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The foyer, its floor, walls, and ceiling all clad in oak paneling, introduces the visitor to the long horizontal lines that Kogan values in his projects. BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,056 RECORD INTERIORS WHEN A YOUNG COUPLE approached São Paulo architect Marcio Kogan to renovate an apartment in one of the city's most exclusive residential buildings, a rare opportunity presented itself. The other hallway connects to the apartment's four bedrooms, the doors to which are hidden in the corridor's oak-paneled walls in order to maintain Kogan's long, clean lines. [Extracted from the article]

BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,040 RECORD HOUSES A CURVILINEAR, sculptural house on a Greek island in the Aegean Sea convincingly testifies to a skillful melding of topography and architecture. The main bedroom and the larger guest bedroom, at the north end of the house, have their own terraces - and views. From the entrance on the north, the fan-shape structure of the roof echoes the contours of the coast. [Extracted from the article]

BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,034 RECORD INTERIORS RECORD INTERIORS EVEN WITHIN the constraints of a top floor in a six-story brick structure on a tight Manhattan site, it is possible to create an expansive interior environment through the deft manipulation of light and space. Kathryn Dean, principal of the New York firm Dean/Wolf Architects, achieved this feat in her design of the Garden Light Loft for Dr. Bradley Schiff, his wife, Jen Roff, and their two daughters. But Dean, aided by a can-do engineer and a willing contractor, seized the opportunity to create a complex roof structure containing the skylights. [Extracted from the article]

N GROUND-FLOOR PLAN FOURTH-FLOOR PLAN 1 VESTIBULE 2 GARAGE 3 ELEVATOR 4 STAIR 5 GUEST ROOM 6 KITCHEN/DINING 7 LIVING 8 BALCONY Fabric-like brickwork adorns the street-facing facade (right). The uppermost floor contains a kitchen, living room, and the balcony, but a furnished terrace with a half-bath makes the roof level usable as well. RESIDENTIAL INTRIGUED by the premise of the 2014 exhibition Pasticcio at the Flemish Architecture Institute, a couple wanting to replace their house on Werfstraat in Brussels called the exhibition designers, Bovenbouw. [Extracted from the article]

The top-floor attic, currently used as a home office, enjoys an en suite powder room tucked into the titular blind dormer (although it presents a blank face to the street, an aperture above brings in ample daylight). In the kitchen, figured calacatta viola marble slabs form the counters and backsplash - the red and purple veining boldly jumps out in the white interior. "It is familiar, yet also unfamiliar and a bit uncanny", Anya Moryoussef says of the project, which she's dubbed the Blind Dormer House. [Extracted from the article]

DEPARTMENTS RARELY HAS BILL RYALL, of the Manhattan-based firm Ryall Sheridan Architects, had clients more involved in the design process than Michel and Caroline Zaleski. The other wing has four bedrooms, a screened porch, and a children's playroom upstairs, while another bedroom and the large open kitchen and dining room are located downstairs. "At our first meeting about the house, Michel handed Bill a sketch of a section", recalls Caroline. [Extracted from the article]

After Faulkner heard Kundig give a the Museum of Fine Arts in Reno, he Kundig about designing his own house, he would be a collaborator as well as the client. "Tom's an architect's architect", Faulkner "It is all about the work, with no real personal ego. DEPARTMENTS WHY WOULD a talented architect like Berkeley-based Gregory Faulkner turn to the celebrated Seattle architect Tom Kundig to design a house for himself and his wife, Lesa?. [Extracted from the article]

BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,016 RECORD HOUSES High Desert Retreat | Santa Rosa Mountains, California | Aidlin Darling Design The hour-long drive from Palm Springs, California - which includes winding roads into the Santa Rosa Mountains, with dramatic views around every turn - provides some foreshadowing of what visitors will find at High Desert Retreat, the latest house by San Francisco architects Aidlin Darling. The programmatic spaces, including the dining area, kitchen, living room, master suite, and two-bedroom guest pavilion, have been arranged around these rock formations or, as Joshua Darling, Aidlin Darling principal, says, "nested" among them. They talk about the morning sun raking across the impressive rock formation that sits right outside the bedroom window, the reflections from the pool that shimmer on the living room ceiling, and how tarantulas are attracted to the exterior cladding. [Extracted from the article]

BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,016 RECORD HOUSES Three Chimney House | Charlottesville, Virginia | TW Ryan Architecture CHARLOTTESVILLE is not where Cassie and Carrington Guy expected to end up. Ryan, now in San Francisco and designing residences and art galleries on both coasts, was thrilled at the expanded scope of the project, and helped his clients find the 45-acre rolling property on which they would build their 5,800-square-foot house. The two-story bedroom wing is clad in black cedar (this page, top). [Extracted from the article]

Structurally hybrid, H1's first five levels (including two basement floors) are poured-in-place concrete, as is the central elevator tower; around this core rises a timber/concrete structure comprising columns, beams, and facades in Swiss beech, with prefabricated concrete floors. Winners of a 2019 design competition, Boltshauser proposed timber both for its low-carbon credentials and its speed of construction - approximately six months faster than an all-concrete tower, the architect estimates. At the Zwhatt development in Regensdorf, north of Zürich, Boltshauser Architekten is building a 24-story mass-timber apartment block due for completion in 2024. [Extracted from the article]

Siana wanted the concrete ceiling exposed, but the client preferred plaster, so the architect's artful compromise was a dynamic ceiling with undulating edges, clad in traditional hand-applied plaster, set directly below the concrete, with portions of the concrete peeking through. This house - along with the 2016 Villa Z, which is also in Casablanca, and which has a more sculptural but still monolithic facade - illustrates Siana's ongoing dialogue with postwar Modernism in Morocco, particularly that of the architects Jean-François Zevaco and Elie Azagury. DEPARTMENTS AT FIRST GLANCE, the front facade of the Villa LL in Casablanca, Morocco, looks a bit forbidding, with its thin, blank wall of white plaster-covered concrete. [Extracted from the article]

In the existing dwelling, a sculptural stair animates a three-story space (left). Subtly recontoured, the garden slopes up from the existing house to the pool deck and the new building's second floor, while the story below it, containing the garage, is at grade with the street. DEPARTMENTS AN URBAN INFILL lot in Lima, Peru, 206 feet long and 43 feet wide, with a jog in the middle, might not seem optimal for a single-family home. [Extracted from the article]

A round concrete pillar in the northeast corner supports a concrete-framed pergola by the pool as well as the floor slab for the master suite. The two-story, seven-bedroom concrete-framed house is a sleek minimalist form. DEPARTMENTS 1 ENTRANCE 2 LIVING AREA 3 DINING ROOM 4 TERRACE 5 HOME THEATER 6 KITCHEN 7 MAIN BEDROOM 8 BEDROOM CASAS - Spanish or Portuguese for "houses" - is the perfect surname for the São Paulo-and New York-based architect Arthur Casas, who in the past 35 years has designed distinctive contemporary residences all over the world. [Extracted from the article]

KITCHEN AND BATH AT THE HEIGHT of ski season in the Swiss resort town years past, crowds have roared for the athletes competing in the Patrou ille des Glaciers, while in summer the hills have come alive an eponymous classical-music festival. So, when a long-standing client of Alessia Mainardi purchased a three-bedroom, three-bath apartment Verbier in early 2019, the London-based interior designer had to a redo that would need to be completed within a three-month construction window that fall. The designer sourced the bathrooms' marble tiles and sinks from an Italian manufacturer (left and above). [Extracted from the article]

WHEN a young Manhattan couple learned they were expecting their first child, they set their sights on Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood to settle in. To achieve this programmatically, the architects removed the existing kitchen in the standard unit, transforming it into a den, and then gutted the duplex's lower-level kitchen to "craft something more solid", says firm principal Stephen Conte. Solid oak for the millwork and curved vertical handles balance any hard edges, and white marble for the backsplash and island countertop lend gravity while remaining visually light. [Extracted from the article]

