Archives for the month of: January, 2010

Love made visible in the Veneto countryside…

Timeless is one of those overused terms that rarely matches the project it’s used to describe. But not so here. This recently completed refurbishment of a traditional Spanish patio house, especially in these shots, feels like it could have been completed yesterday or forty years ago.  There’s no way of knowing for sure but I suspect it has something to do with the architect’s lack of ego and his desire instead to let the building decide what happens next.

Impeccable and perfect.  This family home by Dutch architects Rocha Tombal attracted one comment in particular at Dezeen back in September that is truly food for thought.  Essentially the writer loved the house but declared he could never be comfortable living there. The flawless architecture he said would make him feel like ‘a foreign body which destroys the perfectly arranged interiors’.  But, he adds, he’d be very happy to live next door.