A historic Pelton Victorian Cottage survived the 1906 earthquake and fires only to be almost completely destroyed by a fire in 2013. Into this near blank slate we designed a “house within a house”, creating a two story volume and light shelf to bounce southern daylight between le … | Continue reading
This concrete and glass residence is a particular souvenir for the architect Pierre Minassian and his architecture studio AUM based in Lyon, France – a peculiar challenge of an exceptional construction of a home sculpted from concrete and glass perched on top of a lake. | Continue reading
The Casa TEC 205 is located very close to the Chipinque ecological park, an urban landscape dominated by the Sierra Madre, omnipresent backdrop to the city of Monterrey. This house is the first prize in a raffle organized every year by the Technological University of Monterrey | Continue reading
Our proposal is amplifying an early 20th century atmosphere whilst keeping the NoD Café signature; the pompous central bar under the floating Jiri David’s Golden bones sculpture and the elevated seating area. | Continue reading
Union Wharf is a mid terrace canal side property built within the footprint of a converted factory building. It is located along the Regents Canal in Islington, London. | Continue reading
When Stijn and Annemie bought the listed school façade (anno 1908) with the vacant piece of land behind, they were already the fourth owners in a row. This bright family home was designed by Atelier Vens Vanbelle. | Continue reading
This small glass cabin is a research prototype for a comfortable if elementary retreat in a tense juxtaposition with harsh surrounding environment. The project, initiated by Guardian Glass is challenging thermal and structural abilities of glass. | Continue reading
McElroy Residence is an expansive series of spaces underneath a giant floating horizontal plane which is supported on stone masses, wood walls, and slender steel columns. | Continue reading
Coconut Pasteleria borns from the respect to the technique and the artisan quality of the pastry work, praising it with a language that goes towards the most contemporary confectionery. | Continue reading
Woodside Residence is a family home designed by Charlie Barnett Associates Architects in California, United States. Wedged between a creek setback and a country road the site was endowed with the natural beauty of this pristine setting. | Continue reading
The Linden Street Apartments in San Francisco’s changing Hayes Valley neighborhood is a ground-up building project fully completed through in-house labor by Webb Construction in 2015. | Continue reading
This minimalist contemporary home is a two-storey townhouse of 2,200 square feet, located in Montreal, and proposes a different version of the single-family housing in an urban environment. | Continue reading
The concept of layout in this project is generated from this Chinese character “永”. This Taipei small apartment was designed recently by Ganna Studio Design. | Continue reading
The all-Russian coffee-house format "Coffee With Yourself" with a new design of Red Cup Maxim Gorky was opened in Perm (Ural, Russia). Above the interior worked Saranin Artemy from the studio ALLARTSDESIGN (Russia, Perm). | Continue reading
The Okada Marshall House is comprehensive tribute to wood: for its efficient and ambitious engineered wood structure, for its delicate yet robust courtyard screening, and for its hard-wearing traditional board and batten cladding that will last hundreds of years. | Continue reading
Greetings from the Telli bio-boutique from Kazakhstan. Telli is located in Almaty city and comprises cosmetics & perfume shop, organic cafe, art gallery, homeopathic pharmacy and skin care cabinet. | Continue reading
Located an hour east of Toronto, Ganaraska house occupies a 65-acre site amidst the peaceful green fields of this Southwestern Ontario agricultural region, adjacent to a large conservation forest. | Continue reading
This apartment is located in the oldest part of Barcelona, in an ancient building that dates back to the 13th century, in the neighborhood known as Born. Apartment Complete Rehabilitation in Barcelona, Spain. | Continue reading
Casa dos Patios project aimed to refurbish an eighteenth-century urban villa, located in one of the most charismatic streets of the city center, featured by a mixture of commerce, services and housing uses. | Continue reading
After many years in state of abandon, the Musico apartment was an empty shell when it was bought by the client, creating numerous opportunities but also challenges to the design team. | Continue reading
This Lake Michigan beach house courts efficiency from multiple angles – quite literally. A splayed floor plan opens views to the water and horizon, and divides public and private spaces into insulated zones to condition only those areas that are in use. | Continue reading
Modern Benches Home designed by Imbue Design in Utah. In the Olympus Cove neighborhood of Salt Lake City one runs into a dilemma... one that an architect loves to have: to the east towers the majestic Mount Olympus adorned with shrub oak and mountain mahogany ... | Continue reading
The Charm Townhouse, owned by the Charm-Long Family, has been designed in the historic neighborhood of Neve Tzedek, Tel-Aviv, as an addition to an existing old house originally built at the beginning of the last century. | Continue reading
South Beach loft in San Francisco designed by Fiedler Marciano Architecture. The owners of this residential loft space in the South Beach section of downtown San Francisco, fell in love with the building’s industrial ‘bones’; concrete walls, wood ceilings, factory-style windows a … | Continue reading
