Boswall Road House by AJ Burridge

Designed by AJ Burridge. A glass entrance leads directly to the ground-level garden room. Large oak-framed glazed sliding doors access the decked patio and garden. An open staircase leads up to the mezzanine office lit by a side window and rooflights, which in turn accesses the main house.

"We loved our flat but it was isolated from the garden and spoilt by a dark, dismal entry stair. Now we have a bright modern entrance and garden room that makes the most of the external space. " Carol Anderson, client


























The stressed skin timber structure designed by SKM Anthony Hunts allows the slate roof to float over the ground level glazing.



























"...a refined simplicity of design coupled with a restrained palette of materials...combining...oak with glass and crisp white plastered walls, creates a sense of visual calm... "
Fiona Reid, Homes and Interiors Scotland issue 36



























Structural Engineer: SKM.AnthonyHunts
Photography: Mate Gibb & Zoë Maxwell
Publications: Homes and Interiors Scotland, Grand Designs March 2006

Frank Lloyd Wright | Robie House 1910

Frank Lloyd Wright : At the age of 8, I knew I wanted to be an architect. I was 10 years old when my mother first taught me about Frank Lloyd Wright. He was the 1st architect I would ever learn about. I learnt much more about his works later on when I was studying architecture in university.

I became fascinated by his architecture and his philosophies on space, form and nature. I learnt about so many modern architects but no one ever stood out like FLW to me. I was utterly captivated by his ingeniousness.

When I was in Chicago, I had the privilege to visit his ‘prairie houses’ in person. I had seen and studied a lot of his works through books but nothing compared to seeing them in person. You do not necessarily have to love FLW’s taste in design, colours and form but I think when you understand the principles behind his architecture you realize what a genius he was and how ahead of his time he often was.

If you drive through Oak Park and do not recognize his buildings, you would think some of them were designed in the 70s most likely_ but they were all built between 1890-1910_ a time when Victorian houses with pitched roofs were being erected.

The most fascinating thing about FLW is how his architecture always evolved and how his career spanned over 70 years. His understanding of space and form in unison with nature (organic architecture) was complimented by his great knowledge in engineering and structural integrity_ he was a true Master.

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Zaha Hadid on Dubai Opera House

Designed by well known iraqian architects [ Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
] This Dubai Opera House design calls for an exciting new cultural centre in the new Seven Pearls district of Dubai. This landmark development will accommodate an opera house, playhouse, arts gallery, performing arts school and themed hotel on an island in Dubai Creek just off the mainland part of the district. All of these facilities will be state of the art to host world class performances and exhibitions. The opera house will have a seating capacity of 2,500 while the playhouse will have a seating capacity of 800.




















The arts gallery with 5000m2 of exhibition space is indeed a full size exhibition facility comparable to the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The hotel will accommodate guests in a 6 star setting. Sited on an island in Dubai Creek, the development will be connected to Greater Dubai by a road connection to the mainland.




















Design Concept and Programme Organisation

The proposal houses all of the facilities within a single striking structure. The gentle winding form evokes images of mountains or sand dunes. Rising out of the ground, this form is both a part of the landscape yet very much a distinct element in the skyline. The surrounding landscape forms build up to the main building. These constitute open park spaces as well as ancillary functions such as the parking facilities and the monorail station, which are either tucked under or integrated into the andscape forms.



















PROGRAM: Design for a Cultural Centre and Opera House in Dubai
ARCHITECT: Design Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher

Project Director: Graham Modlen
Project Leader: Dillon Lin
Design Team: Christine Chow, Lourdes Sanchez, Yiching Liu, Swati Sharma,
Tyen Masten, Simone Fuchs, Johannes Schafelner

Competition Team: Christine Chow, Lourdes Sanchez, Yiching Liu, Larissa Henke, Claudia Wulf, Hooman Talebi, Daniel Dendra, Simon Yu, Komal Talreja

Engineering Consultant: Arup [London, UK]
Acoustics Consultant: Richard Cowell, Ian Knowles
Structural Engineering: Keith Jones
Building Services Engin.: Tim Thornton
Façade Engineering: Steve Bosi

Afgh Architect | House Müller Gritsch

Designed by AFGH Architects, This beautiful Müller Gritsch House is located in CH-5600 Lenzburg, AG, Switzerland. The artist couple Barbara Müller and Stefan Gritsch lived for 25 years in the former carpenter’s workshop shed of Barbara Müller’s father. The sale of the building offered the couple the possibility to construct a new house in the yard of the building complex, on condition that the building costs did not exceed the funds raised from the sale.




















The only feasible way to realise the substantial spatial program involved at the set price of CHF. 580,000 was to design the house in prefabricated wooden elements. The existence of a previous basement made excavation works superfluous and, after prefabrication, allowed the erection of building to be undertaken in record time. The end result was a cubic price of CHF. 480.




















However, it should be emphasised that the search for innovative solutions was not merely motivated by the cost constraints. The resulting architecture deliberately mirrors a conscious attitude that defies the polished superfluity so deeply ingrained in contemporary lifestyles and attempts instead to address more substantial issues.




















The finished project affords the artists, who spend much of their time at home, spatial variety and complexity, and encourages both users and visitors to explore and rediscover the house anew. In this sense the house constitutes an introverted vessel, complementing the nature of artistic work whilst simultaneously creating deliberate links with the outside world. Considerable emphasis was placed on the relation towards the surroundings.




















