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Mexican Architecture firm Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados completed in 2018 a matte black single-family house in Jardines del Pedregal that plays with small courtyards, terraces and double heights to blend the exterior and the interior.
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Presented at the Milan Design Week in 2019, Casa Ojalá is a bungalow designed by Beatrice Bonzanigo that allows its users to transform the interior configuration through a manual mechanical system. Prototype is currently under construction and first deliveries are expected by the end of 2020.
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Architecture studio Taller Hector Barroso completed in 2019 House in Avandaro in the Bravo Valley located 150 kilometers west from Mexico City. The house was built with earthen blocks, pine and concrete to blend into its forested setting.
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In 1966, Team 4 completed its first project on the southern coast of Cornwall. Set in the ground, the cockpit-like structure has a trapezoid concrete shell, with built-in seats alongside a small kitchen including a stove. The seating zone was secured by a glass covering portrayed as a “complex, crystalline polyhedron”.
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux’s propositions for a House of Pleasure in Paris and the ideal city of Chaux are enigmatic projects recognized by their unmistakably phallic configurations. The phallic floor plan of the Oikema offers a piece of information to decipher the ideal city of Chaux as a fragment of the human anatomy. Reacting to the exigencies of the revolution, Ledoux…
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Pavel Micek Architects have designed in Beskydy, an idyllic mountain landscape area, a non-traditionally traditional cottage. The house was completed in 2019.
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Entre Pinos (Among Pines) is a complex of five houses in the Bravo Valley completed in 2017 by Mexican architectural firm Taller Hector Barroso. The region is famous for out-of-town trips among the residents of Mexico City and has become a destination for escaping from the metropolis.
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Taliesin West was architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home and school in the desert of Arizona from 1937 until 1959. Today it is the main campus of The School of Architecture at Taliesin and houses the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. The complex drew its name from Wright’s summer home, Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
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While French newspaper publisher Jean-François Lemoine was looking for an architect to design a new home, he became partially paralyzed from a car accident. Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas designed the house in 1998 to accommodate an active family man confined to a wheelchair.
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In 1978 Frank Gehry built his first Santa Monica House after surveying a gambrel-roofed Dutch Colonial bungalow. Before the acquisition, he made a list of the property’s pros and cons. Among the positives: the green asphalt shingle roof, the pink asbestos shingles, the plywood walls in the den, the corner lot location, the row of tall Lebanon cedars along the…
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