Top 100

Architect Magazine‘s third-annual ranking of the top 100 architecture firms surfaced not too long ago.  I think it is a list worth noting.   A sampling of some of my favorite firms:

richard meier & partners architects

bohlin cywinski jackson

julie snow architects

100th Post! How quickly this milestone has arrived.

Thank you for visiting cabbagerose.  The door is always open.

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Heavenly

I have seen a few chapel renovations, and I have to say Chapel House is my favorite.  You will find Chapel House in the quaint Flemish village of Bazel.  I like its quirkiness.  A mix of modern and vintage furniture, wonderful artwork, fabulous draperies, beautiful windows, and chunky marble all come together to sing, “Amen.”

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Veil

Belfry Tashkent/Ippolito Fleitz Group

Cooperative Credit Bank Interior designed by Studio Kuadra

the tandemDUO house designed by Works Partnership Architecture

Rojkind Arquitectos studio visit: New Tamayo Museum

Distance of Fog, Japan/Studiogreenblue

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Time Out…

…for you and for me.

Jane Street by Steven Harris Architects, photography by Scott Frances

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Hiroko Koshino

I am  in awe of the uber-talented Japanese fashion designer Hiroko Koshino.  Hiroko is highly regarded in the fashion world as a pioneer of reinventing traditional Japanese dress.  While her contemporaries favor the avant-garde, Hiroko creates wearable clothes based on ceremonial wear updated with more volume, natural materials, and assymetric designs.  Her hallmark is the modern reinterpretation of the kimono as well as gorgeous textiles and prints of her own design.  Hiroko paints; she owns a gallery; she is considered a master of calligraphy; and she plays the Japanese three-strings guitar.  You know, I guess when you’ve got it, you’ve got it…

Tadao Ando designed Hiroko’s Tokyo home, his first private project.

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On the Wall…

Yes, the writing is on the wall!

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Ruby Inspired

The Library resort in Koh Samui, Thailand, designed by Tirawan Songsawat sports a red swimming pool by day and by night.

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The Luna2 Private Hotel

Luna2 is a private beachfront hotel in Bali, Indonesia that has been designed by American architect David Wahl, with interiors by owner and interior designer Melanie Hall.

The hotel is called “private” because they only accept one guest booking at a time for the five bedroom Richard Neutra-inspired beachfront house.  If you notice, the hotel does provide a private butler; now that all t’s have been crossed and i’s have been dotted, time to pack….

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Slow Start

It was a very busy weekend, and I am having a bit of a slow start.  I really would like to spend a good part of the day here.

But in reality, it is time to start marching to the beat of my drum.  Happy Monday.

The River House by MCK Architects, UNStudio Tower by UNStudio

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Sunday Stroll

Paul Klee Zentrum in Berne by Renzo Piano, photograph by Michel Denance

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Concrete Walls

Love the holes in the walls of the Espacio de las Artes at Santa Cruz, the Photography Centre of the Tenerife Island.  I love the color of the concrete, also.  It reminds me of an expensive suit.  Created by the architects Herzog & de Meuron.

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Metropol Parasol

I was excited to find these images of the striking Metropol Parasol in Seville by German architect J Mayer H.  The Metropol Parasol is described as an ‘icon’ but it actually is a multiuse piece of architecture that has a number of functions designed to make the plaza it is located in more attractive to the local community.  It is the largest mostly wooden structure in the world to be held together by glue.  Isn’t the Metropol Parasol amazing?

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Time Out

We are on our way to Sun Slice House by Steven Holl Architects.  This weekend house on Lake Garda for an Italian lighting company owner and his family is organized to frame slices of sunlight.  The steel frame and concrete structure is skinned with an alloy of copper, steel, chromium, and nickel, which weathers to a leathery red color. I love how the earthy red plays against the green of nature and the blue water and sky.  The interior is white and concrete.  I think we’ll enjoy our stay at Sun Slice House.

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Sexy Floor…

…and so much more.

soho loft by 1100 architect

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Checking-In

st. regis hotel, san francisco/yabu pushelberg

habita monterrey/joseph dirand

hotel duomo/ron arad

the parker hotel/johnathan adler

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