The Berman House by Harry Seidler

Perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking a rocky ravine, the concrete property designed Harry Seidler is based in Joadja, New South Wales, Australia. It has a suspended living room with soaring balcony, stunning pool and spectacular views over the surrounding countryside.

from CubeMe by Chantal

Today's archidose #325

Here's a view of the Igualada Cemetery in Barcelona, Spain by Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós, 1994.

Photography by jmtp.

from A Daily Dose of Architecture by John

Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture Complete their Swedish “Mirage”

In 2006, Frederik Kjellgren and Joakim Kaminsky won the international architecture competition for a new dance hall in Falsterbo, Sweden, and started their studio; Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture. Now the building “Mirage” is to be inaugurated.

from Bustler.net News by Vanilla Hustler

Rolling Huts / OSKA Architects

Responding to the owner’s need for space to house visiting friends and family, the Rolling Huts are several steps above camping, while remaining low-tech and low-impact in their design. The huts sit lightly on the site, a flood plain meadow in an alpine river valley. The owner purchased the site, formerly a RV campground, with the aim of allowing the landscape return to its natural state. The wheels lift the structures above the meadow, providing an unobstructed view into nature and the prospect of the surrounding mountains.

from Arch Daily by Nico Saieh

Santa Rita Geriatric Center / Manuel Ocaña

Geriatric centers should be optimistic places appealing to live in or to visit. The idea is to create a characteristic atmosphere in a vital space where spare time prevails and where residents spend the last years or months of their lives. The fact is that it is possible to build a geriatric center that does not look like a hospital, with neither corridors nor architectural barriers and on a single floor, in which all the rooms have direct access from (and towards) a garden that, as a sort of ‘lobby’, acts also as direct access towards (and from) the collective spaces.

from Arch Daily by Nico Saieh

3LHD architects: house k

house k is a residential project in the mountains of zagreb by the croatian studio 3LHD architects. the home’s shape was inspired by the shape of a snail’s shell, spiraling around its own axis. this was translated into the structure by wrapping the home’s elements around a central atrium which is outfitted with a spiral staircase to provide access to a rooftop patio. the atrium also helps light the interior.

photo by damir fabijanic
from Designboom - Weblog

cliff garten studios: avenue of light, los angeles

'avenue of light' by cliff garten studio will open on june 25, 2009 in the city of
fort worth, USA.

rising 36 feet above the streetscape, the six 'avenue of light' sculptures are both
transparent and opaque, depending on the viewer’s position and time of day.
each sculpture is made of 100 stainless steel plates, whose forms are derived from
architectural details in the nearby texas & pacific terminal, an art deco landmark.

from Designboom - Weblog

The Mill - Alingsås project Report

Berry van Egten from Berlux was the leader of group of workshop participants working on The Mill project as part of Alingsås workshop organised by PLDA every year.

The concept as was written by the group: “The Mill is reawakening. The water falling under the bridge is once again churning its power to bring Stampens Kvarn back to life. Once past The Mill, this energy fades, moving downstream under the second bridge and back to sleep”.

from ENLIGHTER.ORG by Mitja Prelovsek