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Art Collector’s Home Features a Ramp for Viewing the Collection

The immense kitchen of an intriguing and huge house for art collectors in Brazil looks more like a high end retail establishment than a place to cook.

Instead of stairs, the house features an unusual ramp for walking up, to contemplate all the art displayed on the walls.

This angled walking ramp inclines gently and doubles back at a walkable pace, rather than at the steeper angle of a staircase.

Designed by Denise Macedo Arquitetos Associados, the house revolves around the clients’ very extensive art collection.

Sited in Nova Lima, Brazil, the house is surrounded by nature and represents a highly civilized respite from it. Read the rest of this entry »

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Roy Lichtenstein’s Studio Preserved in Greenwich Village

These eyebrow skylights are openings in a new green roof over the late Roy Lichtenstein’s art studio in New York’s Greenwich Village.

The clients brief for Caliper Studio was to preserve the artist’s studio as he left it.

Below the skylights, the studios are lit by a generous dollop of light.

His Pop Art sculptures are arrayed on the new sculpture garden green roof above.

The 1960s era studio is still the home of his widow, Dorothy Lichtenstein. Read the rest of this entry »

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Serene Minimalism in a Zen-Like Dental Office

The cool peacefulness of a dental office designed by Hironaka Ogawa in Gunma, Japan, gives no hint that the region suffers from strong winds in winter and has the highest summer temperatures in Japan.

Openings in the exterior are kept to the absolute minimal minimum to keep the hot sun at bay.

The zen-like dentists’ offices includes housing for the dentist.

The client wished to have the housing adjoining the offices, but maintaining a separation by the difference in heights.

Diffused light is wielded to create a series of lovely and tranquil spaces for the various dental treatment cubicles.

With a plan like this, there are numerous opportunities for diffuse light from a grid of skylight courtyards.

The many courtyards create many opportunities for sky lighting deep pockets in the building, lighting surrounding dental offices.

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