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"Genius Loci" Oil on Panel 48" x 48"
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"Genius Loci" Oil on Panel 48" x 48"
Spherical Design in Rustic Western Red Cedar Wood Shingles
Tucked quietly in a corner of your existing home’s property or as an independent structure all its own, this compact garden shed is an insulated sphere measuring three meters in diameter. With this smart wooden prefab structure, you can extend your home’s living space without going through the cost and inconvenience of a home addition and renovation. A top-hinged gull-wing door swings open, resembling a spaceship to welcome you into this ultra-modern design. The small design lets you isolate the intended function of a space, so whether you use it as a home office, an artist’s studio, a guest house, a kids’ play room or an adult retreat, this cool shed provides peace and privacy aplenty. The spherical design is clad in rustic Western Red Cedar wood shingles, giving the shed a country-chic aesthetic. The small design lets you isolate the intended function of a space, so whether you use it as a home office, an artist’s studio, a guest house, a kids’ play room or an adult retreat, this cool shed provides peace and privacy aplenty. Interiors are fully plastered and ready to decorate in your style, your way. At the top of the dome, a skylight floods interiors with natural light. Whimsical as it looks, this small garden shed is big on function, featuring a 2.9-meter internal diameter ready to fill with your work and play essentials.
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Architect: RSA Tower a 'spectacular' accomplishment
It rises above all buildings in the state of Alabama. It fits with Mobile's traditional architecture, and it even has a hint of the Chrysler building in its design.
Coupled with a foundation specially designed to handle the relatively soft ground near the Mobile River, the RSA Battle House Tower has plenty to satisfy project architect Jack Blake.
"I've been telling people all along it's going to be a spectacular building," said Blake, project manager for TVS & Associates. Blake and his team began work on the RSA project on Water Street in Mobile about four years ago for the Retirement Systems of Alabama, the state's $28 billion set of pension funds. TVS has offices in Atlanta and Chicago, and in Dubai, on the Arabian Peninsula.
"The vision was to have one of the tallest buildings in Alabama," Blake said by telephone from Atlanta. "They wanted a great building for Mobile, and they wanted a great building for Alabama."
Blake and his colleagues came up with a traditional style that included a base, a shaft and a crown. The base ties the building to the ground, the shaft houses the tenants and the crown provides the finishing touch on top.
"Some of the truly great high-rises are designed that way," he said, citing as examples such traditional structures as the Chrysler and Empire State buildings in New York.
Construction on the 745-foot-tall tower, however, wasn't exactly a piece of cake. The building had to be erected along the Mobile River, in waterlogged river delta conditions. "They hit (sea) shells at 150 feet down," Blake said. "We knew we would have to deal with the foundation (from the beginning)."
To support the estimated 100,000 tons of material that would make up the tower, workers had to drill about 2,000 auger cast piles 120 feet into the ground, sinking them into a stable clay layer that Blake said might have been an ancient river bed. They then laid a 7-to-8-foot-thick concrete mat over the entire site.
Ultimately, the RSA Tower took more than four years to design and build. The project, originally priced at about $162 million, in the end cost about $200 million, he said.
"It came out a little over budget and a little over time," Blake said. "I've been on a lot of projects before, and they're always doing that."
Meanwhile, as if to remind builders of Mobile's unique conditions, several hurricanes interrupted the construction process.
A wind tunnel test performed at a laboratory in Canada, however, had proved that the building could stand up to the winds. Lab personnel built a model of downtown Mobile and placed it in a wind tunnel to test the wind velocity around the building. The RSA Tower should withstand winds of 130 mph, Blake said.
To meet International Building Code requirements, TVS ordered hurricane-impact glazing on the bottom levels - materials designed to resist debris "missiles" in a storm. In addition, the first floor is flood-proof, equipped with flood doors that can be closed manually, much like the doors of a submarine, he said.
Blake, a South Carolina native, has traveled to Mobile about every other week to check on the tower's progress.
"I'm extremely pleased with how it's coming out," he said after an April inspection. "Every time I go down there, it amazes me and awes me."
Small houses for young couple
Location : Singgasana Pradana, Bandung
Design & built by PRE Architects
Location : Singgasana Pradana, Bandung
Design & built by PRE Architects
White-black-silver
Mengingat luas rumah yang terbatas dan klien lebih menyukai suasana lapang, maka dipilihlah warna-warna terang untuk menyeimbangkan ruang, sehingga ruangan tampak lebih luas dan terkesan "ringan".
Bahan yang dipilih pun beragam, antara lain HPL dan duco, dipadankan dengan pasangan keramik mozaik sehingga tampak elegant.
Wardrobe - Mirror and Lighting
Wardobe - Mirror and ligthing
Location : Batu Karang Residence, Bandung
Penggunaan cermin pada daun pintu lemari pakaian ini ditujukan untuk 2 fungsi, yaitu untuk menyiasati ruangan yang kecil dan digunakan pula untuk bercermin. Sehingga ruangan terasa lebih lapang. Penambahan titik penerangan dibuat agar penampilan menjadi semakin estetis dan elegan.
Washtafel + Lighting
Washtafel di rumah ini sengaja dibuat menarik karena letaknya yang ada di area living room. Lemari obat-obatan dibuat dengan finishing tempelan cermin agar ruang terkesan terang dan luas. Lampu berwarna kuning ini dibuat sebagai aksen sehingga suasana lebih cozy, terutama pada malam hari.
