MOS : Floating House in Pointe au Baril, Ontario, Canada

MOS : Floating House in Pointe au Baril, Ontario, Canada

Located in Pointe au Baril, Ontario, Canada, Floating House was designed by MOS, This project intersects a vernacular house typology with the site-specific conditions: an island on Lake Huron. The location imposed complexities to the house’s fabrication and construction, in addition to annual cyclical seasonal changes compounded by escalating global environmental trends, causing water levels [...]

August 13th, 2009 In Architecture Design

Anderson Anderson Architecture : Abiquiu House in New Mexico, United States

Anderson Anderson Architecture : Abiquiu House in New Mexico, United States

Located in New Mexico, United States, Abiquiu House was designed by Anderson Anderson Architecture, Designed for an anthropologist and a concert pianist, this small prefabricated house on a desert site fronting the Rio Chama, not far from Georgia O’Keefe’s famous home on the bluff above, employs simple detailing and standard industrial materials.

The owners have a [...]

August 11th, 2009 In Architecture Design

Richard Kirk Architect : Highgate Hill House in Brisbane, Australia

Richard Kirk Architect : Highgate Hill House in Brisbane, Australia

Located in Brisbane, Australia. Highgate Hill House was designed by Richard Kirk Architect, The Highgate Hill house is located on a steep site containing a verdant and mature landscape consisting of a mixture of native and exotic. This created an opportunity to place the house within a rich landscape environment. To connect the house [...]

August 10th, 2009 In Architecture Design

Incorporated : Texas Hill House in Craryville, New York, United States

Incorporated : Texas Hill House in Craryville, New York, United States

Located in Craryville, New York, United States, Texas Hill House was designed by Incorporated. Texas Hill is a portrait of the clients’ disparate working and traveling experiences; developed as a retreat from the demands of urban life. One born and bred in New York and the other a Costa Rican national of Asian descent, both [...]

August 9th, 2009 In Architecture Design

Gareth Hoskins Architects : The Duncan House in Fife, United Kingdom

Gareth Hoskins Architects : The Duncan House in Fife, United Kingdom

Located in Fife, United Kingdom, The Duncan House was designed by Gareth Hoskins Architects. is a new private house set within a listed walled garden. The project combines the clients’ aspirations for a ‘glass house’ together with a response to the formal geometry of the enclosing walls, paths and borders of what was the original [...]

August 8th, 2009 In Architecture Design

Andrew Maynard Architects : Vader House in Melbourne, Australia

Andrew Maynard Architects :  Vader House in Melbourne, Australia

Located in Melbourne, Australia, Vader House was designed by Andrew Maynard Architects, The Vader House presents a series of contradictions which unify creating a new pulse for this Victorian terrace. A large extension to the rear of the building holds dimensions only possible due to the high boundary walls, built in disregard of existing height [...]

August 7th, 2009 In Architecture Design

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TAG Heuer’s MONACO 24 concept Chronograph Inspired Le Mans

March 29th, 2009 - Posted in Technology Design
TAG Heuer’s MONACO 24 concept Chronograph Inspired Le Mans

The MONACO Twenty Four Concept Chronograph is the latest groundbreaking watch based on the mythic Monaco. The high-tech prototype’s unique tubular design and extreme shock-protected components are inspired by Le Mans endurance racecars. The TAG Heuer Calibre 36 movement “floats” inside the oversized (40.5mm) black PVD-coated case, suspended within a steel-tube housing very much like [...]

TIBA Architects Studio: Paris Department Store, Budapest, Hungary

October 3rd, 2009 - Posted in Architecture Design
TIBA Architects Studio: Paris Department Store, Budapest, Hungary

The Paris Department Store is the first building in Hungary built exclusively for warehouse function using a reinforced concrete-skeleton structure, qualifying it as a national monument. It was built in 1909-11 in the style of industrial art-nuovo on the site of a former neo-renaissance Casino building. In the 60s the building has undergone a major [...]