Seemingly a traditional japanese dwelling from the outside, the inside is far from ordinary. yamada intentionally left parts of the interior unfinished so that as the seasons change, as well as the families who live there, so does the home. the ever-evolving space is distinctly defined by the top, tree house floor. designed specifically for the addition of any number ...
The sloping site affords many opportunities to enjoy the immediate and distant surroundings but was not being benefited from with their current home. the invermay house is a three dimensional composition of board-form concrete, wood, and glass that offers more space, more efficient sustainable features and a design more integrated with the unique landscape. the edges of ...
located in the japanese prefecture of fukushima, this dwelling designed by life style koubou uses timber slats to delineate internal space. named ‘triangle house’, the two level property contains living accommodation at ground floor level, with a tatami room joining a kitchen and a dining space. above, a lofted area boasts additional floor space with an office found in a...
A red brick wall spans the gap between two crumbling facades on a street in Catalonia, hiding a home by H Arquitectes with two courtyards and a central garden Wooden gates slide back from the lower storey of the brick facade, situated just outside Barcelona in the centre of the old city of Granollers, into an enclosed patio and parking area to the rear of House 1014 by ...
This trapezoidal house in Toronto by LGA Architectural Partners features stark white interiors to frame its owner's art collections and create a projection screen for a light installation Local architects LGA Architectural Partners built the unusually shaped block, named Garden House, for a client who wanted to downsize from her large Edwardian house in Tortono's west ...
German studio Franken Architekten milled a pattern of squiggly lines into the outer surface of this house and studio in Frankfurt's old town, replicating the outline of timbers from the building it replaced. Franken Architekten was asked to oversee the renovation of a traditional building in the protected Sachsenhausen neighbourhood, but the discovery of dry rot in the ...
A sauna is housed within this wooden hut by Andre Tchelistcheff Architects, which perches on a grassy knoll overlooking the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains in upstate New York The boxy timber structure, comprising a sauna, changing facilities and a pump room for a hot tub is topped by a flat earthen roof. The ashen tones of the wooden planks that clad the exterior c...
Japanese studio Alphaville raised the base of this Osaka house up on crooked stilts, revealing the complex arrangement of rooms, bridges and lightwells contained within (+ slideshow). The Dig in the Sky house is a three-storey family residence. Its name refers to its unusual composition – three similar-sized blocks bridged by suspended corridors and staircases, framing ...
Pietri Architects has driven a deep pink ravine through the heart of this apartment complex in southern France, creating a protected rooftop garden for residents. Named after the vivid pink-red paintwork that brackets its central garden, the Redline apartment block was designed by Parisian studio Pietri Architectes to create 59 flats of varying sizes, split across two ...
When Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects designed the remodel of this house in Piedmont, California, they included a bathtub in the master bathroom that looks like a large bowl embedded into the floor.
From the architect The project site is located along the shoreline at the intersection of a residential neighborhood and an industrial marine zone. Many of the neighboring facilities are clad in corrugated metal and the building uses this material and cedar siding in order to blend into the existing context. Perforated metal panels are used to form translucent screen...
Completed in late 2014, this new home is located within an established residential suburb of Brisbane over looking a beautiful treed golf course. It has been designed for a golf loving, retired couple who like to entertain their large family that visit regularly from Brisbane and abroad. The design aims to take advantage of the golf course outlook beginning from the f...
Local studio FCC Arquitectura gutted two farm buildings in the Porto municipality of Felgueiras to free up space for the new two-storey home, named Casa RM. Given the poor condition of the aged buildings, the architects decided to demolish everything behind the thick outer stone walls and insert a new structure within. A further white block extends from the upper stor...
Children's bedrooms and play spaces take over the partially exposed subterranean floor of this house completed by Scandinavian firm CF Møller on the edge of a wood in Aarhus, Denmark . Named Villa R, the 300-square-metre family residence is made up of two square storeys. The upper floor, raised just above ground level, contains the main living spaces and master bedroom, ...
This rust-coloured copper home extension by British studio Poulsom Middlehurst sits above the red-brick walls and clay-tiled roof of a Victorian terrace in east London. Poulsom Middlehurst extended and refurbished the top floor flat inside a Victorian property in Clapton, east London. The one-bedroom flat had previously been spread over two floors, with an uninhabitable...
Architect Fernando Menis has developed a concept for a residential tower complex with rock-like walls, a cavernous swimming pool and plants growing out of every crevice. Proposed for a site in Taipei, Taiwan, Agora Garden was designed by Tenerife-based Fernando Menis as a way to bring nature back into the city, by combining it with domestic environments. "This housin...
This small black family house in Copenhagen was designed by Danish architect Sigurd Larsen to be built for a budget of just £95,000. Sigurd Larsen, who is based in Berlin, designed the 80-square-metre building as an affordable residence for a family of three, but also as a prototype for low-cost housing in the Danish capital. Named Sorte Hus, which translates as Blac...
Swedish architect Tommy Carlsson has completed an affordable prefabricated home near Stockholm that is clad in corrugated iron and resembles a cube with some of its corners cut off (+ slideshow). Tommy Carlsson developed the Happy Cheap home as a prototype for a low-cost and space-efficient update of the prefabricated homes that are common throughout Sweden's suburbs. ...
