The delightfully eccentric gardens of Roseburg are founded on the remains of a 16th century castle, occupying a limestone ridge in foothills of the Harz. The site was acquired in 1905 by the architect Bernhard Sehring (1855-1941), who began to turn it into a true folly loosely modeled as a mock medieval fortification including turrets, drawbridges and 1600 meters of perimeter wall with embrasures. Later additions expanded the gardens across the site, were elements of renaissance, mannerist, baroque and landscape garden styles are mixed at will and combined with art deco architectural gestures. A belvedere tower, with an open air library and mausoleum grotto, is placed at the top of the site, forming the offset for a 100 meter terraced water axis or catena d’aqua, concluding in a raised plateau overlooking the countryside. A wealth of sculpture (including an army of putti) and architecture is found everywhere in the garden, which surprises at every turn and appears much larger than it actually is. This is a truly unique layout, reminiscent only of equally spleeny endeavors such as Gabrielle d’Annunzios ‘Il Vittoriale’ on Lago Garda , Dr. Peyrons villa in Fiesole , or Sir Clough Williams-Ellis’ Portmeiron on the Welsh coast.
It is going to be difficult for me to eventually build a house because I like so many different design concepts! For instance, I really love the warm and natural appeal of the Low Impact Woodland Home
August Endell (18711925) was a designer, writer, teacher, and German Jugendstil architect. He is also known as one of the founders of the Jugendstil movement, the German expressionist movement of Art Nouveau. His first marriage was with Elsa von FreytagLoringhoven. August Endell was born on April
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Image 10 of 18 from gallery of Loughloughan Barn / McGarry-Moon Architects. Courtesy of McGarry-Moon Architects
The Verandah House | Modo Designs Text description provided by the architects. This house is on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on a 4-acre land having dense flora, a lily pond and an existing outhouse having a vernacular typology. The new house was to be a permanent dwelling away from the city into the natural wilderness. Earlier […]
The bold reworking of a late-nineteenth-century cowshed in Sydney by Carterwilliamson Architects.
Always touch, get rid of the tv, and other sage advice from this impossibly cool couple who have been married for over 30 years.
This spiraling marvel of modern architecture is poetry in design. It is inspired by the act of marriage -- its form follows the
Located in the garden of a resort hotel in Hiroshima, Japan, the freestanding Ribbon Chapel is made up of two spiral stairways that are intertwined.
The top ten most popular mid-century modern Australian houses, as featured on The Design Files this year.
From its inception photography has been the marriage of art and technology — how else can we take the reality of what we see, and...
Zestimate® Home Value: $1,345,580. This truly one-of-a-kind marriage of art, architecture, and technology by Richard T. Foster, renowned architect and collaborator of Philip Johnson, is a masterpiece that captures a wonderful landscape from unlimited angles. Totally renovated in 2005, the Round House is walled in glass and floats 12 ft. off the ground rotating 360 degrees. It incorporates custom ash cabinetry, state-of-the-art Zenon interior lighting, luxurious marble & limestone baths, "Smart House" technology in the main house & studio, and a new gunite lap pool by Wagner that overlooks the surrounding landscape. A setting for both casual & formal entertaining, visitors are fascinated by this rare concept of living.
It’s a Jonah-and-the-whale kind of moment. You wake up, and your guest room appears normal. But as you get your bearings, you realize that you’re in the belly of a reptile – otherwise known as Australia’s Gagudju Crocodile Holiday Inn.
Completed in 2013 in Hiroshima, Japan. Images by Koji Fujii / Nacasa & Partners Inc. Two Spirals Become One This wedding chapel stands in a garden of a resort hotel, “Bella Vista Sakaigahama,” in Onomichi, Hiroshima. The site is...
Completed in 2021 in St Kilda, Australia. Images by John Gollings. In 2017, a national survey in favor of marriage equality lead to the Australian parliament passing the bill to legalize same-sex marriage, a...
Completed in 2009 in Santiago, Chile. Images by Martín Schmidt R. The house is Located in Lo Curro hill in the capital city of Chile, Santiago. The site, long and with gentle slope, is covered with a forest of...
The Archisutra is a design manual giving you the necessary data for a selection of sex positions, using annotated scale drawings and informative descriptions.
Image 27 of 39 from gallery of Eyüp Cultural Center and Marrıage Hall / EAA - Emre Arolat Architecture. Photograph by Cemal Emden
Doddington Hall, just a few miles outside Lincoln, is a wonderful Elizabethan manor house, notable for never having been sold in its entire history. Built in 1595 by the architect Robert Smythson f…
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A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the Year Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is shocked to learn that the Yoshino House is empty apart from a single chair, stood facing the north light of nearby Mount Asama. How can he live with the rejection of the work he had put his heart and soul into, the dream house he would have loved to own himself? Aose determines that he must discover the truth behind this cruel and inexplicable dismissal of the Yoshino house and in doing so will find out a truth that goes back to the core of who he is. Plotted with the subtlety of his bestselling masterpiece Six Four, The North Light is Yokoyama at his elusive, tantalising and surprising best.
Completed in 2010 in Chicureo, Chile. Images by Felipe Díaz Contardo. The project Detached house, for a marriage, two children and services. Public areas on the first floor and private spaces in the second. In this...
Image 9 of 31 from gallery of Ogre Central Library and Marriage Registry / PBR Architects Bureau. Photograph by Madara Gritāne
Completed in 2013 in Hiroshima, Japan. Images by Koji Fujii / Nacasa & Partners Inc. Two Spirals Become One This wedding chapel stands in a garden of a resort hotel, “Bella Vista Sakaigahama,” in Onomichi, Hiroshima. The site is...
