Modern design
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about modern design
Project • By Mojo Stumer Associates • Banks
Bank of Smithtown- Huntington
Big financial institutions are crumbling all around yet, Long Island community banks are growing at a seemingly rapid rate, offering shelter from the storm; a fiscal salvation, so to speak. Specifically, The Bank of Smithtown has opened over 20 branches in both Nassau and Suffolk counties, in the past few years, with more then another 20 currently under construction or in the planning process. Our firm is credited with over 30% of Long Island’s commercial buildings in the past 30 years. There is safety in numbers; our vision for Long Island, in conjunction with the expansion of local banking and commercial square footage growing, ensures that the residents of Long Island are in good hands. The Bank of Smithtown bank set out to develop a nei... More
Project • By Cass Calder Smith Architecture + Interiors • Housing
Mill Valley Residence
This 5,000-square-foot house in Mill Valley was designed as a home for an empty-nester couple. The site was the inspiration and the guiding element for the architecture: vast views of Mt. Tamalpais, intimate connections to groves of redwood trees, and a steep incline. Given its location, stepping up the hillside and squeezed between redwoods, the home is stratified into three levels.The lower floor is built into the hillside, while the upper two are open to daylight and views.
The first floor includes the garage, entry, painting studio, gallery, and guest quarters. The entry is a two-story space with a staircase leading up to the second floor—the main living level--which connects to the outside with views in many directions. This double... More
Project • By KUBE Architecture • Private Houses
Salt and Pepper House
The Owners, a couple in their mid-70's, purchased this home to start their lives together. They got engaged after they bought the house, and got married in the house while it was under construction. They love to cook and collect art, so the palette of white walls and black steel is both a metaphor for salt and pepper, as well as a setting for framing their artwork. Pops of color highlight the colors in their art collection.The house is organized around a central corecontaining service spaces, which creates a seamless flow along the perimeter, with major spaces facing front and back. The existing house was stripped down to its basic elements: brick walls, structural framing members, and outdoor space. The rear second floor was removed to cre... More
Project • By Itai Palti • Apartments
Apartment in Ramat Gan
Located in Ramat Gan, neighbouring Tel Aviv, this apartment renovation prioritises an open and social spatial arrangement for family life to play out.
Our clients required a solution for clearing out as many divisions as possible in the apartment, whilst maintaining plenty of storage space. The central feature of the design answers to both of these needs; creating a single divider between the living space and sleeping quarters that serves as storage for different parts of the home.
The divider is angled in plan so as to stretch the living area towards the back of the apartment where the entrance is located, allowing to arrive directly into the open space. The large volume of storage is dispersed with pockets of living plants, the la... More
Product • By Jacobs Woodworks • Drum pedestal
Drum pedestal
This wood-and-steel display pedestal is the perfect base for a cherished art piece or a decorative vase in a contemporary home. This model is available in Claro Walnut or Figured Maple with hot-rolled steel legs.
Dimensions:
15 1/4″w x 14″d x 32″h
Display top 14″ x 14″ @32″h
Weight:
50 lbs
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Product • By Jacobs Woodworks • Floating pedestal
Floating pedestal
The geometric structure of this Floating Display Pedestal offers a new perspective from each angle it is viewed. From head-on, the top wood piece actually does look like it's floating, but viewed from the side, the strength of the vertical steel becomes a beautiful focal point. Industrial, modern, clean and yet under-stated in its elegance, this Floating Display Pedestal allows the art piece that sits atop it to truly shine.
Dimensions:
18”w x 17”d x 31”h
Display top 16” x 16” @ 28”h
Weight:
40 lbs
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Product • By Jacobs Woodworks • Cantilevered pedestal
Cantilevered pedestal
Show off your fine art collection with this Cantilevered Display Pedestal. Understated but elegant, the wood base and ultra-thin steel overhang will draw attention to anything that sits atop it. This is one design in a series of pedestal models created in my woodworking shop in San Diego, California.
Dimensions:
18”w x 19 ?”d x 28”h
Display top 18” x 18” @ 28”h
Weight:
60 lbs
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Project • By Whipple Russell Architects • Private Houses
Summit House
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Our clients for this project were a family intent upon staying closely connected even while moving to a considerably larger home. This was accomplished with the use of energy efficient glass walls throughout, an open floor plan, and sight lines between floating levels and rooms allowing the family members to stay connected visually throughout the space.
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They also had a passion for modernism and had collected art pieces that we included in our 3D models to make sure scale and placement were considered.
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One of the owners is a well-known sports agent making the entertaining of adults as well as teenage children and their friends... More
Project • By Whipple Russell Architects • Private Houses
Laurel Way
William MacCollum
One aesthetic idea driving the creation of Laurel Way was that each room or space should be a jewel box, an individually conceived, precisely functional and dramatic sensory experience with its own depth of architecture. Central to the composition are many of Marc Whipple’s signature elements, one being the use of texture; smooth next to rough stone, rich wooden panels against glass, and glass reflecting water.
The immediate experience upon entering the house is its inherent weightlessness – the sense that the walls appear to float as panels and you are always connected to the outdoors. This is achieved with adherence to precise symmetry of beams, support panels, tiles, and sightlines, and also th... More
Project • By Planika • Apartments
Private Residence by Tomasz Tubisz (Cubic Projekt)
We have recently interviewed a successful architect and interior designer – Tomasz Tubisz from Cubic Projekt, about his work, including the private residence in Bialystok, which was one of his most exciting and difficult projects. Inspired by the work of Robert Konieczny and other professionals, the architect is also keen on avant-garde and modernism, which he wishes to show in his own projects.
As the aim was to create a superb, timeless house, that the investors would not like to change at any point, the interiors had to be really unique and functional. Expanding the 300m2 house into a luxurious, 600m2 residence was even more demanding, as it assumed implementing a 3-metre-long fireplace. Fortunately, they gave the architect their full... More
Project • By Maki and Associates • Research Facilities
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Media Laboratory was formed in 1980 out of the work of MIT’s Architectural Machine Group and was built upon the seminal work of the faculty, which included a variety of research disciplines including cognition, learning, music, graphic design, video and holography. The lab has pioneered a research environment where academia and industry collaborate and has cultivated a culture built around cross disciplinary research groups much in the spirit and vitality of architectural “ateliers.” The success of the school now depends on a major expansion project that provides additional space for expanding research as well as spaces that will support and intensify the interaction among the Media Lab community. The new Media Lab Building provides... More
Project • By Rafael Viñoly Architects PC • Research Facilities
Howard hughes medical institute
Seizing an opportunity for institutional expansion in 2001, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) initiated a competition for master planning solutions to create a state-of-the-art research campus—including laboratories, a conference center and hotel facility, and on-site housing—intended to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration in order to advance medical science. Rafael Viñoly Architects’ solution delivered an environmentally and technologically advanced collection of buildings integrated within a pastoral setting.
HHMI’s Janelia Farm Research Campus sits on 689 acres bounded by forest on two sides, within a sloping hillside and generous views of the Potomac River and the verdant Maryland fields beyond. Set into this tranquil p... More