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Sturgeon Lake House / Stephane LeBlanc Architects
- Architects: Stephane LeBlanc Architects
- Location: Kawartha Lakes, Canada
- Category: Houses
- Area: 2016.0 m2
- Project Year: 300
- Photographs: Doublespace
Los Limoneros / Gus Wüstemann Architects
- Architects: Gus Wüstemann Architects
- Location: Marbella, Spain
- Category: Houses
- Architect In Charge: Silvia Pujalte, Joan Pau Fernandez, Jan kubasiewicz, Eftychia Papathanasiou, Mariana Marques da Silva, Sandy Brunner
- Area: 585.0 m2
- Project Year: 2014
- Photographs: Bruno Helbling
S2 House / Debaixo do Bloco Arquitetura
- Architects: Debaixo do Bloco Arquitetura
- Location: Brasilia, Brazil
- Category: Houses
- Lead Architect: Clay Rodrigues
- Design Team: Danni Finkelstein, Cristiane Wainberg
- Area: 3229.2 ft2
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Haruo Mikami
A New Jersey Home That Merges a Glam and Minimalist Aesthetic
Interior designer Vanessa Deleon became her own client when she designed a 4,000-square-foot townhouse for herself, her restauranteur husband, and their growing family in Edgewater, New Jersey. With opposing design styles, Deleon took on the challenge to create a happy medium between herself and her husband that’s reflected both inside and out.
While this house might seem a bit more glam than we usually post, it has some really cool modern elements as well. The kitchen features matte black cabinets with contrasting copper hardware and corner details. A massive island in quartz offers additional contrast to complete the unique look. The kitchen flows into the dining room with the same porcelain wood flooring laid out in a chevron pattern. The modern dining table, designed by Deleon for Elbra, has an integrated quartz crystal centerpiece along the center that’s backlit with LED lighting. A traditional crystal chandelier is paired with traditionally-shaped lucite dining chairs, which add some shine to the space.
Since completing the residence, she’s begun designing the adjoining townhouse unit to be her office space
Their two dogs, Dolce and Vita, couldn’t be left out. They got their own custom dog house integrated into the wall and topped off with a “La Dolce Vita” neon sign above it.
A rec room on the fourth floor has LED light strips embedded into the ceiling spelling out the couple’s initials. A full-service bar sits off to the side and includes two 30″ True Residential refrigerators.
The master bedroom is finished off with a bathtub in the room that overlooks the Manhattan skyline, perfect for nighttime relaxing.
The New Jersey duplex houses their residence on the left behind the French Chateau facade and Deleon’s upcoming modern office on the right side.
Quinta da Baroneza Residence / Débora Aguiar
- Architects: Débora Aguiar
- Location: Bragança Paulista, Brazil
- Category: Houses
- Area: 1220.0 m2
- Project Year: 2013
The Orbit Collection Was Made for Interaction
Savannah, Georgia-based Ryan Edward Studio is a lighting and fixture design studio with a focus on creating dynamic fixtures that spark playful engagement. With a focus on connection, all of the pieces in their new Orbit Collection were specifically made for hands-on interaction.
The Orbit Chandelier employs special mechanisms that allow the fixture to keep moving once it’s set in motion without the wires ever twisting. This piece is made to move, and you’re the one to set it in motion before sitting back to enjoy its path.
The Orbit Sconce and Orbit Pendants are each turned on by touching the orb on the fixture. It’s a small but meaningful detail that helps to distinguish them from other lighting pieces.
Containers Shop / BBC Arquitectos
- Architects: BBC Arquitectos
- Location: Calle 12 1148, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Category: Store
- Lead Architects: Angela Bielsa, Luciana Breide, Manuel Ciarlotti Bidinost.
- Design Team: Angela Bielsa, Luciana Breide, Manuel Ciarlotti Bidinost.
- Area: 3412.16 ft2
- Project Year: 2014
- Photographs: Manuel Ciarlotti Bidinost
Cargo’s New Collection of Website Templates Break Free of Conventions
Over the years, services dedicated to website building have all but eliminated the stress related to designing and coding a site into existence. Anyone today can get a site up and running fast, affordably, and customized to their needs, all without a developer or coding knowledge – a welcome option for designers and other small creative businesses who just need a site up that looks good and loads fast from across computers and mobile devices.