Wooden walls concertina across open-plan living areas to subdivide this renovated stone house and extension by Spanish office XLMS (+ slideshow). XLMS refurbished and extended the two-storey 19th century house in Mallorca, called Ca s'Ametller, adding a steel and polycarbonate-clad extension to the stone structure to accommodate further bedrooms, living spaces and an ar...
Reclamation of the site & Confrontation of modern and tradition The site is located in the outer Bukchon nearby the designated cultural properties of Seoul city like rampart of Seoul. Hyehwamun, Kim Sang Hyeop's House. Many Korean-style houses are existed till now, but remained houses are removed at that with the housing development prevalence of multi-family house last ...
Skycourt is the result of an extensive renovation to a “bubble era” semi-detached house located just a few blocks from Tokyo’s business district. Originally of two storey, the floor plan was rearranged to create comfortable living for a family of four. The southern façade was opened and an internal courtyard punched into the second floor sending natural light through...
Originally commissioned to design a new home for a young family who had purchased the site, Standard found a way to maintain as much of the existing structure as possible, both minimizing code complications and the environmental footprint of the project. “Hidden House is the perfect example of how incorporating an existing structure can actually be the key to a successfu...
Project description This Washington Park Residence sits on a bluff overlooking Lake Washington with views of the Eastside and Cascades beyond. The house takes advantage of the site by contrasting mass and transparency to capture broad, unobstructed views while preserving privacy. Thick, thermally insulated concrete walls are layered and modulated on the street sid...
From the architect This new house is built on a tight urban site, perched on the edge of a cliff 100 metres above the ocean. The wedge shaped block has a due north-south aspect with neighboring buildings very close to the boundaries on the east west. Large fin walls divide the separate functions of entrance and circulation from the living areas and garden, providing ...
From the architect This design was conceived as a modular concept with eight reusable 40’ High Cube containers, united by a central two-story module that serves as the unifying element for the rest of the spaces. This articulating space is highly versatile and can serve various purposes, both as a social area and workspace: the house “gets dressed and undressed” acc...
Shaun Lockyer Architects have designed Mackay Terrace, a contemporary house in Brisbane, Australia. From the architect Mackay Terrace is a progressive, contemporary reinterpretation of character vernacular architecture situated on a steep, inner-city Brisbane site. The house explores an industrial aesthetic along with ideas of transparency and volume to creatively ar...
The first level of the property is articulated around a frangipani tree that sits in the middle of a pond framed by a timber clad box. the home’s second storey lies over the dining area and in front of the master bedroom, while the full height glass façade facing the courtyard is screened by interlocking vertical and horizontal timber members. the courtyard not only offe...
As the impressively tall residential building, the 80-storey high-rise is the extraordinary outcome of the collaboration between outstanding architects, engineers and landscape designers. The building’s contours are reminiscent of the beautiful waves of the sea at Haeundae and of a fully opened lotus flower, the symbol of prosperity. The Zenith is not only an aesthet...
This residential house is introduced from the ambient surrounding and the conditions of site planning. In winter seasons, the strong west wind (the fall wind of Ibuki) blows in this area. So it is the plan of suppressing the load of the building by extending its roof up to the close to the ground soil and fending off cold winds at the roof.In summer seasons, it is the...
A common issue to address in the design of a detached house is the relationship of the internal to external areas and how do we achieve privacy in a fairly densely built up environment. The particular issues relating to this site were as follows. Firstly the site was narrow (10m wide) and long (50m). Secondly it was originally a semi-detached house and was able to be ...
Flexhouse 2 provides affordable, efficient, contemporary living in an attached row home format - a novelty in the Windy City. This 31-unit development occupies a fullblock site located in the emerging Logan Square neighborhood, just 10 minutes from the Chicago loop. The project encourages a higher density urban fabric than the typical Chicago single-family house allo...
Designed by Helsinki-based Sanaksenaho Architects, Boat House forms part of the Chinese International Practical Exhibition of Architecture (CIPEA) programme – a showcase of modern architecture in a forest near Nanjing, which includes also projects by Wang Shu, SANAA, David Adjaye and Ai Weiwei. Matti and Pirjo Sanaksenaho designed a four-storey house that works with the...
This wooden summerhouse raised off the forest floor on three concrete beams was designed by architect Johan Sundberg for a patch of woodland by the Swedish coastline. Swedish studio Johan Sundberg Arkitektur planned the summertime retreat for a couple with two children in Beddingestrand, on Sweden's southern coast. Named Sommarhus Akenine, the cabin consists of a singl...
Like the facets of the mineral emerging from the depths of the earth, the salient faces of the Cristal are neither parallel nor identical. Like a diamond releasing its brilliance and sparkle in a play of mirrors between its different facets, the Cristal lamp gives off an astonishing luminous intensity. Behind this object of apparent simplicity hides a complex geometry: t...
The stylish properties at One Percy Lane occupy what once was a car park, conveniently close to the Grand Canal in central Dublin. In stark contrast to the surrounding area's Georgian and Victorian properties, ODOS opted for a modern design in metal, creating a short row of terraces, which read as a robust single volume. The three-storey height is tempered slightly by...
On the corner of Theresienstraße and Türkenstraße in Munich, the first Munich multi-storey apartment house was built in the 1950s by architect and designer Sep Ruf. The design was completely different from the usual standards: the narrow, 7-storey building still impresses with its openness to the outside and its brightness. As a homage to Sep Ruf’s building, the architec...