Location : Singgasana Pradana
Bahan : HPL
Nanny's Pavillon Library
VIP Room
Nanny's Pavillon Library, the 2nd location in Bandung, located on Jln. Setiabudi 55.
Design by : PRE Architects
Architecture's Modern Marvels - #3
The building that hit #3 on Vanity Fair's Modern Marvels list is perhaps my all-time favorite building. It is at least in contention for the top spot. I guess the critics are right when they call Peter Zumthor the architects' architect.
In architecture school, there is always a lot of discussion about the experience of the space. About entry, passage... about the journey.
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The Therme Bath Vals is a spa set up in the mountains of Switzerland, and if any building is about the journey... then it is this one. I drove with friends from Zurich up to Chur and then on to Vals. For someone who hadn't really spent much time in the mountains, the drive was unbelievable. The scenery was so picturesque and quaint - at one time we were stopped by a passing farmer and his herd of cattle!
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By the time we got to Vals, I was soooo ready to be at the spa. The excitement had really been building. As someone who loves minimalist design, but also loves tactile, crafted designs, Zumthor has always been one of my favorite architects.
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Believe me, the spa did not disappoint. The exterior structure is gorgeous, constructed of locally quarried stone in long linear patterns. The massive forms sink into the mountainside, with the green roof furthering the feeling that you are being enveloped by your surroundings.
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Once inside, we donned our bathing suits and made our way into the pools. Talk about the progression of space... I can still remember the different experiences in each pool; the hot water right next to the unbearable cold, the rose petal water, the tiny pool with the highest ceiling, the pass-through from inside to out. We swam and swam until we were so shriveled we couldn't possibly stay any longer.
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Buildings are meant to be experienced, and the Therme Bath Vals was one of the unforgettable experiences of my life. How can you not love this building and this architect?
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Architecture's Modern Marvels - #1
As many of you probably know, Vanity Fair recently compiled a list of Architecture's Modern Marvels. And it is really a pretty good list. Probably because they actually took the time to survey real (and prestigious) architects, rather than simply give us a list of the most popular according to HGTV. Since I've been fortunate to visit 6 of the top 21, I thought I'd take the time to write a bit about my experience with those buildings... after all, architecture is really all about the experience.
First up is Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao, which coincidentally was the site of my first ever architectural pilgrimage. While lately it has been pretty popular to hate on Gehry (I'm as guilty as anyone), it is hard to deny the success of this building.
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One of my closest/oldest friends has lived in Bilbao most of her life, so the summer after my freshman year in college (1998 - just after the building opened), I took a trip to visit her. The trip was mostly social... I wanted to see my friend, but I have to admit I was also excited about the prospect of seeing this building, one that we'd been hearing about in school all year long.
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Even though I've known all my life that I wanted to be an architect, I had a bit of a rough start my freshman year. I just wasn't cut out for the tedium of pencil shading, hard-lining, and precision. Precision had never been my forte, but that was exactly what we were expected to produce. In fact, after a year of hard-lining (of which I was adequate, but certainly not a star), I was beginning to wonder if architecture was meant for me after all.
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That all changed when I visited Bilbao. Along with my friend and her family, we spent the day visiting the museum. Just walking the streets up towards the museum took my breath away. Clearly, this was an icon. The museum had been open for less than a year, but everyone knew that the city was changed forever. The Bilbao effect has since been coined to describe the complete and utterly positive changes on a city by a singular structure.
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We spent the day wandering through the museum. For anyone who ever travels with families, you know how difficult this can be. Trying to accommodate young children, the elderly, and everyone in between can be hard, and more often than not I'm leaving the museum sooner than desired. But, with the Guggenheim, no one wanted to leave.
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We all know that "form follows function" is not how Gehry works. But for some reason, the form and the function of this building are completely interconnected. All of the spaces are appropriately formed from the inside to suit the artwork, while still creating Gehry's sculpture from the outside.
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Do I think it is perfect? Of course not, no building is. But whether or not the Guggenheim Bilbao is to your taste or not, you have to admit that it is a spectacular piece of architecture. This one building does more than most architects' entire careers. It has unity a city, brought (some) prosperity to that city, and become an iconic symbol across the world. It has managed the unique and delicate balance of fantastic form and suitable function. It has helped to advance both the architectural and building technologies - in the field and in the office. And perhaps least importantly to most, but most importantly to me... it helped remind me why I wanted to be an architect, and helped me to return to school completely motivated and totally invigorated.
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Hanging Chair
A friend of mine sent this to me because she knows my affinity for coat racks... I have to say, I love this design. I probably wouldn't want more than one, but I think this folding hanging chair would be a fantastic valet. I know that we could certainly use one. It would be great for preparing your clothes for the next day and perfect for small spaces where you could hang up the valet when done..
And the plywood edges... well, that just looks cool!
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By Phillippe Malouin
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PSLab Beruit
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PSLab Beirut designed site specific lighting designs. These ones are great... a play on both a standard chandelier and the iconic cylinder of the wine bottle. The fixtures really add to the space, rather than detracting from it, helping to provide the barrel vaulted space with a more intimate feeling.
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Check out their website. There are a lot of fun lighting fixtures... and the website itself it a lot of fun to peruse. There are great images of their sketchbooks - some with animated flipping pages!
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Philipp Klinger
I love Philipp Klinger's sense of positive/negative space and pattern... His photos really are fantastic...
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