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JERUSALEM—When the Israel Museum announced plans for a proposed expansion five years ago, everyone expected the board to select a star architect. After all, money seemed to be no object for an institution that counted among its supporters some of the richest people in the world, many of them based in America. Instead they opted for [...]
VILLA RAHIMOANA DESIGNED BY ARCHITECTS CROSSON, CLARKE, CARNACHAN
Pin-Up Magazine – “Magazine For Architectural Entertainment” – is an excellent resource for Architecture junkies like ourselves. The most recent issues have featured: Sophie Hicks, Ricardo Bofill, Fredrikson Stallard, Shigeru Ban, Cyprien Gaillard, Tony Hornecker, The Belvedere, Bureau V, Dubai, Alvar Aalto, a Young New York Architecture Showcase, and a selection of 75 of PIN-UP’s [...]
Any house decked out in Barcelona chairs and all other icons of modernism is sure to catch our attention and the Kyneton House by Marcus O’Reilly Architects is no exception.
Here’s what TheCoolList had to say about this KUSH single-story home in Australia:
The Kyneton House is situated on a leafy, natural lot with plenty of privacy [...]
You’ve seen what we’ve written about Richard Meier so you know how we feel about white spaces! The British architect John Pawson claims “there are 50 different color shades of white,” and that you’d only really be able to tell in an empty room. That’s a bold statement coming from a master of minimalism.
Pawson is [...]
Richard Meier – a KUSH favorite – once told Horacio Raul Silva, the features and online director at T: The New York Times Style Magazine, that “the jury’s still out” on why so many women find architects sexy. “I’ll take a guess,” he said, “and say it’s probably because they don’t know anything about architects!” [...]
Previously on the The KUSHBlog we featured The McKinley House. That house was so KUSH we had to seek out some other KUSH projects by David Hertz . It is no surprise that David Hertz continues to push the boundaries of KUSH architecture with the development of the Ron Jon Surfparks. This new type of Water Park [...]
Ray Kappe is an award winning architect and educator. In 1972, he resigned his position as Founding Chair of the Department of Architecture at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona. With a group of faculty and students, Kappe started The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).
Kappe gives some insight into living KUSH when asked what are the [...]
Richard Meier embarked on his architecture career in 1963, with a house for his parents in New Jersey. Since then, he has completed a multitude of incredible private homes and buildings, public sites and temples all over the world. Meier’s buildings are often in an open setting, allowing for the integration of the architecture with the [...]
This is the Palabritas Beach House by Jose Orrego.
This unique project completed by Orrego, is a beautiful piece of Brazilian architecture. The house is painted white and is highlighted by strategic placements of the color red. According to our friends at www.architecturedesign.com, the exterior was designed as a white elevated box, exposed from its front side. [...]
