3+1architekti, House, TeplicePosted by admin on January 19, 2015

House Teplice by 3+1architekti

House Teplice is a family house designed by 3+1architekti and is located in Teplice. It was completed in 2013 and covers an area of 455 m2.

Small piece of land owned by a builder that we were dealing with was kind of “left” in a rectangular pattern of local development.
The immediate proximity of large villas from the first half of the 20th century left psychologically and physically little space for wild experiments in architectural design.
The building was therefore created as a spatial reflection of given limits, assumptions and wishes.
We wanted to create a house adequate in scale and appearance to its neighbors, which would not have at the same time overshadowed a north-facing garden. While this garden represents an important part of the daily social life within ground floor of the house, we aimed to give it correspondingly sufficient space. We were trying to find the optimum within the limits of minimum.
Photography: Pavel Plánička

House Košťálov by 3+1architekti
House Habrovice by 3+1architekti
Residencia LK by Estúdio MRGB
Pepiguari House by Brasil Arquitetura
Ramat Hasharon House 10 by Pitsou Kedem Architects
Villa Estebania by Arch-D
House Bořislav by 3+1architekti
Delany House by Jorge Hrdina Architects
Sunset Strip by McClean Design
Carla Ridge by McClean Design

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Hotel, London, ShoreditchPosted by admin on January 18, 2015

Ace Hotel London Shoreditch

Ace Hotel London brings 100 Shoreditch High Street into harmony with Shoreditch. Both a continuation of, and departure from, the Ace adventure heretofore, the Shoreditch building we inhabit creates a new kind of invitation for us. This project involves re-envisioning a contemporary space and reclaiming it for the community as a correspondent part of a greater whole.

In doing so, we’ve incorporated a wide range of design influences — reflective of the cosmopolitan yet historic character of the surroundings — from the clean Modernism of the Bauhaus to UK punk, to the bold graphic style of the early 20th century Vorticist movement. Our approach for the exterior and interior design focuses on using traditional old-world craftsmanship in a contemporary expression. It’s an exercise in redemption, and as such, one of our most rewarding projects to date, re-establishing 100 Shoreditch High’s place as a vital, engaged participant in a neighborhood rife with complex heritage, good ideas and inimitable culture.
Location Shoreditch is a historic neighborhood as well as a dynamic hub for leading galleries, theaters and fashion, home of the Brick Lane market and a canvas for street artists from around the world. It’s a neighborhood with a storied history of culture and industry. Originally outside of London proper, it was a district where culture, arts and outsiders banned by the city fathers could find a home and thrive, where archaeologists recently discovered the foundations of The Theatre in which Shakespeare’s first plays were performed. It has long been a place for making things. During the Industrial Revolution it was a center for brickmaking, textile and furniture manufacture. Today’s Shoreditch contains echoes of its industrial and artisanal past in the form of cottage industries and studios where craftspersons specialize in niche and handmade goods.
Primarily though, it is known today as a place where ideas are made — as a catalyst for art, design, cuisine, culture and technology — a hub in the global community of innovators, dreamers and entrepreneurs.
Photo Credit: Andrew Meredith

Leman Street by TG-STUDIO.
Penthouse at NEO Bankside in London
Iniala Beach House by A-cero
East London Penthouse by SIRS.
Addison Road by SHH.
Salvator Villas & Spa Hotel by Angelos Angelopoulos
Henrietta Street
Urban Lab by 4M Group.
Little Venice by DOSarchitects.
Hampstead House by TG Studio.

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Connaught, Naturehumaine, ResidencePosted by admin on January 17, 2015

Connaught Residence by Naturehumaine

Connaught Residence is a is a single family home designed by Naturehumaine and is located in Notre Dame de Grâce, Montréal, Canada.

The changing needs of a growing family triggered the complete reconfiguration and extension of their existing 1950 concrete house. They wanted a contemporary extension that would harmonize with the modern spirit of the original house.
The extension fills the void created by the split level of the existing house and is capped on either side with generous glazing. The living areas of the ground floor are distributed around a central core that has become the new focal point of the house. The new master bedroom found on the the second floor is secluded from the children’s bedrooms and accessed by a glass catwalk spanning the entrance of the home.
Photo credit: Adrien Williams

Congregation Residence by Naturehumaine
Chambord Residence by Naturehumaine
Alexandra Residence by Naturehumaine
Prince Philip Residence by Thellend Fortin Architectes
Mentana Residence by Mu Architecture.
House T by Natalie Dionne Architecture
Gambier Island House by Mcfarlane Biggar Architects + Designers
289 Chaplin Crescent
Orchard Way by McLeod Bovell Modern Houses
Midori Uchi by Naikoon Contracting & Kerschbaumer Design

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Arquitectura, flat, Fulham, refurbishmentPosted by admin on January 16, 2015

Fulham flat refurbishment by Dom Arquitectura

Fulham flat refurbishment is a project designed by Dom Arquitectura and is located in London. It covers an area of 85 m2.

