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Pair Of Houses By Naf Architect & Design Stand Together To Form An Arch

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An arched tunnel is formed among these two houses situated beside a Japanese tea garden close to Tokyo .

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Akio Nakasa of Japanese firm Naf Architect &amp Style developed the two residences to residence three generations of a single family. The first house accommodates a single grandmother, while the second is the property of a couple and their child.

Arch Wall House by Naf Architect &amp Design

Named Arch Wall Property, the structure was conceived as two separate buildings that appear as halves of a entire. Regardless of getting diverse in size and height, they line up with a single one more to develop the central arch.

Arch Wall House by Naf Architect &amp Design

“The edges of the curved exterior walls stretching from the two sides of the slope [roof] are somewhat apart, generating the buildings separate from a legal point of view,” explained Nakasa.

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“Even so, these buildings, even though they are independent, stand face to face and side by side to share daily lifestyle and area.”

Arch Wall House by Naf Architect &amp Design

The architect – whose past projects include a home with a climbing wall and ladders, and a residence that looks like it is been chopped in two – developed the buildings for a site that is also home to a conventional Japanese tea backyard and two tiny shrines, in Hachiouji, west of Tokyo.

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The site is sandwiched among two roads, and the tunnel supplies an accessibility road connecting them. Entrances to both of the residences are also found beneath the shelter of the arch.

“As autos are the principal indicates of transportation, the slope in between the buildings serves as a driveway for everyday convenience,” said Nakasa.

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The 1st of the two homes is single-storey, making it more suitable for an elderly resident, although the other consists of two storeys, enabling adequate space for a increasing household.

There are no windows on the north side of both constructing to avert disturbances from the hectic principal road, but both attribute a small best-lit courtyard with a decked surface and glazed sides, assisting to bring in extra natural light.

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“Daylight from the skylights is reflected on ceramic tiles on the curved walls to give distinct results by the time and climate,” stated the architect. “When sunny, it is sharp, when cloudy, it is soft, and in the morning and evening, pale violet blue light spreads inside.”

Arch Wall House by Naf Architect &amp Design Two-storey property

Glazing was also added all through the interiors, offering each clerestory windows and see-through walls.

This is most prevalent in a double-height living space that types the centre of the loved ones home, and which is positioned beside a glazed music space.

Arch Wall House by Naf Architect &amp Design Two-storey home

Herringbone-patterned flooring was added to offer some decoration to the otherwise minimally furnished space.

Overhead, a balcony corridor connects the two 1st-floor bedrooms.

Arch Wall House by Naf Architect &amp Design

Storage locations for the two residences have been producing by creating cupboards into the angled within wall.

Photography is by Toshiyuki Yano.

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Competition: Five Pairs Of Tickets To Be Won For The Designs Of The Year 2015 Exhibition

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Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with London’s Design and style Museum to give readers the opportunity to win 5 pairs of tickets for the Styles of the Year 2015 exhibition.

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The awards, which are held annually by the museum, celebrate style that “promotes or delivers alter, extends layout practice or captures the spirit of the year”.

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The exhibition shows the perform of 76 designers across six categories which includes architecture, digital, vogue, graphics, merchandise and transport design.

Connected story: Benjamin Hubert produces exhibition style for Designs of the Year 2015

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Shortlisted architectural performs include Frank Gehry’s Louis Vuitton constructing, The Szczecin Philharmonic Hall by Spanish studio Barozza Veiga and Herzog &amp de Meuron’s Brazillian gymnasium.

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Other tasks nominated for the Design of the Year title incorporate Google’s self-driving vehicle, a creating materials manufactured from mushrooms and a shock-absorbing wheel for wheelchairs and bicycles. A total checklist of the nominees can be witnessed here.

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5 winners will every get a pair of tickets for the show, which will be on show at the museum until the 23 August.

Winners will be chosen at random and notified by e mail. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the best of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any nation.

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Dezeen is media spouse for Designs of the Yr 2015. Here’s some more details from the Layout Museum:

Win a pair of tickets and an exhibition catalogue for Designs of the 12 months 2015 at the Layout Museum.

