Blue Rock House Austerlitz by Anmahian Winton Architects

Thursday, March 18th 2010
Blue Rock House Austerlitz by Anmahian Winton Architects

A new house, guesthouse, and garage form a community of buildings on a rural hilltop site, evoking a rural homestead. The buildings define a formal courtyard that opens to specific views of the Berkshire and Catskill Mountains. Copper, wood, and bluestone are the primary materials, deployed to affect a minimal and sculptural vocabulary. The buildings are embedded to varying degree within the rocky topography, and bluestone walls weave between architecture... 

Junquillos Chapel by Claudio Baladron Z and Diego Grass P

Saturday, January 30th 2010
Junquillos Chapel by Claudio Baladron Z and Diego Grass P

There are oaks, wind and rain coming from the west. A dusty road is at the east. Community soccer field is south; bamboo and empty beer cans all over the north. Now there is also a wooden barn structure over a concrete platform, with corrugated metal cladding in the outside and pine boards in the inside, plus 100 chairs, lectern, altar, virgin figure and a cross. Mass is once a month, community activities every evening. Both happen in the same space....