Tasting Room at Sokol Blosser Winery
Floating Vanity
Floating vanities can utilize different materials and organizational strategies then a conventional bathroom vanity.
Four Seasons House
Year of Construction: 2007
Large dimensioned wood facade that opens up to the countryside.
Abedian School of Architecture
Year of Construction: 2013
Large glazed facades and an elevated roof line brings in natural light to the programmed spaces.
Outma Sqilx'w Cultural School
Year of Construction: 2011
Vibrant interior colors, materials and architectural moves make for interesting spaces.
The Pump House
The Pump House was originally designed for the clients to store a water pump and other equipment needed to maintain their farmland property, but the brief evolved over time - and the compact shed also doubles as a quiet lakeside retreat. The Pump House celebrates the ordinary - Uncompromising in it's simplicity, it adheres to some very modest but key ideas about doing away with the unnecessary. Agricultural materials (Colorbond iron, low-grade plywood & rough sawn timber) are put together with carefully considered old-fashioned craftsmanship (custom made on-site windows, doors & joinery) to create something much more than the sum of their parts. The cabin is fully "off-grid" and entirely self-sustaining. It features wood fired heating, solar panels and tanks for collecting and recycling rainwater.
Tverrfjellhytta
Area: 900.0 ft2
Project Year: 2011
9 ¾ Bookstore Cafe
Belarus Loft
Gaudin House
Evernote
Area: 20,000 sq. ft
Zumthor's Unterhus
ECOSCIENCES PRECINCT
Area: 50,000 sqm
Project Year: 2010
The green courtyard allows the scientists to work in the garden where it is different from the stereotype of the lab spaces.
Elrod House
From the moment you step onto the property you know right away the experience that awaits you is something spectacular. Inside the gate is a courtyard that has a set of steps that gives you an amazing view of the roof. The roof in this building is the star of the structure. It's pinwheel like design gives the interior a spaceship like quality. The open floor plan cleverly hides the kitchen and bedrooms so much that you feel as if there is only one room in the whole house. Another stand-out feature of the home is the rock formation which seemingly melds with glass and concrete surfaces effortlessly.
Hidden Room
One Main Office Renovation
This penthouse office of an investment group in green building and clean energy technologies (CChange) was inspired from the architect's prior sculpture - In the shadow of Ledoux in 1993. The interior elements showcase sustainably-forested spruce plywood that milled by numeric command machines.
Residential Jungle Gym
A family in Thailand with several energetic children worked with architecture firm, Onion to design the playground house of their dreams. Slides and nets meant for jumping allow the family to travel between floors, and bedrooms are outfitted with secret tunnels and hideaway holes.
BanQ Restaurant
Designed by Office dA, BanQ is a restaurant located in Boston in an old banking hall. The unique ceiling is comprised of a striated wood-slat system that successfully conceals the mechanical, plumbing and lighting systems of the restaurant, while offering an undulating canopy under which one may dine. Each rib of the ceiling is made up of a 3/4" birch plywood adhered together. Warm woods and relaminated bamboo on the ground amplify the effect of the ceiling.
Hilton Pattaya
Hilton Pattaya's interiors in Thailand was designed by Bangkok's Department of Architecture. The main lobby and bar is elevated at the 17th floor, overlooking Pattaya Beach. The spacious lobby features the main architectural ceiling intervention - dynamic wave lines constructed from fabric that guide the movement of visitors across the space to the beachfront, and beyond. Strip lighting creates above the fabric linear pattern illuminates the space at night, while the ground plane remains simple.
Home 09
Plywood is the proud natural element in this house. This unexpected use of the inexpensive material is used for accent walls, built ins, closet back panels, and doors. The contrast of this natural material with the white walls and ceilings are so striking, bold, and elegant all at the same time.
INOUT House
It's hard to tell what is inside and outside because the house seems to be totally open. The liner pool juts inside of the house further enhancing the relationship of the exterior and interior. The perimeter volumes on the sides are where the bedrooms are and the open space in the middle are the living room, kitchen, dining room, porch, barbecue, and swimming pool.
The composition is beautifully organized with the materials of the grass from the lawn, the Melina wood and the blueness of the pool all sit beautifully on its own as well as beautifully complimenting each other. Another striking material, absolute black granite are used for the countertops throughout the house, adding contrast to the openness of the house.
RAW
The restaurant name RAW is applied not only in food but also the interiors where the dramatic curvy sculptural elements in both material and construction can also be described as raw. The architect and the chef tightly collaborated on designing this space where the architect relied on his carpentry skills to construct the interior pieces such as the wine bar using traditional shipbuilding techniques using spruce wood blocks. The ways the curves begin and terminate results in organic space that mimics the organic food served in this gastronomic restaurant.
