Description via Amazon. Though it was never built, the design for the legendary artist’s house Maison d’Artiste is one of the key works of the Dutch avant-garde movement De Stijl. Created in 1923 by painter Theo van Doesburg and architect Cornelis van Eesteren for De Stijl’s first group exhibition, the Maison d’Artiste was intended to encapsulate what De Stijl aspired to: a new everyday environment achieved through the harmonious fusion of painting and architecture. The scale model presented De Stijl’s ideal space for life and work, with a gym, a music room and a studio, as well as living spaces like guest rooms and bathrooms. Maison d’Artiste: An Unfinished Icon by De Stijl explores the revolutionary cultural importance of the design, its significance for the history of De Stijl and its place in a history of the unbuilt architecture of the 20th century.
Maison d'Artiste: An Unfinished Icon by De Stijl
Toodyay Shack / Paul Wakelam Architect - A Workshop
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Architects: Paul Wakelam Architect - A Workshop
- Area: 2850 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Austim, Austral Bricks, Clearlite WA
WOXSEN / Designhaaus Solutions
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Architects: Designhaaus Solutions
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Holcim, Saint-Gobain, Armstrong Ceilings, REHAU
Buena Vista / Shaun Lockyer Architects
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Architects: Shaun Lockyer Architects
- Area: 211 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Intergrain, Lysaght, PGH Bricks
AIA Selects Top 10 Most Sustainable Projects of 2017
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have named the recipients of the 2017 Top Ten Awards, celebrating buildings that best exemplify the integration of great design, great performance and sustainable design excellence.
Now in its 21st year, the COTE Top Ten Awards program was established to honor projects that protect and enhance the environment through an integrated approach to architecture, natural systems, and technology.
GC House / YourArchitectLondon
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Architects: YourArchitectLondon
- Area: 378 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Dinesen, Dornbracht, Kaldewei
Éric Lapierre Appointed as Chief Curator of 2019 Lisbon Architecture Triennale
The Trienal de Lisboa have today announced that a team of nine, led by Parisian architect Éric Lapierre, has been appointed as the curatorial team of the 5th edition of Lisbon Architecture Triennale which will be held from October to December 2019. Lapierre, who runs the Masters in Architecture & Experience at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, will collaborate with philosopher Sébastien Marot, who is also a critic in architecture and landscape design. Other members of the curatorial team include Ambra Fabi, Giovanni Piovene, Mariabruna Fabrizi, Fosco Lucarelli, Laurent Esmilaire, Tristan Chadney, and Vasco Pinelo de Melo. A grand total of 48 proposals were submitted to the organization, comprising 155 participants from 16 countries.
Quiubox / Boano Prišmontas
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Architects: Boano Prišmontas
- Area: 20 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Investwood, Rigawood
Drone Video Captures Apple Campus 2 as Employees Begin Move-In
With employees beginning to move into Apple’s Campus 2 this month, the Foster + Partners-designed main building is down to its finishing touches, as shown in this drone video captured by aerial videographer Matthew Roberts.
Also nearing completion are the solar-panel-covered parking garage and the F&D facility, with the Steve Jobs Theater expected to follow sometime this summer. Landscaping, including the central pond and unprecedentedly ambitious tree planting plan (reported to have caused a shortage of nursery trees in the San Francisco area), are also moving full-steam ahead.
Visualizations of the Most Used AutoCAD, Revit, and 3dsMax Commands
The 'Customer Involvement Program' of Autodesk's research department has, over the years, compiled a database of over 60 million individual commands created by anonymized users. Each reveals shortcut paths and thought flows among its customer base. The team have visualized the product usage (here described as the Command Usage Arc project) by ordering known and new commands from the most-frequently-used to the least-frequently. Revealed as a sequence of infographics, the results demonstrate how people work – and how they often deviate from prescribed usage.
La Pajarera Lodge Shangri-La / SAA arquitectura + territorio
What Will Thomas Heatherwick's "Vessel" At Hudson Yards Really Add to New York?
This article was originally published by The Architect's Newspaper as "What do New Yorkers get when privately-funded public art goes big?"
When Thomas Heatherwick—the nimble London-based designer known for work that defies easy categorization—unveiled his design for a new public landmark called Vessel at Hudson Yards to a crowd of reporters and New York City power players in September, questions abounded. What is it? What will it do to the neighborhood? And what does it say that Stephen Ross, the president and CEO of Related Companies, the primary developer of Hudson Yards, is financing the entire $250 million piece by himself?
It’s natural that Ross chose Heatherwick Studio to design his centerpiece, because the office’s creations stun. For the UK Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo, it extruded 60,000 clear acrylic tubes from a center space to create a fuzzy, crystalline object whose apparent fragility is as mesmerizing as it is clever. As the studio moves toward ever-larger and ever-more-public commissions, the people who will live with its work will need to seriously consider what it will mean for their neighborhoods and cities.
London Spa / Richard Bell Architecture
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Architects: Richard Bell Architecture
- Area: 200 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Petersen Tegl, Viabizzuno, Vola
Neo-Bankside Residents Launch Legal Bid Against Herzog & de Meuron's Tate Modern Extension
Residents of London's Neo Bankside residential building—a luxury complex of apartments designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners—have launched a legal bid against the Tate Modern to close one side of a public viewing platform, designed by Herzog & de Meuron and completed in 2016, which overlooks their properties. As reported by the Architects' Journal, "the applicants say that their human rights are being breached due to ‘near constant surveillance’ from visitors to the neighbouring attraction." The claim goes as far to argue that visitors to the Southbank gallery "constantly view their flats through binoculars, and post photographs and film of their homes on social media sites."
House in Alfama / Matos Gameiro Arquitectos
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Architects: Matos Gameiro Arquitectos
- Area: 140 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: FSB Franz Schneider Brakel, Azulima, CYMISA, Hager, JNF, +4
Trucks Maintenance Centre / RAUM
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Architects: RAUM
- Area: 2352 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Danpal, DVP, Meleze, Meple
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Professionals: Acoustibel
10th International Architecture Festival CANactions
CANactions seeks to enhance the creation of places and communities in Ukraine where people love to live and work. CANactions integrates the most relevant world experience in the sphere of architecture and urbanism to educate and inspire responsibility active change makers. For this moment CANactions is a member of Future Architecture Platform.