Concrete Urban House in China Designed By Atelier Zhanglei

This urban house is built and designed by Atelier Zhanglei. The house is located in China. This house is made by using of traditional materials – namely brick. This urban house also named as the Slit House, as an ode to custom with an eye looking toward the future. This urban house design in Nanjing, China was modeled after the adjacent homes dating back to the 1920s, only with a cool, contemporary... 

Wonderful Timber Home Designed By Dwyer Design

This wood radius house is designed by Dwyer Design. The house is wonderful wood wonder with nature at every turn. Originally built in 1960 by Daniel Liebermann (who apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West) the 1,000-sq.-ft. Radius House was redesigned by Dwyer with the goal of inserting modern elements into an otherwise earthy home. The renovation of this natural house design encompasses... 

Temple Har Shalom Combines Art, Architecture, Judaism and Skiing

Put together a world-renown Japanese ceramic artist, a world-class German architect, 35 acres of pristine land in the mountains of Utah, a quest for spirituality, and the result is probably not what you would expect. After 14 years of rented office space converted into sanctuaries and classrooms, the Jewish community of Park City, Utah has opened the doors to its first synagogue, Temple Har Shalom,... 

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Twin-Bricks Glass Block House Design by Yasuhiro Yamashita

Twin-Bricks, consists of two wings – the five rental dwelling units and the owner’s two-family house is located in a quiet residential area, just 20 minutes by train from Tokyo. In order to secure some space for the owner’s car collections, the Owner wing (RC Wing) stands nearer to the road than the Rental wing (S Wing). The Rental wing partly has ALC panels as well as glass blocks. This... 

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Contemporary Crystal Brick house, Japan

The major request from the client is the space both for two family should be sunny and bright like the various crystals which gathered by the client as their hobby. We had intended to make architecture which wall is made of glass blocks which works as the structure itself considering the request from the client from the beginning. We collaborated with structural engineers, manufacturing interests,... 

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