Tag Ville

18-06-2014

Hendee-Borg home in Sonoma, California. William O’Brien Jr

Architect William O’Brien Jr. responds to the artist's need to live with his own works of art and reconcile everyday life with moments of creative inspiration. The project expressing this synthesis is the Hendee-Borg home, a contemporary building in California with a shed roof of the kind typically found on industrial buildings.

30-05-2014

The Carlo Scarpa Award for Gardens is presented to two villages in Bosnia, Osmace and Brezani

The 25th Carlo Scarpa International Award for Gardens goes to Osmace and Brezani, two villages on the plateau above Srebrenica, where the local community has reconstructed the landscape, the land and their memory after the horrors of war.

28-05-2014

Katsuma Tai: the home as protective shell in Tokyo

Japanese architect Katsuma Tai transforms building restrictions into opportunities for the form of the home. In this home in Tokyo’s Minato-ku district, the main façade is divided into two tapered parts. The volume gains living space and is lightened at the same time, reducing its impact on the city skyline.

15-05-2014

Urban Office Architecture, Aviator's Villa

The concept of flight as inspiration for architectural design. A home designed as a continuum of airplane components becomes a visual landmark characterised by lightness and geometry.

14-05-2014

Mardones: a home fit for a champion in Santiago de Chile

Architect Gonzalo Mardones Viviani has built a villa for tennis champion Marcelo Rìos on the hills above Santiago de Chile. His design focuses on use of materials in relation to light. The large ceramic floor tiles are consistent with the concrete surface bleached by the action of titanium dioxide.

07-05-2014

Saitowitz: bridge home in California

Stanley Saitowitz of Natoma Architects underlines the originality of the site of his bridge-shaped home in California, built out of the most commonly used materials in modern American architecture: steel, concrete and glass, employed here in both the structure and the cladding.

02-05-2014

Paolo Carli Moretti Residential building - Forlì

The private residence designed by architect Paolo Carli Moretti is made up of simple, linear elements.

28-04-2014

3LHD, Amarin Apartment Village – Rovinj, Croatia

3LHD architectural studios recently completed new holiday homes in a resort complex in Rovinj, Croatia.