Located in Fulham, we founded this flat which had a very old-fashioned interior and needed of new electrics and decoration. We try to make a state of the art new maisonette out of an small space. Main access is by ground floor, where there is also a small garage. Walking up stairs to the second floor, main areas of the house are located.
Previously there were two small rooms but we decided to enlarge master bedroom and make a bigger living room, which also integrates into the open kitchen, at a cost of the second bedroom. The result is a bright and fresh open space that connects bedroom and bathroom by sliding doors being the last one the only enclosed space of the plant.
As a positive discovery, the roof was an unutilized space that is being utilized now taking advantage of an existing skylight access through an iron ladder, hence, owner is very happy now enjoying the London rooftops views having a drink.
Architect: Pablo Serrano Elorduy
Interior Designer: Blanca Elorduy
Photography: Ricardo Gay-Luger

Two flat reform by Dom Arquitectura
Housing Rehabilitation in La Cerdanya by Dom Arquitectura
Leman Street by TG-STUDIO.
House Rehabilitation by Dom Arquitectura
Mountain Guest House by Dom Arquitectura
East London Penthouse by SIRS.
Hampstead House by TG Studio.
Little Venice by DOSarchitects.
Urban Lab by 4M Group.
Stone Respect by Dom Arquitectura.

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Circle, Design, GannaPosted by admin on January 15, 2015

Circle by Ganna Design

Circle is a private residential space designed by Ganna Design and is located in New Taipei City,Taiwan.

The designer introduces the bench into the house. The bench elongates from the door to elevated area. Black object is shoes cabinet. The slope guides visitors into the living room. The designers tear down the wall of one room, and exchange the place of living area and study room (elevated platform now). Therefore, the users can make the best of use the view and natural illumination, have a coffee or chat together in the elevated area.
Next to the elevated area is the living room. The designers use marble wall to partition living room and dining area. Marble itself can present the beauty of purify even without any process.。Furthermore, except for the space for DVD player, there is no other decorations on this main wall in avoid distracting the users from watching television. The width of the TV wall is would not block the view and natural illumination from outside.
The second main wall is the glass cabinet. The function of storage and display is required, so the designers need to figure out a way to combine them together. Then, an idea comes up with the designers’ mind that different glasses can satisfy this requirement. Frosted glass can remove clutter visual feeling, and clear glass is inductive to display collection. On the other hand, sapphire pendent light and round dining table were chose in order to soften the stiffer visual effect brought by rectangular glass cabinet. Also, round table is easy to move, increasing the flexibility of mobility.
Regarding to the lighting, instead of using embedded light, the designer uses wall fitting light to make the aisle looks like a lateral in art gallery. The residents in the house can, hence, live in simple but elegant environment.
Photos by Siew Shien Sam /MWphotoinc

Column House by Labics
Leman Street by TG-STUDIO.
Hampstead House by TG Studio.
Loft 44 by CASAdesign Interiores
Casa Pina by Fabio Fantolino
Embankment Gardens by Ardesia Design
Apartment in Dnepropetrovsk by SVOYA Studio
Appartement Neuilly sur Seine
ZA House by Studio Guilherme Torres
Chester Street Apartment by Alexander Lotersztain.

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3+1architekti, House, KošťálovPosted by admin on January 14, 2015

House Košťálov by 3+1architekti

House Košťálov is a family house designed by 3+1architekti, was completed in 2013 and covers an area of 155 m2.

