A group of UC Riverside mechanical engineering undergrads started a year and a half ago with just a grant application and an idea.
None of them had architectural or building construction experience. Yet they managed to obtain funding and design and build from the ground up a showcase house that will use solar electricity so wisely it doesn’t need to be connected to the grid.
Fresh off exhibiting a section of the house at a home design show in Orange County, the students were
Luino, Italy
Jacopo Mascheroni of JM Architecture’s Pinwheel House is a pavilion-like, wooden house nestled in a glade of the oak tree forests typical of the lake region bordering Switzerland.
A project shaped by the boundaries and topography of a small sloping plot, where the suitable buildable area corresponds to a natural terrace in the narrowest portion of the site.
The design followed the building setbacks’ constraints and the need for a living area facing the lake valley.
With one side parallel to the contour lines of the slope, and two sides aligned with the back lines, the simple geometry
Turnpike House, a two-storey office building constructed in Methuen Park, in Chippenham, just over 10-years-ago, has undergone a renovation.
With work now completed, the building at the heart of the office park, is available for immediate occupation.
Property developer Summerfield Commercial, which led the project, said the building is in a “prime location” for potential occupants.
Portfolio manager Will Grant, said: “Turnpike House provides immediately available, high-quality modern office space in a very accessible location with excellent amenities on its doorstep.
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“The
The experimental midcentury-modern architecture of the Hamptons has long been a source of fascination to many in the design world — including Timothy Godbold, an interior designer based in Southampton, NY So in the fall of 2019, when he noticed an unusual modernist house in town listed for sale, he was intrigued.
More intriguing still: It was built in 1973 by Eugene L. Futterman, a name he didn’t recognize.
The 1,700-square-foot home was all angles, with two intersecting, triangular roof planes and a primary bedroom that rose into the treetops like a periscope. But the interior was dated and the
