776 Malvern Road Residential Architecture Design

This 776 Malvern Road armadale residential architectures project is designed by Gray Puksand. The residence is situation within complex planning overlays created challenges with this 3 unit development. Quality was also paramount as the developer was to establish their residence in one of the units. By adopting some of the local venacular and integrating with quasi-industrial references, the development has succeeded in setting a new benchmark fo…

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The New Facebook Headquarters by Studio O+A

…ters, the facility is the first commercial project completed under Palo Alto’s 2008 Green Building Ordinance, making extensive use of existing architectural features, recycling millwork from the original lab, and repurposing industrial components for post-industrial use. Other sustainable features include high recycled-content carpet and energyefficient lighting. Visit Studio O+A website for more information – here. …

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Paul Cha Architect / Green Loft

…emphasize the spatial depth of the interior in parallel to the expansive view from the Terrace. Light, materials, colors and textures are used as a means of accentuating the visual and tactile experience of the loft, while references to the winemaking process provide abstracted forms and images. As natural daylight filters inward from the perimeter window wall, incandescent light illuminates the terrace and plantings outside, and both lights as…

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Ecohouse, Third Edition

… change – but if everyone from governments down to householders followed its advice we might just begin to turn the tide. Additional audience: Eco-enthusiasts and green self-builders will appreciate the handy hints and references on refurbishment and advice on how to kit out their Ecohouse with the greenest appliances and fittings. Lecturers and students on sustainable design and construction courses will find the latest real-world case stu…

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Vila Sofa, Amsterdam by Tjep

…metamorphosed into decorative elements that form room dividers that are arranged to organize the space and routing. Finally there is a big wall suggesting the idea of a magical vila, this is the only place where the graphic references are more literal, but still very graphic, as if the elements escaped from packaging symbols: a big chandelier, a diversity of playfully arranged windows, romantic balconies. In this space we placed big ‘picn…

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