Month: June 2021

Juan Miró, co-founder ofMiró Rivera Architects reflects in an opinion piece on the value of American cities. Stating that “when we idealize cities like Copenhagen, we risk losing focus of the fundamental historical differences between the urban trajectories of European and American cities“, the architect and educator draws a timeline of events and urban transformations, in order to explain why it would be more relevant to look on the inside when planning U.S cities, rather than taking examples from the outside.

Klopper residence is a loving homage to the mid-century modernist architecture of Klopper and Davis Architects. Deeply informed by its context and its client, the team have created a beachside home that is fun, warm, textural and responds to contemporary family rhythms and a love of entertaining with ease.

“Qinshan” Mountain Villa is a mountain settlement construction deep into the hinterland of Forest Sea in J.Lalli. It tries to create an ecological summer settlement for urban people among the native nature, providing them with both the experience of getting close to nature and the vacation experience of quality life. In the face of native nature which has evolved for thousands of years, as an “alien invader”, how the architecture intervenes, presents, and realizes, so as to establish the communication medium between man and nature is the topic we will discuss in this case. “To build in Moganshan, architects need to maintain sufficient awe of nature, and find appropriate ways and suitable materials, so that man and nature can live in harmony here.”——Zhu Peidong, Chief Architect

The client’s brief was for a small, compact and quirky building accentuating views and light, to challenge the design rules of Jack’s Point.  Stage one of two small complimentary staged buildings, one to live in and one to rent. To utilise clever use of space integrating storage in hidden areas, challenging spatial requirements for two bedrooms with small niche spaces that can be converted into sleeping areas or just sitting spaces.