DEPARTMENTS A VACATION HOUSE that Mexico City architect Alfonso Quiñones built for his family offers an intriguing low-budget - if slightly idiosyncratic - solution to outdoor living. Quiñones, whose office is named BAAQ', designed a cluster of four detached slatted-wood volumes organized around a courtyard and pool for his four children, wife, and himself. An upstairs bedroom overlooks a double-height studio/ bedroom (left). [Extracted from the article]

The two asked Croatian-Dutch architect Lada Hrsak - whose multidisciplinary firm, Bureau LADA, is based in Amsterdam - if she could come up with a livable design. Hrsak designed a five-story shaft that would accommodate one function per floor in its polygonal plan. Suzanne Stephens 1 ENTRANCE 2 WORK 3 DINING 4 TERRACE 5 LIVING 6 SLEEPING 7 BATH 8 STUDY DIAGRAM PHOTO (COLOR): One function per floor is the rule for this diminutive shaft (top): PHOTO (COLOR): up one flight of stairs from the street is the dining/kitchen area, which opens onto a terrace (above). [Extracted from the article]

DEPARTMENTS "I hate the ambience of an office", says architect Manuel Cervantes. The 9,400-square-foot, terraced structure is actually two dwellings: a rental unit occupies the upper three floors, while the architect, his wife, and their children - aged 8 years, 2 years, and 3 months - live on the levels below. The living room (top) of the architect's house extends outdoors via a landscaped terrace, while the rental unit (above) opens to a patio 1 ENTRANCE 2 LIVING/DINING 3 KITCHEN 4 BEDROOM 5 STUDIO 6 TERRACE/PATIO 7 LAUNDRY 8 PARKING Floor-to-ceiling glazing floods the architect's studio (above, left) with daylight. [Extracted from the article]

On a narrow plot of land in this residential neighborhood, Chilean architect Mathias Klotz constructed an elongated rectilinear house that draws visitors through its interior toward wide-open vistas at its rear. The ground floor is largely open, separated only by a freestanding east-west wall that shields the kitchen from the living room while supporting an openriser stair that appears to float in space. An open living and dining area, separated only by a freestanding wall that supports an open-riser stair, allows unobstructed views across the interior (above). [Extracted from the article]

DEPARTMENTS MIDCENTURY houses have their charms, but they often lack the airy yet comfortable atmosphere that contemporary dwellers covet. A skylit stairwell leads to the lower level, which contains a media room, game room, and bedrooms. 1 ENTRANCE 2 DINING AREA 3 LIVING ROOM 4 DEN 5 GARAGE 6 BED/OFFICE 7 PRIMARY BEDROOM 8 BEDROOM 9 MEDIA 10 GAME ROOM DIAGRAM: MAIN-LEVEL PLAN DIAGRAM: LOWER-LEVEL PLAN PHOTO (COLOR): The two-level house is nestled into a slope (top). [Extracted from the article]

The article reports that the new Marqué II style guide from Quality Custom Cabinetry presents 15 pages of custom cabinetry design options. More than 60 photos depict cabinetry styles, wood species, and painted and stained finishes. Vignette photos include kitchen, bath, and custom living areas. Also shown are some of the available storage solutions, intricate detail options, and architectural elements.

This article presents information on the book "Cold War Hothouses: Inventing Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy," edited by Beatriz Colomina. When World War II ended and corporations that had been making armaments retooled, the result was Barbie dolls and Tupperware, according to Cold War Hothouses. The overreaching, sometimes glib premise of the book is that the new focus was entirely domestic: bombshelters, window air-conditioners, kitchen appliances, garden products, and drive-in theaters — which rolled living room, bedroom, and kitchen into one.

Describes a living-room designed by architect Zaha Hadid in London, England. Elements of the interior decoration for the living room; Concept underlying the design; Type of furniture used in the room.

Deals with the architectural design of Brooklyn Gardens housing in Brooklyn, New York City. Role of the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development in the establishment of the facility; Homeless people for which the housing and social services will be provided; Description of the clustered bedrooms and living areas designed by architect Cindy Harden.