This video shows an interview with Peter Eisenman, the founder and principal of Eisenman Architects. Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect and educator whose award-winning large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and series of inventive private houses attest to a career of excellence in design. During the interview, Eisenman talks not only about his current projects, but also about his experience in running an architectural office. Especially, he speaks about the importance of innovation, networking and internet in his office. He also brings the subject of the role of architecture in our society. Finally, he gives some advices to people who want to study architecture.
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The Four Eyes House is a contemporary 3,800 square foot weekend home being built in the desert of the Coachella Valley in Southern California, USA, by California-based studio Edward Ogosta Architecture. The architects who created this residence call it as “an instrument for intensifying a number of onsite phenomenal events”. The house features four “sleeping towers”, which are oriented towards four spatiotemporal viewing experiences: morning sunrise to the east, mountain range to the south, evening city lights to the west, and night time stars overhead.
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Designed by Santiago-based architects 57 Studio, the single-family residence located in Santiago, Chile, displays a modern collection of spaces that occupies three levels. Take a look at the detailed photos to fully enjoy this fantastic residence. The interior spaces are organized around a native tree (Cryptocaria alba) that accompanies the access from the south. Through the hall, the presence of an enormous avocado tree (Persea americana) is framed towards the north, and a private wing towards the east is delimited by an old macrocarpa cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) and some crape myrtles. Over the central wing, a second private level extends in all of its length, leaving on one end a terrace at the height of the tree’s crowns. On the west wing, the public spaces open towards the northern garden through a porch, and the service areas direct their view towards an ashleaf maple (Acer negundo). The wing of services extends towards the south by means of a roof with an opening that surrounds a native Crinodendron patagua that separates the closed garage from the rest of the house.
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Embracing the natural sloping landscape, Tierra both floats high above the ocean and submerges itself into the lush Costa Rican jungle. The harmonious relationship of the interior to exterior begins with the grand kitchen, dining and living rooms, then slips past an operable wall of glass into the pool, before the view falls away into the infinite Pacific Ocean beyond. Tierra offers all the lavish amenities of a modern eco-jungle villa. You can choose between pampering yourself in your luxurious master suite upstairs, resting peacefully in a spacious family room, library and downstairs bedroom suites, or escaping to your own private roof deck with vast ocean, jungle and mountain views.
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If futuristic digital designs are you thing, then have a look at this latest gizmo presented by Samsung at the CES trade show in Las Vegas. This new type of window is in fact a transparent touchscreen that will allow you to check out the weather outside while staying in touch with all your favorite websites. Samsung digital window can be installed wherever the user wishes: in the kitchen, to check out various recipes, in the bedroom, for early news in the morning or in the hallway, instead of a regular window. And you don’t have to worry about your neighbors seeing what you are doing, as the back of the screen will not allow it.The device is 46″ in diagonal, and will feature a pixel count of 1366 x 768. To ensure its “window-status”, the people over at Samsung also came up with an interesting application consisting of an on-screen switch that draws the blinds- just check out the video below to see how it’s done. The product is said to be launched on the market in the following moths.
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In the estate of La Grajera, west of the city of Logroño and only a few yards from the Camino de Santiago, we find the Institutional Winery of La Grajera. The Project seeks an equilibrium between the need to announce the presence of the winery and the desire to merge with the landscape: the volumes follow the deformations of the land and are interrupted, moving towards the forest, remaining close to its border and thus respecting the existing vegetation. A large semi-basement foundation in sandstone, which houses the production area of the winery, bends and rises to become an element of the building and to turn into an element of the landscape.
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The proposal is not built from the review of the traditional housing block but from the attributes of the slab of minimum width perforated with through holes. This situation of minimum bandwidth allows an inner space of considerable size, a public space in the heart of the project, a space that is half open and connected to the whole sprawl, boldly assuming an ambiguous condition, exterior and interior at the same time.
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We would like to present today a beautiful waterfront home located on the island that borrows the home its name – Bonaire, a Caribbean island east of Central America and north of Venezuela, part of the Netherlands. The Bonaire Residence, designed by Silberstein Architecture, features 3 bedrooms, each having their own private bathroom, a study or TV room, depending on the owner’s mood, a large living room, kitchen, dining space, and a garage that fits one car.
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