But we’re at the point now that the popularity of certain templates have homogenized the web into an interchangeable rote stack of images and text to scroll through without surprise or joy. How does one showcase their work without the tedium of the template?
Cargo – a niche website-builder serving the needs of artists, designers, and other creatives who want to display their portfolios and projects online – is looking to bust open the doors of convention, offering a new collection of 35 new user templates intended to stick out, rather than blend in.
Beyond numbers, these new templates from Cargo are a little weird, the online equivalent of a normcore outfit, with sample sites showcasing a certain degree of levity and greater level of interactivity sorely missing from the internet these days.
Full bleed animations, video and images, alongside prominent sections with overlays of typography play equal service in sparking visitor engagement. It’s all wonderfully reminiscent of an earlier period of online design when standards had not hardened client expectations and monetization had not dampened creativity.
Now that bandwidth is no longer a prohibitive commodity, nor coding expertise obligatory, now seems as good as any to look to upgrade or design your first site – a proposition I may take advantage of myself noting my site is looking rather dated.
Cargo’s new designs are available to preview at https://sitevideos.cargo.site/, and anyone can get started designing free here.
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance x Tai Ping
Luxury carpet house Tai Ping has just released Raw, a first-time collaboration with French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance that was inspired by minerals. Raw explores the origins of our planet, the formation of the Earth, the foundation of civilization, and the tension found in tectonic plates. Tai Ping was able to bring the vision to life through a mix of pile heights, bold color combinations, and a blend of wool, silk, jute, lurex, and Field, one of Tai Ping’s enhanced performance yarns. In the end, the rugs seem to be carved almost like a piece of flint – translating the idea of a hard surface into something soft.
“By introducing this reference to untamed nature, I aim to translate something raw into a smooth and elegant anchor inside the home,” Duchaufour-Lawrance shared of the eleven-piece collection. “I always reference the fundamentals in my work, and nature’s universal language. Rocks are inherent elements of that vocabulary and an important source of personal inspiration, both in their natural form and as sculpted pieces.”
Anne-Laure Tonnerre, Head of Communications for Tai Ping Europe, adds, “What we love about this collection is the idea of reinventing the rug. With Noé, it’s more than just a picture on the floor, so we move away from the rectangular frame. The rounded shapes themselves – which remind us of the architectural spaces he creates – are an invitation to regroup around them. Above all, we saw in Noé’s drawings the possibility to push even further the boundaries of our talents as interpreters of a designer’s ideas into form.”
LC 843 Building / Escala Arquitectos + A+EU Arquitectura y estrategias urbanas
- Architects: A+EU Arquitectura y estrategias urbanas, Escala Arquitectos
- Location: Manuel López Cotilla 843, Col del Valle Centro, 03100 Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
- Category: Apartments
- Lead Architect: Emilio Gamus Dabbah, Moises Gamus Duek
- Area: 2470.0 m2
- Project Year: 2018
- Photographs: Luis Gallardo
Friday Five with John Lum
As founding principal of John Lum Architecture, John Lum has been designing functional, livable spaces that reflect his clients’ aesthetics for over 30 years by balancing artistry and efficiency. Since its inception, he’s built the firm from a residential studio into a practice focused on designing affordable housing, multifamily housing, retail, and education. John continues to evolve the firm by bridging the demands of sustainable solutions, financial considerations, social purpose, personal expression, and using design to solve complex societal issues. He also serves on the AIASMC board and is active with AIASF. Today, he’s sharing five of his favorite things in Friday Five.
Photo by John Lum of a Stinkhorn mushroom growing in Bolinas, CA
1. Bolinas, CA
My husband and I are lucky enough to have a house in this quiet beach town. It’s a small, supportive community with a classic Nor Cal coastal landscape, and is infamous for ripping down its Highway 1 sign to stay hidden to outsiders. I love the morning fog, the fact that everyone here has an artistic side, strong environmental values (organic farming started here in the 1970s), and it appeals to my inner hippie.
