Leaf House is a building in which people can simultaneously be and inside, and in a garden. The house, the cottage which has revived at coast in Sydney, tenants name Pavilion for Merge to the Nature. Look a video in detail showing all process of building of this unusual object.
Integration into a landscape
The building is integrated into surrounding landscape and reflects qualities; the top block mixes up among trees, the base merges with plain.
Leaf House in Sydney
The copper-plated roof reminds the fallen leaves; in the house the dynamical structure reminding a bush of grapes grows.
In the given project authors used design and technologies for achievement is high-adaptability to manufacture also complexities at the limited expenses.
Well-known magazine Vanity Fair has presented next release Hollywood Issue 2009. This special Hollywood number by tradition is issued on the eve of delivery of film awards "Oscar".
The Hollywood duets
This time the creative union of the actor and the director became the main theme of the Hollywood release — in new number of magazine Vanity Fair cinema photo-duets of directors and the actors nominated for the film award "Oscar" in this year are presented. The photographer: Annie Leibovitz
The first skyscraper which will be constructed in Los Angeles, for almost last two decades — a 54-storeyed construction under the project of architect Genslera.
Hotel Marriot in LA
The project urged to fill emptiness in a city fabric of city centre. The skyscraper will settle down in southwest city centre.
The design decision quite satisfies to technical requirements to the project: interiors perfectly correspond to appointment of premises — inexpensive hotel, magnificent hotel, private apartments and the maximum height of building of 220 metres. This approach provides the big area for more expensive inhabited units in building top, placing more undemanding premises at the heart of a building.
Ritz Carlton in Los Angeles
Uniqueness of power supply consists that east and western facades of a building will represent similarity of irises of the eye of eyes, opening and being closed.
Architect William Russell from an architectural bureau "Pentagram" has finished new shop of well-known fashion designer Alexander McQueen. The new shop is located on Melrous Avenue in Los Angeles.
Fashion-room in Los Angeles
It already the fourth shop designed by the architect for label McQueen. The previous constructions are located in world capitals of a fashion — London, Milan and New York.
Exclusive boutique Alexander McQueen
The most appreciable and, probably, most interesting element of design of an interior is the sculpture of the man located under the ceiling of shop. As well as in other boutiques, the emphasis is made on correctly picked up arrangement of subjects in space, pure forms and silhouettes which they create, co-operating with each other. Unique also that unlike other places, William Russell has united an interior and an ex-terrier in this case is, having used unique in the simplicity colour scale.
Project Kovac Architects located in Pacific harbour near to Los Angeles, has the structure rising uphill, and is called Hillclimber.
The modern three-storyed house in Los Angeles
This modern three-storyed house describes the lines a steep slope. Architects Kovac Architects so respond about the project: "the Simple hierarchy of a site is reflected in forms and used materials, namely, in angular ceilings, stone elements in an interior and the wood decorating both appearance and a house interior."
Studio 0.10 Architects, the architectural bureau from Los Angeles, has finished building of the house for the artist in which the art studio, and also premises for a life and entertainments will take places.
Art-studio in Los Angeles
Actually, the house consists of two houses which are connected by an internal court yard. In a two-storeyed building the garage, apartment and art studio have taken places.
Under showrooms the second building, by height three floors is given. Facades of both buildings are covered by zinc panels, frames for windows are made from IpĂȘ wood, differing high durability, stability to influence of an environment and durability.
Private picture gallery in Los Angeles
In connection with restrictions of a place of construction, it has been decided to break demanded zones into separate parts thanks to what external territories were generated. A certain sandwich in which two houses move with a layer in the form of an internal court yard has turned out. Exhibition areas are wrapped up round a house facade, simultaneously carrying out a functional and aesthetic role, softening solidity of objects.
Morphosis, the American architectural bureau, has constructed the house for the well-known client; in New Orleans the fund “Make It Right Foundation” had a new house. The project has been carried out together with University of California in Los Angeles.
The steady house
House characteristics allow not to be afraid of natural cataclysms; in case of strong flooding the house will float on a water level).
The house is constructed on "air cushion" of the frame which have been filled in with special assembly foam, strengthened outside by concrete with fiber glass. "Air cushion" carries out a raft role, allowing the house to rise on height to 3,7 metres.
