Villa Savoye: Le Corbusier House
Le Corbusier Building, Poisse, north of Paris, France: photos of this famous Modern building by Corb, also known as Villa Savoie: architectural information in Spanish. Date built: 1929-3
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Le Corbusier Building, Poisse, north of Paris, France: photos of this famous Modern building by Corb, also known as Villa Savoie: architectural information in Spanish. Date built: 1929-3
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr (1907-78) and Bernice Alexandra “Ray” (née Kaiser) Eames (1912-88) were American designers. They made major contributions to modern architecture and furniture but also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art and film.
First building by US architect Michael Graves for sale – The Hanselmann House in Fort Wayne, Indiana, from 1971, listed for $265,000. The building was his first commission, and today remains a well-preserved example of his earlier, Modernist buildings before he started designing Postmodern architecture.
Louis Kahn architect news
– Fine Arts Center, School, and Performing Arts Theater, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
– Hood Museum of Art Building Renovation, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
West Coast Modern searches for buyer to save last remaining Fred Hollingsworth-designed Flying Arrow House in Edgemont Village, Vancouver. One of only six Flying Arrow houses ever built, the modest, efficiently designed, post-and-beam home was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian design
Miller House is one of the country’s most highly-regarded examples of mid-century Modernist residences and was designed by Eero Saarinen, with interiors by Alexander Girard, and landscape design by Dan Kiley: National Historic Landmark, USA
This is the first ground-oriented Montiverdi Estates in West Vancouver, home to hit the market in over a decade. Montiverdi Estates was designed by Arthur Erickson as a “residential park” with each of the 20 homes being carefully integrated into the natural setting. Modelled after his famous Smith House
Public tours of a newly-restored Salvation Army shelter in Paris designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret start in April. The tour guides for the 11-storey building, known as the Cité de Refuge, will be the residents of the building themselves who have been trained by the Fondation Le Corbusier.
The campaign to save John Hejduk’s Kreuzberg Tower and Wings in Berlin from defacement has galvanised the international architectural community
A 2-carat diamond ring has been created by compressing the cremated remains of Mexican architect Luis Barragán. Conceptual artist Jill Magid from Brooklyn spent years plotting her proposal to the owners of his professional archive: open it to the public
This 20th Century building design by Louis Kahn architect in New Hampshire, USA has none of the landscape-integrating prairie horizontals of Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses but instead hits you across well-maintained landscape as a massive squat pile of bricks.
Mountbatten House Basingstoke building news – large grade two listed building, cited as one of the 15 most important modern listed buildings in the UK, is set to be restored to its former glory as part of an extensive refurbishment of the property and its terraced gardens
Century 21 theater rehabilitation, San Jose, Northern California, by TEF Design: giant domed movie building from 1963 by architect Vincent G Raney, USA – considered the first of its kind
Starship House in West Vancouver, by celebrated Canadian architect Arthur Erickson, at $4.3 million, this is one of the most significant architectural sales in Western Canada
World-famous 20th Century American residence design by US architect Philip Johnson, 1949 – exterior walls are made of glass, a radical departure from houses of the time, inspired by Farnsworth House
Designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer but abandoned when civil war erupted in Lebanon, the Rachid Karami International Fair was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage tentative list