Year: 2022

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From the top, Casa de los Milagros (House of Miracles) is all earth-colored mosaic glass curves and unexpectedly-shaped windows, the kind of place one might expect to find a caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland smoking a pipe. The varying heights of the convex slopes that make up the roof bring to mind a large sea creature in motion.

© Naser Nader Ibrahim

© Naser Nader Ibrahim

Looking at it from ground level, smooth, earth-colored concrete seems to support the top half like a particularly large stem of a mushroom. Finally, the curved base of the house gives it the appearance of a floating, organic creation. Indeed, the house itself is a kind of Rorschach test: like clouds or abstract art, the interpretation of its unique shape is in the eye of the beholder.

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© Naser Nader Ibrahim

According to owner

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Project Name: AVENUE & SONClient: AVENUE & SONLocation: Taikoo Li Qiantan, ShanghaiStatus: Completed in Dec. 2021 Area: 177 sqm +244 sqm Design Company: Various Associates Website: www.various-associates.comLead Designers: Dongzi Yang, Qianyi Lin Design Team: Zebing Li, Yongliang Huang, Milly QiuPhotographs: SFAP, SHAWN from A&SVideo: Lulu from A&SStone Supplier: Shanghai Yishehui Industrial Co., Ltd.Construction: Shanghai Yubin Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.Multimedia Supplier: LEOXSkaters: Haonan Hu, Guohua Wang, PIKAI, Jeremy Hu, Xiao Yu, Wenkai Xie, Li ZuContent team: Xiaoxiao, Donis, Taye, WayneVideo: https://youtu.be/Ugk5BYK3FOA01From street to avenueAVENUE & SON is a skateboard brand co-founded by four professional skaters in Shanghai in 2014.

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© Various Associates

The brand’s concept “from street to avenue” carries the pursuit of freedom and individuality, typical of street culture.

Guided by skateboarding spirit, AVENUE & SON has become one of the global cultural crazes among youngsters with its street culture-rooted DNA

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Originally designed to serve as a Mormon Meetinghouse in 1958 and later as an office building in the early 1980’s, Meetinghouse at 3080 is the new home to UEB. Referencing both the history of the Meetinghouse as well as the future of the company, the space assimilates and clarifies through the designed balance of hand and machine.

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© Architekton

A fire that destroyed many of the structural elements as well as two building additions in the early 1980’s allowed for the new office space to capture moments of blending rather than the typical contrast. Realized by craftsmen’s familiar elements intrinsic to their craft, steel and glass became the medium in which to showcase old and new techniques to the building.

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© Architekton

This didactic experience highlights conventional and nonconformist methods of construction while seamlessly bringing attention to the unscathed building

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THE SITE & BRIEF
The Skywalker House, a house design prototype that ‘skywalks’ on a 42 degree slope, minimising footprint & complementing the surrounding green at the same time, proofing the viability of the co-existence between nature and architecture.
The house, for a medium size family, is located at Bangsar, a hilly posh suburb near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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The site is at the least developed section of the suburb surrounded by green. The brief called for a 3-level modern house which has to sit comfortably on a steep 0.2 acre site overlooking the surrounding urban skyline. The only access is from the slope toe, 19 meter lower than the rear boundary.

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The gentle profile at the hilltop is only 15% of the site area. This has prompted the architect to seek a new prototype design for this challenging