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Herzog & de Meuron - Slow Food Pavilion, Milan Expo 2015. Via AV, photos © Roland Halbe.
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Bernardo Bader - Salgenreute Chaepl, Krumbach 2016. Via, photos © Adolf Bereuter.
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Cukrowicz Nachbaur - Vordere Niedere alpine chapel, Andelsbuch 2008. Photos © Hanspeter Schiess, Albrecht Imanuel Schnabel, Friedrich Böhringer.
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Innauer-Matt Architekten - Pavilion KG, Bezau 2015. A mobile exhibition room for Kaspar Greber, an Austrian timber-home builder, to display his craft and allow potential clients to experience the qualities of timber construction first hand. Photos © Dakro Todorovic.
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Mirror Mirror | Remco Siebring
A minimal home located in The Netherlands, designed by Remco Siebring. Mirror Mirror on a roof is a small roof extension on top of a classified monument in a small city in the north of Holland. The design is based on the principle of a tree house. The feeling to rise high above the world, in a room all for yourself. This concept is reflected in the steel bed that floats three meters above the germ roofs. From this place he has a fantastic view over the surrounding landscape of roofs, chimneys, Gardens and trees. The extension is completely covered in Mirrored glass to reflect the old contours of the house. This also gives the boy an interesting relationship with the outside: during the day the Mirrored glass wall reflects the surroundings so his room will fade away in the sky. He is then a voyeur to the outside world. But as the dusk sets in and the lights go on the roles are turned around and he will be visible for the world around him.
Baserga Mozzetti - Prou Bozzini vacation home, Campo Blenio 2012. Three living units are placed in an individual volume with a common entrance; the saw-tooth shape of the roof demarcating the dividing walls. The building is placed gently on the landscape with only a few connection points so as not to disturb the idyllic topography. Photos © Nicola Roman Walbeck.
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Savioz Fabrizzi - Maison Reynard, Ormône 2016. Photos © Thomas Jantscher.
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Slot House in London
In the words of the architects Studio Octopi:
The house had been extensively modified in the 1980s and suffered from a fragmented plan, poor connectivity between the principal living spaces and restrictive ceiling heights. The design sought to recapture and preserve the original proportions of the Georgian terrace building, whilst reinterpreting the layout to suit modern family living. A 10m high glass infill extension between the closet wing and the neighbouring property, divided as two sash windows, forms a double height living room at basement level and a master ensuite at first floor. An open tread stair allows views to stretch from the basement across the double height space to the first floor.
The closet wing was extended in brick to match the existing; this enabled the upper floors to be remodelled with increased head height and improved visual connectivity with the main house. The upper closet wing windows take reference from the adjoining property; at ground floor the window stretches down to the basement echoing the double height space behind. A polished concrete floor in the basement extends out to the garden where a planted green wall allows maximum use of the terrace for entertaining. The refurbished and extended house is 250sqm, with 30sqm of outdoor space.
Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards 2016
Arcaid has shortlisted 20 of the year’s best architectural photographs in the running for the 2016 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards. The annual award presents prizes in four categories - Exteriors, Interiors, Sense of Place, and Building in Use - and judged by an esteemed panel on their atmospheric quality, composition, use of scale and more.
The photographs will be showcased at World Architecture Festival from November 16-18 in Berlin, Germany, where the overall winner will be announced.
Here is a sample, identified from the top:
- Photographer: Victor Romero - Building: Baku National Stadium, Azerbaijan / ROSSETTI with Heerim Architects. Image via Arcaid Images
- Photographer: Adrien Barakat - Building: Allianz Headquarters, Zurich, Switzerland / Wiel Arets Architects. Image via Arcaid Images
- Photographer: Torsten Andreas Hoffmann - Subject: Dharavi, Mumbai, India. Image via Arcaid Images
- Photographer: Laurian Ghinitoiu - Building: ‘Forest of Light’ for COS, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy / Sou Fujimoto Architects. Image via Arcaid Images
- Photographer: Nick Almasy - Building: Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China / Gensler/Marshall Strabala. Image via Arcaid Images
- Photographer: Sebastian Weiss - Building: Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland / Yrjo Lindegren and Toivo Jantti. Image via Arcaid Images
- Photographer: Mark Wohlrab - Building: Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, Mechernich-Wachendorf, Germany / Peter Zumthor. Image via Arcaid Images
- Photographer: James Newton - Building: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, United Kingdom / Selgascano. Image via Arcaid Images
- Photographer: Fabrice Fouillet - Building: Musee de Confluences, Lyon, France / Coop Himmelb(l)au. Image via Arcaid Images
- Photographer: Laurian Ghinitoiu - Building: ‘Forest of Light’ for COS, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy / Sou Fujimoto Architects. Image via Arcaid Images
Congrats to @leblanccom on this shortlist! Great image!
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Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk AS - Gravråk summer house addition, Flakstad 2015. Photos © Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk.
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