Apartment House Zvezda by Sadar Vuga Arhitekti

The House Zvezda is the first apartment building in Nova Gorica with its own garden, underground parking, attractive façade with French windows and balconies, and penthouses with terraces in the attic. Its architecture and design assure identification on three levels to its residents: my house – Zvezda House, my garden – the common house garden, and my apartment. The garden of the building is designed between the crooked shapes of the building, the Prvomajska Street and the street on the southern... 

New York Residence by Massimo Iosa Ghini Associati – Budapest, Hungary

The lot adjacent to the New York Palace Hotel houses the new building designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini: The concept combines contemporary design for the attention to detail and materials, typical of the tradition of Made in Italy. The intervention is developed in four main blocks: the extension of the New York Palace Boscolo Luxury Hotel, which provides sixty new rooms more services and a plan offices. The conference area that provides a large auditorium with more than five hundred seats and adjoining... 

Prestigious House Refurbishment in Kensington, London

Again with Holloway White Allom as Main Contractor Wood Newton Limited completed the supply and installation of 90 sliding sash windows and French doors to the redevelopment of an existing listed property. Window to the front of the property were constructed to match the existing windows, whereas windows to the rear were double glazed using the principles of our tested sliding sash system whilst keeping the 18mm astragals as the existing facade. Some of the windows and French doors to the rear were... 

Joinery by Genus Interiors

Created by the in-house joinery team, it was made by veneering MDF sheeting, then CNC-routing it in 35mm widths. The curved form is in the shape of a molar. Specialist dental design-and-build firm Genus undertook the fit-out at Senova, which included this 43m-long stretch of oak veneer walling. Website: www.genusinteriors.co.uk

Contemporary Leap House by Tony Owen NDM Architects

The Leap House is located in Sydney’s Dover Heights and has Panoramic views of Sydney Harbour and the Opera House. The house is located on a rock outcrop. The clients brief was for it to Leap out from the rock into the view. As a result the house starts low at the rear and curves up to open out towards the harbour. The layered folds of the metal panel facades create privacy to the street whilst the facades facing the north are completely glass. We started by responding to the site with a series... 

New Orleans Houses, Lower Ninth Ward by Graftlab

Graft’s proposal for housing in the Lower Ninth merges metaphorical abstractions of traditional and modern architecture, driven with the purpose of capitalizing on the more successful components within each as a means with which to generate a more robust whole. Sustainable features include: Solar panels, Water Catchments system, Geothermal system, With Heat pump, thankless water heater, high ceilings for stack ventilation, operable windows which aid in stack ventilation and cross ventilation, highly... 

Contemporary Australian Home by Richard Cole Architecture

In the tradition of isolated rural buildings, the house is conceived as a singular gesture responding to the strength of the site: a grassy terrace overlooking a meandering river facing north up a spectacular valley, next to an old eucalypt. The essential concept of the house reflects the way in which the owner has always used this place: setting up a table on the grass under the shade of the tree. The sleeping areas are contained within encasing precast concrete walls. The lightweight steel framed... 

Winners of the Mystetskyj Arsenal Cultural-Art and Museum Complex competition announced

On the initiative of President Victor Yushchenko, “Mystetskyj Arsenal Cultural-Art and Museum Complex,” a central cultural district consisting of several new and existing buildings, will be established in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, in the next few years. An international competition was conducted to select both, an urban master plan for the redevelopment of a former military site in Kyiv’s Pechersk neighborhood, as well as the best architectural design proposals for the new buildings that... 

Eco-friendly Orchid House by by Sarah Featherstone

This spectacular piece of architecture isn’t even built yet, but that didn’t bring down its price any. An innovative eco-friendly home in a Cotswold nature reserve has been sold for a world record £7.2 million for a country house. The eco-friendly Orchid House, built on a lake in a privately-owned Cotswold (U.K.) nature reserve, is predicted to produce more energy than it uses. The house, which was designed by Sarah Featherstone, won’t be finished until approximately 2011. If the owners ever... 

Charles R. Stinsons Architecture Chronicled in Book

Charles R. Stinson’s architecture is chronicled in a new book within the Master Architect Monograph Series entitled Charles R. Stinson: Compositions in Nature. The modern architecture book, with text by Camille LeFevre and photography by Peter Bastianelli-Kerze, features Stinson-designed homes and buildings that have achieved international recognition along with his distinctive style—light, line and space expressing a dynamic co-existence. Charles R. Stinson: Compositions in Nature is available...