house and pool

One of the only constant dreams I have had in my life is to someday own a house with a pool. I wish I could swim every day.

Casa Larga designed by Daniele Claudio Taddei, via ArchDaily. Photos © Bruno Helbling.

for living

HD Haus / Bernardo Bader. I'm feeling the shingles.

Photos © Adolf Bereuter.

red house

I want to live here.

Iwan Baan' photographs of Padraic Cassidy's red house (due to a brain malfunction, I had that switched.) Via South Willard.

place of repose

 

From Alvar Aalto's Maison Louis Carré, via here.

one i would like to find

A house built according to remembered feeling:

The daughter's recollection of the stairs in the old house being ‘another room’, finds built form in an enlarged landscape stairway offering spaces for pause. Her fond memories of the kitchen as a social space and sitting by the open fire distort the two new ‘hearths’ (one for cooking, one for fire) into non-orthogonal shapes suggesting uses yet open to appropriation. Finally the insistence of the ‘fire being the centre of the home’ is realized by the location of an industrial scaled chimney rising through the scheme at the centre of the plan, organizing the spaces throughout.

Mews House by TAKA.

discreet and typical

House + by Anne Menke (Dipl.-Ing. / MSc) in collaboration with Winkens Architekten, Berlin. A renovation of a 1957 house to the following specifications:

It all started with a wish list. For the husband the new house had to be modern. It should have generous openings and exterior spaces that connect to the garden. He was fascinated by the extraordinary use of materials and good details, which show high quality craftsmanship. The wife aspired for comfort and cosiness; it should be a “feel good-house”. She envisioned her new home first of all as an interior space, as protection from the outside world. The house should look discreet and typical with a pitched roof and radiate domesticity at first glance. These were quite conflicting qualities to resolve in a single cohesive piece of architecture.

More photos here. The interior is a bit too modern for me, but I love the exterior and the working principles. Via ArchDaily.

dome building 101

Buckminster Fuller, Elaine de Kooning and Joseph Albers at work on the Supine Dome.

Buckminster Fuller and students hanging from his Autonomous Dwelling Facility with a Geodesic Structure, 1949.

a place of tall buildings

The Home Insurance Building, widely considered to be the first skyscraper. Designed by William LeBaron Jenney and built in Chicago in 1884.

a place together

When someday Sean and I have our own house, I want it to feel like this - light and spare, but homey.

Converted barn from OWI photographed by Vercruysse Frederik. Via Roseland Greene.