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Architects: Steven Holl Architects
Location: Dutchess County, NY, USA
Design Architect: Steven Holl
Project Advisor: Chris McVoy
Project Architect: Garrick Ambrose
Project Team: Jackie Luk, Lautaro Pereyra, Jeanne Wellinger
Structural Engineering: Silman Associates, PC.
Fabricator: JLP Home Improvement
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Susan Wides

model

On a four acre site in Dutchess County, New York, a new wooden ”T” space sits near a stone “U” house from 1952, which has a steel “L” addition from 2001.

© Susan Wides

The new gallery floats over the natural landscape. It has nine steel columns and nine elevations, all integrated ... (Read more...)

Courtesy of Fondation Le Corbusier

Pratt Institute School of Architecture and the Pratt Library will present “Le Corbusier – Miracle Boxes”, a multidisciplinary, three-part exhibition on the work of renowned Swiss-French architect, urbanist, designer, writer, and painter Le Corbusier (born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris), who is considered by many to be the most important architect of the 20th century, starting August 30, 2010.

“Miracle Boxes,” the first New York exhibition dedicated entirely to the work of Le Corbusier, is curated by Ivan R. Shumkov, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of architecture at Pratt Institute. Shumkov will deliver an opening lecture that will ... (Read more...)

New York firm Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) invite visitors to swing on 30 poles outside the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York. (more…)

First Place / The Second Sun

MINE THE GAP, a single-stage international design ideas competition dedicated to examining one of the most visible scars left after the collapse of the real estate market in Chicago: the massive hole along the Lake Michigan remaining from the cancellation of Calatrava’s Spiral Tower, have recently announced it’s winners. See them after the break.

First Place
The Second Sun / Alex Lehnerer, Team Leader, Meghan Funk, Lyndsay Pepple / Chicago, USA:

Second Place
Return to Paradise / Giacomo Bongiorno, Team Leader, Thomas Bormann, Djamel Kara / Paris, France:

Third Place
Lot 400 / ... (Read more...)

© William O'Brien Jr rendering by Peter Guthrie

Young architect William O’Brien Jr was one of the practices invited to this years P.S.1 competition (awarded to SO-IL). He shared with us this cabin project based on an extruded A-frame. Interesting wall configuration, take a look at the section.

Check all the images, some drawings and description after the break.

© William O'Brien Jr – site plan

© William O'Brien Jr – sections 02

Allandale House is an A-frame(s) house for an idiosyncratic connoisseur and her family. Along with its occupants, the Allandale House also provides space for an ... (Read more...)

NY based practice Romand and Williams (ran by partners Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch) specializes on interior design, working on several well known projects in the city, such as the Royalton Hotel, The Standard Hotel and The Standard Grill.

We now present you one of their latest projects, the Ace Hotel in New York:

Building and History

Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen were neighbors; ‘Diamond Jim’ Brady (the inspiration for Marlon Brando’s Guys & Dolls character) was a regular; visionary painter Harry Smith lived there. It was the Hotel Breslin then, and it is now the new Ace Hotel ... (Read more...)

NY based practice Romand and Williams (ran by partners Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch) specializes on interior design, working on several well known projects in the city, such as the Royalton Hotel, The Standard Hotel and The Standard Grill.

We now present you one of their latest projects, the Ace Hotel in New York:

Building and History

Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen were neighbors; ‘Diamond Jim’ Brady (the inspiration for Marlon Brando’s Guys & Dolls character) was a regular; visionary painter Harry Smith lived there. It was the Hotel Breslin then, and it is now the new Ace Hotel ... (Read more...)

North view

After visiting his website, I got in touch with Robert Stone and exchanged a few emails… He is a reader of ArchDaily and was very excited to share his work with the readers, and I was also very excited about it after learning more about him and what is behind Rosa Muerta and other projects he has been working on in the California desert.

Robert was born and raised in Palm Springs, Ca. in a decent copy of a Craig Ellwood house and across the street from a real Schindler house. After his masters degree at UC Berkeley, ... (Read more...)

North view

After visiting his website, I got in touch with Robert Stone and exchanged a few emails… He is a reader of ArchDaily and was very excited to share his work with the readers, and I was also very excited about it after learning more about him and what is behind Rosa Muerta and other projects he has been working on in the California desert.

Robert was born and raised in Palm Springs, Ca. in a decent copy of a Craig Ellwood house and across the street from a real Schindler house. After his masters degree at UC Berkeley, ... (Read more...)

© Todd Mason / Barry Halkin Photography

Architects: Qb Design
Location: Philadelphia, USA
General Contractor: McCoubrey Overholser, Inc.
Stair Fabrication: Bill Curran Design
Cabinetry: James Van Etten
Green Roof: David Brothers
Structural Engineer: The Kachele Group
Project Area: 279 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Todd Mason / Barry Halkin Photography

floor plans

© Todd Mason / Barry Halkin Photography

Sited on a vacant corner in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia, this house for a growing family stitches itself into the neighborhood by responding to local cues. Curved brick corners negotiate the irregular street grid, while the cadence of typical ... (Read more...)