441 Tamalpais Ave | Hillside House is a residential project completed by Zack de Vito Architecture + Construction. The 4,000-square-foot home is located in Mill Valley, California, USA. 441 Tamalpais Ave | Hillside House by Zack de Vito Architecture + Construction: “On The Market | Design/Build Development Project – 441 is a three-level, 4,000 sq ft. house in Marin County. The minimal, elongated facade mimics the axis of the road..
Top 10 picks for the London Design Biennale 2016
London Design Biennale 2016: with the first ever London Design Biennale set to open next week, Dezeen reporter Jessica Mairs has selected 10 attractions that aren’t to be missed, including a forest dining room and a giant weathervane. (more…)
Tredje Natur, AART Architects and Arup Team Up to Create Copenhagen Island Development
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TREDJE NATUR, AART Architects, and Arup have teamed up to create Kronløbsøen, an island development marking the transition between port and city in Nordhavn, Copenhagen. Composed of 30,000 square meters of housing, six water-rooms, a houseboat colony, harbor bath, and multi-story underwater parking, the project aims to create an island celebrating all aspects of harbor life.
Taking into account the local port’s spirit, scale, material palette, and history, Kronløbsøen is “composed of eight porous monoliths shaped by physical connections, visibility, and microclimate, creating the optimal conditions for housing and urban life.”
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Stairs and plateaus step down towards the water—where the profile of the project is shaped by changing tides and seasons—and separate private from public space.
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“A variety of harbor species sprout from between the cracks, creating lush buffer zones on the building edges” – said the architect on a press release.
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Three levels of underwater parking service residents beneath the plinth via an underwater tunnel, which emerges from the neighboring pier, Fortkaj, where the formal grid and recessed of Kronløbsøen are continued.
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Nest Experience / Tinker
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- Architects: Tinker
- Location: Vevey, Switzerland
- Collaborating Architects: Concept Consult Architects
- Area: 6626.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Mike Bink
- Production Decor And Furniture: Bruns
- Av And Lightning Hardware: Mansveld
- Artwork: Rina van der Weij
- Interactive Games: YiPP interactive people
- Kinect Games: The First Floor
- Light Design: Rapenburg Plaza
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Description
More than one hundred Dutch designers, engineers and builders worked together on the scenography for nest. Tinker involved many other creative companies in the project, including Bruns (engineering and production) and Mansveld (AV and lighting technics).
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The Swiss Concept Consult Architects renovated the industrial heritage site and covered it with a magnificent glass roof and steel construction. Underneath, Tinker designed a large, floating, organic world made up of white, flowing forms and containing a dozen playful exhibits. Also the first factory houses parts of the experience. The old bakery has given a new live as Café Henri and the original Villa became offices and event venue. The € 45 million experience nest (architecture and scenography) opened to visitors from 15 June 2016.
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The big idea behind nest was simply to become more transparent and engage in an honest and involved dialogue about what the company stands for. Visitors will receive an interactive and personal look behind the scenes. They will accompany the enterprise on a journey through the past, present and future. Nestlé displays its diversity across five different zones, with ‘care, enjoy, improve & share’ as the motif.
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An eye-catching feature in Piazza, the central atrium, is a life-size tree composed of more than 1200 flowers handmade from various product packages. From here people enter the historic factory building and start with Fondations: an authentic, timed attraction, which brings visitors back to when the company was established in the 19th century. The innovation here lies in the use of early cinema techniques developed during the same industrial age. By combining shadow plays, magic lanterns, ombres Chinoise and more, illusion becomes reality.
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The next zone Zeitgeist is devoted to 150 years of history and links Nestlé’s products, images and stories to iconic moments in world history. The space occupies two storeys and is almost a museum in itself. Inside there is a magical treasure room with a selection of very special objects, such as the prototype for the first Nespresso machine.
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Leaving the past we move to the present-day: Forum uses interactive ways to make visitors conscious of the social challenges in nutrition and health and appeals to collective responsibility. The actions of all of the visitors influence a surprising light installation at the heart of the room.
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Visions is the grand finale of nest. It consists of a spectacular world under the glass roof and symbolises the future. Visitors experience the passion of scientists and their creative innovations through games and a VR experience. Children have their own discovery journey that leads them through nest.
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Studiomk27 Designs a Home Surrounded by the Thick Rainforest of Guarujá, Brazil
Jungle House is a private home located in Guarujá, Brazil. It was designed by Studiomk27 in 2015.
AD Round-Up: Luxury Living Through The Ages
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Although societies have transformed through the ages, wealth never truly seems to go out of style. That said, the manner in which it is expressed continually adapts to each successive cultural epoch. As a consequence of evolving social mores and emerging technologies, the ideal of “luxury” and “splendour” sees priorities shift from opulence to subtlety, from tradition to innovation, and from visual ornamentation to physical comfort.
