Kyneton Sheep Farm House

Posted under Architecture by gems78 on Monday 13 April 2009 at 1:33 pm

The Sheep Farm House, located in a treeless landscape northwest of Melbourne, represents a contemporary take on the classic Australian pastoral homestead. The complex, built for a high-tech sheep farm, includes the main house, a guest wing, garage, machine shed, shearing shed, and covered yards. (more…)

Ramat Gan Spiral House

Posted under Architecture by gems78 on Sunday 12 April 2009 at 6:42 pm

From the early 1960s, Zvi Hecker studied the spiral as an archetypal form, in nature and in Arabic architecture. He obsessively analyzed the staircases of minarets, which would lead inward and outward, being passages and places to sojourn at the same time. (more…)

Vienna Rooftop Modelling

Posted under Architecture by gems78 on Friday 10 April 2009 at 1:41 pm

Wolf D. Prix and Helmut Swiczinsky founded Coop Himmelbau in 1968. This is the project that put the Vienna-based architects on the architectural Deconstructivist map. The relatively small-scale commission came from Schuppich, Sporn, and Winischhofer. (more…)