Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
The perfect Cotswolds cottage - Sue Jones
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Get Nebby in Pittsburgh June 22 & 23
DOORS OPEN Pittsburgh, a local nonprofit that hosts immersive tours and neighborhood events focused on regional arts, culture, and history, once again presents its signature Downtown event on Saturday and Sunday, June 22-23.
This event invites guests to go behind the scenes within some of Pittsburgh’s most iconic buildings, entering spaces inside those buildings not typically accessible to the public, or just the opportunity to explore inside these amazing buildings.
The point of all of this is to celebrate and display Pittsburgh’s diverse architecture and abundant history through the eyes of our buildings.
DOORS OPEN Pittsburgh has presented this event since 2016, every October, but decided to offer it in the Spring this year to potentially attract more people.
With thirty-two buildings Downtown participating this year, guests can choose any number of buildings they want to visit and then go at their own pace to visit those buildings that sound most intriguing to them. In other words, the event is formatted like an open house.
And there will be a variety of buildings to select from: churches, private club, theaters, art galleries, government offices, luxury apartment buildings and hotels, and more.
Volunteers and building staff will be on-hand at each building to share information about the architecture and how these buildings became part of our collective history and future, including fun anecdotal information about past inhabitants in some cases.
Two long-time participants as well as sponsors for the Downtown event are back again this year. Dollar Bank, the longest-operating bank in Pittsburgh’s financial district also houses an amazing historic center paying homage to that history; and Koppers Inc, a top floor experience with amazing views.
New additions to the event this year include the Drury Plaza Hotel and its impressive vault; the private and exclusive Allegheny HYP Club and the Hertz Gateway Center, a crown jewel of architecture during Pittsburgh Renaissances.
For more event information, list of participating buildings and to purchase tickets: CLICK HERE
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Philip Vergeylen & Paolo Moschino at home
Do you watch the homeworthy videos? They can be hit or miss (especially with the sheer quantity they come out with anymore) but once in awhile one will make you stand up and take notice. Such was the case with this tour of Philip Vergeylen & Paolo Moschino's London apartment. Dream apartments - well worth the 33 minute tour!
Friday, April 12, 2024
Bring home Steven Gambrel for Drummonds
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Own a piece of Billy Baldwin history
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
DREAM – Athletes Village in Saint-Ouen (France)
In this favorable context, DREAM is responsible for building 13,477 m2 of office space on the E3 block, and is proposing to add a 1,000 m2 sports facility on the roof. Dedicated to the practice of basketball, the gymnasium, set off by great heights and beautiful transparencies, offers an unobstructed view of the Grand Paris.
This innovative program reflects the long- standing commitment of the DREAM agency, and its founder Dimitri Roussel, to sports as a means of enhancing urbanity. To implement it, DREAM proposed an innovative and attractive business model, and included a sports operator in the project. This evolution of the program reflects the adaptation of architecture to contemporary societal issues, contributing through sport to the well-being of the city of tomorrow.
The project was co-promoted by Nexity, Eiffage Immobilier and CDC Habitat, with investment from Groupama Immobilier and the companies Eiffage Construction and Dalkia Smart Building, in the pursuit of very high environmental performance.
As the only 36-meter-high building with a timber structure, the project achieves high carbon storage performance (700 kgCO2/m2 versus 1500 kgCO2/m2 on average).
The low-carbon concrete infrastructure provides naturally lit, reversible parking spaces for extending the ground floor programs, as well as a solid wood post-and- beam superstructure and prefabricated low-carbon concrete floors from GF+1 to GF+6. The top level, with its 8 meter headroom and exposed timber framework, lights up in the evening, revealing the spectacle of sport.
The same applies to comfort and energy management : a photovoltaic power plant guarantees 20% self-consumption and better control of consumption, particularly in winter, and the design of the building itself guarantees less than 70 hours of discomfort during heatwaves.
LOCATION : Lot E3, Saint-Ouen, France |
PROGRAM : Offices, stores, sports facilities and rooftop SURFACE : 15 000 m2 Floor Area (13 000 m2 of offices, 800 m2 of stores, 1 200 m2 sports facilities) BUDGET : 48 M € EXCL.VAT ENVIRONNEMENTAL APPROACH : E2C2, BREEAM excellent level, BBCA excellent level CREDITS : photographs : © Cyrille Weiner graphic documents : © DREAM |
Monday, March 18, 2024
Just as there was no single cause of the crisis, there is no single cure. Assembled here are essays by economists, scholars, architects, planners, and community organizers to address diverse aspects of the subject. The book discusses the history and extent of the US housing crisis; permanent affordable housing and affordable housing as a component of market-rate residential buildings; the development of community associations that can build and manage local units; links between housing production and climate change; and the pervasive and long-term consequences of racial discrimination in the housing market. Recent buildings by Studio Gang, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, and others illustrate affordable housing at its best, offering a glimpse of possible solutions.
Included are essays by Dean Baker, Richard Florida, Robert Kuttner, Michael Gecan, Rosanne Haggerty, J. Phillip Thompson, Margery Perlmutter, David Dante Troutt, Justin Steil, Christopher Hawthorne, David Burney, Jon McMillan, Viren Brahmbhatt, Richard Plunz, Kenneth Frampton, Mark Ginsberg, Fernando Pagés Ruiz, Jessica Holmes, Rusty Smith, Andrés Duany, Alan Organschi, Andrew Ruff, and Elizabeth Gray.
Friday, March 15, 2024
Style in Atlanta
With the decline of American magazines ( not what I'm here to talk about ), the Brits continue to 'bring it'. House and Gardens UK has an addictive website if you haven't seen it ( print copy is also brilliant and worth the shipping costs ) and this apartment in Atlanta caught my eye belonging to designer Sally Wilkinson . Having lived in a studio for a number of years (long ago at this point), I can attest that divider walls only make the space feel smaller, so love her defining space with furniture to make it feel open and therefore much bigger. There is something so alluring to stylish living in a small space - it highlights the creativity! Definitely check out the full article here.
Photo by Catherine Lukens