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Well-Dressed Addition: Wood-Clad Carport + Meeting Room

Posted: 30 May 2012 12:00 PM PDT

[ Filed under Architecture & in the Additions category ]

A villa originally built in the 1970s near Eindhoven required a simple but sophisticated addition: a carport with a conference space on top. O + A Architecture took over with their signature sleek modernist style and created a striking solution.

The project faced challenges such as zoning laws, demands on the unusual mixture of uses, and technical limitations that arose from placing an addition so near the original structure.

The villa’s existing structure and form were used to inform the aesthetics of the addition. Although the two were built some 30 years apart they blend together harmoniously.

Carried on into the conference room space, the elegant timbers become the visual unifier between the exterior and interior.

There is no denying that the addition is bold and visually striking. The warmth of the wood somewhat offsets the gregarious shape and daring lines.

At night, when light shines through the glazing (on top) and vertical timbers (on bottom), the structure exudes a kind of warmth and unpretentious elegance that is so refreshing in a mostly-utilitarian space.

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Literary Literalism: Bold Bookcase Shaped Like Book Pages

Posted: 29 May 2012 04:00 PM PDT

[ Filed under Furniture & in the Bookcases category ]

Some books form subtle plots through metaphor and allegory … but if this storage system were a story, it would be blunt and obvious, for better or worse.

The Pagina bookcase from Cassina comes in blue but also more-obvious white, looking very much like pages from a book, particularly when you put the pair of symmetrical sides next to one another.

Though it appears inflexible and domineering, its individual shelves can actually be moved, and the varying depths (shaped by the curving of the front surface) actually allow for a practical arrangement of items based on size. Either way, if your books alone were not enough to show your love of literature, this surely tells the world where your heart lies.