Joseph Phelps Vineyards
Originally built by John Marsh Davis in 1973, BCV architects renovated the inside with respect to all the original structure within, where new structural trusses tie into the existing with the same wood finish and added an additional floor without removing the original exterior material. The result is a striking wood exposed construction with connections that are very expressive in itself and blends in with the existing structure as well as the surrounding. The outside and inside oozes hospitality.
The Couch
This new tennis club serves 1100 members and counting serves as the hug of the club's activities. This building functions as both a viewing platform and a club overlooking the water. The club is for the public and public is welcomed 365 days a year.
The construction of the club is concrete with FSC-certified wood clad with the outside fully sealed with an EPDM polymer hotspray in the same color and texture as the clay courts. The thermal mass characteristics embedded in the materials themselves as concrete and wood are used in order to achieve energy efficiency.
Yabu Pushelberg Residence
Set in a Richard Meier designed tower, one can find a decadent yet understated, plush yet tailored interiors of the legendary design duo Yabu Pushelberg's private home. The richness of this home can be accredited to various use of different type of rich woods with sensuous mixture of custom designed furniture with various silhouettes.
The designers' personal art collection decorate the walls exactly where they need to be, enriching the walls and its immediate surrounding where the art work and the furniture almost relate to each other in every composed situation.
Villa Allegra
This house has unexpected yet flawless elements to maximize the indoor and outdoor relationships, maximizing the outdoor moments thanks to the tropical climate of Miami. There is a dramatic double height drapery that closes off softly to the outdoor rather than a hard wall with a door. The living quarters with bathrooms each reside on the ground floor with living areas centralized in the house in double height. One of the beautiful surprising feature is that the round column isn't a round column but an outdoor shower open to above.
Fukuoka, Japan
"A curiosity about the culture, the materials, and the people. That becomes the basis of any good design." Kengo Kuma replied when asked what inspired him to create the design of this cafe. The neighborhood this cafe is located in is famous for its historical shrine. Infusing Starbucks spirit with respect for the local artisan, the architect used a diagonally woven cedar wood lattice to create an incredible and intense environment within so that a visitor can truly feel the hand-made quality, a quality deeply rooted in this neighborhood.
GC Prostho Museum Research Center
6,000 pieces of cypress wood from local sources and artisans make up this 3D grid-like lattice museum of dentistry. The concept is derived from old Japanese wooden sticks called "cidori". The advantage of using cypress wood is because using strong wood allows for the members to be as thin as possible yet be sculpted easily into other forms.
Wairau Valley House
The ranch style housing makes its appearance in New Zealand, nestled in a landscape of vineyards, farms, and orchards. Rustic cedar wood is accented with white and board-form concrete, creating a beautiful combination of materials. 5 private pavilions come together, connected by semi-outdoor walkways and landscape that blend the indoors and outdoors. Thin, gabled roofs emulate the ranch style housing while light steel columns support a roof canopy that looks like it floats above the structural concrete elements of the house. Forms and lines within the house are carefully articulated, and the interior spaces are warm and inviting.
Feldman House
This mid-century home was fully remodeled while preserving the original architecture as much as possible, including original materials.
Carefully considering the choices of what the original architect would have made, striking a balance and cohesion of the carefully selected furniture pieces and finishes to make them look as if they always belonged in this house was the continuous goal for this designer.
Beachyhead House
This vacation home was designed to serve the purpose of entertaining guests; the clients wanted a house big enough to host a large number of people, but cozy enough for the times when they had a smaller number of guests. The fireplace, coated in weathered copper, takes a leading role in the design- it encloses the living room area, the heart of this project, creating the cozy space the owners wished for.
Cellar Bar (Hospitality)
An annex to the existing structure, this cellar bar's silhouette mimics the outline of the island, the rocks, whales and wine casks, all surrounding context to the site, while complimenting the original structure from which it was annexed.
The materials used were organic volcanic rock from the region, basalt, concrete and woven timber, as well as other locally sourced materials in order to stay contextual to its surroundings. The interiors have the same language in terms of craftsmanship and materials where timber is used to create a warm environment throughout the space, while framing the view of the Atlantic ocean on one side and volcano views on the other side.
Joy City "Woo Space"
This innovative office space, formerly a granary building, was designed to cater to the needs of entrepreneurs. It originally held one story, with a ridge height of 30.18 ft and a net height of 21.98 ft- 10763.9 square ft of habitable ground floor area in total. The renovation contemplated a series of new areas: independent and co-working spaces, an event room, a cafe, a theater and a gym- all of this for 600 people. To be able to fit this new program into the old structure, the architects added a series of platforms with different floor heights inside the building, giving the project a finished habitable space of 27986.17 square ft and a rich dynamic interior layout.