Westway architects crea un unicum con il paesaggio e con l’orizzonte
Gioiello dell’architettura barocca, Palazzo Castelluccio è il diventato il protagonista di un libro che racconta la sua storia, il suo lungo restauro e i suoi preziosi ornamenti. Il tutto corredato da fotografie che riflettono il periodo d’oro della Sicilia.
Il noto brand di design giapponese Muji, lancia la sua quarta soluzione prefabbricata: una casa priva di barriere architettoniche, dal design moderno e dotata di un bellissimo deck esterno.
‘Casa Eloro’ by Gordon Guillaumier in Noto, Sicilty, 2008.
Guarda la a casa vacanze a Noto Casa Vendicari, una casa con piscina in affitto in Sicilia disegnata da Marco Merendi, che replica nelle forme la nuda ed aspra bellezza del paesaggio, da affittare su Boutique Homes.
Guarda la a casa vacanze a Noto Casa Vendicari, una casa con piscina in affitto in Sicilia disegnata da Marco Merendi, che replica nelle forme la nuda ed aspra bellezza del paesaggio, da affittare su Boutique Homes.
Seven Rooms Noto Charming Hotel
Quando l'architetto Ricardo Bofill ha acquistato un vecchio cementificio in disuso a Barcellona, che sarebbe diventato noto, ufficialmente, come "il cementificio", probabilmente non aveva ben chiaro quale fosse la fine dell'opera di ristrutturazione. Nel giro di soli due anni però, Bofill lo ha trasformato in una moderna e accogliente abitazione, una piccola oasi di architettura con una superficie totale di oltre 3 mila metri quadrati e gli studi che ospitano, ogni giorno, 40 architetti. Prima dell'intervento erano presenti più di 30 silos, ed il progettista/proprietario ha mantenuto soltanto alcune delle strutture originali, che sono state ristrutturate a fondo, demolendo alcuni degli edifici superflui per creare la resa estetica che era nei suoi piani. L'edificio è stato ristrutturato con materiali differenti, con pavimenti che vanno dal marmo al legno di latifoglie, luci moderne e arredi unici per il bagno, strette finestre ad arco e soffitti altissimi che ricordano le origini industriali dell'edificio originale. La costruzione rinnovata incorpora in questo modo diversi stili architettonici, una lingua colta in opposizione all'architettura semplice del paese circostante con finestre, porte, scale e false prospettive applicate alle pareti esterne e ad alcuni interni. Lentamente, con l'aiuto degli artigiani catalani, la fabbrica è stata trasformata in un edificio moderno dal design unico ed originalissimo. Una vista del patio esterno: Lo studio all'interno, fra vecchi Silos: Pianoforte a coda e due sedie: La saletta riunioni: La vista sul soggiorno: Una veduta dall'esterno: Le finestre su uno dei salotti: Moltissime superfici sono coperte di verde: Molte parti in calcestruzzo sono state lasciate grezze: Altre invece sono state rifinite con l'intonaco: Un altro salotto: Uno dei Bagni: Il Tavolo della Cucina: Altra fotografia dall'esterno: Sotto, la situazione precedente alla ristrutturazione: Uno schema:
My love for hotels is a bit irrational and totally intense. I’ve learned that suggesting a different hotel for each night of a trip is the fastest way to get planning rights taken away so I strategically suggest 3 to 4 hotels per trip and try to add on as many hotel shoots to each trip as I can reas
Guarda la a casa vacanze a Noto Casa Vendicari, una casa con piscina in affitto in Sicilia disegnata da Marco Merendi, che replica nelle forme la nuda ed aspra bellezza del paesaggio, da affittare su Boutique Homes.
Casa Infinita in Noto, Italy by Gordon Guillaumier, epitomizes contemporary vacation homes with its unique integration into the Sicilian landscape.
Image 24 of 24 from gallery of Villa in Noto / Westway Architects. Photograph by Andrea Martiradonna
Image 24 of 24 from gallery of Villa in Noto / Westway Architects. Photograph by Andrea Martiradonna
When he wants to flee his stressful Milanese life, architect Carlo Pintacuda escapes into Sicilian lands to take refuge in his holiday ...
Nell’agriturismo biologico “i Carusi” si ritrova un’atmosfera senza tempo, grazie all’uso dei materiali della tradizione: la pietra tenera di Noto, i coppi in argilla chiara, la pietra calcarea dura di Modica. Infatti la struttura è stata recuperata da un’antica casa … Continue reading I Carusi Bio Relais →
VPN is a contemporary holiday house located in Noto, Italy, designed in 2021 by Westway Architects.
