National Building Museum in Washington D.C. has offers a spectacular structure. It was designed civil engineer and U.S. Army General Montgomery C. Meigs in 1881. It was finished and firstly operated in 1887. Actually, it was built and functioned as the office of the Pension Bureau but then was occupied by some government agencies, including National Museum of the United States since 1980 until today. . This building is popular as an engineering marvel after then.

The National Building Museum or also called the Great Hall has an ingenious system of vents, windows and archways. It makes the building becomes an accommodative reservoir for air and light from the outside. Bringing impressive design of Italian Renaissance; it has eight Corinthian columns and one central fountain between the interior columns. The interior columns itself are the tallest in the world. The Great Hall was also familiar with gala events, including Presidential Inaugural Balls from 1885 until present day.

The Great Hall uses 400 ft. by 200 ft. in plan of exterior dimensions. The Corinthian columns in the great hall are 8 ft. in diameter and 75 ft. of high. Each of the columns is made from about 70.000 bricks. With the history and style, the National Building Museum becomes an iconic building in the capital city of U.S.

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. Read the rest of this entry »

This Shimogamo house (Kyoto, Japan) has two faces very different, because the composition of the facade has nothing to do with the relaxing interior, designed with many nods to traditional Japanese architecture.

The images (day and night) of the false front corner, with frosted glass, appear to belong to another building, and are far from the delicate balance that inhaled into the source of inspiration for all lovers of simple spaces, the sliding panels, bamboo and wood.

In addition, call attention to the screens high on the edge, to preserve the privacy of the courtyard from neighboring homes, not forgetting that bathroom with stonewall.

Shimogamo House is a project of Edward Suzuki Associates. For more information, visit at www.contemporist.com.

This family house is located in the Azores (Capel, S. Miguel Island) and, as the project report of its author:

“… The building is a re-interpretation of classic Greek and Roman house, with two courtyards, one for input and one central, to collecting rainwater, allowing light and ventilation to reach the open area of floor (living room and kitchen). “

He adds that the volume of the kitchen treated as the great chimneys of traditional island houses, like other things less important, and there are many. But we’re going to stay with the flavor that leaves outside the house, which is none other than a building that apparently has no windows, at least as we used to see them, but nevertheless does not lack the light in your interior.

We also found only two materials abroad: a gray stone veneer and a coating of wooden planks. Although we have only pictures of the interior, at least we have seen the impressive kitchen with this volume of sloping walls, topped by a skylight. Despite having made this house called, Domus Impluvium believes that their courts spend some unnoticed, and quite removed from the classical concept. Read the rest of this entry »

The project is based on the demolition of the house that we have placed the picture back, for the construction of a luxurious building comprising of 16 exclusive apartments.

At this level there are 2 apartments of similar dimensions. The right hand has a living room of 41m2, kitchen 8m2, 15m2 master bedroom, a child of 10 and two baths 4 and 5m2. 40m2 covered porch, all in an area of 142 m2. On the other side on the left, has a room less than the adjoining 33m2, kitchen 6m2, 15m2 master bedroom and bathroom of 4.5m2. The second bedroom consists of 10, 45m2 and a bathroom of 5.25. The covered porch is bigger, 40, 31m2.

In these plants as well as on the ground floor two apartments are distributed, the right with a large living room of 40m2, kitchen as above, 8m2, master bedroom with bathroom for a total of 20m2, secondary bedroom 10m2  and bathroom of 5m2, with a covered porch of 40m2, all with a total area of 142 m2.

In these 3-tier construction moves into the field, the last level, he located on the ground access to the plot. The interior layout is similar in all apartments, suffering slight variations metrics. Read the rest of this entry »