The windows are placed in such a manner to frame Lenzburg castle, the Staufberg or the Goffersberg as if they were pictures. In terms of urban planning, the polygonal volume and the neighboring carpenter’s workshop form a courtyard around which the studios and the kitchen are orientated. The 1 1/2-storey living room constitutes the spatial focus of the house out of which all of the rooms are elaborated around the central nucleus, containing the chimney and the staircase.






















The house is conceived as a spatial continuum, enabling a wide variety of spatial relations. Both of the two studios can be partitioned from each other, but simultaneously can be read as an extended living room.









































Architects: AFGH
Location: CH-5600 Lenzburg, AG, Switzerland
Project year: 2005-2006
Construction year: 2006-2007
Client: Barbara Müller, Stefan Gritsch
Commissioner: the City of Almere, the Netherlands, DMO NME, Hans Warrink
Planners: Peter Camenzind AG, wood prefab
Budget: 580.000 CHF ( US $564.477 )
Constructed Area: 232 sqm
Photographs: Valentin Jeck

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson | Diamond Head Residence

The Residential project on the island of Oahu by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson that has offices in Wilkes-Barre, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Seattle and San Francisco. The firm’s work is known for exceptional design, for its commitment to the particularity of place and user, and for an extraordinary aesthetic based on a quiet rigor which is both intellectual and intuitive.

This house is a fresh interpretation of the traditional Hawaiian lifestyle, blurring the interior and exterior boundary. Organized into two dense wings that stretch along the east and west edges of the site, a strong border is created for privacy while framing desirable ocean views.




















The entry sequence begins in the vehicle courtyard created by the two wings, and relies on both landscape and architectural elements to reinforce the casual nature of a beach house and yet create a sense of security. Local materials were chosen carefully, to reveal and reinforce the connection to this particular place.

Collet and Farmer Architects | Private House, Jennings Way, London

This is a Private House for a retired couple in Jennings Way, Arkley London. The new private house that was designed by Collet and Farmer Architects and built on a narrow site in a cul-de-sac of 1980's bungalows. The design seeks to establish a relationship with the neighbouring houses through the use of similar materials, pitched roof profile and height, however the design is modern.




















Whilst set amongst bungalows the building has three levels, semi-basement, ground and upper storey within the pitched roof. Planning requirements dictated that upper floors could not have windows which overlook neighbours, so these are recessed. This 2.600sq ft private house was completed in February 2006.



















Traditional elements such as the bay windows and chimney stack have been re-interpreted in a contemporary manner.

The centrally positioned fireplace forms a pivotal feature around which the ground floor living spaces are arranged and re-establishes this element of the English House as the central focal point.

Cubico Cubic, timeless beautiful home

The simple cubic structure of the draft "Cubico" consists of two full floors with flat roof and is pleasantly restrained and elegant. Pleasant accents on a horizontal grey Holzverschalung, also gray wood windows and sliding doors, the great with the white plaster harmony.


















A loving and original idea is the installation of a small house own front door for children. For the young already entered the House signaled that he is taken seriously and welcome. As versatile and precise in planning for the needs of the residents received can be shown by the integration of no barrier apartments.

It was wheelchair planned (schwellenfrei, wider doors, lower-mounted light switches and handle olives in windows and doors) and has its own handicapped-equipped bathroom with shower.


















An elevator next to the podium staircase opens in wheelchairs or family members with Gehbehinderung easy access to the floor.

House in Romeirao, Portugal by Arx Architects

Great residential project by ARX Portugal that is locaed in Romeirão, Portugal. The house is facing south over the valley, furrowed by a small river and a mountain in the background.

The House has a distinctly rural, small plantations, orchards and paths bordered by rudimentary stone walls, and occasionally houses, scattered throughout the landscape. It is a steep slope overlooking the southern valley, crossed a small river and a mountain in the background. While the top half of the site is steep, half below is staggered.



















In the transition love between two references become clear points inception of the project: a walnut and a pond of water. The first visits to the site suggested a volume lying on the slope, facing access and protecting the home of neighbors, opening the interior view overlooking the valley. The natural beauty of the site guided the project.

The house takes place in an intimate relationship with the soil, penetrándolo with increasing slope and eventually becoming part of the mountain where one can change, then moves while low, reappearing in the slope.

Project : House for Romeirão
Architects : ARX PORTUGAL, Lda Architects - Jose Mateus and Nuno Mateus
Location : Romeirão Ericeira, Portugal
Project : Construction 2001-02: 2002-03 built Surface: 340m2
Team : Paulo Rocha, Marco Roque Antunes, Susana Ferreira
Landscape : Rosário Salema
Structure : SAFRE, Projectos e Estudos de Engenharia Lda.
Photographs : FG + GS - Photographs of Architecture - Fernando Guerra, Sergio War.

Dr. Weigel House by ILG Architekten

The house lies in a residential district next to the town centre of the Rosenheim/Bayern. Designed by ilgarchitekten. As a result of the form an outside and an internal side of the building arise. The outside, the road turned side remains almost closed and forms the backs of the house. The internal side orients itself to the garden with large glass areas.






































Building type : House
Location : Rosenheim/Bavaria
Construction period of planning: 1996-1997
Associate : M. Onischke.



















































































See the other ILG Architekten project on Perspektif Magazine.