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Cheap Modern DeskFour-Room Cottage by Owen and Vokes
There is just something about an all black and white house, what is it? Is it the perfect canvas for every other element in and around it? Brisbane based Owen and Vokes has done a fantastic job on the Four-Room cottage, it feels like a formal glam beach house. I really love all of the surrounding vegetation that is part of this modern homes landscaping.
Fishers Island House by Thomas Phifer and Partners
Talk about a “glass house” the Fishers Island House by Thomas Phifer and Partners is so scenic, even breath taking. We don’t get to see too much of the interior but from what we do see, it is just as stunning as the exterior. When one lives in a house with glass walls you had better make sure that what you are looking at is worth the glass. The landscaping is so well done and is almost as detailed as the home itself. WOW!
D-Hotel wins international price - Govaert & Vanhoutte Architects
I have posted about the amazing architectural work of Govaert & Vanhoutte in the past but most recently they sent me an email announcing that their D-Hotel won international price. If you read plastolux at all you know that I am a big fan of juxtaposition and the D-Hotel is just that. Not only are the new additions striking but the interiors are all diverse in a modern flavor.
A formation of three concrete volumes gather around a U-shaped farm building and a protected renovated windmill. The old and new entities have no direct contact above the surface, though underground there is a tunnel underneath the old farm, forming the base of the concept. Starting from the hotel reception, the tunnel disappears under the inner square through a contemporary glass volume.
Børje Müller Photography
Børje Müller is obviously a great photographer but what I really envy is the amazing structures and architecture that he gets to experience. He has a great eye for spacial relationships. Giving the viewer a suggested scale of a singular element while capturing the whole the sum of the project is quite a talent. Make sure to check out the rest of his work.
Los Robles by ÁBATON
OK! Favorite new house, let’s see how long that lasts. It’s not to often that I find a house where the interiors and exteriors/architecture make me completely envious. ÁBATON has some amazing homes in their body of work but the Los Robles project is stunning on so many levels, literally levels.
The land for these homes at the time was part of the large garden of a house whose owner kept the existing species and added criteria other tree species. It also had impressive granite boulders, some more than 5m in height. This dramatically conditioned how to implement the three houses that the ordinance allowed. The titration of the three houses was raised so that none of them stood in the views of the other. Similarly, the living areas on the outside were placed far apart for maximum privacy in each.
Do you know Jacques Dupuis?
I recently stumbled onto the site of Jacques Dupuis and was completely stoked to get a little education on this man. The google translation doesn’t read to smooth but it sounds like Jacques had his own way of thinking. I love the style of his projects and his dedication to black and white. There is a load of great history and images on his site so make sure to check it out.
Jacques Dupuis was trained before the war, at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de la Cambre, in Brussels, under the direction of the modernist architect Victor Bourgeois. De 1940 à 1951, il travaille en association étroite avec son ami intime Roger BASTIN, un autre grand format de l’architecture belge. From 1940 to 1951 he worked in close association with his close friend Roger Bastin, another large Belgian architecture. ”Jacques Dupuis in his first apartment in Brussels in 1949, (© Alexis);
Anarchist temperament and provocative, his refusal to vertical construction, industrialization of the habitat are quickly index. De plus en plus, dans les années 50 et 60, il se tourne vers une clientèle choisie, mais limitée, qui le plébiscite (dès 1949 pour la maison Madeleine Everaert, à Uccle): des ingénieurs, des médecins, des artistes, des enseignants, tous membres d’une classe moyenne en pleine ascension, souvent jeunes et sensibles à l’art contemporain, plus quelques industriels, avocats et patrons… Increasingly, in the 50’s and 60’s, he turned to a select clientele, but limited, that the plebiscite (from 1949 to Madeleine Everaert home in Uccle): engineers, doctors, artists, teachers All members of a middle class on the rise, often young and sensitive to contemporary art, plus some industrial lawyers and bosses Text Via
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