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Philip Johnson’s Glass House informs Canada’s Pool Pavilion
Modernist Ben Rose House in the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Philip Johnson’s Glass House inspired this pool house designed by the Canadian studio Maurice Martel Architecte. Maurice Martel Architecte built Pavilion A to accompany an existing house in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, a suburb of Montreal. It was designed to take inspiration from two examples of …
Ov-a Architekti Studio builds translucent glass house for Lasvit headquarters
Prague studio Ov-a Architekti built a translucent house and restored a group of 19th-century wooden buildings for the office of the glass company Lasvit in Nový Bor, Czech Republic. The architecture studio renovated a pair of existing homes and added black-and-white house-shaped additions to form the glass brand’s headquarters. Lasvit wanted to continue and build …