Two houses in one: independent and interdependent. Two open links that string together in a horizontal 8, symbol of the infinite, of eternal return. | Continue reading
Greenacres is Austin Maynard Architects first completed project in New South Wales. Unable to save the original dilapidated house, a new home was constructed on the steep block, a topography that set new and exciting challenges. | Continue reading
A winner of the 2017 AZ People's Choice Awards, Strata House is a 30,000 sq. ft. residential project that was inspired by hillside mid-century modern homes in California. The design begins with the excavation of the property’s landscape to create a series of curved vineyard-like … | Continue reading
Waterworks Presentation Centre - A recent winner at the World Interior News Awards, Cecconi Simone Inc.’s presentation centre for Waterworks – a mixed-use condominium project in downtown Toronto – offered a fleeting glimpse of beauty and a preview of what’s to come. | Continue reading
alma-nac managed to construct the Slim House, on budget and within these tight constraints. The characteristic sloped roof greatly reduces the cost of construction, with staggered rooflights providing views out while ensuring light penetrates to the centre of the property. | Continue reading
The Pool Villa in the ground, the nature in the house. A house-shaped white shell is the space embrace the nature. The residential space lower than the ground level enables a variety of spatial experiences through the skip floor planning. | Continue reading
Large glazed sliding doors allow the Gitarren House to seamlessly segue onto the revitalised deck, looking out to the view and the subtropical garden surrounds. | Continue reading
This artificial geography allows this contemporary concrete house areas to approach the trees to enjoy the visual, wind and shade of the morning, likewise, these are supported in the private areas of the house, concentrating on a mass to avoid radiation direct sunlight in the aft … | Continue reading
The Buena Vista Park residence dating back to 1906 is perched on a hill in the geographic center of the city, opposite San Francisco's oldest park and with views stretching to the Farallons. | Continue reading
This Menlo Park Residence for developer Joseph Eichler was not site sensitive. The new Owners yearned for a closer connection to their yard both physically and visually. They also needed space for their young family and the older generation as well. | Continue reading
The Galisteo House successfully translates the language of centuries-old southwestern residential design into contemporary values of spatial simplicity, sculptural form, and honesty of materials. | Continue reading
This home is part of a co-housing community in rural Virginia and is located on a steeply sloping site with distant mountain views. This modern farmhouse retreat is a modern interpretation of the traditional white clapboard farmhouse and red barn that populate the neighboring cou … | Continue reading
Part of the South Market Street Historic District, the Ely Historic Building was built in 1903 as the home and office for Dr. S. M. Miller who was instrumental in early 20th century state legislation requiring all physicians to be licensed. | Continue reading
The refurbishment and transformation of an 18th century coach house and protected structure to accommodate an assisted living unit for an extremely disabled young adult and her carers on the ground floor. | Continue reading
Color Blocking House designed by Yuriy Zimenko Design Studio. Often interiors are created based on a certain palette. Yuri Zimenko in this case went the opposite way. Each room has its own specific color, and the atmosphere in it is built on a subtle game of shades and nuances. | Continue reading
Sluice Point house is located on the southern tip of Nova Scotia within the Argyle Municipality of Yarmouth County. The site is located on a forested high point, adjacent to long, low-lying views of marshland, small islands, and the waters of the Tusket River off the Gulf of Main … | Continue reading
The Yard House born of the place, the reflection and the search of a typological purification. The form is the result of these premises, the creation of two volumes that respond to the simplification of the original home of the village. Is this form, too, that resolves interior o … | Continue reading
Located in the vibrant back streets of Fitzroy, Melbourne, King Bill house is the renovation and extension of a double story terrace house and neighbouring garden. | Continue reading
A new addition for this young family prompted a major change to their living environment – a contemporary double storey house off a laneway in one of Melbourne’s inner-city suburbs. | Continue reading
The Elements is a private new build house in Hampshire, completed in early 2017 by Winchester based architects AR Design Studio. Adjacent to the stunning River Hamble and its popular marina, it is nestled within meadows rich in native wildlife. | Continue reading
Big Cabin | Little Cabin strives to embody the character and sensation of a traditional cabin, and tell the story of one particular family, all within a purely modern framework. | Continue reading
The owner of this Brooklyn Heights townhouse envisioned a beautiful but comfortable single family home that could last for generations and facilitate their busy lifestyle. | Continue reading
In Barcelona, a metamorphosis of a small apartment of 46 m² (151 ft) into a bright contemporary spatial experience, reminds us that the natural light is the supreme of all architectural materials. | Continue reading
The design of this house is exciting in many ways. It is Manhattan’s first Certified Passive House, Certified LEED for Home Platinum and it is in a NYC Landmark district. | Continue reading