AD Classics are ArchDaily’s continually updated collection of longer-form building studies of the world’s most significant architectural projects. In these ten examples of “high-end” residences, which represent centuries of history across three separate continents, the ever-changing nature of status, power and fine living is revealed.
Palazzo Santa Sofia / Giovanni Bon (1430)
AD Classics: Palazzo Santa Sofia / The Ca d’Oro
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Built during a time of unprecedented prosperity in the Venetian Republic, the Palazzo Santa Sofia was as much a symbol of la Serenissima’s wealth and power as it was its owner’s. Famous for the gilding that once covered much of its elaborate marble stonework, the palazzo has earned the enduring nickname Ca d’Oro—the House of Gold. Even without its shimmering ornamentation today, it’s marble cladding and impossibly delicate carvings stand true to its name.
Neuschwanstein Castle / Eduard Riedel (1886)
AD Classics: Neuschwanstein Castle / Eduard Riedel
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Inspired by medieval fables and Wagnerian operas, Neuschwanstein Castle was the creation of the flamboyant Bavarian King Ludwig II. Fervent in his desire to escape the real world and to live in a Romantic medieval fantasy, Ludwig spent much of his fortune on a series of castles before being quietly deposed on the grounds of insanity. Despite its Romanesque Revivalist style, Neuschwanstein’s steel skeletal structure and various mechanical conveniences mark it as a product of late Industrial Era Europe.
Gamble House / Greene & Greene (1908)
AD Classics: The Barbican Estate / Gamble House / Greene & Greene
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Going against the Classicist grain of the early 20th Century, the Gamble House is a masterpiece of the American Arts and Crafts movement. Architects Greene & Greene combined elements of traditional Japanese and European design to create a house that was thoroughly suited to its California setting. Gamble House’s rich carpentry and ornate stained glass windows earned it National Historic Landmark status, and it now serves as a public museum.
King’s Road House / Rudolf Schindler (1921)
AD Classics: Kings Road House / Rudolf Schindler
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King’s Road House in West Hollywood is considered by many to be the world’s first Modernist home. Designed by its first inhabitants, the use of then-innovative tilt slab concrete construction allowed them to build it themselves, as well. With its exposed concrete structure and full-height windows looking out onto Japanese-inspired gardens, King’s Road House represented a wholly new form of residential luxury and comfort.
Villa Savoye / Le Corbusier (1929)
AD Classics: Villa Savoye / Le Corbusier
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The Villa Savoye is the physical embodiment of Le Corbusier’s “Five Points” for architectural design. Located outside of Paris, this 1920s take on the French country house was to become one of the most influential templates for Modernist residential design in history. Inspired by, and built for, the technology of the automobile, the Villa Savoye was perhaps the most enduring example of Le Corbusier’s “machine for living.”
Taliesin West / Frank Lloyd Wright (1959)
AD Classics: Taliesin West / Frank Lloyd Wright
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Conceived as a counterpart to his summer home in Wisconsin, Taliesin West is Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural interpretation of the Arizona desert. Synthesizing his Prairie Style with local materials and techniques, Wright developed an airy, open series of spaces that are simultaneously shielded from the intense desert sun. Taliesin West now serves as the home of the Taliesin Fellowship and the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, allowing students to learn in the building that once housed Wright and his apprentices.
Saltzman House / Richard Meier & Partners Architects (1969)
AD Classics: Saltzman House / Richard Meier & Partners Architects
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With pure white geometry lifted above the ground plane by pilotis, Richard Meier’s Saltzman House represents a more refined development of Le Corbusier’s architectural principles; its construction in 1969 signaled Meier’s staunch refusal to submit to the rise of the Postmodern movement in architecture. Most of the house’s public spaces are on its second and third floors, providing views of the nearby coastline not achievable at ground level.
The Barbican Estate / Chamberlin, Powell and Bon Architects (1976)
AD Classics: The Barbican Estate / Chamberlin, Powell and Bon Architects
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Much like the King’s Road House, the concrete towers of the Barbican Estate do not give an immediate impression of luxury. Situated in the heart of London, the Estate is an urban microcosm, with its three residential towers rising above the public cultural and retail facilities distributed throughout the site. While the Saltzman House is based on Le Corbusier’s principles for individual buildings, the Barbican Estate echoes his concepts for urban planning; the complex is now regarded as one of Britain’s finest examples of Brutalist architecture.
