Archive for the ‘Modern’ Category
June 12th, 2008 | Tags Modern
via Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler
Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler: The holiday house in located in the middle of the village of Vnà in the Lower Engadine. The particular challenge of the project was to bridge the divide between the old-world charm of the village and the modern flair embodied in a holiday house for an internationally successful art gallery owner. The aim was to develop a formal language which had a certain proximity to traditional Engadine architecture and yet remained immediately recognisable as contemporary without being conservatively romanticised.
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May 4th, 2008 | Tags Modern
via: Modern Living
Golf 190 from Swedish Modern Living is a two story house with 6 rooms. The house is partly dress in ceder. Living and entertaining areas are designed to be upstairs and bedrooms and bathrooms down stairs.
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February 21st, 2008 | Tags Modern
via Roundhouse
Forbes: Eli Attia’s creation is what he calls the Roundhouse, a modular window-wrapped structure that’s supposed to make up for the bad name prefab housing has gotten over the years. “Enough of this nonsense of building homes the way we did 100 years ago,” Attia says, disgustedly motioning at the bloated homes in the canyon below the Roundhouse site. “It’s all a waste.”
A Roundhouse, they calculate, delivers 150% more square feet of floor space per unit of exterior wall than a traditional home does. Yikes, how is that possible? Take a basic 40-foot-by-25-foot layout in a boxy 2,000-square-foot two-story home. Going from a rectangular to a circular floor while keeping the perimeter fixed adds only 34% to the space. Their comparison, it turns out, was based on a nearby Mediterranean-style home with many nooks and crannies that a simple rectangle doesn’t have.
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November 14th, 2007 | Tags Modern
via Huf Haus
Huf Haus: The distinctive feature of a HUF Home is its post and beam architecture. This timber frame concept frees the designer of the constraints of load-bearing (and thus dividing) walls. It gives HUF designs their unrivalled breadth, openings and vast spaces. Wall to ceiling glazing opens the view on the surrounding nature, making it part of the living experience.
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November 13th, 2007 | Tags Modern, Green, Prefab
via Marmol Radziner Prefab
A prefab in Utah by Marmol Radziner. 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2500 interior s.f., and 1720 deck s.f. with 15 modules. Marmol Radziner Prefab: combines the efficiency of factory-built homes with the benefits of custom residential design. Our green homes are not a kit of parts – we build the prefab modules in our own factory and ship them complete with your choice of pre-installed interior and exterior finishes, flooring, appliances, and more. We can oversee the entire process, from design to delivery and installation, so no additional contractor is required.
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November 9th, 2007 | Tags Modern, Small
via New York Times
The two-bedroom rectangular house is located on a rural road about a mile from the Mount Hood Winery and Nutquacker Farms, surrounded by firs, big leaf maples and reseeded wildflowers. It sits 10 feet off the ground on a noticeably large and solid concrete box, which contains two storage units. The elevation is a concession to flood-plain code, which prohibits “habitable” floors less than four feet off the ground. “But also, on this really beautiful site, we wanted to design something that didn’t overwhelm it — something that was small, floating,” Ms. Donohue said.
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October 26th, 2007 | Tags Modern
via Lundberg Design
Contract Magazine: …the ultimate labor of love is Lundberg’s Sonoma cabin. The design is personal and the result is what he’s made by hand. “Hopefully, the cabin will always be with me, for in crafting it I find that it now defines me, which is perhaps both a curse and a blessing,” he adds.
Lundberg Design: Most of the project has been built using reclaimed materials from various projects over the years. The windows are all steel sash from at last count 5 different remodel projects. The pool is perhaps the most notable example; it used to be a water tank for livestock. At 25-feet diameter and 14-feet deep it provides a wonderful black hole of water, particularly in a full moon.
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October 12th, 2007 | Tags Modern, Prefab
via Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Building cost-effective and desirable housing is the key to sustaining authentic urban communities. That’s why Unico created inhabit, housing designed to make city living more accessible. inhabit is built using the most advanced and efficient technologies and clearly demonstrates that attractive, high quality modular apartments are a practical reality for future city dwellers.
The architecture of inhabit follows a tradition of mid-century modern design, influenced by the optimism of the early 21st century. The design refers to a cultural, artistic and intellectual state that elevates the individual. This path of modern architecture is no longer focused on a rejection of ornament, but the elevation of the spare canvas that allows for the personal ornamentation of the space.
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September 9th, 2007 | Tags Modern
via JASONOAH Ltd.
JASONOAH Ltd.:This unique and private home is designed to take advantage of its two acre hillside site and distant views. It’s livability and environmental sensitivity is evident through the quality of construction and materials. Warm, natural materials with natural finishes echo the various textures and colors in the wooded hillside.
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