Comments on: House in Frontenex / Charles Pictet Architecte

By: youri

youri — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:11:39 +0000

It is indeed Frontenex in Switzerland, I’ve check on google earth where you can see the House.

By: Perspectiviste-Strasbourg

Perspectiviste-Strasbourg — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:30:43 +0000

Very gray but beuatyful!

By: Terry Glenn Phipps

Terry Glenn Phipps — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:12:24 +0000

As an American, even a Californian, living in Europe and France it is interesting for me to understand the terrain between new architecture and the built environment. This is especially true in France where the restrictions on building are so severe.

In comparing this, for example, to projects of Alvaro Siza in Belgium, I see two fundamentally different approaches. The Siza approach is to encompass the terrain and wrap it around a poetic heart. This approach uses the built environment as a pedestal upon which to display a sculptural evolution.

It is extremely difficult to decipher which approach makes more sense. However, I do find a discreet legibility in enhancing the built environment from, for example, the Renaissance to the Baroque, to the Neoclassical, and on to modernism.

This kind of work does emphasize the legible lines of differentiation between past, present, and future in a way that I find really satisfying.

By: Emilie

Emilie — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:01:16 +0000

Esthetiquement tres joli!

By: Isabel

Isabel — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:58:17 +0000

Constructed Area?

By: David Basulto

David Basulto — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:44:52 +0000

tset,

Frontenex is in France:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontenex

By: ez

ez — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:34:15 +0000

Really interesting and inspiring! Beautiful work with concrete!

By: tset

tset — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:01:48 +0000

Is the location really in France? The architect’s website lists it as Frontenex-GE where GE is Geneva, in Switzerland.

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Ben Barren - Confessions of a Mad Man » a post RSS monday. — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:08:55 +0000

[...] Now this might be the perfect office/house setup via Arch Daily who say ” In the orthogonal structure adjustments of the property, the only exception will be the orangery, skewed by its location.” [...]

By: Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:05:15 +0000

I’m really interested in this sort of project. Usually, a contemporary house built on its own seems to be offering a particular vision of the world and of its owner’s domestic life. Endorsing a modern home often means endorsing a modern sensibility. Cases like this are compelling to me because its owners are endorsing the reality of competing visions in the world. This house acknowledges complication in a way that I really like. It’s as if all houses are specific, rather than representatives of their respective schools; that’s an idea I really respond to.
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