The designer’s description The space is designed in minimalist Scandinavian eco aesthetics with industrial elements. The ground floor of this three story penthouse includes an entrance hall, spacious living room, dining area, kitchen, guest bathroom and laundry area under the stairs. The second floor houses three bedrooms (nursery, master and guest bedrooms) and a sha...
This draws natural light deep into the floor plates and enriches the new residential use. Located in a north-west London courtyard tucked between a Victorian terrace and main railway lines, this landlocked site presented a great design challenge. Our task was to convert and remodel a run-down industrial compound from the 1950’s into contemporary residential accommoda...
The architect’s description The guesthouse is situated in a large holiday home area, which is characterised by many new traditional holiday cottages. These are often constructed in timber, as is also the case with the small guesthouse. The objective with guesthouse is to add some extra space to an existing holiday cottage and thereby acquire additional living space. Th...
On the fringe of Melbourne’s inner suburbs, this new family home sits in an established residential street of Victorian villas and Californian bungalows. From the footpath, the Fairfield Hacienda with its angled roof fits into the landscape of single-level homes, effortlessly picking up the street’s original pattern of hipped and gabled roof forms. A closer look however...
The designer’s description MIA Design Studio was commissioned to redesign the mock up house of the Indochina Villas Saigon; a prime lifestyle community consisting of 114 luxury villas set in a strategically located 8 hectare parcel of land in Ho Chi Minh City. The entire concept has been thoughtfully designed to harmoniously integrate with the surrounding tropical land...
The original building was a garment factory, and is historically protected, thus the extent of the refurbishment was limited to strictly interior improvements, with the exception of a duplex penthouse addition to the roof. The interiors are rich with wood, steel, and concrete, recalling the original industrial function of the building. The duplex penthouse revolves aroun...
Located near the shore of Long Island’s Gold Coast, this light-filled home combines a renovated 19th century farmhouse with a new wood and glass addition cantilevered above an existing stone wall. A new terraced garden wraps around the extension connecting the lower and upper yards. Some key features include: – Custom board-formed concrete fireplace separates the livi...
It is close to downtown but quiet, near to an apartment complex, elementary school, and Nogyang station. This house is for three generations: three children, a couple, and their old mother. Each of them wanted their own room, and also has enough room for their basic living space, but the site area was 147㎡, which was pretty small. Besides, they had money for the buil...
Introverted on the edge of the cliffs, it protects itself from the winds and the ocean spray. Inside, piles of books are stacked in every corner and recess. The rhythm of the day is marked by the turning of pages and punctuated by the comings and goings of the house cats. The occupants feel cramped and not isolated enough. They desire a place where they can read, writ...
The clients, a young professional couple with 2 children, wanted a modern look that wasn’t cold and clinical, they wanted their home to be somewhere they could relax and entertain, but at the same time would function as a practical family home. The family had bought the house new and over time had come to recognize that it did not fulfill their wishes as to how they w...
The building is designed to be part of the rural setting, it is raised off the ground and sits beside the original woolshed, which has served the bay since the early 1900's. The bach is rugged yet welcoming and offers unpretentious shelter, it is the type of place where you kick off your shoes and don't need to worry whether you walk sand through the house. The bach i...
This 2014 built home aims to feature a cohesive design aesthetic specific to Calgary- a multicultural society - that would both honor the historic neighborhood where it’s located and celebrate modern design. This concept is carried out through the use of natural historic finishes, simplistic forms, and the use of iconic cultural elements. Through the use of color, and a ...
The site the chose is in the West Plaza area, directly off of a large park and is a narrow corner lot with southern exposure. They wanted to keep the feel of a loft in their new home and incorporate Tad’s home office. The budget was modest. We paid particular attention to keeping framing and processes standard while maximizing their potential. The design maximizes the...
The main goal was to integrate traditional furniture within a modern setting, that would complement the classic architecture of the house. In this home, the main idea of the project by was to create modern and elegant space, by combining the feeling, elements and traditional furniture forms from the Italian renaissance architecture together. Natural elements, finest m...
The main challenge: to transform the small, dark and enclosed rooms of this 150-year-old home into a bright and fluid space. Rather than just opening everything up, we preferred working on relationships between spaces. Views and alignments are created, providing an open feel while preserving the intimacy of the house under the eaves. The separation of the areas is cle...