However, architects did not assume, that inhabitants of the house remain during flooding inside; but after disaster they can quickly restore access to the house.
Modern interpretation of the Ark
The fund problem — to construct 150 steady and accessible houses which can stand in the conditions of natural accidents. It is especially actual for some States of the USA, for the families, wasted the houses during the hurricane Katrina in 2005 year.
The Italian architects from bureau Progettospore have offered the project of the threefold bridge for pedestrians and easy transport which is developed specially for medieval Italian village. The matter is that this small settlement is on a mountain slope, at height of 480 metres.
The bridge in eternity
The concept has been created for competition on the project of the new bridge which should connect village to an external world. Project Progettospore consists of three bridges which are hanging together.
“Creating this bridge, we have drawn lines which as though are groundless”, — authors, — “that the person moving on this bridge speak, felt free, as a bird, moving in air space”.
The medieval modern bridge
We have broken a stereotype that the bridge should have one input and one exit — the given bridge offers their set. The third bridge is accessible to pedestrians with the complicated traficability, on invalid carriages. Trajectories of the bridge and mutual crossing has allowed to use a minimum quantity of support. These three paths in the sky actually represent the uniform interconnected design.
Hotel "Limes" designed by the Argentina designer Alexander Lotersztain, has opened in the end of June in Brisbane (Australia).
Cinema on a roof
On a hotel roof the bar and a cinema hall is located. The hotel is located in the centre of Brisbane which is in the Valley of Strength of mind, and known for the fashionable cafes, bars and restaurants. The open bar with a cinema hall, located on a roof, is surrounded by a bright night life of a city that is one of ingenious ideas of the architect.
Scooping inspiration on infinite travel to planes and hotel rooms, Alexander Lotersztain has concentrated on primary requirements of the independent traveler, sweeping aside standards of five-stars hotels, and it is reached through unique decisions.
The attention to details is reflected in a choice of design decisions. In rooms kitchen and toilet accessories ĐĄorian (Dupont), door handles with the aluminium dusting, "floating" night little tables, firm Luna Textiles curtains, and on walls tile Bisazza. In each room of a wall have the individual colouring created at use of mineral materials.
Exclusive hotel in Brisbane
This project was for the architect something like experience, however he could create warm, unique atmosphere. The building is deprived excessive decorative elements, it idle time, modern and is perfectly entered in surrounding city landscape.
What for the house on the sea if from the house it is not visible the sea is necessary. It seems, architect Jorge Hrdina and thought, building this house almost without walls...
Glass instead of walls
In this house of a window, certainly, dominate. All structure gives ease and beauty of the general ensemble of lines and planes. Ease is supported with absence of thick columns, walls etc. which, as a rule, are necessary for maintenance of a roof of structure.
On the top floor a kitchen room and premises with the sliding doors conducting to a small terrace (platform) with several chairs and a barbecue. Before a kitchen room, a balcony and a bedroom 19 metre pool with a glass handrail has been made.
The ground floor also is made so that to keep remarkable visibility. Rooms for children and some premises Here settle down.
Small house on an ocean coast
Besides, in the house there are systems for gathering, storages and clearings of rain water, and the tank for rain water has volume of 25,000 litres. Premises are designed so that ventilation was carried out naturally and only when there comes exclusively hot time air central air joins.
Huge windows, in turn, prolong time of natural illumination of premises, and there is no necessity to include illumination up to the sunset. On a house roof some accumulators and solar batteries for heating of water from a solar energy are located.
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Wishes of the customer of the given interior were accurate and simple. The apartment should be similar to apartment of the architect — spacious, filled with light and white.
Fine lay-out of apartment
The apartment is on the top floor of the residential building located in the east of the city of Graz. The house is very successfully located, subcentral, comfortable — with access to balconies and private court yard, with a fine lay-out of apartments.
Having dismantled the majority of walls, architects have transformed standard four-room apartment into a spacious penthouse. There, where division of zones was necessary, glass walls are used.
Architectural minimalism
In apartment there is all necessary; a toilet for visitors, a boiler and the washing machine — all it behind mirror partitions. Architects used the limited number of materials; glass, white furniture, textiles and special gravel for a floor covering.
