The Filtered Frame Dock is a structure that negotiates between the realms of land, water, and sky by framing one’s experience and understanding of the natural environment, above, along, and in the water.
Studio Saxe was commissioned to design a family home perched on the hilltops of the town of Nosara Costa Rica, that would blend and hide within its natural surroundings whilst opening to the dramatic ocean and mountain views.
Willmott’s Ghost is the vision of James Beard Award-winning Chef Renee Erickson. Serving Roman-style pizza al taglio and Italian aperitivo cocktails, the restaurant is on the ground floor of The Spheres, the centerpiece of Amazon’s Seattle campus.
Komorebi House is a single-family dwelling designed for rent, a typology that has become common in the area and that carries the challenge to design for an anonymous but identifiable user, mostly young families moving from central to southern Chile.
UPHouse is the tail of a simple operation: the introduction of a space of intimate scale into another space, which, being domestic, is exposed and social.
The Lencioni Construction Company’s newly acquired office building with its warehouse identity and retro architectural elements offered a strong potential to explore the dialectic between a rugged industrial shell and a sensitive modern intervention.
A historic manor house is transformed into a restaurant and beach club. Conceptually, the new venue follows the same principles of restaurant 212 in Amsterdam, featuring ‘no table seating’, an open kitchen with bar-height seating directing the guests’ focus on the chefs, stimulating interaction.
Although from afar it seems one-leveled, this contemporary pavilion residence – which sits on a platform that rises 60cm above ground level – has another level dug underground.
Situated two hours northwest of Montreal, in the township of St-Donat, this 3,000 sq. ft. home is characterized by its open concept main floor and easy access walk-out basement. The architecture of the St-Donat house is characterized, among others things, by a huge sloping roof which creates a direct link with the views of surrounding mountains.
