New Favourite Norwegians

Some images from Reiulframstadarkitekter, our new favourite Norwegians.  I dont know if it is something about the climate, skies, landscape, whatever it is.  These folk kill it.  Lovely Lovely stuff.

Garden for a Cycle Builder and his family

On Our Screens

Some of the things that are keeping us out of mischief right now.

Private residence, West Vancouver.





Howe & Drake. New tower and podium Downtown South.





Bridgeport Road Richmond. 2 boutique hotels and an office tower.

2211 Cambie Street

A couple of images from our latest commercial project. 2211 Cambie Street Vancouver. Architecture and images courtesy of the very clever chaps at Iconstrux. Needless to say, we're pretty stoked about getting this one off the ground. Building starts in the new year.

Bjarke Ingles

A very clever chap / practice. We like this thinking.

507 Days

sneak preview...OK we've been at this thing for 507 Days...Considered Design that is. We thought it might be nice to share what has been keeping us out of mischief for the last year ....or so. here's a sneak preview of some of the things we have been lucky enough to be involved in. Cheers to the next 507 Days...or so

Zumthor vs Serpentine

Zumthor and Piet Oudolf at the Serpentine Gallery via Dezeen.

Interview: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 by Peter Zumthor from Dezeen on Vimeo.

Pormetxeta Square by Xprial & MTM

Just caught this on Dezeen. Incredible work in the Basque Country. Imagine trying to float that one to the client...'we have this idea...a giant trellis landscape floating above your head...and filled with rocks...held in place by a big net..and furniture...on springs' Love it. This is Landscape Architecture.

Renderings

A couple of images of a new project we are working on. First rule of fight club.......

and yes that is Gilbert and George...and the Sicilian Inquisition....way worse than the Spanish...

North Van

A few shots of a project that came together late last year. Cant wait to see the burst of plant life in the Spring.

We're on the roof again

Point Grey rendering. Anyone fancy a dip ?

One of our current projects with the good folk at Evoke. This is going to be a killer pool in the Summer.

Fantastic Norway

Any Architect with a cut out and keep Red Caravan & a recipe for waffles to download on their website gets our vote. Seriously cool work.

Big Ron

Wise words from Big Ron for the New year..and the dude makes his own hats..how cool is that

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Substantially complete

Our latest project in North Vancouver is approaching completion. Great clients, a contractor who 'gets it' and a fabulous house that really only needed a few gentle prods in the right direction. Just in time for Christmas.

New Works II Planting

Plants have arrived. Always a pleasant phase in a new project, the warm and fuzzy bit.

Migration of Mel and Judith - Europe & Luxor

Beautifully crafted Architecture as narrative. More fantastic, fantastical work from Tom Hillier. Love this. World in a Lampshade.

'Becoming bored with Europe, Mel & Judith eventually decide to settle down to a new life inLuxor, Egypt. They now live on a small, uninhabited island situated on the River Nile, where in their weird and wonderful ‘Do-It-Yourself’English manor Mel brews beer in his bathtub-brewery whilst Judith bakes rose-bread in the bread-garden. Their island comes alive during the holiday season creating an English retreat in the middle of Luxor, a retreat that lures in English tourists with the opportunity to besurrounded by the sights, sounds and smells of home. The smell ofroses and freshly baked bread drift through the air whilst the temptation to drink beer (whichis illegal inLuxor) is impossible to resist. So if you are ever in Luxor and miss the familiarity of home, take a rowing boat over to Mel and Judith’s island for a little piece of England.'

New Works II

cadence n., the measure or beat of movement, as in dancing or marching.

54 Elms

Bug eyed kids, burnt abstracted elm trees and the local winnipeg knitting circle, normal day @ Considered Design

Godogan table

Godogan Table by Niels van Eijk & Miriam van der Lubbe for Droog. Stunning craftsmanship near impossible to find in the West. Furniture as illustration, this one for an Indonesian Fairy Tale. now i wonder if CNC technology could do that on a mass market IKEA scale....