Koshino House / Tadao Ando (1984)
AD Classics: Koshino House / Tadao Ando
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The severe concrete forms of the Koshino House disguise Tadao Ando’s careful consideration of the site on which they were built. Intentionally placed so as not to disrupt the existing trees, two rectilinear masses and a later curvilinear addition are partially sunken into the slope of the land, allowing the house to become a harmonious element of the environment instead of dominating it. Narrow apertures in the façade allow natural light to enter the interior in a carefully controlled manner, allowing light itself to serve as the building’s only ornamentation.
Villa dall’Ava / OMA (1991)
AD Classics: Villa dall’Ava / OMA
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Situated on a hill overlooking Paris, the Villa dall’Ava comprises two apartments in three rectilinear volumes. The individual apartments are contained in aluminum-clad boxes, connected by a glazed volume that houses the family’s communal living spaces. Windows throughout the home are oriented to capture the best views of the gardens and the city, and the rooftop pool—at the client’s request—features an enviable view of the distant Eiffel Tower.
The Dune House / ARCHISPEKTRAS
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- Architects: ARCHISPEKTRAS
- Location: Pape, Rucavas pagasts, LV-3477, Latvia
- Area: 175.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Juozas Kamenskas
- Team: Aidas Kalinauskas, Vaidas Tamošiūnas
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From the architect. The wind and the sunset. Kite surfers and boats. The dune and the meadow – full of tall grass and little flowers with ever changing colors. Layers of relative distances, experiences and dimensions are the things that define living by the sea.
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The house is situated in the dunes of the Baltic sea. A sharp linear thatched structure is elegantly intersecting and engaging with curvy lines of it‘s surroundings. The main facade material – straws – was carefully selected to match the color and material of a typical local building in the area.
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Floor Plan
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The aim was to design a vacation house for a kitesurfer’s family where they could relax in a most comfortable way. All rooms are facing the endless horizon towards the sea. Living room, kitchen, dining and lounge areas are grouped into one. Spaces on different levels create a magnificent experience where social interactions emerge. Light coming from top adds to the breezy character of the house.
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Interior is full of wood and warmth. A little bit raw and soft at the same time. It invites and brings you to the holiday mood.
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Cadaval & Solà-Morales completes black concrete retreat in Mexican countryside
Black-painted concrete frames the two glazed boxes that make up this holiday home, designed by architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales for a growing tourist resort on the outskirts of Mexico City (+ slideshow). (more…)
Open Studio Pty Ltd. Creates a Semi-Permanent Residence in Victoria, Australia
Residence J&C is a private home located in Victoria, Australia. Completed in 2016, it was designed by Open Studio Pty Ltd. Residence J&C by Open Studio Pty Ltd.: “The clients’ brief was clear and simple: a semi-permanent residence – something more than a weekender – for a couple, their dog and sporadic visitors. The site, located in Somers and virtually on the beach, offers panoramic views across Western Port Bay…
Bar Nou / MAIO
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- Architects: MAIO
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Architecture Project Team : María Charneco, Alfredo Lérida, Guillermo López, Anna Puigjaner
- Area: 149.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: José Hevia
- Interior Design Firm: MAIO
- Owner: Proyectos y desarrollos bcn s.l.
- Graphics: Ana Domínguez
- Budget: 130.000 euros
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The refurbishment of the existing bar, located near the center of Barcelona, demanded the creation of a new and easily recognizable spatial identity. To that end, a new vaulted ceiling system has been cre- ated in order to provide domesticity while keeping a continuous perception of space. The ceiling vaults are extended up to the front line of the façade and intersect the windows and the walls in a free way. Thus, the encounter of the vaults with the preexistence is made visible through the windows, which render visible the section of the interior space and its domestic atmosphere. On the access facade the timber frame of the ceiling is shown in order to make clear its non structural nature and strengthen its scenographic nature.
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Diagram
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Bar nou offers on its menu Pa amb tomaquet (bread with tomatoes), a typical catalan dish presented in a contemporary manner. According to this, one of the demands of the clients consisted in combining contemporary design with traditional approaches. Since its importance is capital for the bar’s identi- ty, a dj-booth looking altar devoted to its preparation has been designed and placed at the core of the space. There chefs play, as if they were the new dj’s, their role of pamtomaquers under a brand new vaulted scenography.
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Besides the space, the project has also developed the design of the interior elements including furni- ture and lights. Both the chairs and tables introduce common materials in domestic tradition, such as cattail or mirrors. With regard to lighting, three complementary typologies have been designed. With urban scale in mind, the project uses figurative neon lights to emphasize its presence in a busy and crowded crossroad. Meanwhile, the interior suspended lamps consist of a pivoting metal tube arm that allows them to adapt to the changing position of the tables and in turn draws from outside a constel- lation of points in permanent modification. Additionally, three legged lamps provide a domestic and atmospherical light.
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