Journal - Pursuing Perfection: 8 Glass Boxes With Beautiful Detailing
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Sometimes, thinking outside the box requires looking right through it. Grounding architecture, pure forms and geometry structure ideas on space, sequence and light. Architects and designers use shapes like triangles and squares as building blocks to larger concepts. As one of the most fundamental profiles in architecture, rectilinear forms and boxes are found throughout history and across the world. Glass boxes, made famous by the work of architects like Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, represent rigorous investigations into context and view.
Built with elegantly detailed envelopes, the following glazed projects balance connections to both rural and urban conditions. Emphasizing thin surfaces, reflection and transparency, the projects explore diverse programmatic combinations across multiple scales. With careful attention paid to mullions and material assembly, the façades balance a desire for uninhibited views with a need for structured enclosure. The designs reveal how a critical approach to craft can bring clear conceptual ideas to life.
LM Guest House by Desai Chia Architecture PC, N.Y., United States
Located on a rock outcropping overlooking farmland and a trout pond, this guest house was designed as a contemplative weekend retreat. Formed so visitors experience expansive views of the landscape, the project includes a triple-paned glass façade prefabricated off site.
Edgar N. Putman Event Pavilion by KieranTimberlake, Doylestown, Penn., United States
Formed among the ruins of a 19th-century prison, this museum pavilion opens up to three massive fieldstone border walls. The transparent jewel box was made to engage the historic surrounding with 23-foot insulated glass units that are among the largest of their kind in North America.
Offices for the Junta de Castilla y Leon by Alberto Campo Baeza, Zamora, Spain
As a transparent glass box inserted into a stone garden, these offices were made to open up to the walls beyond the façade. As a glazed and perfectly controlled enclosure, the building envelope draws attention to its surroundings and accentuates them.
Mont de Marsan Mediatheque by archi5, Mont-de-Marsan, France
The Marsan Media Library was designed as a cultural symbol within its urban site. A covered square with reflective glass façades is surrounded by a grassy landscape. Each side of the building adapts to the direction it faces, while interior functions are organized along an open floor space.
120 West 42nd Street by MdeAS Architects, New York, N.Y., United States
The Cubes was conceived as a Jewel Box that would flank the nearby plaza. The steel and glass structure surrounds the plaza and incorporates multiple outdoor spaces.
Music School Louviers by OPUS 5 Architectes, Rue Des Pénitents, Louviers, France
Sited in Louviers, Normandy, this music school is housed within a Franciscan monastery from the 1600s. The New Musical School in the convent of the Penitents includes two large orchestra rooms, 24 classrooms and a score library.
White Block Gallery by SsD, Seoul, South Korea
Located in the heart of the Heyri Art Valley, the White Block Gallery is an exhibition and cultural space. Three pure volumes combine to showcase super-sized sculptures, contemporary paintings and media installations.
Patom Organic Living by NITAPROW, Bangkok, Thailand
As a shop and showroom for Patom, this glass cube was formed in one of Thonglor’s residential neighborhoods. As a space for sustainable living, workshops and a farmers market, the project is a small wood-framed glass building resting atop a raised mound.
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Patom Organic Living 🌿 (at Patom Organic Cafe' at Suan Sampran) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDRUEBhBzaK/?igshid=vq2bz8ukoqyg
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ฉันคงจะตกหลุมรัก.. เธออีก I just wonder, บางที แต่ว่าเธอน่ะใจร้าย.. แบบนี้ ฉันก็พูดไม่ออก.. แต่รู้ว่าไม่ค่อยดีหรอก 😘 (at Patom Organic Living) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByXeQRejXOD/?igshid=1nlt8k331kukz
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Situated in the Bangkok neighbourhood of Thonglor, local-based architecture studio NITAPROW have designed an concept retail space and showroom for organic body care company, Patom. Through an intimate café; workshops and farmers markets all based around fresh produce from the local network of organic farmers, the showroom has become a place promoting ecological awareness and sustainable living. The small timber-framed glass building is surrounded by wild grass and lush ferns assisting in softening the building's structure while carefully preserving the preexisting trees and vegetation. The building’s transparency and discrete size was intentionally penned to shift focus to the thriving encompassing gardens, while masses of glass was used to allow for passerby an undisrupted view inside. (Image: Anak Navaraj) #meandmybentley (at Thonglor)
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🐛🐌🌿🍀🍃🌳 (at Patom Organic Living) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCai4wLDBkA/?igshid=5m4z9sl8f6be
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