundant natural light. Flanking the living space on two sides are kitchen, and TV lounge on the main level and bedrooms on the upper level.  C... More

Project • By shenakhteh studioShops

ara residential building

local settlements in northern Iran formed by a simple adaptation of the nature, geography and climate of that region. The local architecture of this place is so intertwined with nature and in harmony with the climate that it can be called naturalistic architecture. We are looking to redefining the region's former architecture, which needs protection, into today's language. CGHUNTER Unique properties: Extroverted architecture is a solution that is necessary to respond to the hot and humid climate of the location of this project. But in Iranian culture, introverted architecture is unavoidable therefore, in this residential apartment where several families live together and also have common spaces, providing a response to introversion an... More

Project • By Prashant Parmar ArchitectPrivate Houses

Floating Garden House

The spatial organisation of the house is derived from the level of privacy required as per the function of the space. Here, the Ground floor houses the office area, a multi-purpose space and a room for saint. So basically the main house activities starts from first floor and reflects in the elevation, as if the house is floating. The first floor has all the common areas like formal drawing room, living room, kitchen, dining space, family sitting, guest room & Parents room. The other two floors are kept more private, and each floor is dedicated to each son and his family, accommodating the master bedroom, kid’s rooms, study and huge terrace gardens.Except for the list of space requirements, the clients gave the architect a fre... More

Project • By shenakhteh studioPrivate Houses

torkamandeh villa

Inspired by the pattern of Iranian gardens and the study of their evolution, axes have been created which pavilion have appeared as the intersection of those axes. different type of the Persian garden combined and duplicated in two levels of the project and create a whole unit as an abstract shape of the modern garden. Creating similarities with the architecture of Iranian gardens means reduction based on its deep structure.  First we want to learn how to see what was not present in a building. In this project we do not want to describe what audience could actually see. Rather, we want to see what ideas were implied by what was physically present. In other words, we are less concerned about the optical, what the eye sees, and more for... More

Project • By dito architects and interiorsPrivate Houses

House at Tanguile Street

The site of the house is Located in 180 square meter lot with 30% slope at a gated community in Quezon City, Philippines, a modern house that looked like a stack of white, charcoal gray, and wooden boxes capped of with a gambrel roof. The exterior white walls of the house created a stark contrast with the dark colored paint & wooden walls. The roof fascia and the eaves were in the shade of charcoal gray almost black. The mix of verticals in the form of walls, columns and windows had been balanced of with the horizontal elements of the wood cladding and the carefully placed horizontal slit windows.  The main door, visible from the road, made of horizontal panels, with a solid vertical panel on the opening side accentuated simply by... More

Project • By MG2Offices

Corporate Campus Food Hall

Posed with an aging cafeteria space, the client approached MG2 with the goal of creating an eight-venue restaurant space on par with the best modern food halls anywhere in the world. Modeled to reflect the approachable industrial feel of the existing structure and the forest-scape along the perimeter of the new space, MG2 set to work creating an outside-in experience for our client’s on-campus corporate guests. This new restaurant includes the design of an extended footprint and an elevated roofline that further enhances the outside-in experience. The MG2 Retail Studio created several “from-scratch” brands (complete with separate design languages for each as well as logos and environmental graphic design) to reflect a wid... More

Project • By ARK ArchitectsPrivate Houses

Villa Mozart

Marbella mansions in Sierra BlancaImposing Volumes emerge on a plot in the hills of the prestigious urbanization of Sierra Blanca, Marbella. Winning views of the Mediterranean Sea are one of the special features of this picture-perfect contemporary mansion. A state of the art living sculpture where an appealing geometry architecture meets an undeniable sophistication, resulting a masterfully crafted house. Scrupulously focused on elegance and functionality, the villa’s overall aesthetics and interior design have an outstanding individual character. Purity and unexpected contrasts, fine materials and intricate details create the personality of this home. Cozy and intimate spaces become open and airy thank to the floor to ceiling windo... More

Project • By A.J ArchitectsOffices

Building Materials boutique

Building materials boutique is a boutique of different kind of building materials. The material ranges from clay and resin mixed tiles to solid acrylic surfaces to cement fiber boards to P.V.C laminates. We have categorized the different building materials in different segment. The design language is a cool transition from rustic feel to contemporary lines. This is done to cohesively blend the varying nature and contextual application of the different materials. Clay tile in conjuction with solid acrylic surfaces draws attention of the customers from the entrance. The "C" shaped solid acrylic surface piers forms the intresting pattern for the conference table. The play of design and usage of the products not restricted only to the walls bu... More

Project • By Tomecek Studio ArchitectureHousing

RiNo Live Work

Boasting the moniker “the place where art is made” the RiNo art district was solidified in 2005 by a group of thriving local artists. With the recent influx of multifamily development, storefronts and amenities to the area, a new dialogue has emerged between the rugged, self made arts district and the new urban “hot spot”. Staring the possibility of transition in the face, two longtime artists and residents fought to protect the qualities of that cornerstone atmosphere.   Consisting of two single family homes and on-site gallery/workshop spaces, the RiNo Tandem project sets out with the intention to protect the existing neighborhood culture. Conceptualized as one vertical unit and one horizontal unit, both home... More