Hidden within the garden of St. Augustin Abbey lies a restored greenhouse, once the outdoor laboratory of Gregor Mendel, who spent eight years conducting experiments on pea plants to study their hereditary traits. Destroyed in the 1870s, the reinvented Mendel’s greenhouse stands as a genetics pavilion on its original premises in the city of Brno.
Project name
Mendel’s Greenhouse
Architecture firm
CHYBIK + KRISTOF
Location
Brno, Czech Republic
Photography
Laurian Ghinițoiu
Principal architect
Ondrej Chybik, Michal Kristof
Design team
Ondrej Svancara, Krystof Foltyn, Ingrid Spacilova, Laura Emilija Druktenyta
Interior design
CHYBIK + KRISTOF
Civil engineer
Babka & Suchma
Structural engineer
Vaclav Prikryl
Tools used
SketchUp, AutoCAD, Autodesk 3ds Max
Construction
STAVOS a.s., Aluprof, UNICON
Client
St. Augustin Abbey
Typology
Cultural › Greenhouse
Discover how to use glass in your house design to bring light into your home. These design ideas will have you scrambling for glass in every room!
Written by
Marcelo Brahimllari
Are you in the process of planning a major bathroom remodel, in hopes of making it more elegant? Here are seven creative uses for glass just for your bathroom!
Written by
Leika Kobayashi Bewley
Photography
Max Vakhtbovych
When it comes to stained glass art, there’s one name in the industry that is synonymous with quality, and that’s Csilla Soós. A renowned stained glass making artist with a well-established career spanning more than 25 years, Csilla Soós has an outstanding reputation that exceeds her Central European hometown into many wider European countries – and...
Written by
Gabor-Kis Andrea
Russian artist Gregory Orekhov reinterprets the “Black Square” in a site-specific sculpture for Malevich Park. Gregory Orekhov is a Russian artist, currently immersed in the process of creating contemporary sculpture made with stainless steel. Throughout the past decade, Orekhov has successfully completed multiple projects in Russia and abroad, usi...
Architecture firm
Gregory Orekhov
Location
Moscow Region, Russia
Photography
Ivan Muraenko
Principal architect
Gregory Orekhov
Material
Mirror-polished stainless steel, Shotcrete concrete
Iryna Nalyvaiko: The main idea of the project was to create an architectural shape with a delicate relation to nature that will highlight and bring attention to its importance and resources. Making nature more accessible will make people appreciate it to a greater extent.
Project name
Welcome to the jungle
Architecture firm
Iryna Nalyvaiko
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer, Itoo Forest Pack, Itoo RailClone, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Iryna Nalyvaiko
Visualization
Iryna Nalyvaiko
Typology
Installations & Structures
A glass house in the Mexican desert, twenty minutes from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, Casa Etérea sits on the slope of an extinct volcano. The sustainably-built dwelling is encased in mirrored panels, reflecting the changing light that illuminates its rugged landscape.
Location
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Photography
Kevin Scott, Prashant Ashoka, Estudio Mavix
Principal architect
Prashant Ashoka
Design team
Prashant Ashoka
Collaborators
Oskar Chertudi Maya, Gabriel Lopategui, Octavio Cambron Munguia, Mario Gonzalez, Antonio Santana
Interior design
Prashant Ashoka + Namuh
Civil engineer
Prashant Ashoka
Structural engineer
Prashant Ashoka
Environmental & MEP
Prashant Ashoka
Landscape
Octavio Cambron Munguia
Supervision
Prashant Ashoka
Tools used
SketchUp, AutoCAD
Construction
Workers in Mexico
Typology
Residential › House
Kubo House is a steel and glass structure that is 9 meters by 9 meters in plan, and 6 meters in height, designed by New York-based designer Karim Rashid.
Design firm
Karim Rashid Inc.
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max
Principal designer
Karim Rashid
Visualization
Archinarium
Typology
Residential, Private House
