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truss wall house
In their second house, which they completed in 1993, Ushida Findlay used a labor-intensive construction technique, where an inner truss frame is covered with wire mesh and filled with concrete.
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echo chamber house
In the first house the pair designed together, spirals provided both the generative idea and the form-making technique: The architects evoked Tokyo's plan with fractal geometry.
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soft and hairy house
Glass portholes allow light into the bathroom at the center of the house, which takes its name from salvador Dali's prediction that the architecture of the future would be soft and hairy. |
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billiard house
The owner of Ushida Findlay's most recent building, completed last year, requested a design that would liven up Nagoya's shopping district. The billiard shop on the first floor steps up gradually toward the rear of the building, offering a complex, dynamic view from the street; the top two floors are residential. |
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homes for the future
Ushida Findlay's apartment building will bring a bit of soft hairiness to an area that has been described as Glasgow's South Bronx. The project was commissioned as part of an ambitious building program for Glasgow 1999, the city's yearlong celebration of architecture and design. |
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