Expressing Awe

I luv houses with clean straight lines … This architects seem to have done a few structures with some long straight lines …

http://tamizo.pl/EN/projects/architecture/index.html

A house made of recycled bottles… Such a novel idea….

I was always wondering that , If someday If I ever get the Beach house , what would I do with all those pet bottles that I have seen thrown around without much thought…. This will definitely help in combatting trash build-up and yeah! apart from a much-needed sturdy dwelling, That is …

I bet in parts of India too, where the local management agencies are not providing proper services to deal with disposable products like plastic bottles and bags and the homes from recycled materials keep non-biodegradable products from ending up in rivers or strewn across fields.

Hey BMC, PWD and the likes are you making a note of this ….

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PS.

• Have gone a bit overboard with the number of pictures. There are around 40 in total … I had to post them all … <
• This is good, I had to add it under most of my BLOG categories
• Also, got this in a fwd email … does any have any more details of this house … Who , Where, How etc , Please do drop a comment.
• Also found this … http://weburbanist.com/2007/10/23/5-kinds-of-creative-recycled-architecture-cans-bottles-and-other-unusual-building-materials/

The family house with atelier by Maria Castelló is unique with its really simply form. It´s a block on a ground plan of a square (12 x 12 m). Object is situated in nature landscape. Block is open to north side and south side. In the north the office is situated and in the south his living area. It is very contrast separation where on the one side is public space on the other side is private space. Between them is situated space which is used by both sides-bathroom, WC, library, kitchen and sleeping area.

Simple desert house located in Pioneertown California, the house was made of recycled and durable materials as well as a prominent steel canopy that shelters and shades the home.

This house was designed by Lloyd Russell architect for Jim Austin who asks him to create “the ultimate desert structure”. Desert is a hot zone, so the architect must be create any solution to keep the temperature down inside the house by using the canopy.

When the sun hits the canopy, some of that heat is reflected back into the sky while the rest is absorbed by the canopy. And since there’s a wind buffer, the design creates a cooling mechanism to keep the house relatively shaded and cool. It’s a very simple life, so you want it to be pretty simple architecture.

A Kid friendly British architect built his family’s dream home, resulting in a subterranean fun house… a place to called home for parents and kids alike…

This is what the results are when kids have their say in Architecture …  Great Idea!

Nice little 2 bedroom house near Port Townsend, Washington. The house is not out of the ordinary but Why did I included it here in the AWE list, was  only because of its Kitchen. I quite like the idea of the kitchen having a dining area with proper cushioned seating , like in some restaurants… very comfy!

Design Team: Thomas V. Lawrence,  AIA Willes D. Stauffer

Contractor: Tollefson Builders, Inc. P.O. Box 100, Chimacum, WA 98325

Photos by: Benjamin Benschneider and Tollefson Builders

The current Tate Modern building along the Thames looks like a shed…. These new designs for  Tate Modern Extension will probably bring to life the “Modern” in Tate Modern.

These revised plans for the new development of Tate Modern by Herzog & de Meuron have been granted planning permission by London’s Southwark Council.  … Looks Cool and MODERN!

Via World Architecture News

Burj Dubai is a skyscraper under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure on Earth, despite being incomplete. Construction began on September 21, 2004, and it is expected to be completed and ready for occupation in September 2009.
Via Modern Architecture & Design news

Awe!  I wish I lived in one of those … Kangaroo Valley house that is located two hours south of Sydney, Australia.

Alexander Michael ( The lucky Owner) : The house at Kangaroo Valley is our own weekend house, so we (my partner and I) were the clients. We were searching for a property on the coast of Tuscany. When we realised we couldn’t afford even a dump; we had to look closer to home. A client suggested we take a drive to Kangaroo Valley where they had a house. She gave me the number of the agent, so I phoned and said “I’d like one-hundred acres, privacy, water, rain forest, and lots of views”, thinking; what the hell, go for it! It literally took twenty minutes before we saw the property, and said, “Yes, we’ll take it”.

And why wouldn’t he!!!!!!

Via Contemporist.com

A69 Architects Says:

The purpose of the project was the construction of a self-contained dwelling unit in the garden of the recently reconstructed house. It was necessary to deal with the dominance of the opposite panel house facade, avoid confrontation with the architecture of the original house and find out a solution that would not parasite on the garden area. The already existing fragments of the reconstruction of the original house became the starting point of the project: the set-in concrete slab with an out-placed exterior staircase, the wall by the entrance gateway and the parking lanes limited by the gabions. The existing walls made up from cement bricks in the direction of the planes X and Y were completed in the project with the horizontal slab in the plane Z. This slab became the main space organizational element and carrier of the fundamental motive; hole in the form of an ovoid. The slab is a horizontal boundary-line and all the vertical relations are related to it. Its subtlety defines the new building against the compact façade rendering architecture of the existing house. It covers and unifies a number of functions; garages and storeroom of bicycles, access terrace with a storm lobby, main dwelling space, living terrace and the fencing. The ovoid in this slab defines a focus around which the new house unwinds. It defines ego of the house, the fundamental of which is not the architectural, but the natural space of the original garden with preserved full-grown trees. All the energy has been concentrated to this focus to create a psychological barrier against the dominance of the opposite prefabricated façade. The space and the light are escaping from the micro world of the garden through the distances and loopholes between the loosely composed slabs.

The house itself is, on the contrary strictly limited by the functional blocks. From the large entrance hall you will enter the autonomic study and the private zone. The private zone is strictly divided into intimate and social parts. Intimate spaces are oriented on the eastern facade with an own terrace, the social rooms into the atrium of the garden. The kitchen cabin in the form of a block is connected directly to the social spaces. The dining and living halls have character of a glassed pavilion – winter garden. The fragile space of it is enforced with a screen of the horizontal wall with a symbol of home – fireplace. It is connected directly to the covered living terrace.

As a compensation of the built-up area of the house originated a roof garden connected vertically to the apartment in the upper storey of the original reconstructed house.

Via Contemporist.com | Visit A69 Architects