What a sweet looking little renovated NYC apartment. This 240-square-foot shoebox with sleeping loft was designed by Brooklyn architect Tim Seggerman, who renovated this Upper West Side brownstone studio into what it is today. His solution was to insert what he calls a “crafted jewel box” into the undersize space, creating an enveloping cabin of blond woods. “It’s basically a piece of woodwork,” says Seggerman. “I’m very proud of that.” There are cabinets of cypress and bamboo; a gently chamfered ash-and-beech staircase; flooring of quartered white oak; a desk of red birch slats that slips out into the living space... And a nook creates a cubby-like library to crawl into.

Couldn't find to much information on this hut but it is quite nice to look at. This 693 sq. ft. studio was made out of scavenged material and T1-11 plywood siding. For it only being 693 sq. ft. it looks to be quite spacious and cozy to warm up anybody's cold winter nights into brisk spring evenings. Designed by Olson Kundig Architects. More info. here.

Hiroshi Nakamura and NAP Japanese agency signed the proposed individual home in Hiroshima. In the heart of the city, built right between high buildings, Optical Glass House would open on a street side garden protected from the everyday bustle on the street by a screen made of 6000 blocks of optical glass.

Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP give a little detail about the house:

Optical Glass Front:

A panel of some 6.000 pure-glass blocks (50mm x 235mm x 50mm) was employed. The pure-glass blocks, With Their wide mass-per-unit area, Effectively shut out sound and enable the establishment of an open, Clearly articulated That allowed on the garden city scenery. To Realize Such a facade, glass casting was employed to Produce glass of extremely high transparency from borosilicate raw material for the optical glass. The casting process was exceedingly difficulty, for it required slow cooling to remove Both residual stress from within the glass, and high dimensional accuracy. Even then, however, the glass micro-level Retained Surface asperities, we aim Actively Welcomed this effect, for it Would Produce unexpected optical illusions in the interior space.

Waterfall:

So wide was the 8.6mx 8.6m façade Could not stand it if indépendamment Constructed by laying rows of glass blocks a mere 50mm deep. We therefore punctured the glass blocks with holes and strung 'em on 75 stainless steel bolts suspended from the beam above the façade. Such a structure vulnerable to lateral Would Be stress, however, so along with the glass blocks, we aussi strung on stainless steel flat bars (40mm x 4mm) at 10 centimeter intervals. The flat bar is seated Within The 50mm-thick glass block to render it invisible, and Malthus has uniform sealing gasket entre le 6mm glass blocks was Achieved.  The result?  -a transparent facade When seen from the garden Either or the street. The façade Appears like a waterfall flowing downward, scattering light and filling the air with freshness.

You can find out more about this house on Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP website.



Photographs:  Nacasa & Partners

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These new Eco-Resorts in Parque de Pedra Salgadas, Portugal were designed by Luis Rebelo de Andrade and Diogo Aguiar.  They consist of a set of seven small houses in perfect harmony with the surrounding of nature. Designed in a modular prefabrication system they adapt nicely to specific places within the park, these houses result in several different combinations of the same three modules (entrance/bathing, living, bedroom and create a different morphological atmosphere within nature.



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In Wadi Rum, Jordan will be a hotel that will be carved into the desert mountain providing a primitive but high-tech luxury hotel. It's designed to satisfy a traveler's interest and to explore the comforts of what the desert has to offer. The creator of this resort is a Florida-based company Oppenheim architecture + design who have recently won two International Design awards.

The construction of this hotel is expected to be finished in 2014 and will consist of a rock lodge, spa lodge, tent lodge and reserve villa providing guest with a variety of accommodations. Each cave styled rooms will include a large window to offer breathtaking views and give a sense of emerging in the elegants that can be the desert.

Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects is an Auckland based architectural firm that designed this amazing house in Omaha Beach back in 2007. This home has a view that is just spectacular and could be enjoyable at any point living in this house. The openness in this house is another aspect that keeps that view-able field of sight open to natures beauty. What do you think about this house and the view?

 DMVA Architect the ones who were responsible for the mobile Blob VB3 design were asked to add an extension to this A-framed house.  The owner wanted to reconvert his holiday home into a more comfortable, contemporary house.  So they came up with a floating volume, a tunnel built with trapezoidal wooden constructions. The new extension on the house connects the old and the new parts and creates the basis for the dimensions of the library, new bathroom and entrance. The homes back and front-side are fully glazed but on the street view side you can get some privacy by moving the partition wall that was built in if you want. Overall this A-frame got an A style design extension added into the all ready interesting styled home.




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