Blogs Posts in Modern Architectures category; 549 blog posts

Modern Lafayette home on large cul-de-sac lot

Twice a week, The Chronicle features a local home on the market that caught our eye for its architecture, history or character. See more photos at www.sfgate.com/ZHQD. Address: 3131 Gloria Terrace, Lafayette Asking price: $1.195 mil [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Doors Open Denver 2011 Spotlights Modern Architecture: 50s &...

Visitors can encounter Denver from inside many buildings not ordinarily open to the public – more than 70 of Denver’s prominent architectural gems and lesser-known treasures. Doors Open Denver offers several options: sel [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

James Stirling, the architect who divides opinion

James Stirling divides opinion: architects love him, while those who use his most notorious buildings loathe him. Or that's how it used to be. The abiding image is of young German and Japanese architects unloading from their coaches, [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Visual Acoustics at Crocker Art Museum

A special screening of the documentary Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman will be held at the Crocker Art Museum on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 7:00 PM. This film celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, whose phot [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Robust & Modern Family Apartment in Melbourne by dKO Archite...

dKO Architecture have completed the “Prahbu Apartment” in Melbourne CBD, Victoria, Australia. The official project description goes like this: “A quiet retreat nestled above the fracas of its inner-urban environment, th [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

A modern world in a period shell

From the outside, Carrick Villa looks like a perfect neighbour for the rest of the architecture fringing Regent’s Park in central London. The villa may be just two storeys, detached and with four bedrooms, but it is at one with the [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Art Stable Designed for Cross Ventilation

Art Stable is an award-winning project in the Cascade neighborhood of South Lake Union in Seattle. Designed by Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig Architects and developed by Point32, Art Stable includes ground-floor commercial and six live [...]

Posted On : Mar, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Sunday's Open Houses: Mediterranean Two-Story, Modern Archit...

The Sunday will be the first time 334 Angus Ave. will be open for viewing. This meticulously maintained home opens onto the street with a front lawn and bay window. It features a remodeled bath, hardwood floors, and new paint inside and [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Bespoke buildings from modern Japan

Say you want to live in a library, or in the forest, or in a library in the forest, but you would prefer to maintain your high living standards. There is one architecture studio that has the skills and vision to build the house of your d [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Digital love: Manuelle Gautrand and the Gaite Lyrique

Everyone knows appearances can be deceptive, but the newly renovated Théâtre de la Gaîté Lyrique in central Paris takes the Bourbon biscuit. From the outside, it seems as conservative as any French arts institut [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Heart of Art: In architecture, work with nature

The Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa asks this question, and it embodies the core of my approach to practicing and teaching architecture. I began my own architecture practice with the house you see here. I designed it for myse [...]

Posted On : Mar, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

A post-modern strategy for city building

Toronto architect Stephen Teeple’s scheme for the Gansevoort boutique hotel and condominium tower on Richmond Street West is the most original and striking residential tall-building design to come forward in Hogtown in several year [...]

Posted On : Mar, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

David Brussat: A modernist Manhattan tower I like

A work of modern architecture I like? By über-modernist Frank “O!” Gehry to boot? Can this be so? If so, then it qualifies as a teaching moment. The 76-story apartment building at 8 Spruce St., in Lower Manhattan, k [...]

Posted On : Mar, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

From Leandro Locsin to Modern Glam, landmark from the ’60s g...

SEXY.” THAT’S one of the adjectives that design duo Ivy and Cynthia Almario use when they describe their projects. Their renovation of the Midas Hotel and Casino is an example of their signature Modern Glam style, a combinati [...]