Architect: Skene Catling de la Peña
Location: Hadspen Estate, Somerset, England
Landscape: Niall Hobhouse
Lighting: Claire Spellman
General Contractor: Paul Longpré Furniture, Charles Clark
Client: Niall Hobhouse
Engineer: Anthony Ward Partnership
Budget: US $668,000
Constructed Area: 253 sqm
Photographs: James Morris
Louis Kahn on the Thoughtful Making of Spaces / Michael Merrill
From previously unpublished material and new analytic drawings this book explores Louis Kahn’s Dominican Motherhouse, his unbuilt masterpiece. Kahn pushed and prodded modern architecture into a crisis that questioned aspects of space that modernism had proudly banished from its…
Volume # 28: Internet of Things
This issue of Volume explores architects’ roles in the age of the internet. For us at ArchDaily, this is a topic we find very interesting. We ask all the architects we interview how the internet has changed their practice;…
The New Modern House: Redefining Functionalism
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