The Sosnowski Residence by Chen + Suchart Studio
Phoenix based Chen + Suchart Studio designed this home in Tempe, Arizona.
The home is currently being offered for sale – here.
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Phoenix based Chen + Suchart Studio designed this home in Tempe, Arizona.
The home is currently being offered for sale – here.
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Adam on 23 Jul 2009 at 7:19 am #
I would have preferred the timber on the front a darker stain. Also the bottomless cube above the porch could’ve been utilised as a balcony. Otherwise, an interesting house!
Joe on 23 Jul 2009 at 8:38 am #
It’s nice but, is a bit cold. needs more plants and what not.
Bill Brown on 23 Jul 2009 at 11:30 am #
And knickknacks. Don’t forget the knickknacks.
architect on 23 Jul 2009 at 3:21 pm #
I could see a cold house being a good thing in Arizona. Very well done. Love the stairs.
Emily G. on 23 Jul 2009 at 5:06 pm #
There’s no such thing as “cold” in Arizona.
People die from the heat in Arizona.
mike w on 23 Jul 2009 at 5:35 pm #
an ikea chair in that house? maybe the budget was tight when they got around to furnishings
Emily G. on 23 Jul 2009 at 6:33 pm #
Is there something wrong with IKEA?
This is a modern house, and IKEA make modern furniture. Seems consistent to me.
shlog on 23 Jul 2009 at 10:00 pm #
Those chairs are the most comfortable i’ve ever sat in.
mark f on 23 Jul 2009 at 11:59 pm #
well done
Rudy on 24 Jul 2009 at 12:48 am #
People check this site to see inspiring architecture and design which Ikea is not!
Saying this I can easily ignore a few Ikea furnishings if the general concept and execution is great.
LosCA on 24 Jul 2009 at 2:37 pm #
Love the house/architecture! Cold is good for AZ. Not to sound snobby, but Tempe, ehh. I would have rather of seen this home in Scottsdale or Paradise Valley. I also agree with some of the other posts about the IKEA chairs. If worked in properly, it can work/no problem. However, in this situation, it looks like the owners went in over their heads on a home the couldn’t really afford (sadly, only $1M), and then took the cheap route with IKEA chairs & knock-off stools in the kitchen area. Totally obvious these stools are not the Lapalma LEM piston stools, which again, seems to cheapen the look of everything the house could offer. But as it stands, the home itself is awesome! We’ll just pretend not to look at the interior furnishings & Tempe, AZ location.
LosCA on 24 Jul 2009 at 2:43 pm #
To reiterate, I have no problem at all with the home/architecture! The problems lie in the current home owners, which is not what this article/posting is about. So if my last comment seemed to slam the actual topic at hand (the home/design/architecture) please don’t take it the wrong way. As I was only giving the harsh comments on an off topic. It’s not the designers/architects fault for the owners wanting this GEM to be built in Tempe. Nor is it their fault as to how they chose to furnish/decorate.
Emily G. on 24 Jul 2009 at 3:17 pm #
You all need to learn about house staging.
This house is for sale. The furnishing are probably from a staging company that just puts some furniture in there so it’s not empty when people interested in buying the house come to see it.
There’s nothing wrong with the furniture anyways, even if it wasn’t staged.
The point of this house is obviously not the furniture, so why are you all dwelling on that subject? Get over it. Focus on the architecture.
slim on 24 Jul 2009 at 3:45 pm #
People need to give Tempe a break. It’s a college town, and a nice one – ASU is a beautiful, modern-southwest style campus. Everyone knows that Gammage Auditorium, just about within visual distance of this home, is a Frank Lloyd Wright.
Also, it seems to me that not long ago, the Hayden Ferry Lakeside condos were featured on this website – barely more than a block away up Mill ave! There is plenty of modern architecture in the blocks north from this address. LosCA, the owners weren’t totally out to lunch in their construction here – a drive around the area and you would understand better.
The only troubles with this location is that the rest of the immediate neighborhood is quite old and many of the homes are in disrepair, and its proximity to train tracks that are VERY active.
greg.org on 25 Jul 2009 at 2:12 pm #
the comps in the neighborhood are HORRIBLE, like less than 1/3 the $950,000 they’re asking. probably because, as slim points out, they’re old and would be in tear-down condition. If anyone were tearing down houses in Arizona these days.
There’s some irony here, in that the design is a really nicely done update on the Eameses original Case Study concept, using off-the-shelf industrial materials in a residential setting. That should make it cheaper and easier to build. And yet it’s still economically unsustainable to build a modernist house like this.
Also, maybe that Ikea chair is really the Alvar Aalto chair Ikea ripped off in the first place?
Brillo on 25 Jul 2009 at 7:59 pm #
This house is just horribly out of place. Nevermind the surrounding houses and geography (not that those aren’t equally bad)… but that much unshaded glass, cement, and black steel framing in someplace like Tempe is ludicrous. This if like plopping down a bamboo and thatch hut in the middle of Ontario.
No doubt whoever ends up buying it will be able to afford it, but come on… one can design modern architecture that still has some connection to the place it’s built.
Andrew on 30 Jul 2009 at 10:10 pm #
This is my dream house. I’m in love.
rob on 03 Aug 2009 at 4:23 pm #
Brillo,
You got it right. Unshaded glass, no overhangs, exposed steel frame(thermal bridging) But don’t worry, they probably have a huge A/C unit…bad design.
Andrew E on 11 Sep 2009 at 6:01 am #
Love this design!! Great modern design with a bit of an industrial feeling to it.
Carey De Witt on 17 Mar 2010 at 11:46 am #
I came to this place since this particular house attracted me. I briefly read through some of the comments. In my view A LOT of very good architecture is out of place because there just is more bad architecture in the world. I like smaller homes personally with a tad more warmth. Cutting the costs down is even better.