Cape Shank House, Australia, by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects
The elevated views really take advantage of the expansive surroundings. It seems like the main level is an elongated balcony and rests on the elements below. Extra points for the reflection pool.
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The way cantilevers are used today in the current architectural fashion trends (especially what is comming out of holland, and what they are doing with cantilevers) looks so heavy and tired… It looks like the building is working really hard to hold itself up. And why is everything boxy. It seems like we’ve taken a few steps back from the precedents set by Frank lloyd wright and what he did to smash the box.. and his cantilevers look like they really float, and his effort to produce organic architecture, that sets into the landscape, and that does not potrude out like a phalanx symbol. and none of these glen murkutt sheep tin shed crap. Come on architects of today put your titanic egos aside. Ordinary people aren’t so stupid that they can’t understand architecture. Architects have lost toutch with one thing that is important, designing for people, not for yourselves. And all these balloney modern philosophies with corbusier and that made up, is just philosophy.. they are words, and ideas, not anymore phisical things.
I agree to a point bob. Architecture should be foremost about people. But after all whats to say that it wasn’t the client pushing this cantilevered idea? Wright did as much for the planning of the internal spaces as much as pushing new external forms, its plain to see that this house picks up on both ideas and interprets them in an interesting fashion.