Diseño Earle have added a new string to our bow with our new luxury villa project called Blueprint.

The concept is simple: Blueprint brings together the finest plots on the Costa del Sol, Spain and combines them with a unique villa design and all the required building licenses and timely construction into one neat package, saving the buyer both time and money and giving them something totally unique.

So far we have five villas available, including our Eco House. All of these villas feature a stunning modern design and set in locations with some of the most stunning views and scenary on the coast.

Blueprint offers only a select number of modern villa projects, based on the availability of suitable plots which meet stringent desirability criteria including views, immediate surroundings and accessibility. Each architectural plan is unique and designed specifically according to the characteristics of the plot. Each property Blueprint markets will stand as a true masterpiece at the forefront of the resurging modernist movement.

You can find out more information on this exciting villa project by visiting the Blueprint Modern & Contemporary Villas website.

Cantelevers are very much an in-thing right now, presumably because of the interesting forms they allow. This is one of the finest and most creative examples I’ve seen so far. The Walter Towers, to be constructed in Prague, Czech Republic, were the result of a very challenging brief: to build a modern tower that fits within the historical framework and architectural tradition of Prague and at the same time creates an iconic image that can be instantly recognisable.

As you can see, the result is stunning. The towers are essentially one tower cleaved and twisted into the spectacular ‘W’ shape you see. This clustering of the towers responds directly to the more traditional architecture Prague, and the sculptural form makes for a truly modern and iconic profile.

As the architects Bjarke Ingels Group explain:

By uniting the tradition of building towers in clusters, which is seen in the old Prague, with the rational way of organizing tall buildings as we know it from the American skyscraper, it is possible to make a new kind of contemporary tower that unites history, functionality and the need for a new Walter site landmark.

What will appear as 4 different towers is actually one continuous building that is sliced up and pulled apart to maximize the amount of surface and facade area to create attractive apartments. A series of manipulations of the slab is turning an ordinary apartment slab into a series of towers. By twisting the building, it is “opened up” towards its surroundings - letting in people and light.

A superb display of architectural ingenuity. Article found on the Contemporist.

Have you ever wanted to have an apartment with a pool… in the ceiling? Well now you can – thanks to Rem Koolhaas, who is developing a new residential tower in New York City.  With a characteristic gesture of willful contrarianism, his design inverts the typical Manhattan tower, stepping outward - not inward - as it rises to create an alarming attention grabbing profile.  Ostensibly, these cantilevers are intended to provide views to a nearby park. 

In reality, I think Rem is just showing off. But the pool is awesome.

Click here for the Office of Metropolitan Architecture.

Diseño Earle’s Eco House, being built on the Costa del Sol, Spain and to be completed 2009 caused quite a stir when it was launched. Now, several months down the line, the Eco House has been shortlisted for an award at World Architecture Community. WA is an organisation that promotes dialog and discourse in the architecture community and encourages debates on all facets of architecture. Membership consists of architects around the globe as well as a honorary members list of veritable starchitects.

The Eco House features a combination of innovative environmentally-friendly technologies and boasts a beautiful, modern design. We’re all hoping to see the Eco House win, but against such stiff compeition, we’re happy to have been shortlisted. A big congratulations to the design team at Diseño Earle.

You can see the Eco House and the other projects shortlisted here.

Firstly, apologies for the absence of blog posts this past fortnight. Diseño Earle have been enjoying our summer break and are now refreshed and ready to go. To get things rolling, have a look at this:

Houses are expensive things nowadays. Especially in England, where even a modest starter-home can set you back over 200,000GBP. In 2005 the British government launched a competition to build homes for less than 60,000GBP. No easy task, thats for sure.

Developers George Wimpey joined with the architects at Rogers Stirk Harbour to win the competition from the field of 221 other competitors. Love them or loathe them, I can see why they won.

The main cost saving method was to have the floors, ceilings and walls all pre-fabricated in a factory and delivered ‘flat-pack’ style to the site, ready to be assembled. Due to the simple nature of the houses, they can be put together remarkably quickly, in less than a day. That’s right; a day. The results, as you can see, look great, and in a couple of years when the surrounding gardens have matured a little, I think this estate is going to look fantastic.

From a design point of view, the houses are simple and certainly nothing special, but they do have a nice modern feel and, let’s face it, are far more interesting to look at than most of the twee houses you normally find on British housing estates.

In a country with a big shortage of affordable housing, these are winners in my book. Watch the video below to see these being put together; it shows that whilst the building of Rome in a day was highly unlikely, constructing a modest family home isn’t outside the realms of possibility.

 Article found on The Contemporist