Designed by XTEN Architecture, this cliff house has been amazingly designed and built on the exclusive area Sunset Boulevard of Hollywood Hills, California. The site is narrow and sloping sharply, and then the house is built to be 4,499sqf or 418sqm with opened plan to the panoramic view of the landscape and city view under the hills. The architects designed the first floor as the living area by maintaining the walls extended to the hillside as well as creating gardens on a couple levels of the house. The two levels are connected well to the gardens with the glass panels in the front, rear and side.

To design the house well openly to the beautiful view outside, wall panels are applied in various versions. About 44 sliding glass walls in 7 feet of width and 10 feet of height are applied; making the concrete house looks floating and allowing amazing view visible from the inside while simply connecting to the terraces and gardens outside through the glass doors.

Nice balance is given to the glass panels with sculptural and solid elements made of dark stained oak, stones, tinted concrete and also plaster. The connecting of indoor and outdoor is also designed by applying the same pebble flooring on the whole house, terraces, and also decks. Meanwhile, the finishing is done in various and multiplicity ways that continue the open plan of the house.

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When we heard about Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center, our opinion would be directly guided to an amazing simple and elegant building in Berkeley, California. This is a great building that has been renovated few times. Historical renovations given to the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center makes it better along the time. Some common accessories such as ceiling fans, thermal mass and natural ventilation belong to the building give so many advantages to the operation of the building and the maintenance.

The renovation done by ELS Architecture and Urban Design looks special because what they have given to the MLK Civic Center makes it looks and feels better. The decision to replace existing perimeter steam radiators with hot water radiators means better efficiency. It can be felt also from the concrete structure in the open corridors. This building also applies green building strategies, includes installing high efficiency fluorescent lighting, photometric control, central ceiling fans, programmable thermostat and motion sensors.

With additional public space on the penthouse level, this MLK Civic Center provides a magnificent view directly to the bay. Because of the renovation, Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center has given some awards, including from Saving by Design Honor, California Historic Preservation and Special Recommendation Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association.

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There are many buildings in this world that are famous on its architecture. With the great designs and construction of the exterior and the interior of the buildings, all of the building becomes really phenomenal and famous. Boston city hall is one of the famous buildings because of this building shape and design. It is not only famous because of its function that is as the center of the government or the hall of the city but also it is famous ion its building architecture that is interesting.

Knowles, Kallmann, and McKinnell as the architect of this buildings work so hard for this building. It uses the precast concrete for the system of the construction for this city hall building. The Brutalist Modern style is chosen as the building style for this city hall. The architects use the great dentil on the monumentally as the accent and shade device. It is so amazing.

The public part of this place is actually in the ground with the opened area that is linked to the interior and the plaza. It gives the great atmosphere for the public place. The great design that is well organized represents this building as the city hall building.

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Museum is identic to the classic building that sometimes it is not interesting anymore. However, we can get the unique museum with the interesting designs, which is the Hirshhorn Museum. It is the museum of art that takes place in Washington DC. We could not imagine that it will be the classic and old buildings because it will be totally wrong. This art museum is really modern. The architect, Gordon Bunshaft, choose the modern style for this art museum. With the great design and construction of this museum, it becomes the interesting modern museum.

There are only few art museums that use the modern style for the building. The architect uses the concrete as the system of the construction for this art museum. This building consists of three stories that are quite great with the unique design of the building. With the curve design of the whole building make this art museum becomes really unique and modern.

It becomes more unique yet beautiful by the existence of the courtyard that is round with the sculpture that is around the building. It looks so unique outside and it does not look like an art museum. However, the modern design makes it to be interesting.

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The building of the factory of AEG in Moabit, Berlin is the great master piece from the architect of Peter Behrens. It is the great building architecture that uses the unusual designs. The system of the construction is also great by using the steel and glass as the great combination even it is the unusual thing. It is the great master piece of the architectural for the factory or working place that grab the attention of some people to give their comments.

Behrens give the great effects by designing the great truss construction for this factory building. The trusses are pulled outside and through the iron truss and the glass area that is drawn inside. The façade which is monumental with the corner pylon that is built from the thin shell of concrete grab the criticism and comments from another architects, such as Ludwig Hilberseimer. The use of the corner pylon can be said as the unnecessary construction.T2C77G7X5MS4

Behrens actually produce the great structure for the building that can be the great attention of this building. He does not use the tradition from the architecture that is commonly used. He combines the art and the architecture as well.

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The villa is located in the Swiss Alps, in the district of Herens, at an altitude of 1850 m. It was used as a shelter for livestock before it became a holiday residence. Inside, the picturesque is set aside to give place to a mere warm and dry shelter. The floor is concrete and energy sources are fire for heating and cooking, and solar panels for electricity. Outside, the grass grows wild and is difficult to find any sign of contemporary life in the place.

On one hand, the value of these constructions in the landscape is largely natural Swiss Widespread. It is a well established that the collective status of these shelters Often Prevails over the quality of the individual object. On the other hand, the modern use of the mountain cottage Involving weekly round-trips, highlights the all-terrain vehicle improbable in the city and the unavoidable garage and retaining wall in front of the mountain chalet. The mountain is not as wild and natural as it used to be in the same manner that cities are not urban enough.

The project embraces different realities in the most surreal manner. On the Inside, the view is the only overwhelming piece of decoration.

The Picturesque left behind to make place for a simple dry and heated shelter. The floor was made out of locally Acquired sanded concrete, and is the main energy sources for heating and cooking fire, and solar panels for a sufficient amount of electricity. On the outside, the grass Grows wildly around the house, garden fences and traditional elements are missing and blinds are completely shut during the occupant’s Absence. It is hard to find any sign of contemporary life around the place.

