Friday, December 9, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Lake Lugano House
I know... I know... It's been awhile since I posted. Just been a busy bumble bee buzzing with life, forgive me lol. I came across this house that I wanted to share with you guys. Its the Lake Lugano House located in Brusino Arsizio, Switzerland designed by Jacopo Mascheroni. The 3,700-square-foot polygonal glass pavilion and garden above a partially buried lower level is almost hidden behind walls on a hill. The house consist of three bedrooms, two baths, an office, formal entry, laundry, staircase, and playroom. Check it out.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Murturm Nature Observation Tower
Naturschutzbund, the Austrian Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, asked Loenhart and his partner, Christoph Mayr, to create a place from which to observe the ecological restoration of the river, once part of the Iron Curtain and now in the European Green Belt. The architects didn’t want to interrupt the flow of the pathway through the woods. After climbing the tower’s 168 steps, visitors descend a second, intertwined staircase. Steel girder joints connect welded steel pipes in the double-helix structure. The pipes decrease in diameter toward the top of the tower,like the branching pattern of a tree. The architects were inspired by the flights of steps leading to a 1499 castle in nearby Graz.
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