The home’s entertainment potential is equally alluring. The private backyard offers areas for reflection, relaxation, and recreation, with a lavender garden, a saltwater pool, a built-in concrete table/firepit, and a Zen patio with dining table and outdoor kitchen, surrounded by lush landscaping from award-winning landscape designer Rob Steiner.

On the twentieth floor of a 1930’s Central Park West building, this space combines two apartments, creating a horizontal volume that slices through the base of the tower, releasing two views on three sides—east to Central Park, south to the Manhattan skyline, and west to the New Jersey Palisades. These extensive views and low ceilings [...]

This was an opportunity, since I was the client to reject earlier precedents and investigate new ideas without third party constraints. The transformation of this typical 2,500 sf, Fifth Avenue apartment into a spatially complex pavilion marks the first time that the notions of axial rotation and object/frame are simultaneous and uniform, both in terms [...]

This is also a Modern Architecture Casa no Geres House that is easy to love from certain perspectives and from others, it looks quite unsuitable for its surroundings. From some angles, the house seems like an accident, some kind of a mishap with transportation containers and building materials. One part of the building is [...]

Architects: Dellekamp arquitectos + Juan Pablo Maza
Location: Colonia Polanco, Mexico DF, Mexico
Project Leader: Juan Pablo Maza
Project Team: Aisha Ballesteros, Aline Wallach, Arais Reyes, Sandra Ortiz, Verónica Alatorre
Program: Apartment Building
Project Year: 2003-2006
Photographs: Dante Busquets & Oscar Necoechea
This building has 3 apartments looking onto the street as well as a 2-story house in the back that looks [...]