Category — Architecture

I’m not jealous… but I truly admire the style and taste of Thomas Andrae (of Berlin Gallery “Cream Contemporary”)… and if forced to… I might even switch cribs with him!

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Driving along the coast of Lake Geneva… you see a few houses (or shall we say manisons) you wouldn’t mind inheriting from that aunt you never heard of… but this house sticks out!

By Kaufmann Widrig Archtiects via designboom

Very close to perfection!

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If I finally make it to Istanbul… I sure wouldn’t mind staying at A’jia. What a beautiful hotel!

Valerio Olgiati replaced an old barn in the protected centre of the Swiss village Scharans with the Atelierhouse Bardill.  Apparently the local authorities granted the building permit due to the fact that the new building had the exact same volume as the old barn.

There goes another Swiss bureaucracy myth…

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My first book on Architecture… which I received by my godfather some… well too long ago, was a book about the work of Tadao Ando. I’ve been a admirer ever since and the Chichu Museum just gave my admiration for his work a big fresh up!

The museum, which is completely submerged was opened by the Fukutake Art Museum Foundation on the island of Naoshima in 2004, housing just eight works by three artists: James Turrell, Walter De Maria and Claude Monet.  The Monet room was built according to the size and dimensions of the Fukatoke family’s five Water Lilies paintings. With white plaster walls and a floor of 700,000 milky white marble cubes, filtered daylight enters through the high ceiling and the water lilies – some of the most reproduced icons of Western art from the last century –  find new life amongst the softly glowing, muted atmosphere.

via Big in Japan

It must be my nostalgic admiration for east coast wood shingle homes… that make me sit and stare at this interior design for Bruce B./Emmy B. Design Agency created by Ippolito Fleitz Group… out of Stuttgart Germany…

Don’t you even dare… claiming to know what to expect upon opening the doors to this portuguese townhouse!

Judging by the outside… doesn’t come close to revealing the absolut masterful renovation by architecture firm spaceworkers, who manage to transform this typical house in the city of Oporto, into a fresh cosmopolitan home, while preserving its identity.

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The Vitrahouse by Herzog & De Meuron… or what else could happen… when two of the local architecture and design firms get together to build a house…

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Black and white is often right… as can be seen viewing this beautiful parisian flat designed by E-C-O-L-E. I love love love the stairs!

Facing the Eglise Saint-Gervais on one side and the Hôtel de Ville de Paris on the other, this 95 sqm apartment occupies the whole of the the two top floors of an 18th century building. The project comprised a full restructuration of the existing space and the conception of some design elements. The first floor, formerly consisting of  a long corridor and four rooms has been largely cut open. Thus, the entrance, the living room and the kitchen form one single continuity. The guest space (a bedroom and a bathroom) has been built on the same floor. A steel staircase links the living room to the owner’sv private space underneath the roof.