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The building is located on the northwest coast of the island of Madeira, Portugal, in a wide valley, near the center of a small rural village on the coast, between the natural landscape of the region. The program design of this public service center houses an office, file area and a private office, meeting room and a reception for the public. Built on an underground parking garage, the new translucent building lets in natural light and stunning views of the surrounding green mountains. It is a wood and glass structure, with several rectangular concrete boxes, previously used as retail outlets in the city park, arranged on top. Instead of demolishing the existing small buildings, it was decided to use some of them as part of the new building, and so maintain the original staircase and an elevator giving access to parking.

Situated on the northwest coast of the island of Madeira, Portugal, in an Extensive river valley, it is near the center of a small rural coastal village, nestled Between the region’s natural landscape, Which extends Towards the building is Where the area located.

Standing on top of an underground car park, the new translucent building allows natural light of an influx and the impressive view of the surrounding high mountains and rugged green. It is a wooden and glass structure arranged on top of rectangular shaped concrete Various boxes, kiosks Previously Used as in the urban park. Instead of demolishing the buildings to make Existing small room for the new one, It Was Decided to use as part of Them Some of the new building, and the original staircase Also keep and lift Which Gives Access to the car park Located below.

The design program of This public services’ building is a simple one. It houses an office and workspace open space for the register office personnel, an archive area and a private main office, at meetings and a reception room for the general public counter.

The volume of the new construction is larger and taller Than The Others and is intersecting by Some of the Existing volumes are now Which volcanic basalt Covered in gray stone, the Most Common local stone. It Was built as a structure of metal beams with flat cover, clad with natural heat treated wood. In the interior, the black granite flooring, window frames and counter, make a wooden ceiling with the contrast and the Pillars, which metal outdoor sustain the construction.

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To say that a building is integrated into the landscape is a resource that many publishers abuse to praise a project when in reality we all know that is like talking of cement and margaritas. This time the topic is true, because this housing Longhi Architects is carved in a hill of Pachacamac, 40km south of Lima (Peru), blending with their surroundings.

It is a work of architectural camouflage, but rather of symbiosis between land and human activities, both routine and intellectual. On an area of 5000m2 built area occupies approximately 480m2, which are organized in different “front” as the hillside.

Raised as a retirement home for a philosopher, it was all projected on an “invented ancient language”, there is symmetry and almost all their holes are distributed in a disorderly manner, but without breaking the overall harmony of the work.

A large area glass cube on its end is the only piece of “naked” all the house, the rest is always behind the walls that form its walls of stone, or simply buried.

It’s powerful texture of the masonry walls, which sometimes serve to hold the land and others to form the front, sometimes alternating with concrete walls, but always giving the building a character of ancient and modern settlement in their language.

The interior is even more unpredictable because the surprising property in each of his travels, with a total degree of customization, standard with no gaps, presenting solutions for each entry and volumes of concrete to form part of the furniture of the house, as the case of hormgión dining table (also see floor plan).

The originality and freedom with which it has designed this project are typical of the virtual architecture and even setting up for some games. In fact anyone who has spent hours in front of the monitor through the scenes of Tomb Raider will know what I mean because the atmosphere is found in every part of it is there where you are carrying.

Of such a project could not miss each of its plants and a longitudinal section, to be better appreciating the geometry of many of its elements.

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This is a house of 110m2, developed on two floors, Ichinomiya (Japan) and built almost entirely of concrete, but being seen (without coating) on both front and inside of the house. This is one of those projects for lovers of this material, and especially the minimalist decor, it is the concrete itself which starred almost the entire environment.

This is achieved through the use of structural concrete walls, which in turn are the enclosures housing, properly defined, leaving voids that will eventually have the building, which are quite rare, because all the work is done to ensure much privacy.

The most unique space Mukaiyama House is the kitchen-dining-lounge, where you can see that even the ceilings are left exposed concrete floors because they are built with slabs, while the floor is coated wood the same as the kitchen furniture and doors from the rest of the house. A curious fact in the following image, that space acquires such solemnity that it could be a chapel.

A small drop marks the area of the kitchen and dining room from the rest of this space, with elongated holes, both vertical and horizontal which is just below the kitchen furniture. The central island is designed on two levels, the cooking and sink, and a great top with a wooden board to eat.

The main staircase is made of concrete steps that are embedded at one end in the wall, and the other hanging on the top floor with corrugated steel armor. The ceiling is a skylight to give light to the start of this ladder.

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It’s hard to imagine a house that is shown outwardly pure enough volumes, can have within an organization of space with a geometry as complicated, especially a ladder so unique. It was built for a young couple with children, and is located on a hill overlooking the city of Kyoto (Japan).

The distribution was done in three plants, but with an empty space, that runs through, giving the case for example in the ground floor clearances ranging from 2.5 m to 7.5 meters. At this level are the kitchen, dining and lounge, the latter connected with the garden through a fully glazed facade, through a large sliding door. The opposite side (west) occupied by the garage, which has the width of the house.

On the first floor there is only a bedroom above the garage, with a terrace, but with a bathroom that serves the entire elongated housing, and has a bathtub at one end, receiving natural light from the empty space double-height living room. We have here a problem of privacy is not clear how the photos are done. Do not miss seeing the floor plan of this house, it is imperative to understand that from the first floor part two stairs both have curved track. Each of them into a bedroom, a guest on the west side and another that vents from the sides of the house (to the south and north), and has a living room overlooking the garden before, the wide facade of glass mentioned above.

The whole structure topped by a simple hip roof on a concrete slab that flies around the perimeter, which highlights the superb finish of concrete in almost all areas of the house. Outside coating also found burned cedar plank (finished with clear varnish) and a lattice of horizontal slats that hides the garage door.

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