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Now in its eighth yr, Styles of the 12 months at the Design and style Museum celebrates design and style that promotes or delivers adjust, allows accessibility, extends design practice and captures the spirit of the year. This global awards and exhibition showcase design and style tasks from the previous 12 months, across categories of Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Item, Graphics, and Transport.

Find a lot more info on the Design and style Museum site.

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Arik Levy Uses Bent Wood For The First Time In Split Furniture Collection For TON

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Movie: designer Arik Levy explains why he wished to style a assortment of bent-wood chairs in this movie produced by Dezeen for Czech furnishings brand TON.

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Levy’s Split assortment of chairs and stools, which will be presented in Milan later on this month, are the initial time the Paris-based designer has used bent wood.

Split bent-wood chair by Arik Levy for TON

Levy describes the traditional process of wood bending – in which wood is softened in a steam vat and then bent by hand – as a “choreography” that he needed to master.

Connected story: Alexander Gufler unveils sculptural wooden furniture for TON

“The harmony amongst the two men and women that bend and lock the wood into place is a song to your eyes,” he says. “I wanted to understand this song.”

Split bent-wood chair by Arik Levy for TON

Levy’s furnishings assortment is named Split since the legs of every chair are formed from a single piece of wood that is divided in two at 1 finish and bent in different directions to help the seat and backrest.

“In a lot of instances I just invent a name which is a metaphor,” Levy says. “But in this situation the wood virtually splits into two parts.”

Split bent-wood chair by Arik Levy for TON

The collection is a very first for TON also. The Czech organization, which Levy describes as “1 of the world’s best producers of bent wood furniture,” has been bending wood considering that German-Austrian furnishings maker Michael Thonet opened the factory in 1861. Thonet became TON following the firm was nationalised during the region’s period of Communism following the 2nd World War.

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Nevertheless, it has never ever ahead of manufactured a merchandise featuring single pieces of wood that have been split and bent in this way.

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“What TON and I did with each other is not actually just a merchandise, it truly is an concept,” Levy claims. “[It is about] how to use what they’ve completed for a lot of many years and project it into the potential.”

Split bent-wood chair by Arik Levy for TON

The assortment consists of chairs, armchairs, lounge chairs and bar stools, which are accessible in a selection of various colors and finishes, including stained wood and upholstered versions.

Split bent-wood chair by Arik Levy for TON

The stained chairs will be offered in strong colours or with a gradient, exactly where the stain becomes lighter in the direction of the centre of the chair.

“This is anything I used to do on my surfboards or on my skateboard decks,” Levy explains. “I grew to become the nightmare of the man who’s [applying the stain] in the factory. He’s employed to carrying out something total and homogenous and out of the blue this lulu comes and says, ‘let’s do a gradient!'”

Split bent-wood chair by Arik Levy for TON

The Split collection will be presented at this year’s Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan, Hall 12 Stand C05, from 14 to 19 April.

This film was created by Dezeen for TON. It was filmed at the company’s factory at Bystřice pod Hostýnem in the Czech Republic. The music used is a track referred to as Hanging Out of Moving Autos by US artist RyIm.

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Foster + Partners Pairs Curving Concrete With Glass For New Buenos Aires City Hall

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Foster + Partners has completed a new city hall for the Argentinian capital, featuring a wavy concrete roof, a quadruple-height atrium and a glazed facade offering views out to the park .

Situated in the city’s Parque Patricios neighbourhood, the Buenos Aires Ciudad Casa de Gobierno provides a flexible workplace for the city mayor and one,500 workers, but also delivers services for the nearby local community.

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Typical Foster’s London-based company initially created the developing to property Banco Ciudad, the municipal Buenos Aires bank. The short later on altered and the proposal was adapted to turn out to be a city hall.

This was feasible thanks to what the architects describe as the “inherent versatility of its design and style”. The building was laid out as a series of staggered terraces, set back from the glazed facade and planned to a stringent eight-metre grid.

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The curving roof is an interpretation of the traditional barrel vault. Supported by pillars, this canopy varieties a series of gently curving waves that extend past the facade to supply shade and shelter.

