IMAGINE

Miyawaki Mitsuyuki

House for a Painter

Joseba and María moved to Gaucin attracted by the location and the views of the city. He is a renowned painter (www.sanchezzabaleta.com) who needed a place to work and searched for an architect who understood his ideas regarding light and space. 

The result is House for a Painter by DTR studio architects, a house designed around a double height studio filled with natural light on the ground floor with the living areas on the upper floor to take advantage of the views.

Art studio’s around the world 

|1| Light & trade // Nicolas Fernandez Sanz {ph cr. Javier Agustín Rojas} - Argentina 

|2| Long Studio // Saunders Architecture {ph cr. Bent René Synnevåg} - Fogo Island

|3| Melnikov House // Konstantin Melnikov {ph cr. not found } - Moscow

|4| Z Gallery // O-OFFICE Architects {ph cr. Likyfoto} - China

A House with a Tree in the Middle of the Living Room 

 Casa Vogue is a residential project designed by the architect Alessandro Sartore to integrate into the natural landscape of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with the plants allowed to pass through the structure and thus bring more texture into the living areas.

The tree in the middle of the living room is a large mango called Bethany and it passes through a hole in the floor slab with a diameter of three meters. The tree was the inspirational element that determined the entire layout of the house with its shading and ventilation.

Gigantic Structures in the Tundra

Miguel Alonso is a 3D Environment Artist @ PlatinumGames in Osaka, Japan. These set includes images from Passage To The Highlands, Rotten Mountains and Gigantic Structures in the Tundra.

The Ancient Ghost City of Ani

Situated on the eastern border of Turkey, across the Akhurian River from Armenia, lies the empty, crumbling site of the once-great metropolis of Ani, known as “the city of a thousand and one churches.” Founded more than 1,600 years ago, Ani was situated on several trade routes, and grew to become a walled city of more than 100,000 residents by the 11th century. In the centuries that followed, Ani and the surrounding region were conquered hundreds of times – Byzantine emperors, Ottoman Turks, Armenians, nomadic Kurds, Georgians, and Russians claimed and reclaimed the area, repeatedly attacking and chasing out residents. By the 1300s, Ani was in steep decline, and it was completely abandoned by the 1700s. 

Rediscovered and romanticized in the 19th century, the city had a brief moment of fame, only to be closed off by World War I and the later events of the Armenian Genocide that left the region an empty, militarized no-man’s land. The ruins crumbled at the hands of many: looters, vandals, Turks who tried to eliminate Armenian history from the area, clumsy archaeological digs, well-intentioned people who made poor attempts at restoration, and Mother Nature herself. Restrictions on travel to Ani have eased in the past decade, allowing the following photos to be taken.