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Alvin Lustig (interior designer) with Sam Reisbord (architect), designed the Beverly-Carlton Hotel in 1947 in Beverly Hills, California.
The Stanton Row project was designed while working at Polis Design Studio. I was the lead designer(with help rom Eric Meyers) for this project, which unfortunately did not win the RFP and was never constructed. The townhomes had to fit a tight building footprint. The ground level accomodated parking in the rear and flex space in the front. The second level contained the main living space. The third level contained the bedrooms. The fourth level contained a flex space/entertaining room and a large deck on the front. The typical unit was 20' wide and 42' deep.
For Konstantin Mel'nikov's iconic design, with numerous photos, sketches, models, and reconstructions, please see: wp.me/pgGDG-2Tk
Hawk and Mesa Ranch
Desert getaway in secluded Pipes Canyon in Pioneertown, California
Photo by Lance Gerber
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E.1027 from Buse beach, Roquebrune, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
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Extract from "More Travel Notes with an Architectural Eye - 2012":
So return to Nice gave me time for a short, less adventurous, excursion along the famous coast east from Nice to Cap Martin-Roquebrunne. The target here was to see E.1027, a remarkable early example of modern domestic design from the 1920s by Irish Eileen Gray. Actually E.1027 codifies for Gray and her friend Badovici. They were also friends of Le Corbusier next door, on the rocks above the azure bay. Corb had his 'cabin' here, and eventually drowned in the Bay.
I say 'friends', but there were rivalries too. E.1027 is sensitively set, discrete among dark pines, a sharp play with nature, even more secluded today, in spatial composition, startling for the time, but avoiding arrogance. I think it expressed the thinking better than Corb had at that point. Once, when Gray and Badovici were away, the all-arrogant Corb 'broke into' the house and painted five or six primary-colour full-wall abstract murals, in the pure-white domestic interior. Fine in themselves, but mis-using the setting to subservience. Gray was so upset, that she never returned again. And the house had a strange dark history of deterioration and murder. Only very recently the French have been restoring it, thank goodness, but they seem to think it's the murals that are most important — on the misapprehension that Corb was French. Art-historian myopia?
For me it was interesting to see how well it was set, how the fresh white picks up the white foam edges of the azure sea, and how, despite silly efforts to make it as difficult to see as possible, it integrates with terraced gardens. I was able to photograph the setting from the beach on the coast, and from the stepped garden below Corb's cabin on the east (but not see inside).
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"After nearly 15 years of patience and concerted efforts, Friends of e.1027 is extremely pleased to announce some important updates about Eileen Gray’s seminal modernist villa in Roquebrune-Cap Martin in the south of France. While the Conservatoire du littoral (a French coastal conservancy agency) and the town of Roquebrune remain co-owners of e.1027, there has been a shift in the management of the site: introducing l'Association Cap Moderne, charged with the development and management of cultural and touristic considerations for the site at large. Friends of e.1027 will continue to work with our French counterparts to ensure the protection and maintenance of e.1027 and the adjoining buildings.
GRAND RE-OPENING 2015
E.1027 remains a work in progress, but we are happy to announce the current proposed date for the grand re-opening to the public: Summer 2015. "
ένα προοδευτικά σχεδιασμένο εξωτερικό μέρος του Maxxi, μουσείο μοντέρνας τέχνης, Ρώμη, Ιταλία, αρχιτέκτονας Zaha Hadid
una parte externa diseñada progresivamente de Maxxi, museo de arte moderno, Roma, Italia, arquitecta Zaha Hadid
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.
The scheme currently is undergoing major renovations and these two photos were taken during this period.
HKP&A's work can be seen here.
Birmingham - www.galinsky.com/buildings/selfridges/
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Here is the interior of St. John's Lutheran Church in Midland, Michigan which was designed by famous architect Alden Dow son of the founder of Dow Chemical. The entire church was designed around the symbol of Lutheranism - The Luther Rose. Many German immigrants flooded into the Midland area and a large Lutheran church was needed. The church was built in 1953.
Refurbishment of a luxury apartment in Knightsbridge, London. We renovated the whole house and added a glass box extension to the rear to link the kitchen / dining room with the garden.
Architect: James Stirling 1969-72. (Scanned from an early 1970s slide)
Famous for GRP panels and glass corridor link to Edwardian building refurbished by Jim's friend, Ted Cullinan. Top glazed shape on right is a corner of a Divisible Lecture Hall, which was the centrepiece of the garden.
St Paul, Harlow, by Humphrys and Hurst, 1955-9, but principally, says Pevsner, by Derrick Humphrys, following Hurst's death in 1958. Oh dear. I did an image search and found a picture of the church standing in fields, with a little winding path running along the side. It was not a photograph, so I don't know whether the church ever stood in such a setting. Perhaps we should allow for artistic licence. But the church was certainly one of the earliest buildings of the new town's civic core. Just look at it now, poor thing, flanked by ribbed cladding and the foul air outlets of air-conditioning systems.
It deserved better, for it is a distinguished building. The bricks are good, apparently suggested by Sir Frederick Gibberd as a foil to the concrete of the neighbouring civic buildings. The walls are more glass than brick, so that it is often possible to see right through, as in the transept on the left there. Unfortunately I was not able to gain entry ...and besides I had left Mrs B sitting in the car with her book in a residential side street... but there are said to be good things, including a mosaic by John Piper. I noticed that the foundation stone ...you can see it at the right corner... was laid by none other than the Rt Hon. R. A. Butler. I suppose the new towns must have been a "flagship"project at the time and some top brass had to be seen to be "on board" ...as it would now be expressed.
Olympus 35RC and Kodak Ektachrome transparency film.
You can see this building under construction in this photo. As a fan of modern architecture I think this is a beautiful addition to the Johannesburg architectural landscape.
Architects; Aldington craig & Collinge, 1970s.
Shocked to hear that this building has recently been demolished without any required permission.
No doubt this British habit of 'culling' modern architecture is far from under control.
Other photos of this project.