Builder´s intention was simple and clear – to build a house in his native village and to farm. The house was supposed to be simple, solid and as far as possible „obvious“ in its place.
We wanted to build on generations of anonymous builders and masons, who worked naturally and confidently, with the stone (mainly limestone and basalt) and with brick, who built here many simply beautiful houses and farm buildings.
At present, there are many such houses, barns, stables, granaries close to destruction.
People do not know the original purpose of these buildings and its original function is not demanded anymore. These places are therefore losing its content and no one cares to protect them. They lose roof, later only perimeter wall remain, then base and then… nothing.
New houses are being built at bright colors, “maintenance free” best “passive” and largely with no spirit. The ability to distinguish the important from the unimportant and the good from the bad is from our experience (not only) with the conservation authority (see, for example, dispute above) considerably weakened.
The house in Košťálov has a simple shape and layout. It’s more of a shelter than a viewpoint or shop window – a wall material and openings on necessary and (hopefully) the right places. Nature is out there, everywhere.
Ground floor, carries on both long sides the skylights that form irregular edges of the roof. These can freely refer to the jagged silhouette of the Košťálov ruins or Hazmburk castle ruins – two dominant “supervisors” of the house. Horizontality connects house to the village, vertical window openings then to the hill Kostalov and further.
Stone cladding of the house is made with stone from a nearby demolished barn. It is a symbolic as well as physicall example of the continuity of this place.
We would be happy if the house became natural part of its surroundings and builder’s family felt here at home as soon as possible.
Operation of the house:
The layout of the house respects usual division of rural houses into three parts. Entrance is from the yard in the south. Given the current demands on the use and operation of the house there is a partial change of contents and proportions of the parts of the layout.
Living room is partly open to the attic space. We assume that the verticality and various types and intensity of natural light, add some festiveness to social space. At the same time in the attic children bedroom arise (also with the help of the chimney, which passes through the area) corners with variable intensity of lighting – from bright areas to dark corners. Herewith we thought of the adventure and atmosphere of old attics.
Yard in front of the house turns smoothly into an orchard, which is defined by wooden buildings (storage, workroom, drying room, outdoor kitchen …).
In the southern part of the land we found a suitable place for a simple buried cellar (fruit, wine) and hayloft.
In the northwestern part of the garden there will be a small sheepfold.
Photography: Pavel Plánička

House Habrovice by 3+1architekti
Ramat Hasharon House 10 by Pitsou Kedem Architects
House Rehabilitation by Dom Arquitectura
Delany House by Jorge Hrdina Architects
Residencia LK by Estúdio MRGB
Westridge by Montalba Architects
Villa Estebania by Arch-D
Far Pond by Bates Masi Architects
Sarbonne by McClean Design
Carla Ridge by McClean Design

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Architectes, Fortin, Philip, Prince, Residence, ThellendPosted by admin on January 13, 2015

Prince Philip Residence by Thellend Fortin Architectes

Prince Philip Residence is a project designed by Thellend Fortin Architectes and is located in Montréal, Canada.

This project involved the expansion of a spacious single-story Outremont residence built in the 1960s. Situated on a site with a steep incline and majestic view, the two-floor expansion was designed to offer a generous window on the horizon.
The architectural concept involved the addition of living spaces in the form of a long ribbon situated laterally to and in line with the contours of the existing structure. This ribbon folds and unfolds, thus offering multiple views of the surrounding landscape.
The interior comprises open adjoining living spaces bathed in natural light. The pale-hued textures and materials enhance the spacious aspect of the rooms.
Clad in anthracite-coloured concrete panels, the cantilevered extension reflects in the St. Marc limestone-lined swimming pool, surrounded by the suspended deck in white-painted concrete. This mineral setting marries perfectly with the impressive canopy of mature maple trees that offer shade to this oasis at the heart of the city.
The extension takes advantage of the site’s unique topography, overlooking the pool and landscaped terrace like a mirador.
Photo credit: Charles Lanteigne photo

Congregation Residence by Naturehumaine
Mentana Residence by Mu Architecture.
Orchard Way by McLeod Bovell Modern Houses
Midori Uchi by Naikoon Contracting & Kerschbaumer Design
Pool House by +tongtong
Gambier Island House by Mcfarlane Biggar Architects + Designers
House T by Natalie Dionne Architecture
289 Chaplin Crescent
Burkehill Residence by Craig Chevalier and Raven Inside Interior Design.
7 Ashley Park Road

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Congregation, Naturehumaine, ResidencePosted by admin on January 12, 2015

Congregation Residence by Naturehumaine

Congregation Residence is a single family home designed by Naturehumaine and is located in rue de la Congrégation, Montreal, Canada.

