Author: David
Luxury Family House Design With Exposed Steel Bridge Ideas
December 11, 2013
This home on Mercer Island utilizes the elemental natures of concrete, steel and glass to create a family refuge. Two concrete structures, which house the garage, mudroom, and a play area, present themselves to the street. Between them runs an exposed steel bridge which leads...
Brughuis – Bridge House
December 8, 2013
t is exceptional to design a service building for a bridge that is only used 6 times per year. For approximately 350 days of the year the bridge house is merely transformer station. Instead of viewing this transformer station as an object of technocratic hindrance,...
Bridge House / Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
December 5, 2013
The site is fifteen acres of wooded grasslands with a ravine running through. The house bridges the ravine, spanning east to west. The house is a continuous 22′ wide two-story bar. A stair leads up to the entry court. The living areas are the upper level...
Cantilever Glass House
December 2, 2013
When Bob Zielinski, a former marine who owns a glass manufacturing company here, and his wife, Kim, showed contractors plans for the house they wanted to build — a 53-foot-long glass-and-steel wedge cantilevered over their factory — the contractors said they couldn't do it. You’d...
Kraanspoor / OTH Architecten
November 30, 2013
Kraanspoor (translated as craneway) is a light-weight transparent office building of three floors built on top of a concrete craneway on the grounds of the former NDSM (Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij) shipyard, a relic of Amsterdam’s shipping industry. This industrial monument, built in 1952,...
Gateway Park Project Enters Environmental Review Phase
November 29, 2013
Park planners and the public came together in West Oakland on November 14, 2013, for an open house that showcased the current Gateway Park design and launched the environmental review phase of the project. The open house was enthusiastically attended by nearly 100 local residents,...
House on the Water / Le 2 Workshop
November 28, 2013
Our friends from Le 2 Workshop sent us House on the Water, a self-sufficient house for nomadic life offshore. Designed as a rental house for people who want to be independent it’s available only through water. It is located by Navagio beach, NW coast of...
Bridge demolition begins
November 26, 2013
Stilted Shanghai Office Building is a Bridge Amongst The Trees
November 25, 2013
The stilted, four-building complex, designed by Scenic Architecture, appears to hover above the ground-level atrium in a grove of camphor trees, which poke through the interior walls and adjoin small bridges that interconnect the larger maze of light-filled spaces. Gizmodo full article Designed by Scenic Architecture...