Overlooking the ocean on Mount Desert Island, this family compound comprises two houses: A new ground-up structure, House 7, and the preservation of and addition to an existing mid-century modern pavilion, House 9. Commissioned by a family who have visited this coast for many years, the goal of the project was to create a year-round compound for fa...
Project name
Mount Desert Island Family Compound
Architecture firm
Baird Architects
Location
Mount Desert Island, Maine, USA
Photography
Elizabeth Felicella
Principal architect
Matthew Baird
Design team
Matthew Baird, Principal. Teresa Ball, Principal. Florence Schmitt, Associate. Alice Chai, Associate. Pius Aebi, Project Architect
Collaborators
Chris Parsons, General Contractor
Interior design
Brockshmidt & Coleman
Civil engineer
G.F Johnston and Associates
Structural engineer
Albert Putnam, Associates, LLC
Environmental & MEP
Altieri Associates
Landscape
Emma Kelly Landscape, LLC
Lighting
Fisher Marantz Stone
Supervision
Baird Architects
Visualization
Baird Architects
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, AutoCAD
Construction
Chris Parsons
Typology
Residential › House
Designed for an emergency medicine physician and beautician couple with three children and a dog, the house with a small hair salon is located in a lush area overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the northern part of Amami Oshima Island.
Project name
House in Toguchi
Architecture firm
Sakai Architects
Location
Amami Island, Kagoshima, Japan
Photography
Toshihisa Ishii
Principal architect
Kazunori Sakai
Design team
Yukari Hatanaka
Structural engineer
RGB Structure, Masayuki takata
Landscape
Urata garden Design studio
Lighting
DAIKO lighting, Kazuhiko Hanai
Construction
Tsukasa Constructuion. Co. Ltd
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
At first, the expression of this name creates a feeling of duality. Haco+tech is a combination of the names: Hacoupian and technology. This space is the information technology unit of the old and well-known clothing brand “Hacoupian”. The new generation of this collection defined the project. This building was a space for growth and communication b...
Architecture firm
Darkefaza Design Studio
Principal architect
Mahyar Jamshidi
Design team
Tina AlfideFard, Bahareh Pezeshki, Fatemeh Hasanloo, Hanieh Daneshvar, Bita Rezaee, Amirhossein Mohammad
Collaborators
Project Manager & Environmental Graphics: Mahyar Jamshidi
Design year
December 2021
Completion year
June 2022
Construction
Maziar Jamshidi, Saeed Bakhshi
Typology
Commercial › Office Building, Administrative Office
In this commission, which forms part of the artistic residency program of Design Week Mexico, Sebastián Ángeles reflects on the circular economy, sustainability and the importance of crafts to the identity of the country.
Written by
Sebastián Celada
Photography
Courtesy of Sebastián Ángeles
ARRCC presents Glen Villa, a one-of-a-kind contemporary Cape Town home on a beautiful, treed site at the foot of Table Mountain, one of 7 Natural Wonders.
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Principal architect
Antonio Zaninovic
Design team
Interior Design Team: Jon Case, Wade Nelsen, Clive Schulze. Interior Decor Team: Mark Rielly, Nina Sierra Rubia, Gabriella Duarte, Anna Katharina Schoenberger
Collaborators
Copy by Graham Wood
Lighting
Collaboratively designed by OKHA, Martin Doller, David Reade and ARRCC – each piece differs (see attached press kit for more information)
Material
Concrete, Stone, Wood, Glass
Typology
Residential › Villa
Renowned UK developer Knight Dragon, responsible for the iconic London destination Greenwich Peninsula, have just unveiled brand new apartments for sale at Parkview, the penultimate building in the Peninsula Gardens neighbourhood, comprising studios, one- and two-bedroom units, with prices starting from £417,500.
Photography
CGI of the sunset view from the Parkview building at Peninsula Gardens, Greenwich Peninsula (C) Knight Dragon
The 33rd session of the ICCROM General Assembly, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, has concluded in Rome.
Photography
ICCROM (Gegê Leme Joseph)
For over 3 years, Olympic athlete Jake Wetzel and his wife Sigrid have been working on an extensive renovation of their historic home. This small residence in Kamloops, BC began life in 1934 as a small 1,000 square foot bungalow complete with a partial dugout basement on a steeply sloped site.
Project name
Clarke Street Residence
Architecture firm
Twobytwo Architecture Studio
Location
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Photography
Hayden Pattullo
Principal architect
David Tyl
Design team
Jenny Bassett
Collaborators
Antony Milobar
Interior design
Jenny Bassett
Landscape
Catherine Howell & Twobytwo Architecture Studio
Construction
Wood Frame, Concrete
Material
Corian, marble, concrete, douglas fir
Typology
Residential › House, Rennovation
Bounce Battersea opened August 2023 with industrial yet playful design befitting its iconic, brutalist new home in South London. Sports hall brutalist architecture combines with the burgeoning sporting prowess of ping pong to inspire the latest Bounce venue at Battersea Power Station, designed by London-based designers, Shed.
Project name
Bounce Battersea
Location
Battersea Power Station, London, UK
Photography
Kris Humphreys Photography
Collaborators
Black Rabbit Branding
Structural engineer
Meinhardt
Environmental & MEP
Chapman, DDA
Construction
3 interior Contracts (3i)
Tools used
Vectorworks, Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effects
Material
Concrete tiles, oak timber panelling, timber fretwork, smile plastics, domus tiles
Client
State of Play Hospitality
Typology
Sports Architecture
The design concept of this house emphasises privacy, light and space in order to utilise the living area along its entire length and to make the most of the potential of the plot. The interior design defines the space and cleverly leads through the different rooms without touching the ceiling level. A staircase placed in a room lit from above struc...
Project name
Casa Carceller
Architecture firm
Quadrat Estudio
Photography
Mariela Apollonio
Principal architect
Ramon Campos, Hugo Mompó
Design team
Álex Jaén, Blanca Gómez, Agustina Teso
Typology
Residential › House
