A San Francisco family asked us to help them expand an existing property near Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The site sits on a north facing slope and looks down to the Martis Valley and up to Lookout Mountain through a natural screen of 100-year-old Jeffrey pine trees.
Architecture firm
Faulkner Architects
Location
Lake Tahoe, California, USA
Principal architect
Gregory Faulkner
Design team
Gregory Faulkner, AIA, Principal. Christian Carpenter, LA, Project Architect. Jenna Shropshire, Project Manager. Ann Darby, AIA, Architect
Collaborators
Surveyor: Webb Land Surveying, Inc. Geotechnical: Nortech Geotechnical Consultants. Title 24: Monterey Energy Group
Interior design
NICOLEHOLLIS
Civil engineer
Shaw Engineering
Structural engineer
CFBR Structural Group
Environmental & MEP
Sugarpine Engineering
Construction
Jim Morrison Construction
Typology
Residential › House
As it is known Sepid means white. The reason for using this word was that 99% of the materials used in this villa were white in order to make the spatial connection between inside and outside in such a way that the sense of outside is transferred to inside. White is a color that can be seen as a combination of all the colors of the spectrum.
Project name
House No. 37 ( Sepid House )
Architecture firm
TT Design Studio
Location
Noshahr, Mazandaran, Iran
Tools used
AutoCAD, Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer
Principal architect
Tina Tajaddod
Design team
Tina Tajaddod
Visualization
Tina Tajaddod
Typology
Residential › House, Home Office
Contemporary architecture isn’t defined by a single style but is unified in its imperative to be unconventional and to break with the past using innovation and imagination rather than replicating older styles. The era of contemporary architecture is generally thought to have begun sometime after the modern period of the roughly first half of the 20...
Project name
Shahmirzad Villa
Architecture firm
Daliazayd
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Visualization
Arash Saeidi
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Residential › House
Easily the most challenging property Heliotrope has encountered, the developable portion of this unique west-facing waterfront property in the San Juan Islands fell within a coastal geological buffer, aquatic wildlife buffer, class II wetland buffer, and is situated less than 100 feet from an active bald eagle nest.
Project name
Lopez Lookout
Architecture firm
Heliotrope Architects
Location
Lopez Island, Washington, USA
Design team
Joe Herrin, Mazohra Thami
Interior design
Heliotrope Architects
Construction
Thomas Fragnoli Construction
Material
Wood, Metal, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
The Conceptual Architectural Project of the Messi Mansion in Miami is a work inspired by Lionel Messi’s brand logo, with its iconic “M” shape clearly visible from an aerial view. This majestic mansion consists of three levels and is located on an exclusive ship-shaped island, providing privacy and a privileged location.
Project name
Messi Mansion in Miami
Architecture firm
Veliz Arquitecto, Uli Architects
Location
Miami, Florida, USA
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Design team
JJorge Luis Veliz Quintana, Ulises Del Llano
Collaborators
Uli Architects
Visualization
Veliz Arquitecto
Typology
Residential › House
INSPIRELI AWARDS offered architecture students from all over the world to participate in a completely unique educational project of a holiday resort in Croatia and now the winners are announced!
Written by
Mariana Vahalova, Inspireli Education
Photography
Inspireli Awards
The curatorship of earthy tones, such as brown, beige, and white, is one of the highlights of the 260m2 apartment located in Curitiba (PR). A project conceived to meet the residents' daily needs while also warmly welcoming friends and family during leisure moments.
Project name
Apartamento VTA
Architecture firm
Schuchovski Arquitetura
Location
Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Photography
Eduardo Macarios
Principal architect
Eliza Schuchovski
Design team
Isabella Borsato, Ana Julia Lima, Alice Bigaton, Alexia Palhano, Julia Gabriele Gonçalves
Interior design
Schuchovski Arquitetura
Environmental & MEP engineering
Construction
BP Construções
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp, LayOut, Lumion
Typology
Residential › Apartment
The final deadline for the Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) 2023 is fast approaching, set for Thursday, August 31, 2023.
Organizer
Architecture MasterPrize (AMP)
Category
Architecture, Interior Design
Eligibility
Architects, Interior Designers, Firms, and Architectural Photographers located anywhere in the world. Project not older than 5 years
Register
https://architectureprize.com
Awards & Prizes
Winners have their work published in the AMP Book of Architecture, distributed globally, and will enjoy extensive publicity throughout the year. Winning projects receiving the 'Design of the Year' title will be awarded the 2023 MasterPrize trophy. Entries deadline
Entries deadline
Regular deadline: June 30, 2023 (-10% discount). Final deadline: August 31, 2023
Venue
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Biannually)
Price
$380 (with discounts based on registration phrases)
NOM House, a visionary architectural project designed to cater to the evolving needs of a young family. Located in the lively city of Limassol, NOM House offers cozy living space on a small, flat plot that has the rare advantage of being able to be expanded in the future without the need for large-scale reconstruction.
Architecture firm
Sence Architects
Location
Limassol, Cyprus
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Olga Kovaleva
Visualization
Igor Yashin
Typology
Residential › House
Koohsar Apartment is located in front of a mountain and in close proximity
to its hillside. The building envelope conceals a portion of the mountain scene, and in order to
visually assimilate the mountain scene behind the building and the building façade, the design
team initiated an approach to blend in the proposed building.
Project name
Koohsar Residential Apartment
Architecture firm
AshariArchitects
Location
Jomhori blv., Shiraz, Iran
Photography
Khatereh Eshghi
Principal architect
AmirHossein Ashari
Design team
Ali Attaran, Zahra Jafari, Afshin Ashari, Ehsan Shabani, Zahra Rahimi
Collaborators
Ali Attaran, Zahra Jafari, Afshin Ashari, Ehsan Shabani, Zahra Rahimi
Civil engineer
Tachra Construction group
Structural engineer
Tachra Construction group
Environmental & MEP
Tachra Construction group
Construction
Tachra Construction group
Supervision
Amirhossein Ashari
Visualization
Ehsan Shabani
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
Material
Brick, Concrete, Steel, Glass
Client
Mohsen Khabaz, Koroush Kamali Sarvestani
Typology
Residential, Apartments
