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Seen at a RIBA Exhibition, November 2009.
The model of 'Zig-Zag Housing' has been crotcheted, as far as I could tell. One way of softening the impact I suppose.
An exhibition of Modern Italian art shown in a rather contemporary space, composed of stainless steel and glass walls. Over the last few years contemporary visual artist from Havana have been noticed, critics stating some of the best art today is from Havana. Lately Cuban contemporary artists have exhibited in the Basel Art Fair, and the prestigious Venice Biennale. Havana now hosts their own Havana Bienniale of Art!
Chambers Architects in collaboration with Ralph Hawkins, HKS, Inc.
This residence is executed with clarity and simplicity of the owner’s modernist sensibilities, integrated with our firm’s regionalist convictions. In collaboration with the client who is an architect himself, we created a home that is thoroughly modern in its use of space, light, massing, and proportion.
Regional character was achieved through the abstraction of elements of Texas culture. The home features a massive central wall with stone lintels which penetrates the external walls of the house. It uses a regional matrix of massive Texas limestone blocks, standing seam metal roof, dry stack stone wall at entry, and deep-shaded back porch, characteristic of Texas Hill Country homes.
In 1977 a custom built single-manual tracker organ, patterned after the small pipe organs of sixteenth and seventeenth century Germany, was installed. It was built by John Brombaugh of Ohio.
LAP OF LUXURY
Author: JODI VIAL
Date: 12/11/2011
Publication: Newcastle Herald
Section: Weekender - extract
The owners of this stunning lakeside home did not need the raft of housing industry accolades it has collected to know that it's something special.
The owners of this tri-level lakeside home at Buttaba could probably come up with more than a million reasons why they love spending time in it - one for every dollar it cost to build.
After a two-year construction process, the 1000-square-metre site hasn't retained much of its original appearance. But the one thing that hasn't changed is the priceless view of Lake Macquarie, which is what drew the family to the area eight years ago.
"I was looking at getting a place on the water," the Sydney-based owner says.
"A friend suggested looking around Lake Macquarie, and this place came up."
"This place", at the time, was an old house that served the couple and their adult children admirably as a weekender for six years before work began on the expansive residence that now graces the site.
"There were a lot of challenges," the owner says of the building process.
As a civil contractor, he experienced one of the first challenges when excavating the site, finding tonnes of sandstone and conglomerate rock that took him six weeks to move. Most was relocated to another building site at Kilaben Bay.
All the hard work has paid off now, almost 12 months after the owners moved in, with the property named last month as the Housing Industry Association's 2011 Hunter Home of the Year, best custom-built home over $1 million and overall custom-built home of the year. The Master Builders Association also bestowed the award for contract homes between $1.5 million and $2 million on the property in its 2011 Excellence in Housing awards.
Designed by Central Coast architect Paul Zaia and built by McGowan Building Services Pty Ltd, the Buttaba property's environmentally sensitive design was commended by the Australian Institute of Architects in its 2011 awards.
Part of the home's appeal is the ability for the owners to open the indoors out through the use of bifold doors and louvres. All three levels open onto decks, with the top floor housing a kitchen and lounge area that adjoins a three-metre-wide deck. The owner says this area is probably the most utilised during the winter months, with the house's block construction and the large expanses of thermal glass trapping heat and providing a comfortable warmth even on the coldest days.
The second floor houses three bedrooms, including the luxurious master suite, while a guest room and en suite are on the ground floor, opening onto a deck and leading to a boatshed, which is home to the owners' 5.5-metre speedboat should the urge strike for a fishing trip or lunch at the yacht club.
The summer is generally spent around the barbecue or relaxing in any one of several perfect spots to enjoy the fantastic views of a secluded bay.
I saw this interesting row of very modern (and expensive) houses in the city of Almere. This row built onto the water so they look almost like fancy houseboats. I understand they are built on stilts in the water. Spotted in the Almere Buiten.
Architects; Howell Killick Partridge & Amis. 1965-68
This was their first housing scheme they did after leaving the LCC/GLC Architects Office with the experience of Alton West behind them.
There are similarities with Park Hill Layout due to sloping site and snake like ‘pivoted’ turning points formed with lifts and stairs. St Anne’s College also has some of these features on a flat and green site with more refined building features.
Their trademarks of using precast concrete aggregate panels, board marked concrete for circulation towers, bold modelling and articulation and careful detailing to prevent water staining is clearly seen in this Brutalist example of social housing in 60s London.
These photos were taken last year before renovation work started.
HKP&A's work can be seen here.
In 1928 Mies van der Rohe planed this subdivision on the Weißenhof Estate in Stuttgart Germany for the Deutcher Werkbund exhibition featuring Modern Architecture. This modern composition of line, plane and volume employing the: “five points of architecture” cited in “Towards an Architecture” (1923) by Le Curbusier is one of the few fine examples remaining:
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