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small, cool prefabs: a floating home/office and a retreat, aero 11 design 2007-11-21 12:23:25
A couple of years ago I ran across the Airship Series of prefabs from Aero 11 Design on MocoLoco, and while the “Home” design
is cool, my head was turned by the other two designs offered by the firm: the “Office” and the “Retreat”. I seem to recall seeing the floating home/office
on the last page of Dwell magazine a few years back….? Whatever. These are awesome.
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farm houses: the new style, by neill heath 2007-11-20 14:16:41
The house on the cover of this beautiful book is The Freeman House, by Wayne Branum and Meghan Kell Cornell.
Get the book: Farm Houses: the New Style
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wis tavern building, frank and lisa mauceri 2007-11-20 12:52:24
The Wis Tavern Building, Frank and Lisa Mauceri’s renovated home (and office of their company, Smog Veil Records) is the first LEED-H Gold Certified home in Illinois. It has everything: geothermal heating and cooling, solar panels and wind turbines up on the amazing looking green roof, efficient appliances, and using recycled materials throughout the building, have managed to create an absolutely beautiful home. Adaptive reuse at its best.
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architecture roundup, november 30 2007-11-30 15:19:08
“Feels like a treehouse” … Architects Steven Isaacs and Lisa Saville wanted to disturb no wildlife when building their home, even building around a council protected tree that pierces the rear deck. Via Sydney Morning Herald
Stuart Tanner Architects’ partially-prefabbed Pirates Bay House in remote Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania @ Architectural Record.
Iván Bravo’s zinc-clad offices for Ecopellets, via Plataforma Arquitectura
“A Black Box Among the Georgians”: Ed’s Shed, by David Adjaye, in The New York Times.
Buttrick Wong’s renovation of a small house overlooking San Francisco Bay, originally designed in 1950 by Wally Reemeling. Awesome.
SplitLevel.net: modern updating of the classic Split Level, the Raised Ranch, the Bi-Level, the…… Splanch? Via Reclaimed Home
material and product roundup, november 30 2007-11-30 11:05:43
Portola Paints and Glazes - Old World paints, limewashes, Roman clays and glazes.
Tradical® Hemcrete products are comprised of a unique blend of specially prepared hemp shiv (Tradical® HF) and a special lime based binder (Tradical® HB); which together form a bio-composite building material
. The hemp, which forms the key element in these products, is grown and harvested in the UK. You can spray it, cast it in place, or use it in block form. Awesome. Another link.
Leather Stair Treads from Interior Leather Surfaces. The company uses a computer controlled etching knife to engrave any design or image directly on the leather surface.
Lunabrite from Marcolina Design, Inc. is a patent-pending, earth friendly light source that is completely rechargeable and does not require batteries or electricity. Lunabrite’s linear rope of bright blue/green light can be used as an elegant design accent and safety feature in many applications. Safe and non-toxic, it can be used around children
the aalto house, aino and alvar aalto 2007-11-29 10:25:32
The Aalto House, Helsinki, Finland. Built: 1935-36. This was the home of Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto and his wife, Aino Marsio-Aalto. Mrs. Aalto played a significant role in the design of this house, and contributed to many other projects as well.
We wanted to make the best use in a private house of natural lighting, the orientation of the terraces and the different rooms, shelters from the wind and so on, so because of our climate, we were obliged to adopt a complex solution with a lot of external walls. This required more thorough investigation of the insulating properties of the external walls… Different wall finishings have been used in the interiors, such as fabric, non-woven fibrous rugs and wood. The floors are wood strip or linoleum, laid directly on the concrete. Cantilevered floor slabs are insulated inside and out. The external insulation is clad with corrugated sheets.
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earthbag building: the sun house in haiti 2007-11-28 13:04:45
I am an avid reader of Kelly Hart’s blog, Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture, and recently he started a separate site called Earthbag Building which I am hugely interested in (as some of you may have noticed already ). I just ran across a recent project, The Sun House ( Kay Sole in Creole), built in Haiti, which appeals to me for several reasons: 1. The walls are fabricated from poly bags which carried bulk diet staples such as wheat, rice and barley, and rather than being disposed of, filled with earth become free building materials. 2. Haiti is desperate for safe and sound housing, and given that Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, why not utilize a free commodity? 3. Not the least of which, the house has a Modern look! Aside from the trullo style, most Earthbag projects look a little too hippie-ish for me The fact remains, this is one of the best methods of building I’ve ever seen, especially for poor and developing countries.
