Daniel Libeskind: 18.36.54 house. Connecticut.
The Deck House, by Choo Gim Wah Architect
The house was built to hug the terrains, ensuring a minimum interference on the existing slope. Most parts of the building are designed with steel and glass. The foundation and the stump of building are built with the conventional reinforced concrete. The extensive use of glass forms the skin of the buildings, providing a full forest view for the occupants to enjoy. Despite its steel and glass look, the house functions like a traditional Malay house with tall ceiling, well-lit interiors, and sufficient ventilation with windows on most walls and aluminum louvers at the highest portion of the building for the hot air to escape.
Zink-Mine-Museum (2003-in corso/ongoing) | Peter Zumthor
Location: Almannajuvet, Sauda
tree art museum - daipu architects
Cardinet Quintessence by Périphériques architectes.
The essence of this project is to create an eco-friendly building that takes sustainable design to new heights while addressing the architectural challenges of a highly atypical urban area. With this approach, Périphériques Architects seeks to confront the needs of a demanding program to a decidedly futuristic vision of urban design. The result is a zero emission building which includes 117 housing units, as well as integrated photovoltaic panels producing 120 MW per year.
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Greenbox by Act Romegialli
Buchner Bründler Architekten - Casa d’Estate, Linescio 2011. I like the tub spout going up, over, and around the existing beam in the bottom image. Via, photos (C) Ruedi Walti. Buchner Bründler recently published their first monograph with GTA.
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Museum Piece: The Minguren Museum by George Nakashima-
The Minguren Museum was completed in 1967. It features a curved thin shell roof, something that Nakashima experimented with throughout his career. The mosaic by Ben Shahn was installed in 1972 posthumously from sketches that he had made. As with all of Nakashima’s architecture the flow between inside and outside spaces is important and these boundaries are blurred. The museum also features a cantilever staircase.
Photo credit Jsome1 on Flickr : Fafe, Portugal