Victorian, semi detached 5 bedroom house with feature courtyard garden. Lots of antiques and interesting objects throughout the location property.
Cosa vedere a Noto, la capitale del Barocco siciliano. Un viaggio sensoriale alla scoperta delle bellezze di Noto e dei suoi dintorni.
Hellingly Hospital era un grande ospedale psichiatrico nel villaggio di Hellingly, a est di Hailsham, nell’East Sussex, in Inghilterra. L’ospedale, noto anche come East Sussex County As…
Victorian, semi detached 5 bedroom house with feature courtyard garden. Lots of antiques and interesting objects throughout the location property.
Villa Loha is a modern single-story residence located in Marrakesh, Morrocco, designed in 2021 by E-H Atelier d’Architectures.
Casa ECS, with its special laboratory for artists, rises in Sicily on an area of a high environmentally-friendly allure within the Scicli city
Spazi fluidi e luminosi in equilibrio tra passato e presente
Image 2 of 20 from gallery of FCN 2009 / Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo. Photograph by Helene Binet
This is architecture designed as a full participant in the suggestive Val di Noto landscape, an area of Sicily characterized by gently-sloping hills and the reflected luminosity of the nearby Mediterranean Sea. The home’s distinctive character is conveyed through a combination of elegant and refined design solutions, imbued with an intense capacity to offer a way of living that brings together an integrated conception of construction elements with elements of human inspiration.This radical addition to the landscape was designed by Luana Rao and Andrea Morana. Their rationally simplifying architectural approach is a schematization of pure, noble geometries: a parallelepiped clearly visible in the landscape - thanks to its geometry and white-colored plastered walls - make it a specimen of architecture that asserts its own values, straddling the line between openness and closure, mediating transparency and luminosity through multifaceted insights built up by degrees of connection between the environment/rooms and the environment/open spaces. The whole edifice is set in the countryside in a deep and radical way, creating an osmosis between its eye-catching visuals and the home’s concentrated geometries.The conclusive result is a rhythmical and empathetic form of architecture that becomes a way of living. The house offers an eloquent point of reference on the south-sloping plateau much as if the landscape was terraced, while at the same time providing meditative silence: the kind of silence that comes from an integration of the nature of things with meticulous, analytical observation. In counterpoint, it is a poetic expression that dovetails in inner ways with lived life, participating in both nature and architecture by establishing a degree of balance in the unfolding of time and things.To reach the house is to enjoy the rational simplification-inspired approach of which it is an example. The idea is to slowly draw near to a built element, a pure white volume sitting lightly on a modest forecourt... A pause that settles into the bigger picture; one in which the frame is impossible to pin down, becoming an extension of the horizon’s nuances– in fact the true and actual frame of reference for the conceptual dimension that the architects have adopted.The house features a blank wall to the north; an entrance to the east with a full-height opening protected by a micro-perforated sliding sheet of metal, expressing the founding values of external/internal integration through semi-transparency; to the west, a short strip of windows; and to the south – the main view – a wide opening towards the horizon and the infinity at which it hints. This larger full-height opening is regulated by sliding micro-perforated sheets of metal, enabling the two walls (to the south and east) to unleash a never-ending variability of combinations.The internal spaces within the home’s parallelepiped are governed by multiple relationships. The social environment cluster is around the northern wall, offering a hearth and elegant integration into the kitchen, dining and living areas, characterized by a large, full-height glazed wall that connects with the open space inside the home. The bedrooms are arranged along the western side, distributed along a brief corridor/access space.The internal open space, which may be compared to a squared-off central courtyard that extends beneath the roof slab towards the east and south, in correspondence with the openings characterized by their sliding metal frames, is the area where habitability-based relationships and visuals come together. The glazed wall in the living area relates laterally to the eastern access, initiating a relationship of almost central axiality with the south-facing opening up into the landscape: in turn, the openings may be adapted by their sliding frames to modify their relationships with the exterior. The result is an ever-increasing sum of the values of habitability, in a potentiality of elegance posited upon a connection between spaces that enhances moments of life experienced as programmatic multiplicity, cadenced by the changing light and an abstraction-led rapport between the countryside and architecture.Francesco Pagliari
Casa Picasso is an amazing single family house located in Merida, Mexico, designed by the renowned firm Workshop Architects.
