Part(a)y House Brazil by Marcio Kogan

Elegant, calm, minimalist, clean and beautiful are among the adjectives that can be used to describe almost all of Marcio Kogan’s much-publicized and much-awarded residential masterpieces.

The magnificent, streamlined residences must serve as an antidote of some sort to the Brazilian architect who has been quoted as saying that he loves his home town of São Paulo and New York because they are similar in their chaotic ugliness, and because he likes “energy, chaos and a multi-cultural population in a city.”

Wood Block Residence by Chadbourne and Doss Architects

From the architects Chadbourne + Doss Architects

Located on the west side of Mercer Island, Washington, this house is a reconstruction of one of iconic Seattle architect Fred Bassetti’s earliest designs built in 1962. Fronting a busy street, we wanted to root the house to its sloping wooded site and provide a protective shelter for family life. The plan is opened up allowing for large family gathering spaces and perspectives throughout the full length of the house. A new metal skin with interior cedar liner wraps over the roof and grounds the house to the site. An aluminum bar grating screen encloses an exterior patio and deck filtering interior views and forming a sparkling and diaphanous wall from the street. The entry approach is redesigned with a cantilevered concrete landing in a sunken courtyard and a 4’ x 11’ pivot door to the interior. Bathing spaces are ethereally bright, smooth and seamless. Materials throughout are natural but installed and crafted in an extremely crisp manner.

Photography by Benjamin Benschneider
Visit the website of Chadbourne + Doss Architects – here.

Wood Block Residence by Chadbourne and Doss Architects

Wood Block Residence by Chadbourne and Doss Architects

Wood Block Residence by Chadbourne and Doss Architects

Wood Block Residence by Chadbourne and Doss Architects

Wood Block Residence by Chadbourne and Doss Architects

Wood Block Residence by Chadbourne and Doss Architects

Wood Block Residence by Chadbourne and Doss Architects

Wood Block Residence by Chadbourne and Doss Architects

Wood Block Residence by Chadbourne and Doss Architects

Wood Block Residence by Chadbourne and Doss Architects

Wood Block Residence by Chadbourne and Doss Architects

Euclid Avenue House by Levitt Goodman Architects

Words from the architects:
Compact, ecologically smart, affordable and successfully integrated within a diverse streetscape, the Euclid Avenue House is a useful prototype for new urban housing. The project’s design restraint, responsive plan and its unity of architecture and nature establish an array of alternatives to the shortcomings of Toronto’s housing typologies.

Simplicity of means has resulted in a strategically planned and relaxed living space that accommodates the life of a full family and invites the varying temperature, light and colour of Toronto’s fluctuating seasons into the house, imbuing it with a rural sensibility that is an astonishing compliment to its urban setting.

Euclid Avenue House

Euclid Avenue House

Euclid Avenue House

Euclid Avenue House

Euclid Avenue House

Euclid Avenue House

Euclid Avenue House

Euclid Avenue House

Euclid Avenue House

Euclid Avenue House

Euclid Avenue House

Euclid Avenue House

Clocktower Broklyn.

Clocktower in Broklyn.

Look at this apartment that just went on the market! The New York Times takes us inside the triplex penthouse of Brooklyn’s ClockTower Building — where the most striking features are the four 14′ clocks housed in gigantic round windows.

The DUMBO building was built by a cardboard box manufacturer and renovated by DUMBO developer David Walentas. The approximately 600 square meter apartment is on the market for $25 million (170 000 000 SEK) — “more than double the highest price known to have been paid for a home in Brooklyn.”

In addition to the clocks and amazing views, the triplex features 16 foot ceilings on the main level and central glass elevator and floating staircase!

Check out NyTimes for slideshow

Clocktower in Broklyn.

Clocktower in Broklyn.

Clocktower in Broklyn.

Clocktower in Broklyn.

Clocktower in Broklyn.

Clocktower in Broklyn.

Clocktower in Broklyn.

Clocktower in Broklyn.

Clocktower in Broklyn.

Clocktower in Broklyn.

Gama Issa House by Marcio Kogan

A box house in the city of chaos; just this phrase creates limitations and order! Marcio Kogan and his design team created a single, enormous volume wrapping everything. This white box house gives a whole new meaning to modern sustainable living in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Check out his website. www.marciokogan.com.br

Gama issa House

Project: Gama Issa House (02/2000)
Project architects: Marcio Kogan + // Oswaldo Pessano, Renata Furlanetto, Samanta Cafardo, Suzana Glogowski, Lair Reis, Carolina Castroviejo, Eduardo Glycerio, Maria Cristina Motta, Gabriel Kogan, Mariana Simas, Beatriz Meyer
Interior designers: Marcio kogan + Diana radomysler
Collaborations: Gisela Zilberman, Diana Radomysler
construction: 02/2001
Location: Alto de Pinheiros . São Paulo. Sp . Brasil
Site area: 1700 square meters
Built area: 700 square meters

Gama Issa House
Gama Issa House
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Gama Issa House
Gama Issa House
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Selgas Cano Arichitects Office in Spain

First a big thank you to Magnus for being an active reader and sent us this beautiful office, and also thank you for reading our inspiration blog, without you guys this site wouldn’t be anything.

Once again, Iwan Baan (complete photo set) amaze us with this great project between the woods by Spanish practice Selgas Cano: Their own architecture office. So this is my version of a future space home, i’m not sure where to place it yet, but I’ll figure something out.

Selgas Cano Architects


Selgas Cano Architects

Selgas Cano Architects

Selgas Cano Architects

Selgas Cano Architects

Selgas Cano Architects

Selgas Cano Architects

Selgas Cano Architects

Glass and Porcelain Vases by Ionna Vautrin

Fabbrica del vapore, Like micro architectures these vases are inspired by industrial landscapes where colored smokes escape from chimneys…
Donges, Micro architectures these vases are inspired by oil refineries landscapes.
Rombas, Inspired by industrial landscapes, these vases are like micro architectures which evoke canals of the blast furnaces factories.
Bovisa, Like micro architectures these vases are inspired by industrial landscapes composed by gas tanks.

Glass and Porcelain Vases, by Ionna Vautrin

Ford Times—Future Home 1959

Well those images from the late 1950′s are just so very modern today, 50 years later, we are on the burst of GEO engineering technology breakthrough. And the world have never been this much involved in the environment issues.

So car manufacturers around the world, hear our cry for newer technologies, and zero emissions by the year of 2020.

Charles Harper painted homes designed by Rudy Hermes as photomontage backdrops to introduce the 1960 Fords in November 1959’s Ford Times magazine… ‘the ultimate in prefabrication since it has no footings or foundation.’”