Museum of Liverpool

The museum of Liverpool at a riverside site, is a museum designed from a winning proposal that will display pop and contemporary culture of Brittain.

Ulster Museum Building

See the development of Ulster Museum Building with the proposal included in the website. The building is said to be in connection with traditional style. Yet it looks very contemporary design.

Flickering effect of a fireplace

An electric fireplace that is mounted on the wall is a good idea. It also has a flickering flame effect, the Oakhampton Contemporary Electric Fireplace.

The chair that is long lasting to be a modern icon

Eero Aarnio, via six different ways.

The chair that is still modist even after 50 years. These ball chair, mushroom chair or bubble chair still appealing and become one of the most modern icon in furniture design.

The ball chair and companions have been remarkably used in many movies, and print ads. It is still having an evolution, like addition of light fixtures, the use of different materials.

Fresh sustainable design

BoabDesign offers a variety of fresh look contemporary building designs, said to be supporting sustainable design. Their website contains their work, full of those orange and lime juice of tasty look.

Superimposing forms

Designed for a corporate office in Las Vegas, this building is dinamic, yet simple. The use of superimposing rectangular forms creates a sense of contemporary look.

Aspen Pacific Capital Corporate offce was designed by Dekker/Perich/Sabatini

Millions ideas open up for prefab houses

Prefab houses is considered an alternative way to own a house when custom designed houses are too expensive for many people. Prefab houses also express modern aesthetics because of the materials they use.

There are sure to be millions of chance to develop ideas for architects in this prefab houses issue. This is what fabprefab explains.

A perfect example from Chilearq

Blinds for wide windows

Housecouture brings a luxury in modern houses in US. They produce electric operated blinds that fit modern statement. These blinds provide adjustment of lighting which is very important for creating ambience of your luxury houses.

Interior designs made more beautiful, while fixing some problems of wide aperture of oversized windows.

simple rectangular house

Arkinetia shows us one simple house design in rectangle shape, minimalist form in Spain.

The house represent closure and openness to the open space of grass and the sense of horizontality.

meeting older style

When added to older style of a house, contemporary style merge in this kind of look. This is absolutely a changing nature of a house. You can imagine to put a contemporary design in your grandmother's house.

This is the work of Khouri Architects, in Stourbridge, West Mindland.

Red, masculine, modern inclination

Let's take a look closer to one of one design award by Texas Society of Architects / AIA, a house called 'the ramp house'. A nice looking house by geometrical composition.

The red color determine the house's masculine look. The owner said in the website that it is a 'time experience', rather than just racing upstairs. Finally there is the most of spatial experience in the house.

The architect also has a big consideration on scale and proportion, as well as connection with the history of the site and its surroundings.

House by Richard Neutra

Richard Neutra designed this Grace Miller House in 1937. It was nice to have a modern look house by famous architect. The pool reflects the sun to the white ceiling of the house. After several decades of surviving the age and some owners with their own 'treatment' of the house, finally the house has its proper treatment.

Hargrave-Andrew Library in Monash Unversity

Hargrave-Andrew Building Library in Monash University, Australia, has that look of contemporary design, so they call it 'contemporary architecture' in their website.

The letters placed inside glass wall giving its sense of unique look. This kind of letter placement within glass is also common in many contemporary architecture.

small condo in natural scene

A nice simple condo in Argentina by Bak Arquitectos, found via http://arkinetia.com/Articulos/art364.aspx

This simple house looks almost for sure designed with Sketchup, by Google. Familiar to the eyes and keeps us connected to the spirit of the environment.

house up the hill by Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects

It is called 'Fasi House'. This under construction house up the hill, designed by PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN ARCHITECTS is a fine space that offers more to design. Imajine to place most of modern furniture inside this spacious home.

The environment also offers a spectacular view.

visit http://www.pezo.cl/pag_base/01_W_1.html for more.

villa in Netherland

An exciting villa in Netherland by MVRDV, can be found in http://www.mvrdv.nl/_v2/

Looks very contemporary design with glass and steel structure.

The inside is also wonderful, filled by tasty modern look, sometimes with blue lights, mostly with cozy warm rooms.

Living in Small Spaces

A book published by Loft publications, now available in Amazon. It is a design guide for cozy urban apartments with size 30-40m2. Quite small space that need special arrangements. This book might help to adapt with your urban lifestyle.

More can be found in Amazon

Introduction to now-architecture.blogspot.com

Contemporary architecture is the architecture being made at the present time. It also includes that of the last few decades, from the 1980s to the present.

The idea of building this blog is to follow the most recent work of contemporary architecture design trough out the world.





This is Tuesday, September 11th 2007. Right with the happening of terroris attack in New York back in 2001. I hope this will be a start for something useful for us architect.





Thank you for visiting.

(the left picture is from the two towers in New York).