Firth 114802, Cape Town by Three14 Architects
Architecture studio ‘Three 14′ designed this breathtaking house for a young family in the suburban area of Rondebosch, Cape Town. The client’s brief called for a contemporary, open plan home that provides a...
Artek reintroduces Alvar Aalto furniture designs
Finnish brand Artek is to reintroduce wooden furniture and home ware designs by its co-founder, Modernist architect Alvar Aalto. The small furniture pieces, lighting and textiles in the ABC collection were designed by Aalto, who co-founded Artek in 1935, and have been...
Oak Pass Guesthouse, Los Angeles, CA
A two bedroom guesthouse that sits along a ridge in a grove of over 120 coast live oak trees. The building utilizes a small footprint and height to maximize panoramic canyon views while strengthening its connection with the trees below. An existing barn was rehabbed...
Shoreline Retreat, Lake Minnetonka
On a wooded site in Deephaven, Minnesota, Snow Kreilich Architects conceived a geometric cedar-clad retreat overlooking Lake Minnetonka. "This new holiday house by Minneapolis-based Snow Kreilich Architects balances the quiet and the dramatic. Its stained-cedar skin...
Reinvention of the Scottish black shed
Colbost House on the Isle of Skye, Scotland by Dualchas Architects An 'abstracted shed' with oiled Siberian larch cladding and aluminium roof sheeting on the Isle of Skye. "The whole arrangement of Colbost House - which also includes a separate garage, wood store and...
Much more than your common or garden sheds…
"We did not want to make a regular shed, but more a little house. Contrasting with the dark, rough, textured exterior, the transparent white-lacquered birch plywood interior appears seamless and light." Check out this amazing angular garden studio by Serge Schoemaker...
Midtown Manhattan Skyline, NYC
Cross Laminated Wood Panel House
Transformation of a small, damp, single storey bungalow in North Cornwall into a modern minimalist designed family home constructed almost completely from a prefabricated German 'cross laminated' wood panel system, or giant sheets of plywood... and all on an £80K...
A Street Reinvents Itself: Apartment House in Amsterdam
Amsterdam architecture studio M3H's project consisting of 5 different living units in Amsterdam's old Bellamy district. The project at No. 65-69 Wenslauerstraße is part of a greater project spanning nearly 10 years that has seen the renovation of nearly the entire...
House in Vezet, France by Mathieu Noël & Élodie Bonnefous Architects
70 Rue de Pont de Planches This private home is located in an old pasture just outside a village in Vezet in France. The 110sqm house was completed in 2013 for a construction cost of just over €200,000. The design for the house is a very simple volume that uses...
Orchard House by Studio Octopi
I recently came across this fantastic home in South West England on Dezeen by London based architecture firm Studio Octopi and thought it was certainly worth sharing. The private dwelling was commissioned by a client with very specific needs, but the exceptional...
Ever imagined what it would be like to live in a castle?
Check out this amazing revival of a 12th-century fortified manor in north Warwickshire... Astley Castle is this years winner of the RIBA 2013 Stirling Prize by Witherford Watson Mann Architects.
Planning Permission Granted!
Extension & Upgrade in Rathfarnham, South Dublin We were delighted to have another Planning Application successfully granted this week by South Dublin County Council. Really looking forward to seeing the extension and refurbishment of this fantastic semi-detached...
jharchitecture: Extension & Upgrade Works, South Dublin – Completed Images
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Shou Sugi Ban Maarn
Shou Sugi Ban Maarn by Rotterdam-based BYTR architects I recently spotted this really interesting extension on Archinect.com. The sculptural form and the cladding which is made of wood which has been carbonised with fire on the front side making for a really...
Construct Ireland – Issue 9 | Volume 5 – December 2011
Issue 9 | Volume 5 - December 2011 jharchitecture is delighted to have had our recently completed upgrade project in Co. Wicklow featured as a 2 page spread in Decembers issue of Construct Ireland magazine. The project to upgrade an existing timber frame house was...
The High Line, NYC
The High Line, New York City On a recent trip to NYC, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to visit the High Line, a new linear park located on Manhattan's West Side. The High Line is a public park built on an historic freight rail line elevated above the streets...