Photo provided by John Lum
2. Water polo
I’ve played the sport (goalie) for over 20 years now, and it’s a great stress reliever. My team is a straight-friendly LGBTQ team and is about 50% male/female, straight/gay, which is unusual for such an aggressive, physical sport. I’ve traveled the world playing the sport, and last year we won a Silver Medal at the Gay Games in Paris.
Photo by Michael Light
3. Photographer Michael Light’s big aerial books
Michael Light is my husband, and his work and his search for meaning continues to be an inspiration for me everyday. Both as a supporter of his art and as an architect, I appreciate his bird’s-eye perspective of the world – human impact on the world can be mesmerizing, awful, and beautiful at the same time – the ultimate definition of the sublime.
4. My dog April
She’s all heart and goofy and just a snorty pig. She’s a reminder to keep things in perspective… and to take the occasional nap when needed.
5. Cloud Gate (The Bean)
Designed by Anish Kapoor, this is one of my favorite public sculptures. I love how the skyline bends and morphs into its mirrored surfaces. Despite the recent controversy around Kapoor (he bought the rights to Vantablack, the blackest black pigment in the world and is refusing to share it), the Bean is smart, joyful, and just plain fun.
The Top Apps for Architecture in 2019
With a very fast-paced life, we are becoming more and more accustomed to utilities that can make our workflow easier, more productive and efficient especially when some of us are always “on the go”. Our mobile devices, tablets, and laptops are gaining prominence every year, offering us more suitable and useful applications. Read on to discover the top architecture applications for 2019, with recurring big names and newcomers on the tech scene.
Adaptive Reuse of the Palacete da Quinta do Bom Pastor / Nuno Valentin
- Architects: Nuno Valentim
- Location: 1500-325, Estrada da Buraca, Lisbon, Portugal
- Category: Restoration
- Lead Architects: Nuno Valentim, Margarida Carvalho
- Area: 1465.0 m²
- Project Year: 2017
- Photographs: João Ferrand
Architecture and Topography: 15 Projects with Different Approaches to Relief
Sloping plots often present themselves as major challenges and therefore become a determining factor of the project by enabling various forms of approach, overlapping the ground, respecting its slope or even burying itself in it. To illustrate all these alternatives, we selected fifteen projects that present different solutions in dealing with landscape.
West Croftmore Renovation / Morales Finch
- Architects: Morales Finch
- Location: Aviemore, United Kingdom
- Category: Renovation
- Area: 145.0 m2
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Oskar Proctor
Shortlist Revealed for Tamayouz Women in Architecture and Construction 2019
The Tamayouz Excellence Award has revealed its shortlist of finalists for Women in Architecture and Construction 2019, given to emerging female contributors in the architectural and construction field throughout the Near East and North Africa. This annual award honors 2 categories, Rising Star and Woman of Outstanding Achievement, and the winners will be announced next month.
How to Choose Kitchen Countertops: Advantages, Disadvantages and Inspiration
One of the most practical and functional spaces of any residential project is the kitchen. Its artificial surfaces – be it countertops, kitchen benches, or coverings – contain most of the space's equipment. Thus, it’s essential to build kitchens with the most resistant and hygienic materials. Aside from these requirements, it's also important to pay attention to aesthetics and profitability, while adapting the space to the dynamics of each family.
Nianis 112 House / Office of Design S.A.S.
- Architects: Office of Design S.A.S.
- Location: Bogotá, Colombia
- Category: Sustainability & Green Design
- Lead Architect: Ana María Calle Acevedo
- Design Team: Office of Design S.A.S.
- Area: 721.82 m2
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Herbert Peñaloza
Powerhouse Brattørkaia / Snøhetta
- Architects: Snøhetta
- Location: Trondheim, Norway
- Category: Energy Plant
- Area: 17800.0 m2
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Ivar Kvaal
Steven Holl's REACH Expansion at the Kennedy Center Opens to the Public
The REACH at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C. will open to the public this Saturday, September 7th. Designed by Steven Holl Architects with BNIM, the project is the first-ever expansion in the Kennedy Center's 48-year history. Aiming to open the Kennedy Center to the surrounding city and riverfront, the team made the project as a nexus of arts, learning, and culture for people to engage with the performing arts.