I had the pleasure of touring the House of Commons and the Senate last week. I’d gotten a tour of the Senate before but it is such a lovely visit it is worthy of a repeat visit. I had not seen the new House of Commons. Loved it! Built in the courtyard of the West Block it’s great that they designed it such that it is apparent it is in a courtyard.

Barton Myers is an American architect. Born in 1934 in Norfolk Virginia. Myers is a descendent of Moses Myers the first Jewish settler in Norfolk, Virginia. His grandfather was the former mayor of Norfolk. For a time was a jet fighter pilot. He obtained his Master’s degree in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Myers worked with Louis Kahn in the mid-sixties. He was the principal at Diamond and Myers until 1975. Subsequently he founded Barton Myers Associates. At first the firm was based in Toronto then it moved to Los Angeles, California. He has taught at the University of Toronto, and the University of Waterloo. Since 1980 he has held a continuing appointment at the University of California. 52 of his projects are illustrated in a book The Master Architect Series: Barton Myers. Also in that collection: Norman Foster, Cesar Pelli, Murphy/Jahn, Peter Eisenman, Terry Farrell, Kisho Kurakawa, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.


Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Orlando, Florida




Tempe Center for the Arts
Tempe, Arizona




New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Newark, New Jersey




Myers Cerritos Centre for the Performing Arts
Cerritos, California




Antoinette Hatfield Hall
Portland, Oregon




CBC Centre
Toronto, Ontario




Dorothy Chandler Pavillion
Los Angeles, California




Citadel Theatre
Edmonton, Alberta




Innis College Residence
Toronto, Ontario

Arno Matis is a Canadian architect. He obtained his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Oregon and his Master of Design Studies at Harvard. He also has a Master of Business Administration from Queens. Matis possesses 28 years of experience with mid to large-scale projects. In 2006 he founded Arno Matis Architecture. He believes in responsible sustainable design. His firm is based in Vancouver.


Aperture




2211 Cambie




Floating Home




Elmridge Way, Richmond




A Commercial Office Mixed Use




Wind Shaped Tower




Olympic Oval Complex




Health District Hotel




Bioframe

I previously featured Frank Lloyd Wright in 2017. Subsequently, I did specific posts on: Tarrianna House, Hollyhock House, and Fallingwater. Recently, I read that Westhope in Tulsa came on the market for 8 million dollars, quite a stunning house. This led to that and I started to see different houses and put together another post on Wright. Note that I included a link for Westhope so you can peak inside.


West Hope
Tulsa, Oklahoma



Laurent House
1949, Rockford, Illinois




The Martin House
1903, Buffalo, New York




Graycliff
1931, Deby, New York




Taliesin
1897, Spring Green, Wisconsin




Seth Peterson Cottage
1958, Mirror Lake, Wisconsin




Palmer House
Arbor, Michigan




Rosenbaum House
Florence, Alabama




Hanna Honeycomb House
Stanford, California




Frederick C. Robie House
Hyde Park, Illinois




Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
Oak Park, Chicago




Cedar Rock
Independence, Iowa

Mecanoo is a Dutch architecture firm based in Delft. It was founded in 1984 by Francine Houben, Henk Döll, Roelf Steenhuis, Erick van Egeraat, and Chris de Weijer. Their expertise includes architecture, urban planning, landscape and interior.

The name Mecanoo is a combination of Meccano the building kit. Mécano a magazine and Ozoo the motto of the founding members of the Rotterdam zoo.

Beyond Delft they have offices in London, New York and Kaohsiung

Their design philosophy is People, Place, and Purpose. Client’s wish and need. Location context. Current and as much as much as possible anticipated need.


Library of Birmingham
2013, Birmingham, England




Montevideo Municipal Tower
2005, Rotterdam, Netherland




Bruce C Bolling Municipal Building
2015, Boston, Masschusetts




Delft University of Technology Library
1997, Delft, Netherlands




European Investment Bank
2023, Luxembourg




Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library
2020, Washington, DC




National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts
2018, Kaohsiung, Taiwan




HOME Centre for International Contemporary Art Theatre and Film
2015, Manchester, England




Fifty Two Degrees
2007, Nijmagen, Netherlands




Netherlands Open Air Museum
2000, Amhem, Netherlands

Shaun Killa is a South African architect based in Dubai, UAE. Born in 1980 he moved to Dubai in 1998. Initially with the firm of Atkins, in 2015 he established Killa Design in Dubai, UAE. The firm is best known for the Museum of the Future and for the Office of the Future. Shaun Killa is an award-winning architect. His designs are innovative, sustainable, and challenge the norm.


Sinuoso / Pre Concept, Competition
Dubai, UAE




Aykon Tower
Dubai, UAE




SRG Tower
Dubai, UAE




Red Sea Boutique Resort
Sheybarah Island, Saudi Arabia




Office of the Future
Worlds first3D printed office
Dubai, UAE




Mars Al Arab Hotel
Dubai, UAE




Vida Dubai Marina Yacht Club
Dubai, UAE




Address beach Resort
Dubai, UAE




Museum of the Future
Dubai, UAE

A bit of a different format today. I first stumbled onto the video of the 2.5 million apartment in NYC. Then the rabit hole kept going and I found Caleb doing a tour of the Spadena House in Beverly Hills. Turns out he is known as “the apartment guy”. He is famous on TikTok and YouTube for stopping people in the street and asking them what they pay for rent. He then asks for a tour! He’s in NYC, California, and sometimes Asia. I was mostly interested in the owned house or condo tours and managed to find 5. If you find more DO let me know.


2.5 million apartment
New York City




$900,000 Houseboat
San Francisco




15 million
New York City




10 million house
San Francisco




Spadena House aka Witch House
Beverly Hills, California

Moon Hoon is a Korean architect. Born in 1968 in Sangdong Gangwon-do, he spent a part of his youth in Australia. He studied architecture in Korea and in the US at MIT. In 2001 he created his own firm – MoonBal-Sso. He enjoys breaking away from traditional architectural expectations. His most important works are Rock It Suda, S-Mahal, Mookdong Multi House, Ongdalsam, and the Sangsang Museum.

It’s when you look at the work of this architect that you realize we in Canada, or perhaps we in Ottawa really are conservative. I’d love the see the neighbourhood’s reaction, and the city’s reaction to a proposal such as the Lollipop house in Sandy Hill, New Edinburgh or The Glebe. Those fireworks would be fun to watch! As I’ve said before an infil house should be of its time, it should not reproduce a victorian style home. For me its about volume.


Go.Mir Guest House
Jegu




K Pop Curve
Seongnam




Lollipop House
2012, Seoul




Mars Building
2020, Hwaseong




Metalocus Juje House
2017, Jegu




Mookdong Multi Housing
2012, Seoul



Narrow House
Gangam, Seoul




Pacific Residence
2022, Seogwipo




Rock It Suda
2010, Jeongseon




S Mahal House
2007, Yangpyeong-gun




Two Moon
2015, Goyang-Si




Vi-Sang House
Gyeonggi-do