First of all, we believe that the apartment is very attractively located: above the arch, as if between two buildings — a former tea factory built in 1914, from which the apartment inherited a classy brick wall, and the former building of Calculating-Analytical Machines Factory where in peacetime the first in the USSR vacuum tube electronic computi...
Architecture firm
Room Design Büro
Location
Nizhnyaya Krasnosel'skaya Ulitsa, 35с49, Moscow, 105066, Russia
Photography
Polina Poludkina
Principal architect
Anton Lysko, Anastasia Zaytseva
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Brick, Metal, Concrete
Typology
Residential › Apartment
The site of the Smith Residence was a slight declivity between two rock outcroppings that are on a prominence that slopes directly down to the sea. The house was conceived as a square spiral, built up by the lapping of the major beams around a courtyard.
Project name
Smith House 2
Architecture firm
Arthur Erickson
Location
West Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Photography
John Fulker, Steven Zhen Wang
Principal architect
Arthur Erickson, Geoffrey Massey
Typology
Residential › House
Situated on a promontory jutting into the canyon below the hillside retreat boasts multiple vistas of the surrounding canyon and the Pacific Ocean beyond. However, local restrictions allowed for a single story above street level. Responding to these conditions, much of the home’s massing is located on a lower-level that daylights onto the downslope...
Project name
Sapire Residence
Architecture firm
Abramson Architects
Location
Pacific Palisades, United States
Principal architect
David Pascu, David@abramsonarchitects.com
Interior design
Clements Design, Kathleen Clements, info@clementsdesign.com
Civil engineer
ohn M. Cruikshank Consultants, John M. Cruikshank, jcruikshank@jmc-2.com
Structural engineer
Sigma Design, Hovik Khanjian, sigmadsgn@aol.com
Environmental & MEP
California Energy Designs, Gabriel Gagnon, gabriel2@californiaenergydesigns.com, VRG, Glen Vaughn, gvaughn@vrginc.net
Landscape
Pamela Burton & Co, Robin Carmichael, rcarmichael@pamelaburtonco.com
Lighting
Esquared Lighting Design, Erin Erdman, erin@esquaredlighting.com
Construction
AJ Engineering, Andrew Jagoda, ajagoda@sbcglobal.net
Material
French manor oak flooring, white oak shiplap wall cladding, oil rubbed bronze wall panels, painted steel, pebble and stone
Typology
Residential › House
Completed in 2018 by contemporary award-winning design + construction firm Mckimm, Project No. 350 - North Caulfield Residence is a holiday home that embodies the identity of contemporary design: clean symmetrical lines harmonised with materiality and an abundance of natural light.
Project name
Project No. 350 - North Caulfield Residence
Location
Caulfield North, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Typology
Residential › House
The Melbourne-based architecture and construction firm InForm led by Chris McKimm has recently completed ''Brighton East 2'' a family home located in Brighton East, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Project name
Brighton East 2
Location
Brighton East, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Photography
Derek Swalwell
Principal architect
Chris McKimm
Typology
Residential › House
A small, intimate weekend home situated near Ahmedabad that celebrates materiality and the relationship between the manmade and the natural - reducing carbon footprints. We used earthy, local materials, shaped and worked by local hands, to build this modest, private retreat. The surroundings were left largely undisturbed while building this ecologi...
Architecture firm
tHE gRID Architects
Location
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Photography
Photographix India, Inclined Studio (Video credits)
Principal architect
Snehal Suthar and Bhadri Suthar
Design team
Snehal Suthar and Bhadri Suthar
Collaborators
Local craftsmen
Interior design
tHE gRID Architects
Structural engineer
inhouse
Environmental & MEP
inhouse
Landscape
tHE gRID Architects
Visualization
Snehal Suthar and Bhadri Suthar
Tools used
ZWCAD, Adobe Photoshop, SkethUp, Nikon and Sony camera
Material
Yellow dhrangadhdra stone, Exposed concrete, Reclaimed wood, MS, Reclaimed jute, Reclaimed rope, Glass, Kotah,
Typology
Residential › Weekend villa
The Portuguese architecture firm BALA atelier has recently completed Almirante Reis Apartment, rehabilitation of an attic in a building dated 1906, in Lisbon, Portugal.
Project name
Almirante Reis Apartment ''Apartamento na Almirante Reis''
Architecture firm
BALA atelier
Location
Avenida Almirante Reis, Lisboa, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio www.ivotavares.net
Principal architect
Mariana Póvoa, Sílvia Rocio, Pedro Pedroso
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Wood, Brass, Tile, Stone
Tools used
AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Typology
Residential › Apartment
The house on the cusp of a fold in the Hollywood Hills identifies the differential complexity of the steep hillside as its functional and formal generator. The stark, rigid appearance enters a dialogue with the landscape, defining itself as a real object through the process of alienating its context.
Architecture firm
Arshia Architects, Ltd
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
Design team
Miguel Gonzales, Brittany DePaul, Spencer Brennan, Felix Monasakanian
Collaborators
Axel Schmitzberger
Civil engineer
Joy Civil Engineering
Structural engineer
Amir Pirbadian
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Typology
Residential › House
