Rome David Pinto

Extension House dmvA

This project is an extension to an A-framed house intended to reconvert a holiday house into a comfortable contemporary house. The addition’s structure follows the structural frame of the original A-house with the two frames next to each other connecting the old and the new. The back and the front side of the addition are fully glazed and house a library, a new bathroom and the entrance.

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A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA March 13 – July 4, 2016

A Japanese Constellation focuses on the network of architects and designers that has developed around Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and SANAA. Providing an overview of Ito’s career and his influence as a mentor to a new generation of Japanese architects, the exhibition presents recent works by internationally acclaimed designers, including Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, and Junya Ishigami. Departing from one of Ito’s pivotal works, the Sendai Mediatheque, completed in 2001, as well as SANAA’s 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2004), the 44 featured designs range in scale from small houses to museums. Organized through intersecting spaces separated by translucent curtains, drawings, models, and images reveal the structural invention, non-hierarchical thinking, and novel uses of transparency and lightness that link these practices. Exploring a lineage of influence and cross-pollination that has become particularly relevant at the start of the 21st century, the exhibition highlights the global impact and innovation of contemporary architecture from Japan since the 1990s. With its idea of a network of luminaries at work, A Japanese Constellation is intended as a reflection on the transmission of an architectural sensibility, and suggests an alternative model to what has been commonly described as an individuality-based “star-system” in contemporary architecture.

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Jo Nagasaka／Schemata Architects. House in Hatogaya. Kawaguchi City. Saitama Prefecture. Japan. photos: Kenta Hasegawa  

Herzog & De Meuron, Eberswalde Technical School Library, 1994-1999, Eberswalde, Germany

Venusaur and Blastoise fuse to become Venustoise

Graystone Custom Builders,  Newport Beach, CA. Michael Beck photo.

Legend of Zelda Animation by  Chase Van Weerdhuizen