Warmboard-S
Warmboard-S is our code-approved structural subfloor and radiant panel in one. Panels are 1 1/8 feet thick, tongue-and-groove 7-ply plywood, and measure 8 feet by 4 feet. 4 panel types accommodate...
View ArticleA Concrete and Glass Home Frames Epic Views of San Diego
San Diego architect Jonathan Segal took a minimalist approach to designing his own beachside home, as much out of style as necessity. Along the row of mansions lining La Jolla’s Avenida Cresta, he and...
View ArticleHupomone Ranch
Hupomone Ranch is an original 160-acre homestead located in the Chileno Valley, just three miles west of downtown Petaluma. The ranch had been fallow for over 30 years and the owners, a young family...
View Article11 Prismatic Rainbow Buildings For National Coming Out Day
National Coming Out Day is October 11, and what better place to come out in the open than inside amazing architecture? We've cruised the Architizer database for some of the most raucously rainbow-hued...
View ArticleIt Started With a Dime
The "dime houses" from 1870 were one of the first social housing projects in the Netherlands. They are the result of a group of idealistic workers who, by asking a dime a week for membership, founded...
View ArticleOn the Scene at Dwell on Design New York
“New York did not need another tradeshow,” Dwell Media President Michela O’Connor Abrams told a group of reporters at yesterday’s launch of the first-ever Dwell on Design, New York. At this three-day...
View ArticleHouse to Draw the Outside
This project consists of a house for a single family in the central area of Tokyo. The site area is very limited and the building height was also restricted by the law. Therefore it was our largest...
View ArticleCb71
This apartment building is located at west of México City in the district of Polanco. The building is divided into two blocks organized around a central courtyard. In the first block, we found 3...
View ArticleHigh Country House
This hill top house is a concrete expression of Armidale’s unique meeting of rural life and culture, “agri-culture,” in a town with a university and many other cultural institutions. The clients...
View ArticlePorotu Bach
Purotu – “Beautiful” – is a "bach" (holiday home) in New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds at the Bay of Many Coves. Quite often at the start of the design process, after we have had a chance to talk to...
View ArticleKobato Nursery School
This is an extension project of an existing nursing school building, which was partially demolished. The plan of the existing building was that an outside corridor enclosed a courtyard. I placed a new...
View ArticleInside the Software Behind Today’s Roller Coasters, Aquariums, and Zoos
The ability to draw and sketch quickly is one of the most important skills a designer can have, and the tools that make it possible are more important than ever. SketchUp Pro is a 3D computer software...
View ArticlePalace of Labour
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli designs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts...
View ArticleUrban Benches: 8 Innovations in City Street Seats
The habitually unheeded function of the humble city bench has been transformed; the purely practical purpose of this breed of public furniture has been entirely rethought in the distinguished designs...
View ArticleFusionner 1.0 - Holes of droplets floating
"Fusionner" comes from the French word meaning "to merge." Architecture merges in the urban city just like renovations merge into the interior of the space. Everything happens without imposing upon a...
View ArticlePlague Architecture: How Designers Have Fought Disease Across the Ages
The design evolution of modern hospitals.
View ArticleFive Reasons To Study Architecture Through Alfred Hitchcock’s Films
Before he started directing films in 1925, Hitchcock designed sets for films shot in the sophisticated studios in Germany. He favored oppressive and claustrophobic spaces, which were important in...
View ArticleTRESPA METEON | Natural
Trespa® Meteon® is a decorative high-pressure compact laminate (HPL) with an integral surface manufactured using Trespa‘s unique in-house technology, Electron Beam Curing (EBC). The blend of up to 70...
View ArticleAA Studio Gives New Life to An Italian Post-Modern Past
Its always fun to track who worked where and how it influenced their work. Often it is surprising, such as Robert Venturi's work for Eero Saarinen. Sometimes it is easy, like comparing Winy Maas'...
View ArticleNovartis Office Building
BUILDING is a 140,000-square-foot oncology office building at Novartis' North American Headquarters. Five floors of open office work areas are connected by an ascending spiral of "living rooms" with...
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