‘The Shed’ on the Isle of Skye by Architect Arnold-Forster
The Shed, Tokavaig, Isle of Skye I stumbled across this design recently in a list of Island Hotels featured in the gallery section of Wallpapers* website. The house is a beautiful architect designed guest house located on a stony, seaweed-strewn beach along the west...
Hoxton House by David Mikhail Architects
RIBA Awards 2011 For the second year running, Zaha Hadid Architects won the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize for the best new European building built or designed in the United Kingdom for their Evelyn Grace Academy, a school in Brixton, south London. However, it was a...
Extension & Upgrade Works, South Dublin
All you need to know on building your own home…
25k house "The vernacular... In this tradition, the knowledge of how to construct a house is held in common by a community. On this website you can download information and inspiration to help you to design and build your own house much like the one in the photo...
Extension & Upgrade Works, South Dublin – Week 18
WEEK 18: The acrylic render finish to all 1st floor areas is complete and the scaffolding has been removed. As you can see, removal of the scaffolding to the rear has allowed the 3,000 litre tank for the rainwater harvesting system to be installed in the rear garden...
Extension & Upgrade Works, South Dublin
The benefit of natural light! Now that the first floor en-suite bathroom is almost complete, the quality of natural light provided by the flat roof window can be clearly seen. Due to the restrictions of the site and to avoid any overlooking of the neighbouring...
Extension & Upgrade Works, South Dublin
Strong lines as the acrylic render finish is applied to the cantilever!
Broccoli tree house…
The New World Trade Centre, NYC
The New World Trade Centre, Short Film "Piranha was commissioned by Silverstein Properties to create a short film depicting the completion of The New World Trade Center site and with it the renaissance of downtown New York. Piranha wrote, produced, art directed,...
Extension & Upgrade Works, South Dublin – Week 17
WEEK 17: The internal finishes are now well underway. All first floor rooms have been painted, skirting & architraves have been fitted and all upstairs doors have also been hung. Downstairs, the kitchen has been first fixed and will be completed over the coming...
Innovative ideas in smaller spaces… not to mention lots of fun!
Furnishing Unit for Sleep & Play: h2o architects, Paris To divide the children’s room in a Paris flat into two areas, the architects inserted a furnishing unit that forms a partition and incorporates a raised bed and play facilities. The room-height element is...
Extension & Upgrade Works, South Dublin – Week 16
WEEK 16: On Tuesday of this week the tripple glazed aluclad windows and sliding screens arrived on site. They were installed over the past couple of days. This means that finishes internally can be completed throughout the house. The plaster work (both slabbing and...
Extension & Upgrade Works, South Dublin – Week 14
WEEK 14: The spray foam insulation has been installed to the underside of all roofs. It has also been used in all internal stud partitions in place of rock wool insulation. Now that the electrical and mechanical first fix is complete and the insulation has been...
Extension & Upgrade Works, South Dublin – Week 13
WEEK 13: The render base coat is now well under way to the rear of the house. The new soffits and facias have been fitted on the original house, along with the new gutters and down pipes on both the original house and the extension. As noted in our previous post, the...
Extension & Upgrade Works, South Dublin – Week 12
WEEK 12: From the images you can see the progress of the installation of the 100mm of external polystyrene insulation to the front of the existing house and the rear of the new extension. To the front, application of the off-white render base coat has also commenced...
BMW i3 and i8 – BMW’s newest sustainable venture
"The i3 and i8 receive a glitzy media unveiling in Frankfurt before hundreds of journalists flown in from all over the globe. The event was broadcast simultaneously to the rest of the world with the entire BMW Board present for the first time in the company's history,...
Kinetic Sculpture ‘Metropolis II’ evokes the energy of the city!
This amazing kinetic sculpture 'Metropolis II' by Chris Burden evokes the energy of the city. Anyone lucky enough to be in LA this autumn must go to LACMA (The Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and check it out. Clink here or on the image to see a short movie of it in...
Extension & Upgrade Works, South Dublin – Week 11
WEEK 11: The past couple of days have seen the fibreglass waterproof finish applied to all of the new flat roofs. A paint finish has then also been applied. The paint colour has been choosen to match the finish of the new aluminium glazing externally and the new...
Extension & Upgrade Works, South Dublin – Week 10
WEEK 10: Installation of the external insulation system has commenced. 100mm of a carbon enhanced grey expanded polystyrene insulation will be bonded to the full extent of the external walls of the original and new sections of the house, effectively wrapping the house...