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Country Heights House / LOOK Architects
Feb 21st
© Amir Sultan Architect: LOOK Architects Location: Country Heights, Damansara , Malaysia Design Team: Look Boon Gee, Ng Sor Hiang, Looi Chee Kin Local Architect: y’ SHIN Architect C&S Engineers: SM1 Consulting Engineers Main Contractor: Hiap Leck Construction Completion Date: 2009 Site Area: 890 sqm GFA: 407 sqm Photographer: Amir Sultan © Amir Sultan Luxuriant scenery can transcend the role of a static vista, as the single-family home – Country Heights Damansara in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – by LOOK Architects can attest to. A land parcel located on a gentle hillock within one of the several select residential districts in Damansara incited the designers to conceive of an integrative architectural approach where the house is virtually an offshoot of the natural setting it is nestled in. © Amir Sultan The existing gradient of the sloping landform is construed to underpin an elevated cascading pool that announces a sense of arrival from the main entrance
Video: Hampstead Lane / Duggan Morris Architects Winner of RIBA Manser Medal
Dec 25th
The renovation of a house, Hampstead Lane in North London, won Duggan Morris Architects the RIBA Manser Medal of 2011 for the best new house or major extension in the UK .
Ruta del Peregrino: Sanctuary by Ai Weiwei
Jun 7th
Our third story about Mexican pilgrimage La Ruta del Peregrino features this linear stone pier by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei . (more…)
Veracruz 60 / JSª
May 17th
© Paúl Rivera – archphoto Architects: JSª – Javier Sánchez Location: Mexico City , Mexico Design Team: Juan Manuel Soler, Mariana Paz, Alejandro Ita, Karen Cheirif Project area: 14.667 sqf Project year: 2009 Photographs: Jair Navarrete, Paúl Rivera – archphoto , Pedro Hiriart section © Pedro Hiriart In this building, located on Veracruz Avenue, we created different conditions in the interior spaces by playing with the heights in the mezzanines. The vertical circulation located in the center of the building, allowed intercalating the prototypes, so that the public areas always have a double height while the private areas have conventional heights.
