As the demand for houses in London keeps on growing, architects are still managing to find old warehouses to transform into new homes and live-work spaces. We’ve rounded up some of the best examples, including an apartment with a raw-steel movie archive and an industrial space converted into an artist’s studio (+ slideshow). (more…)
From the architect. My Home = My Town.
Every family home has few habitants, diversity of functions and an approach to togetherness and individualism as well.
The answer to this design task could be found in a town and urban planning. Home and Town have similar principles: different people living, various functions, communities, streets, places and squares.
Applying this principles I created a design where habitants own their spaces as separate buildings. Different function concentrate around a courtyard – a common living space where all meet as in the ancient Agora.
The home is symbiotically joined with the site — each space is treated as interior and exterior as well, as in a town every building has a garden or a tarrace. The spaces can live separately as everyone is integrated with its surrounding: courtyard, green area, view axes.
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Audio touch.
During the design process future habitants shared with me many ideas and stories from which one created the idea – love to sound and music. I have followed this inspiration and found ideal space based on mathemathic proportions of Fobonacci rule. The risk was to create a theoreticly ideal space for audio listening which practicly meant angled walls and ceiling. Once the concrete was poured the theory was imediatelly aligned with practice – a small private concert hall was created. Additionally we gained one more function building in our Town Home.
British inventor Dominic Wilcox has designed a contemporary art exhibition for our canine counterparts, featuring a dog bowl-shaped ball pool and an open car window simulator (+ movie). (more…)
A brilliant summer sun rises over Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, shining golden light through the limbs of an old burl oak and burning away the morning fog. The refuge runs for almost 70 miles along the Minnesota River, providing visitors a unique opportunity to enjoy wildlife observation and recreation in the shadows of skyscrapers, grain elevators and towering trees. Photo by Erik Fremstad (http://ift.tt/18oFfjl).
In its recent issues, The Architectural Review has been on a mission, highlighting a phenomenon that they have named “Notopia.” Characterized by a “loss of identity and cultural vibrancy” and “a global pandemic of generic buildings,” Notopia is – in overly simplistic terms – a consequence of the cold logic of market forces combined with a disinterested populace. The AR’s campaign therefore aims to analyze this “thing of terror” and push back by raising public awareness and by proposing alternatives. And they need your help.
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— Architectural Review (@ArchReview) August 18, 2016
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The AR is collecting postcards of drawings and suggestions by their readers for change; whether it’s a simple proposal such as planting more trees in cities, the resurrection of an idea from a more idealistic time or even a completely original proposal, they want to hear from you. Download and print the postcard template here, and read the rules for submission on the AR’s website here.
Finally, if you’d like to learn more about the phenomenon of Notopia, check out AR editor Christine Murray’s last two editorials here and here. You can also read more articles about Notopia at the AR’s website and in the June issue of The Architectural Review.
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— Architectural Review (@ArchReview) August 19, 2016
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From the architect. In the urban context of the underground station area of Lausanne, 2 residential buildings were built. Residents enjoy both urban atmosphere and the nearby city park tranquillity. Generous openings allow those two atmospheres to penetrate inside the centre of the building. All apartments are arranged around a common courtyard exclusively pedestrian who acts as a collector and distributor of inhabitants flows. This welcome and friendly meeting place, with Zaric’s masterpieces, contributes to the creation of social links and for membership sensation between neighbours.
The variety of sizes and typology of apartments (duplex, lofts, walk-through housing, rent-controlled apartments) promotes social and age diversity
The buildings development, certified Minergie, offers optimal sunny apartments.
Have you thought lately to make a change in your appearance? The easiest way is to change your hair color. As you might already know, there are many aspects to take into account when making the change: the color of your skin, the color of the clothes you usually wear etc.
But have you thought about your personality? if you have a sparkling, unique personality, why settling for a dull, common color? If you want to mean business, maybe pink isn’t the best choice…
Take now this fun, easy quiz and find out which hair color best suits your personality!
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