STEEL AND GLASS IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE
The jungle of Steel and Glass has long been usual for architectural framework, but when it’s recognized for its innate beauty as well as its structural and light integrity, the results can be awe-inspiring. This trend of design comes in all our life and we should overview few incredible but very different buildings of modern architecture.
Spiritual light in new architecture.
Architect Siamak Hariri takes us into the planning and poetry behind building the luminous Baha’is of Chile.
Over the next 13 years, Hariri faced numerous challenges — real estate, material, structural, even seismic — before finally unveiling his graceful glass and marble structure in fall 2016. Here, he reflects on the labor and love that went into making a sacred space in modern times.
Multifunctional and great technical solution.
This steel-and-g
lass box perched above an abandoned limestone quarry in West Virginia is designed by Wiedemann Architects to provide a living space and workshop for a Parisian sculptor.
Beautiful nature and design synthesis.
This glazed pavilion – like living space by Argentinian studio Alarciaferrer Arquitectos traverses a shallow ravine that runs through a eucalyptus forest to the shore of Lake Los Molinos.
Timeless stile and life quality for everyday.
Brazilian studio Cupertino Arquitetura has renovated this mid-century apartment in Sao Paulo for the grandchild of its former owner, turning a pair of disused outdoor spaces into gardens in the process.
The Tucumã Apartment is a 100-square-metre residence on the ground floor of a building completed in the city in 1953. The new owner inherited the property from their grandmother.
One is slotted
between the living area, and the bedrooms and bathrooms, and can be viewed through a large window. A hallway to the sleeping spaces runs between this courtyard and the second, which can be seen from the slender kitchen.
“These two spaces were incorporated into the apartment as small gardens, as in a house,” said Cupertino Arquitetura in a project description. “They help bring natural light and cross ventilation to the innermost part of the plan, in addition to open visual lines and bring the green of the external garden into the apartment.”
Each is now filled with trees and plants, which are yet to grow to full height.