A seaside mansion in San Diego that was used in TV commercials but never occupied has sold for a bargain $14.1million – a third of the original $45million asking price.
via Mansion made of glass » Design You Trust – Design and Beyond!.
The 32-year-old photographer was tired of mortgage payments and had a passion for nature. Equipped with a chainsaw, hammer, and 1-inch chisel, the determined family man began construction on a plot of land in the woods, which the family luckily gained ownership of in return for their care of the area. With the help of his father-in-law, who just happened to be a builder, Dale set forth to build his ecological dream home on a budget.
Russell Township, Ohio may not sound like much of an architectural destination. But this semi-rural town 25 miles east of Cleveland is actually home to architect and futurist Buckminster Fuller’s largest geodesic dome. The vast dome, allegedly one of Bucky’s favorites, was built in 1959 to surmount a low, crescent-shaped modernist office pavilion designed by architect John Terence Kelly. The hexagonal steel latticework also hovers weightlessly over a lush, circular garden in the center.
As Metropolis Magazine reports, this strikingly futuristic headquarters for the materials research clearinghouse ASM International rocked Ohio for generations, landing along Route 87 like “a cross between a spaceship and an exhibition pavilion that could have been airlifted from a world’s fair.” But the complex makes headlines today as a victory for the historic preservation of mid-century modern buildings.
via Architizer Blog » A New Life for Buckminster Fuller and John Kelly’s Modernist Office Park.
The Egg, more formally known as the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) is located in Beijing, China. Technically, it’s an ellipsoid dome of titanium and glass surrounded by an artificial lake and vast expanse of green space, but the Egg or Water drop building is much easier on the tongue.
The building seats 5,452 people in three halls and is almost 12,000 square meters (129,000 sq ft.) in size. It was designed by French architect Paul Andreu. Construction started in December 2001 and the inaugural concert was held in December 2007.
via The Egg Building in China – National Centre for Performing Arts.
Above-ground houses: could there be anything that’s more over?
Turns out those smiley Lennon-style glasses on that glassy knoll are the legit windows of a legit house, and said house was carved into a dune in Atlantic Beach, Fla. Built in 1975, Dune House is the brainchild of architect William Morgan, who didn’t want any interlopers messing with the character of his block — to this day, he lives next door. “I’m very particular about the buildings on either side of my own home.” he says.
WXY has teamed up with Weidlinger Associates Inc., a prominent structural engineering firm, to design four landscape bridges in Xinjin County, China for the Chengdu Xinjin Urban & Rural Development Investment Company Limited (URDI)’s design competition.
For the Nanhe River Landscape Bridge, the team’s winning design approach was to create a vision that evokes the flow of the river. Like a main path in a great park, the journey across the bridge should be an experience unto itself.
via WXY.
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Utah native Blair Bangerter, one of the three brothers in charge of Bangerter Homes – a custom home building company – said: “I was just watching the movie, and thought, ‘We build houses kind of like that, ’” So after getting the go-ahead from Disney, they started recreating Carl and Ellie’s house from “Up”, while making some modifications of their own.
For those of you who are actually considering moving into this real-life “Up” house, you should know it’s a roomy 2,800 square feet and has an expected asking price of $390,000. Worth it??
Welcome to the house without walls designed by the young architect Sou Fujimoto. Forget walls as barriers to divide spaces, see them rather as places for interaction and sharing. House O is a holiday home built on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Pacific just two hours from Tokyo. Built on commission for a couple, it is a tree-shaped space that branches out into the various rooms, offering a host of different ocean views.
House without wall..hm…remind anyone of Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright?
This house is set in the Santa Lucia Mountains near Carmel, California and was designed by San Francisco based firm Feldman Architecture. The house is partially sunk into the ground to help lessen its visual impact.
Via Santa Lucia Mountain House » Design You Trust – Social design inspiration!
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