The concept of the house is based on the physical distinction between the living space and the work space. The volumetry is modulated through the introduction of a vertical shear which divides the house in two zones. This rift is marked by the introduction of a double flight stair, a glass catwalk and a double height ray of indirect light. It is within this aperture that the playfulness and dynamic of the house is taking place, where all viewpoints converge.
The street facade is composed of dark brown brick accentuated by a series of recessed horizontal joints. A glow of warmth is brought with the introduction of various Spanish cedar panels in conjunction with the window layout.
The articulation of the garden side facade is formally conceived as a coat collar providing a visual protection from the two adjacent neighbors. The black undulated steel paneling is projecting from the roof line and down onto the east side, to be cut on its return on the west facade. The ochre color of the painted concrete panels creates a sense of drama in contrast with the sobriety of the street facade.
Bringing forward the quality of natural light within the house, the general palette of materials is chosen to be varied but toned down : white for most of the walls and kitchen cabinets with a few accents of black paint, a concrete floor for the ground floor, white oak for the second floor, stairs and built-in furniture, natural steel for the bookshelves and the handrail, black slate for the bathroom and the kitchen wall. Only one accent of ochre is applied to the sliding doors of the painting studio.
Composing with the constraints imposed by the city to keep the street facade subdued and with a strong desire to integrate the rear facade to Montreal’s typical backyard architecture, the house nevertheless yields a distinct personality and a calm sense of humanity.
Photographs: Marc-André Plasse

Alexandra Residence by Naturehumaine
Chambord Residence by Naturehumaine
Mentana Residence by Mu Architecture.
House T by Natalie Dionne Architecture
Gambier Island House by Mcfarlane Biggar Architects + Designers
Pool House by +tongtong
289 Chaplin Crescent
Midori Uchi by Naikoon Contracting & Kerschbaumer Design
Orchard Way by McLeod Bovell Modern Houses
Burkehill Residence by Craig Chevalier and Raven Inside Interior Design.

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Arquitectura, House, RehabilitationPosted by admin on January 11, 2015

House Rehabilitation by Dom Arquitectura

House Rehabilitation is a project designed by Dom Arquitectura and is located in Noutigos, Carnota, A Coruña. It covers an area of 202 m2

The aim was to act respecting the current volumes of this old house, located close to the river in the village of Noutigos. Maintaining the stone facade, replacing the original windows in chestnut wood, we just only propose two new small and strategic openings in the south wall for their views and the natural light needed for specific locations. The new openings with iron frame and fixed glass contrast with the existing ones and which are treated with a chestnut wood.
Part of the south facade formed with very small stones has had to repair due to continuous moisture, so we propose a mortar render. We have maintained the large stones around the windows, and have continued to finish smoothing existing lines almost the entire first and second floor.
The entrance garden has been treated with a great old reclaimed flagstones, wood benches, albizias, ivy and lavender, give us a simple but hearty welcome.
The recovered stone forms the interior finished walls. In the ground floor they combined with ocher mortar, it generates a game as a baseboard with different heights, covering damaged stone areas and adapting to the interior space distribution. The result is a balanced interior finish where dominates the mortar ocher and stones colors.
The ground floor is a open space with a continuous pavement, where we place the dining room, the kitchen and the living area. On the first floor we located three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The slabs are made with clay vault painted with a gray glaze.
The second floor under the cover is a space originally used as clothesline, now has become a completely open space, flooded with natural light through skylights and a cut in the cover that originates a small terrace with beautiful views to Finisterre and the Carnota bay.
Respect the stone, recover the existing elements and combine them with an open and new distribution, actual lighting and furniture, creates a new charming spaces.
Architect: Pablo Serrano Elorduy
Interior Designer: Blanca Elorduy
Photographer: Victor Solis

Stone Respect by Dom Arquitectura.
Housing Rehabilitation in La Cerdanya by Dom Arquitectura
Mountain Guest House by Dom Arquitectura
Two flat reform by Dom Arquitectura
ZA House by Studio Guilherme Torres
House in Menorca by Dom Arquitectura
Apartment in Dusseldorf by Ando Studio
Delany House by Jorge Hrdina Architects
Ramat Hasharon House 10 by Pitsou Kedem Architects
House in Rydsgård

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Architects, Hiren, House, Lake, PatelPosted by admin on January 10, 2015

The Lake House by Hiren Patel Architects

The Lake House is a private residence designed by Hiren Patel Architects and is located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

This is a small house with a lake for an artist as well as art collector situated in the outskirts of the city of Ahmedabad. Very compact simple ground structure house was the brief given by the client who is an artist himself.
This house has a big lake in front compliment the lush landscaping in the surrounding which hides the house in greens. The simple geometric forms and play of vertical and horizontal planes was the base for design, creative depths to the volumes and passages.
Photos by Hiren Patel Architects