Drum roll please. Here they are.
Guesthouse Paraty - CRU Architects
Rammed earth, bamboo and creative connections. Check out more here.
Museum Romeins Holder - Reset Architecture
Slight modifications to the ext. of this building reveal the thoughtful modern moves on the interior. See more by about this project on Reset Architecture’s site here.
Wuxi Taihu Show Theatre (China) - Steven Chilton Architects
This theatre is located in Jiangsu Province, China, the concept was inspired by the Sea of Bamboo Park in Yixing, the largest bamboo forest in China. The 2000 seat theatre houses a permanent water fountain. See more here.
Arctic Treehouse Hotel - Studio Puisto (Finland)
Happy winter holidays to all. See more here.
Plan B - DEOC Arquitectos (Guatamala)
Surprisingly thoughtful public restrooms. See more here.
Nedd House - Mary Arnold-Foster Architects
Burnt larch-wood home in the Scottish Highlands. See more here.
House Built around Ruin
This house in an old Chinese village nicely embraces it’s site that contains on old ruin. See more here.
UCCA DUNE Art Museum - Open Architecture
An impressive minimalist concrete structure that is mostly buried and looks like scattered seashells from above. See more here by Open Architecture.
Villa Cerro Corá House/ ArquitecTava + Grupo Culata Jovai
Unexpected moves on this narrow slot home in Paraguay. See more here.
1/2 A-Frame (Atelier l’Abri Architects)
I particularly like how these designers utilized the awkward end of the triangle for wood storage. See more here about this project.
a simple plan
Things I find helpful about this plan: people, color, rugs, plants and bikes - dimensions, therefore, are not as necessary.
Steven Holl - Architect
Early Steven Holl works are my favorite. I used to walk by this gallery space (below) in NYC years ago and get inspired. See more work by Holl here.
Notre Dame Roof Proposal by Miysis Studio
Check out more here about this excellent modern idea for transforming the damaged cathedral.
A-Frames - Wiki World Architects
Experimental community in China’s Morgan River Valley. See more info. here.
Mies Van Der Rohe - Architect
Mies was arguably one of the masters of minimalism. The image below is from the Farnsworth House - completed in 1951. His limited palette paired with bold moves (ext. walls of glass) highlight his impressive editing skills.
Casa Sperimentale by Giuseppe Perugini, Uga de Plaisant and Raynaldo Perugini
I love how this brutalist architecture from the 60’s-70’s looks like a ruin from a 1000 years ago. It was this family’s experimental project. See more info here.
Studio Arquitectos
Nice layers of hard and soft surfaces, inside and outside spaces. Check out more here.
Cabin Case Study - Build LLC
I like that BUILD LLC does these case studies projects. Check out more here about this exploration.
Bat Bridge - Next Architects
Bikes, pedestrians and bats. Read more here to to find out about the bat chambers.
