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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Prime Nature Residence

Department of ARCHITECTURE project in Bangplee, Samutprakarn, Thailand. Metal lattice screens and sheer canvas panels are used to provide privacy from the road.

Friday, December 13, 2013

Skyhouse, NYC


David Hotson Architect

SkyHouse is a penthouse occupying four floors at the summit of an early skyscraper in Lower Manhattan. Angel caryatids at the corners advertise its original role as the headquarters of the American Tract Society, a publisher of religious literature which constructed this building in 1896. ​

The American Tract Society building is one of the earliest—and one of the oldest surviving—steel framed skyscrapers in New York. It is the last survivor of a group of early skyscrapers, built across from City Hall to house competing publishers, which were the tallest buildings in the world at the time they were constructed in the late 19th century.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

8 Spruce Street NYC

New York
byGehry

Designed by Frank Gehry, 8 Spruce Street is the world’s largest residential tower at 867 feet tall with 903 residential units.

Each apartment on the north side has a bay window that is not vertically aligned to its neighbor and each apartment is configured differently to fit the building’s seven-sided design which is comprised of 10,500 stainless steel panels of different shapes.