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modrocks tile by modwalls 2007-11-27 14:15:05
ModRocks Recycled Glass Pebbles: 100% Recycled Clear Glass Pebble Tile
Consumer bottles are crushed into small pieces, tumbled and then mesh mounted onto 12″ by 12″ interlocking sheets. These are 100% recycled glass, and since there is no melting involved, very little energy is used in the production process. The clear color plays well with whatever light source is available, and they pick up grout and surrounding colors beautifully. The example shown is grouted with pure white grout. Ideal for wet and dry areas both indoor and outdoor including floors, pools and spas.
ModRocks Natural Pebble Mosaics
Terrific natural look indoors and out for floors, walls, showers, backsplashes, fireplace surrounds, walkways, pools and spas. Sold by mesh mounted square foot sheets which interlock to easily fit together for a smooth installation.
Modwalls
Related: modwalls at materialicious
shipping container architecture: lab zero 2007-11-27 12:04:54
Lab Zero’s site is not really up and running at the moment, but Geoff Manaugh @ BLDGBLOG wrote a great post recently, Mobile Minimalism, that I enjoyed reading (more photos, too). This is some wicked cool stuff.
two interiors by specht harpman 2007-11-27 11:30:00
I like these two interiors by Specht Harpman - they are an exercise in restraint in the use of materials. Elegantly simple. The first five shots are of the Amon Bregman Residence, the last four are of the Eiche Residence. I love the last shot of the bathroom with the grey penny tiles. Lovely.
Scott Specht is the designer of the zeroHouse, by the way…
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hammond residence, architectus 2007-11-27 10:27:41
Hammond Residence, Cooran, QLD, Australia. Built: 1994. A house overlooking the Pacific, designed and built to resist cyclones, utilizing many prefabbed and precut components, as well as a ‘fin wall’ bracing system.
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architecture roundup, december 7 2007-12-07 16:37:15
Hermit Cabins by Arvesund, via Julie Lindahl by way of Shedworking Also: urnature and Hotel Furillen
Richard Barnwall’s amazing Linx Shipping Container Shelter @ Coroflot
Casa 22 (photo 1) & Casa 23 (photo 2), Izquierdo Lehmann, via Eye Candy
Bill Krisel’s House for Bobby Darin (1955) is for sale by Sotheby’s (lots of great photos), via MidCentury Architecture Blog on Squidoo
Reading Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter @ The Slow Home
Great bunch of photos of Oscar Niemeyer’s Casa das Canoas, from Grupo O
Related: Casa das Canoas, Oscar Niemeyer at materialicious
stair/storage, voet-theuns architecten 2007-12-07 14:14:08
I love this very creatively designed freestanding stair/storage
unit for a student’s room. Looks like it goes up to a loft bed?
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material and product roundup, december 7 2007-12-07 12:35:38
Do It Yourself Staircase Storage from Canadian Home Workshop, via Freshome. So cool.
It’s My Hippie Kid In A Box! Ken Isaacs’ Living Structures @ Daddy Types (thanks, Greg!)
Historic House Parts: Architectural Antiques & Salvage, Restoration Supplies, etc. Be sure to see their Bookstore. Nice.
Stucco Italiano Plaster: Comprehensive line of natural, lime-based plasters imported from Italy. Shop non-toxic lime plasters: marmorino carrara, marmorino classic, velvet marmorino, marmorino for the floor, tadelakt, intonachino, dilavato. The finest paints, primers, waxes, and topcoats. Accessories and professional tools for every job. Venetian plaster projects from inception to completion.
How to Strip Paint from Brownstone Woodwork, from the Hawthorne Street blog, via Reclaimed Home. Good little guide.
Standing Pebble Tiles and much more, from Natural Stone Outlet
Erin Adams Design, Inc. Among the very best of all the custom glass mosaics tile lines. Distributed by Ann Read more:material
urban weehouse 2007-12-06 15:08:07
The first Weehouse built in a major city is for sale. It’s located on a mature wooded lot in Linden Hills, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, a heated tuck-under garage, and many floor-to-ceiling windows. A terrific example of green prefab architecture.
There will be a Holiday Open House on December 14, 2007, 4pm to 7pm - address is 4221 Ewing Avenue South in Minneapolis. For more info, contact owner/realtor Brian Oeschger
brianoeschger@gmail.com
Urban Weehouse
Alchemy Architects / Weehouse
ancram studio, mos office 2007-12-05 16:42:31
Ancram Studio, Ancram, New York. 6,000sf studio commissioned by the artist Terry Winters.
