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Well Hall - Mount Fuji Architects - Record Houses 2010 -

Clare Jacobson
April 19, 2010
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Record Houses 2010: Mountain House Pittman Dowell Residence Project X Tree House Villa Vals Woodstock Farm Well Hall Project Specs Well Hall Lantian, China maDA s.p.a.m. << Return to article the People Owner: JADE VALLEY Wine & Resort Corporation Ltd. Architect: MADA s.p.a.m. No 2,Lane 134 Xinle Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 86-21-54041166 86-21-54046646 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Architect of record:  Qingyun Ma General contractor: 15 Lantian local old craftsmen lead by Qingcai Zhang and Jingtan Zhou  in Xiao Zhai Village Photographer(s): Sunny Chen   the Products Exterior claddingMasonry: Red bricks masonry; Blue bricks (Fire-clay Brick)
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Grafting New Roots: Qingyun Ma combines foreign and local elements in building a house in his family's native area.
Clare Jacobson
April 19, 2010
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In a country where high-rise development happens at high speed, architect Qingyun Ma is taking the opposite approach on a project you might describe as slow building.


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Mountain House by Atelier Bow-Wow - Record Houses 2010 -

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Josephine Minutillo
April 19, 2010
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Record Houses 2010: Project Specs Mountain House California Atelier Bow-Wow << Return to article the People Architect: Atelier Bow-Wow Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Momoyo Kaijima, principals; Yoichi Tamai, Takahiko Kurabayashi, Yoshiko Iwasaki, project team Consultant(s): Ken Meffan Photographer(s): Iwan Baan   the Products Metal: Loomis Metals Hardware: G-U Hardware Salvaged finishings: Urban Ore Wallboard: Homasote Company Oven: Viking Kitchen cabinets: Aaron Sidebottom Lighting: Schoolhouse Lighting SIP panels: Crowley Builders Inc. Lumber: Bob Prout, Moonshine Lumber Co. Windows Operable windows: Lowen Windows Doors Custom sliding doors: Ken Meffan architectbuilder
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Vienna-Way-Residence

Vienna Way Residence

Marmol Radziner connects California's landscape and architecture in the Vienna Way Residence.
Clifford A. Pearson
April 1, 2009
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During its 20 years of designing, renovating, and building houses mostly in Southern California, Marmol Radziner + Associates has soaked up a rich tradition of Modernism and interpreted it in a series of projects that engage nature as an instrument of architecture.


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Villa-1

Villa 1

Powerhouse Company fits a futuristic glass gem into the Dutch landscape with Villa 1.
Tracy Metz
April 1, 2009
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In a densely inhabited country like the Netherlands, it is not easy to find a secluded spot for a private residence.


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YTL-Residence

YTL Residence

Agence Jouin Manku combines the exotic and the organic in its design for Kuala Lumpur's YTL Residence.
Philip Jodidio
April 1, 2009
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Is this the moment to build a 32,292-square-foot private house? In all fairness, the house in Kuala Lumpur, which was completed in 2008 after five years of design and construction...
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N-House

N House

Sou Fujimoto subverts common notions of inside and out, public and private, solid and void with the N House in Japan.
Naomi R. Pollock, FAIA
April 1, 2009
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A tidy package with a porous wrapping, N House is a set of three nesting boxes that span the scales of city and domicile.


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