This shelter is one of only a handful in the world which has been designed and built in consultation with the staff who will occupy and run it. Led by
The best examples of eco-friendly domestic architecture from around the world
Designed by John Lautner and immortalised in the Coen brothers film, this modernist masterpiece is being donated to LACMA by NBA superfan James Goldstein
Tampere School of Domestic Economy is one of the many Art Nouveau school buildings designed by Wivi Lönn. Wivi Lönn was a pioneering female architect ...
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2014 Thesis Book by Ana Matijevic + Shelby Riddell
2014 Thesis Book by Ana Matijevic + Shelby Riddell
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While its public face is an apparently modest Cor-ten clad barn, id architecture’s Barrow House in the Lincolnshire Wolds contains an extensive half-buried lower section, writes Rob Wilson. Photography Andy Haslem
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L'aspect de cette maison loft en béton à la façade vitrée, Casa Dom est saisissant avec son matériau brut et ses lignes courbes et douces
‘I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city centre than to build a personal house,’ a 38-year-old Alvar Aalto grumbled as his and Aina’s
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Completed in 2018 in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. Images by Amit Geron. Designed by London-based practice, Amos Goldreich Architecture, alongside local firm, Jacobs-Yaniv Architects, this shelter is one of only a handful...
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The Gallery House, together with the recently finished Espai Saó, is part of a set of interventions carried out for the Mas Blanch i Jové winery,..
The Rush R. Sloane House, Sandusky, OH. 1850s Photo: Wikimedia The Sloane house in Sandusky, OH was built in the early 1850s, but is known by its most famous occupant Rush R. Sloane who purchased it in 1854 from its builder, Samuel Torrey. Sloane was a lawyer early in his career and later became a railroad president and mayor of Sandusky. The house is well-known because it likely served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. This house follows the side hall plan, but it is also towered, a sometimes seen variation on the traditional side hall house. Although the house seems in rough shape in this image, the decay shows us that it is built of fieldstone with a plaster coating, probably to simulate cut stone; cut stone is also implied by the corner quoins. The white coloring of the house is probably not historical; it is likely it would have been painted various shades of brown, also to simulate stone and because Downing's color theories held a lot of sway in the 50s. Downing railed against white houses as being disturbing in the landscape and instead advocated for tans, browns, pinks, and pale blues as appropriate colors. The cornice is of the paneled style, with heavy brackets and large dentils. The ornament is overall exuberant. The house has eared moldings with hood moldings that appear like broken reverse ogee arches with incised ornament and strong keystones. They seem to be made out of cast iron. The left side features a rather damaged Juliette balcony with a fringed wooden awning, while the entrance porch has a flat top trefoil arch and Corinthian columns. The lions on the newel posts do not look original to me. The roof and tower are particularly beautiful in their execution. To increase the appearance of the tower's height, it is situated on a base with panels and rusticated edges. The arched windows are surrounded by panels and pilasters. The tower roof is a very small mansard with a shallow slope. One more detail that caught my fancy was the chimney. The chimney visible in the image is paneled and has a bracketed cornice with a round pediment. This is a particularly French looking detail. Certain aspects of the house, the trefoil arch, the elaborateness of the hood moldings, the Second Empire style chimney, and the complex cornice tell me this might have been remodeled or added to in the late 60s or 70s. Since Rush achieved his fortune in the 60s and became mayor in the late 70s, he might have decided to update his more sedate villa of the 50s with fashionable elaborateness. It does remain a grand looking house despite its current disrepair. The following enlargements show some of the details.
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Special issue of The architectural review
The best examples of eco-friendly domestic architecture from around the world
Minimalist Mexican villa Casa Tonalli blends local craftsmanship with sleek design, emphasizing light and space.
The best examples of eco-friendly domestic architecture from around the world
Includes bibliographical references and index
