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Icon: Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann house up for Auction
A classic house is up for Auction. Christie’s expects the house to sell for somewhere between $15 million and $25 million (€9.7 million-€16 million). It sits on 2.1 acres on a cul-de-sac in an exclusive section of Palm Springs.
Auction: Kaufmann house, by Richard Neutra, at Christie’s New York on May 13.
via IHT
Palm Springs Retrospective
It was the heyday of modernism in Palm Springs — some images from that time.
via: The Palm Springs Modern Committee
New Tradition in Martha’s Vineyard
A fresh take on traditional siding.
House Martha’s Vineyard, by Architecture Research Office
via: Below the Clouds
Villa NM by UNStudio
An elegant solution for a sloping site, this single family home hits all the right notes.
Villa NM, Upstate New York, USA, by UNStudio
Icon: Millau Viaduct
This Iconic bridge is a cable-stayed, masted structure, one of the finest structures built in this century. To accommodate the expansion and contraction of the concrete deck, each column splits into two thinner, more flexible columns below the roadway, forming an A-frame above deck level. The tapered form of the columns both expresses their structural loads and minimises their profile in elevation. The bridge enables motorists to take a drive through the sky, 270 metres (equivalent to the height of the Eiffel Tower) above the Tarn River valley for a 2.5 kilometre stretch through France’s Massif Central mountains.
Millau Viaduct, by Foster and Partners Co-architects: Chapelet-Defol-Mousseigne
Concrete House in Tenerife
New house in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Vivienda en Jardín del Sol, Tacoronte, by Antonio Corona Bosch, Arsenio Pérez Amaral, Corona y P. Amaral Arquitectos
via: Arkinetia
News: David Chipperfield Wins Project in Spain
David Chipperfield has won an international competition to masterplan an arts and technology quarter in Segovia, Spain.
Arts and Technology Quarter Winner David Chipperfield, from bd
Cabana Micro House
Modern Cabana a San Francisco based company, can provide clients with designer, pre-fabricated structures.
Cabana, $85.00/sq. foot, by Modern Cabana
UNStudio Theatre
Plenty of angles — the building’s envelope is composed of an overlapping multi-faceted surface that, because of perforations, creates a moiré effect.
Theatre Agora, Lelystad, Netherlands, by UNStudio
Waterfront Villas by Piero Lissoni
In addition to the Mandarin Oriental hotel, this private island in the Turks and Caicos will also offer a selection of villas designed by Piero Lissoni. Other well known architects, including Shigeru Ban, David Chipperfield and Zaha Hadid will also design neighborhoods. Paradise!
Piero Lissoni for Dellis Cay
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