Oro editions march 2009 (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Very Good. In 2008, renowned New York City-based architect George Ranalli completed a renovation (commissioned by the New York City Housing Authority in Brooklyn) to Brownsville's Saratoga Community Center--adding 3,500 square feet to the existing 1,500 square-foot facility to create a highly functional and re imagined super-block. Ranalli's facades--adorned with geometric wall planes and featuring multiple masonry units and glass-fiber-reinforced-concrete cast details, mahogany doors and windows as well as an exposed steel structure on the roof--provides a series of exquisitely designed public spaces for its diverse local users. In addition to commentary by Michael Sorkin and Ranalli's sketches, drawings and computer images, this volume contains stunning images by New York-based architecture and design photographer Paul Warchol. In projects ranging from doorknobs to residences to office buildings, George Ranalli experiments with a distinctive brand of ornamentation, a machine-cut, linear vocabulary that suggests computer age manufacturing processes and geometries. For New York City's public housing agency, he uses glass-fiber-reinforced-concrete (GFRC) lintels and copestones, and buff-grey cement panels with routed joints indoors, to imbue a new community center with layers of meaning and visual interest.…

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Very Good. The sheer vulnerability of the flat hilltop site of the Crowley residence in Marfa, Texas, inspired architect Carlos Jimenez to design a one-story structure with a focus on boundaries and limits. Completed in 2004, the house integrates interior and exterior spaces with an elongated layout that defines two distinct courtyards, creating a simultaneously intimate and expansive space. Built primarily of concrete, stucco, galvanized steel and Ipe wood, the house is a shaded sanctuary offering breathtaking views of rolling grass dunes, chiseled mountain ranges and the Chihuahuan desert while withstanding Marfa's intense weather conditions. Constant variations in light, provided in abundance by the Southwest Texas sun, enrich the interior life of the Crowley home throughout the day while native vegetation around the house provides shade and camouflage for the exterior. Sited on a hilltop overlooking the vast and compelling landscape of Marfa, Texas, the Crowley House is a refuge amid its beautiful and harsh surroundings. The design solution ameliorates these conditions in subtle and precise ways, constructing a place where architecture and landscape become a truly interwoven experience. The back cover has a stain from the removal of price tag.…