Klein Penthouse
LOT-EK’s best-known rooftop project is the Guzman Penthouse in midtown New York. Constructed partly from a reclaimed truck container, it is an iconic image of Modernism returned to its industrial roots mixed with the spirit of Post-Modern reappropriation and New York’s famously bohemian loft culture. The project included extensive technological gadgets, most notably a vertically [...]
The Skyhouse
The Skyhouse is a residential concept from Marks Barfield Architects, best known as the creators of the London Eye. There is continual pressure from the central government for new housing initiatives, but little official encouragement for new high-density schemes, and Skyhouse was developed as a means of demonstrating that living in towers needs not [...]
De Kamp, Amsterdam-Buitenveldert Apartments
De Kamp, Amsterdam-Buitenveldert Apartments by Tangram Architekten
Penthouses are not the most democratic of urban spaces, yet their lofty perch enables them to conjure up light-filled, airy interiors that belie their central location and the high density of the surrounding housing. Amsterdam-based firm Tangram Architekten has taken two of the penthouse’s most enviable characteristics ? the [...]
