The perpetually engaging housing laboratory that is suburban Japan continues to delight. The Scoop Landscape House is a new project by Not Architects Studio, a side project set up by Tetsushi Tominaga and Lisa Ono, together with Aoi Nahata. Ono’s concept design for this 101 sq m Japanese h...
The Jaxson takes a drive through one of the largest suburban developments currently underway in Northeast Florida: SilverLeaf Sights and Scenes: Brunswick Old Town Historic District July 27, 2022 |Article Ennis Davis, AICP Located one hour north of Jacksonville, Brunswick is the second largest urban...
One of the first large suburban development, Levittown, New York, was about conforming to the new neat and largely homogeneous suburban idea of the American Dream, trimmed lawns hemmed in by squared fences. These Lexington modernist developments tended to encourage responsibility and cooperation in ...
Having an interest in suburban housing its vagaries and typologies – I have recored Penrhyn Bay several times, along with Woodford, Whitley Lodge Estate, Killingworth, and East Didsbury. This area was once described to me as built by Cowboys for Indians –though statistically there are more Pa...
Joe died in 2014, but the fun carried on – but now the house has been sold. My thanks to Bernard’s daughter Fiona for inviting me to record her dad’s den. The party’s over and the palace’s treasure is off elsewhere. The party’s over ...
To the untrained eye, the cube-shaped house in Sarasota, Florida, might be just a modest home in a mid-century suburban enclave. To architecture lovers, it's instantly recognizable as the Umbrella House, Paul Rudolph's 1953 masterpiece. The celebrated and uncompromising architect would go on ...
Then follow the Federal authorities into a recently raided Bay Area stash house! Climb over (or dive behind) pallets of cash hidden in the garage. Pause only to admire the xeriscape front garden, before infiltrating a suburban ranch home filled with glass windows and mo...
Then follow the Federal authorities into a recently raided Bay Area stash house! Climb over (or dive behind) pallets of cash hidden in the garage. Pause only to admire the xeriscape front garden, before infiltrating a suburban ranch home filled with glass windows and more cash scattered about...
I found a typical inner Manchester suburban thoroughfare, a healthy mix of homes socially and privately owned, industry, independents shops, schools and such. Kids at play, passers-by passing by, captured in 1971 by the Council’s housing department photographers. This was not a Golden Age –...
This was a lavish suburban cinema, with an elaborate green and gold sliding dome utilising Venetian glass and housing hundreds of concealled lights. Roman marble mosaics and painted plaster panels on the walls added to the sense of occasion engendered by a trip to the flicks. A Fitton & Hal...