This New Multi-Storey House In San Francisco Was Designed To Enable Views Of The Bay From Its Many Outdoor Spaces

June 28, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by Mikiko Kikuyama   Troon Pacific has completed their latest property, a multi-storey modern house in San Francisco, California.   Photography by Mikiko Kikuyama The interior of the home features European White Oak hardwood floors and 10-foot ceilings. In the living room, a black stone surrounds a built-in fireplace. Photography by Mikiko Kikuyama Adjacent […]

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Palm House / Metropole Architects

June 28, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

The design is based on three rectangular forms arranged in such a way so as to create the sense of opposing movement. The first rectangular form is grounded in the site and orientated on an east-west axis. The 2nd and 3rd rectangular forms are elevated above and positioned side by side one another in a north-south axis – one heading with purpose towards the ocean, with the other having its sight set on the golf course fairway in the opposite direction.

Sidewalk Labs reveals masterplan for Sidewalk Toronto neighbourhood

June 28, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Toronto Tomorrow by Sidewalk Labs

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs has outlined its Toronto Tomorrow masterplan to turn a parcel of the city’s waterfront into the “neighbourhood of the future”. Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, unveiled the updated proposal for Sidewalk Toronto in its Master Innovation & Development Plan (MIDP). Released 18 months after the team first announced plans to develop a

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68 Jonkershoek House / Gallagher Lourens Architects

June 28, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

“We want light, light and more light, we want to be aware of the mountains around us and we want to still enjoy relaxing under the huge Tipuana tree in the back garden. We live close to the earth, we are not clinical and we prefer the texture to color.” The brief was simple.

Fala Atelier adds colour to a 19th-century house in Porto

June 28, 2019 Tomek Zylski 0

Architecture studio Fala Atelier has renovated São Brás House in Porto, Portugal, adding colourful facades and custom furniture for four apartments. The two-storey house, which houses four rental apartments, is in a narrow alley in front of a cemetery in the UNESCO-listed centre of Porto. Fala Atelier created different graphic facades for each side of São

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Pelli Clarke Pelli unveils folded glass One Congress tower in Boston

June 28, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
One Congress by Pelli Clarke Pelli

Pelli Clarke Pelli has revealed plans to build an office tower in Boston with a folded glass facade that resembles a “dramatic theatrical curtain”. Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, the Connecticut firm behind San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower, the building is set to rise 611 feet (186m metres) and feature a curved glass shell that

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NEST Interactive Playscape / Tri-Lox

June 28, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

NEST is an interactive sculptural playscape designed and built by Tri-Lox, located on the rooftop terrace at Brooklyn Children’s Museum (BCM) in Crown Heights. Inspired by the unique nests made by the baya weaver bird, NESTis made from reclaimed NYC water tower wood fashioned into an organic form that creates a woven landscape made for play with a climbable exterior, circular hammock area, and permeable interior space for open and creative exploration. Tri-Lox explored the museum’s educational collection to inspire the design and came upon a series of well-preserved bird nests. One nest, in particular, made by the baya weaver bird, offers an intricately woven form with rooms, tunnels, and multiple entries.