Reforma House
March 29, 2009Pascal Arquitectos was founded in 1979 by Carlos and Gerard Pascal with the main purpose of achieving ultimate and integral developmet in architecture, interior, landscape, lighting and furniture design.
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A Donegal Build
March 6, 2009 This week we spoke to MacGabhann Architects about a private house they designed in Donegal back in 2006. What was the original brief for Teach Annie ? The brief for the project was to build a four bedroom home with open plan living spaces. The house must be durable, robust and maintenance free and integrated with site in a modern context. Read more...
Getting the balance right on a private development is perhaps the hardest part of an architects work. It differs from a residential commission in the sense that the projects designed are for the market at large and must suit the market in the round. Too much of one thing and the project looks like every commercial residential development everywhere, not enough and the project loses value and can't be sold.
What kind of house do you build for people who for want nothing, nothing, that is except for a simple country retreat to house a growing collection of modern art ? This was the question posed to HHF architects when two art loving clients presented a large plot two hours from upstate New York with the brief that their country retreat should be as simple and as clear as possible
Ok, so you want to ‘go green’ with the design of your new house. But you also want to build the house of your dreams? The question is, can you have your cake and eat it? Pinetrees, currently run as a bed and breakfast business and set in 6.25 acres of the peaceful Waveney valley at Beccles in Suffolk, is a timber framed, and timber clad house, built on the site of an existing bungalow and is an excellent example of how you can do just that.