This is Day 19 from our #30days30spaces series on New York City spaces in collaboration with designismymuse. We are doing this series to celebrate the launch of the Indiegogo Great Spaces Campaign!
(images via nmda-inc.com & curbed.com)
This is Day 17 from our #30days30spaces series on New York City spaces in collaboration with designismymuse. We are doing this series to celebrate the launch of the Indiegogo Great Spaces Campaign!
About New York by Gehry-
On the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge shines a building brilliantly casting the sun on the horizon of Manhattan’s new skyline. (read more & share at greatspacestv.com)
(images by newyorkbygehry.com)
New video on the Whitney Museum of Art from the Great Spaces Series- here.
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The Seoul Commune 2026 is a vision for what cities can, will, and should look like in the future. Check out Great Spaces for the full scoop: http://bit.ly/O9peFH #GREATSPACES
Robert Bruno was a celebrated American sculptor whose medium was architecture. See more of his magnum opus on Great Spaces: http://bit.ly/O2dWCV #GREATSPACES
In 1973, Ricardo Bofill saw the beauty in an abandoned cement factory in a turn of the century industrial complex full of silos, engine rooms and underground galleries. As our friends over at Twisted Sifter put it, it was “a compendium of surrealist elements - stairs that climbed up to nowhere, mighty reinforced structures that sustained nothing, pieces of iron hanging in the air; in short, huge empty spaces filled nothingness with magic.” Renovations took two years and in the end, Bofill was left with 8 of the original 30 silos which became offices, workspaces, libraries and what he calls “the Cathedral” - a huge exhibition space.
In the Sandia Heights neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico stands an incredible house by the best architect you’ve never heard of, Bart Prince. Bart Prince is an American architect working out of New Mexico, who flies so under the radar, he doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. His buildings scoff at traditional rectilinear forms and instead take their inspiration from the organic forms of life. We’ll cover some more of Bart Prince’s fabulous architecture in the future, but for today, we’re just enthralled by his “House Beneath the Mountain.” When conceiving the design, Prince imagined an arc with its open side facing the mountains, to fit the landscape, and nestle the house within it, a very Frank Lloyd Wright sort of attitude toward the site. When Architectural Digest reviewed the home they said “He extends the line of the bearing walls toward the court with steel beams that form triangles that converge over the center, recalling the spokes of a teepee.” Says Prince, “The beams define the outdoor space and bring the sky into the composition. Their profile ties the building both to the ground and to the sky.” Amen.
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Was Paul Simon actually writing about this house? The Sliding House by dRMM architects in Suffolk, England moves. The 90’ long house has a mobile sheath which slides on rails to cover or uncover the glass house inside, changing apertures and views with each gliding inch. Fantastic.
Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation, which provides homes for victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans’ 9th Ward, recently revealed its newest model, designed by Frank Gehry.
Gehry’s duplex is one of only 22 homes in the US designed by the architect and the first in Louisiana. We here at Great Spaces love the simplicity of the design and the effortless way Gehry has integrated its sustainability. The home achieved LEED platinum certification and includes a roof deck shaded by solar panels, myriad recycled or recyclable building materials and numerous energy-efficient alternatives to traditional elements, such as tankless water heaters and metal roofs designed to absorb less heat. Make It Right’s executive director, Tom Darden, said “Frank’s work proves that beautiful, elegant, ground-breaking designs can go hand-in-hand with the practical needs and culture of a community.” We couldn’t agree more.
Amid a sea of conservative cookie cutter houses in the Hamptons, Maison Plastique stands out. Way out. Owned and built by a pair of architects who were inspired to reinvent Van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion with a 60s twist, they combined influences from Matisse, Hockney & definitely un-colorphobic mexican architect Luis Barragan. While they claim it’s not a deconstructed interpretation, perhaps we just have differing views on the definition of “deconstructed”… http://bit.ly/LVNlqi
Despite being completely contradictory in form, the Lima House, by local Abramson Teiger Architects, somehow sits harmoniously in its California-desert site in Calabasas, California, just north of Los Angeles. The incorporation of rich wood tones complements the landscape and its cleverly placed apertures connect the two disparate elements, bringing a very FLW sort of peace to the place. http://bit.ly/LOYuHE
This year’s AIA awards for Housing have come out and the winners are gorgeous. We had to share a few of our favorites with you.
Named for the french word for stone, “the Pierre,” by Olson Kundig Architects, is nestled into the owners’ favorite spot on their property, this outcropping of rock. It reminds us of the house Howard Roark built in the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
“RelicRock” by DCH Global, Inc. is a “prototype for a sustainable building system” built from 99% recycled steel which achieved a LEED platinum rating. We love how wonderfully it blends with the Scottsdale, AZ landscape.
The Jesuit Community Center by Gray Organschi Architecture is another that strives for sustainability, but it’s also wonderfully old-school. Those windows are so Corb, and the rigid geometry smacks of 40s International modern, but with wood instead of glass and steel. A+ guys, A+.
Colorado-based firm, Robert Hawkins Architects, designed this energy-efficient home near Steamboat Springs, Colorado. It’s also completely stunning inside. The home uses reclaimed wood on the interior, siding and for the frame itself. Half of the roofs are green, using “SemperGreen” sedum mats, while the roofs with prime sun exposure were left, natural, dare I say? for solar panels. I fell in love with the consistency of the wood throughout. It’s so rich and warm and harmonious. I love it. Check it out on Great Spaces: http://bit.ly/KJB5MU
