Noki House of Sustainability
Adorn Yourself: Get fashion-conscious by wrapping up in some moral fibres.
Herbst Architects
Shelter Yourself: Build your great reputation with a sustainable space.
Scenic Drive
Faced with a choice of hills on which to place a new golf clubhouse, Patterson Associates simply decided to put a hole in one.
Cresting out from a rolling hillside, the clubhouse at the new Michael Hill-owned Hills Golf Course in Queenstown is a spectacular wedge of concrete and schist that morphs seamlessly into the landscape. But as impressive as the soaring, cantilevered, grassed roof, sweeping main stair and gleaming curtain of windows are, it’s the parts you don’t immediately see that make the building really extraordinary.
Apart from Scotland (the original home of golf), no country...
Jungle Viva
To escape work pressure in the bustling Brazilian metropolis of San Paulo, Brazilian architect Arthur Casas likes to plant himself in the Atlantic bush for rejuvenation.
Doors, or a lack of them, are a defining element of this south Brazilian holiday home, says the owner and architect Arthur Casas. “When I am in the living room, it’s like I am in the forest,” says Casas dreamily, from his San Paulo architectural office. “The idea was to integrate the house with the Mata Atlântica [Atlantic Bush].” To achieve this, the living room and central slab of the...