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dairy house, charlotte skene catling 2007-12-05 14:59:25
Dairy House, Somerset, England. Winner of an award from the Royal Institute of British Architects for regional architecture in 2007: This architectural delight involved the creative conversion of an old rural dairy into a five bedroom house. Using local labour and materials, the house is clad in estate oak, stack-dried in the farmyard: a technique that suggests the design, raw planks separated by spacers allowing air circulation. The structural expression between old and new creates a 2-storey steel and glass threshold up to the roof valley gutter. It is only as the visitor climbs the stair into the extension that the sectional manipulation of the house on the side of a hill is apparent; the first floor landing expands through a glass wall to an indented court holding a rock enclosed spa-pool.
This project is also on the shortlist for the Bombay Sapphire Prize, for its innovative use of glass.
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floating boathouse and sleeping cottage, mos office 2007-12-05 14:18:24
Floating Boathouse and Sleeping Cottage, on an island in Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada. Back in June I wrote a post on this floating boathouse, and I was lamenting that I had no idea who designed and built it, nor even where it was. Troll around the Interweb long enough, it’s amazing what you’ll find…. Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of MOS designed this floating boathouse and the sleeping cottage
as part of a ‘master plan’ - not shown is the existing (?) main house. I’ve been up in that area before - it’s gorgeous!
First up is the boathouse, then the sleeping cottage, then the photos from the original post. All links are included at the end of this post, including the link to the Flickr slideshow detailing the build of the boathouse. Lots of photos…. Enjoy.
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ar awards for emerging architecture 2007 2007-12-04 15:20:37
The annual ar Awards for Emerging Architecture 2007 have been announced. The list includes the winners, highly commended, and commended entries, as well as honourable mentions. The Jury for 2007 was Shirley Blumberg (KPMB, Toronto), Jo Noero (Cape Town), Peter Davey (Former Editor of The Architectural Review), Shuhei Endo (Osaka), Peter Cook (London), and Paul Finch (Editor of The Architectural Review and Chairman).
Below are three of my favorites: the Wall House by Frohn & Rojas (posted here a while back), G House by Seiji Kamayachi & Masafumi Harigai, and the amazing Ghost House by DATAR.
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tiny buildings, cardstock memories 2007-12-18 11:10:37
Sharon Mount’s blog, Tiny Buildings, showcases her amazing collection of tiny buildings handcrafted from business cards, packaging and other nice papers. I am very touched by the history behind them, Cardstock Memories…
(“Sometimes you just have to build something and all you have is a pile of business cards.” - Thanks, Lorna!)
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shaker house condominium 2007-12-18 09:57:58
Shaker House Condominium is a six unit project located at 464 Hancock Street in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Inspired by the Shaker Village in Hancock, Massachusetts, each unit incorporates elements of Shaker design. The painstakingly renovated homes are a perfect blend of function and form, featuring top quality cabinets, hand crafted inset storage closets in every bedroom, wide plank pine flooring, period authentic bathroom fixtures, and historically accurate windows. All of the units have either a separate storage space or adjoining recreation room on the basement level and access to two shared courtyards.
One thing is for sure: you do a project like this, your woodworking skills better be up to snuff. Lots more good stuff at the site: Shaker House Condominium. Look, they even have Antonio Citterio’s Shaker Woodstoves installed in the units!
kitchen one by rotor 2007-12-17 18:47:52
I love stuff like this: Kitchen One is a project by Lionel Devlieger in collaboration with Eric Van den Broucke. The paneling of the cupboards for this kitchen is made out of laser-cut plywood, an industrial leftover from a company that specialized in die-cutting cardboard for the packaging of luxury-goods. The wooden boards were used as punching-plates for punching out the shape of unfolded boxes from large sheets of cardboard. They had to extract the razor-sharp knives from the slits before being able to saw the boards. See more photos at the site: Rotor
good magazine's vampire energy chart 2007-12-17 10:53:53
Good Magazine’s Vampire Energy Chart. Ouch! I’m bleeding…
Via Apartment Therapy New York
reconstruction of atelier brancusi, renzo piano 2007-12-14 11:02:40
All my life I have been drawn to the work of the sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). His original studio near Montparnasse, Paris was torn down soon after his death, but Renzo Piano recreated it in this building, situated in Centre Pompidou, to showcase the sculptor’s works in as close to their original light as when they were created, complete with the all-important north-facing window walls/sky lights…
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