“Sustainability relates really strongly to local sources and climate, and Buenos Aires Ciudad Casa de Gobierno is a great demonstration of how architecture can operate with nature by way of passive environmental implies to naturally lessen vitality use,” explained Foster.

“The roof extends like a canopy to provide shade, its flowing concrete structure is both symbolic as a civic creating and practical in regulating temperatures,” he additional.

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Behind the glazed facade, the four-storey-large atrium spans the width of creating, enabling lots of natural light to enter. There are also two large patios that punctuate the floorplates. These are filled with greenery and are lit from above by louvred skylights.

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Additional louvres had been extra all around the building’s exterior to avert direct sunlight from distracting workers.

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“Shading louvres on the east and west protect the interior from direct glare, although courtyards enable sunlight into the heart of the developing in this way, its design is very considerably a response to place and climate,” explained Foster.

All floors are linked by prime-lit corridors and the open-prepare workspaces attribute virtually no partitions. Foster + Partners expects this to advertise far better communication amongst departments and motivate a sense of local community amid personnel.

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Other amenities include a 300-seat wood-panelled auditorium and a cafe, each of which can be employed by the local community.

The thermal mass of the concrete soffits assists to regulate temperature, and chilled beams have been also extra to support maintain the room great at the hottest occasions of the 12 months.

“Its design and style is quite much a response to the local context, socially and environmentally,” added David Summerfield, studio head at Foster + Partners. “Our aim has been to develop a very versatile constructing, which celebrates the city’s superb climate and the exclusive park-side setting, and will make a constructive addition to a revitalised neighbourhood.”

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The city hall occupies an entire city block in Parque Patricios, a formerly light-industrial spot to the south of the city centre.

Foster + Partners completed its first creating in Buenos Aires in 2012 – a 10-storey housing block in the industrial port region of Puerto Madero. Other tasks in Latin America incorporate the new Mexico City airport, which the firm is doing work on alongside local architect Fernando Romero.

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Richard Rogers Donates House Designed For Parents To Harvard Architecture School

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British architect Richard Rogers has gifted the seminal Wimbledon property he made for his mothers and fathers in the late 1960s to the Harvard Graduate College of Layout.

Featuring a radically flexible interior, the Grade II*-listed Rogers Residence in south London was created and completed by Rogers and his then wife Su in between 1967 and 1969 at the commence of his career. It is cited by the architect as a precursor to the Pompidou Centre he designed with Renzo Piano.

The house has been owned by Rogers’ family members given that it was constructed. Rogers’ son Ab and his household moved into the house in 1998, and it was adapted and extended prior to getting put up for sale in 2013 for £3.two million.

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A sale never took area and the residence was taken off the market. Rogers’ charity, the Richard Rogers Charitable Settlement, has now donated it to the Harvard style school, delivering a resource for college students studying architecture.

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Speaking to London magazine the Architects’ Journal, Rogers mentioned: “The house will be a gift to Harvard for coaching of doctorates in the area of architecture – my charity is giving it to them.”

Ahead of the home is handed more than, it will be renovated and restored by architect Philip Gumuchjian, who worked at the Richard Rogers Partnership prior to the firm was renamed Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.

“Philip Gumuchjian will put the property back to what it was,” added Rogers.

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Rogers Home is regarded as 1 of the most important modern day houses in the United kingdom. The single-storey constructing boasts a yellow-painted steel frame and glazed facades, while moveable partitions within let residents to reconfigure the area.

It was granted a Grade II* heritage listing in 2013, 5 months prior to it was place up for sale. Culture minister Ed Vaizey described it as “a masterpiece from a single of the most imaginative and thrilling intervals in personal property creating in this nation”.

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“Even though many will always associate Lord Rogers with iconic functions like the Lloyds Creating in London, the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Nationwide Assembly of Wales in Cardiff, this a lot earlier constructing is highly important too,” Vaizey said.

In an interview with Dezeen in 2013, Rogers said: “If you seem at the property in Wimbledon for my parents, which is a single-storey home, it truly is steel and hugely insulated, it really is transparent, the bathroom is really compact and all the partitions can move – you can see a link from that to the Pompidou with the variation getting about a thousand times the scale.”

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