Design

Linking distant lands, this time G2 Estudio was hired by two families from Tahiti- French Polynesia, partners in the adventure to create a holiday house in San Carlos de Bariloche – Patagonia Argentina, the one should have a wide integrated space for leisure and recreation, two master-rooms, two bedrooms for the children, and all the necessary equipment to a holiday house — via ArchDaily

Architects Marijke Bruinsma (de Stuurlui stedenbouw) with Marjan van Capelle
and Arjen de Groot (Atelier GRAS!), shared with us Eathouse, a house and garden to eat — via ArchDaily

Munkii describes their design as flamboyantly baroque as it clearly draws on ornate custom-cut curves of classic wood-worked dressers and cases. The velvety red-brown interior is also a reference to this materiality, while the white frame serves as a blank-canvass backdrop for the core decor — via Dornob

The Pohutukawa House stands at the coastal foreshore of a wild beach on a site almost overgrown with mature Pohutukawa trees.

The positions of the existing trees and their twisted limbs have been closely mapped and the house has been designed to occupy the residual space that the trees have left (beside and under the trees). The striking geometry of the house has been developed in direct response to the available residual space, while maintaining a maximum height profile that approximates the top of the tree canopy — via ArchDaily

Curved shape of the building with the dense screen against the traffic creates a sheltered space in front. The curve follows the outer edge of the site in order to keep this space as wide as possible.

Facility includes four main features: the base, the screen, the tower and the bridge. This formal principle is reflected in the expression, functions, structures and materials — via ArchDaily

M11 house is located in a residential area of HoChiMinh’s suburban. By using natural materials as wood and stone, utilizing top lights as well as placing small green-courtyards inside the house, the architect wants to bring out elegant and peaceful spaces to the client who can leave all his tiring behind after a long working day to enjoy his own space in a noise and polluted environment of a developing city — via ArchDaily

The new building for The University of Tasmania’s School of Medicine and the Menzies Research Institute supports these institutions aspiration to deliver leading edge world-class clinical research and medical training.

The conceptual basis for the project was to create a synergistic environment for these previously fragmented facets of the University. At the core of the concept is the creation of a new culture reinforced through the building’s image and its social and functional planning — via ArchDaily

The special features of this building are its unusual shape and location. In order to present a corporate image for a shipping company, the architect explored and worked just as an artist would in creating a work of sculpture. The futuristic concept of the building, with its play of heaviness and lightness in the composition of the mass, gives the initial idea of a spaceship landing on the rocky surface of a planet. In the context of its environment, an extended stretch of rocky beach, the building aims to be a focal point or landmark for the area — via ArchDaily

Located at a soft ground closed to a canal in Binh Thanh District, HCM city, this office is required to design to meet functions of an architecture & construction office as well interior showroom. In additional, a lowest construction cost is also a client’s concern due to short term rental of this site from 5 to 10 years only — via ArchDaily

The challenge was to create twenty seven residential units, all with natural light and ventilation. Originally used as a transfer point for cargo between locomotives and trucks, the existing structure has a large square floor plate with limited opportunities for apertures to the exterior — via ArchDaily

The German brand LACO (aka Lacher & Co.) has recently introduced its new Laco Squad 1000 meter automatic diving watc — via World Watch Review

A new fire station went up at the intersection of Churchilllaan and Beatrixlaan in Rijswijk. Designed to provide around-the-clock accommodation, the station features a lounge, bedrooms and a gym. The design can be seen as a single roof above the heads of the city’s fire brigade. Four rafters towering above the roof stand at right angles to the interior network of corridors. Fitted with strips of glass, these elements create beautiful light streets inside and out — via ArchDaily

The firm Roche-Dinkeloo and Associates is known for producing some of the most significant and influential civic and corporate architecture of contemporary times. The two architects were very successful in recognizing new social conditions within their postindustrial society, paying specific attention to the individual and their changing relationship with public space.

The Knights of Columbus Building in New Haven, Connecticut, is the second tallest building in the skyline although it is only 23 stories. Its modern construction and design were revolutionary at the time, and continue to be appreciated today — via ArchDaily

Leawood, Kansas, is a typical mid-ring suburb characterized by modest, well-built homes, a leafy hardwood tree canopy and good public schools that make it an attractive location for young families. Current trends (economic downturn notwithstanding) lean towards tearing down existing homes (arguably historical, with most homes in this part of Leawood having been built in the early 1940’s) and maximizing new designs to allowable build lines and volumes — via ArchDaily

This is the Technische Universitat in Munich, Germany. Those giant tubes are slides to go from the top floor to the ground level patio. Why? It doesn’t matter. This is an example to be followed all around the world — via Gizmodo

The Steampunk is large at 50mm wide and the bezel is oxidized metal (going with the Titanic DNA theme). The X motif of the bezel claws are continued with screws that go deep into the dial. These screws are also meant to resemble steam engine pistons. The large Roman numeral hour markers for 12 and 6 are large and purposes done in a scratched-up texture. We have seen these hands before – and they are meant to evoke the Titanic’s anchor — via A Blog to Read

Designed by regional architect Peter Gluck, the heavy base and open-on-all-sides windows above are reminiscent of the sold-and-void relationship of classic watchtowers found in the wilderness, but made of rigorous steel and concrete rather than rough timber — via Dornob