A small area of 40 square metres once used as a workshop then converted to a temporary housing. The restoration of this space involved the reorganisation of the internal partitions and furnishing. It also eliminated water penetration and dampness as well as protection against periodic ”acqua alta” ( high tide) using technical elements. Hydraulic engineering and technica...
The site falls away from the street and visitor enter on the first floor level of the front of pavilion. They are met with a two storey light-filled living space and views to a private landscaped courtyard below. A large and meandering swimming pool is the focus of the central courtyard. Two two-storey pavilions linked along the west side with an enclosed gallery at...
The bottom level is a mix of colored glass tiles that gives the appearance of lightness and incandescence. Cantilevering on 3 sides, the top level is sculpted to express openings and finished quietly to exaggerate its weight over the bottom level. The 2nd floor is an expansive and complex composition of intersecting ceiling planes, framed openings and ocean views. Maj...
The project was created out of the desire of the owner to which will result in a harmonious blend between modern and classic elements while maintaining a continuous relationship between inside and out. As part of the architectural perception of the structure, it was decided to build on two buildings. One building contains on the ground floor, the living room and upst...
StudioLAB was presented with the challenge of re‐designing the space to fit a modern family’s lifestyle today with the flexibility to adjust as they evolve into their tomorrow. The existing formal closed kitchen and dining room were combined and opened up to allow the owners to entertain in an open living environment and allow natural light to permeate throughout differe...
A lot of attention was given to the main circulation and, to simplify its functionality, a vertical axis located in the house’s entrance was created. The stairs, encased with Saint Cecilia granite and weathering steel with glass banisters, are a centerpiece and a protagonist in this massive renovation. The new layout was led by clients’ new demands of space. The groun...
South facing glazing in the living room provides views across a seven acre lake, and is also integral to the passive solar design which generates heat when coupled with the concrete finish floors. Additional sustainable features include a fresh water cistern supplied by a natural spring that runs along the building site; electricity generated by a solar cell array; and ...
And to keep the focus intact and have as less of drama as possible everywhere else. The emphasis here was more on interior architecture rather than interior decoration. Barring the external façade the whole of the internal layout was revamped to suit the needs of the clients in this house situated in a highend gated community of Hyderabad. An open barrierless groun...
This left the pre-existing house as a communal space with a kitchen, study, visitor’s bathroom and living room. The original house was exposed to the outside in order to link the interior with its landscape. The new project needed to be a more private and independent space, in keeping with the pre-existing construction. The rectangular floor plan measuring 10 × 6 meters...
Portuguese studio Contaminar Arquitectos designed the residence for a long narrow plot in Texugueira, a village located north of Leiria. Named Texugueira House, the 233-square-metre building flanks a retaining wall that extends north to south along the eastern boundary of the site. A corridor follows this wall and forms the house's main axis. The three blocks all sit i...
Suspended over a steeply sloping hillside in La Calera, a lakeside town approximately 35 kilometres west of Córdoba, the single-storey house was designed to suit the varying topography of its site and the hot Argentinian summers. Unable to find a level ground surface, local architects Carlos Viale and Beviglia considered excavating part of the site but were worried abou...
Named Casa T&G, the two-storey home is located in the centre of Rosario – a city in the Santa Fe district of Argentina. Nicolás Campodonico conceived the house as a concrete volume sandwiched between two courtyards. The first of these is screened from the road by a faceted concrete facade, while a glazed wall flanks a second one at the rear. A combination of prefab...
Kyoto office Alphaville designed the faceted building in Shiga Prefecture as a workspace for a painter and designer, and as a home for the couple and their young son. "It is a space where they can spend a whole day with their only son, and will be used to regularly exhibit works as a gallery and to host parties," explained Alphaville. Corrugated metal cladding cove...
The youCUBE scheme was developed by local firm 5468796 Architecture for a 19- by 80-metre site on the city's Waterfront Drive that sits within a neglected industrial neighbourhood alongside the Red River. Working with a developer that specialises in building custom homes, the team designed a modular system of standard units that combine to form properties of different s...
The architect, who runs an architecture studio called Coil, was tasked with renovating the small city-centre residence for its new owners – a young couple. He began by trying to the trace the building's history, but no records could be found to reveal its age. "The only thing we could find was that the house was renovated in the same year as the Olympics were held in ...
Sheets of pale plywood were added by NAAD to the walls, floors and ceilings of the timber-framed property, creating a transient home called Ephemeral House for a client in his 20s. The plywood is left untreated throughout and the space is largely unfurnished, intended to give the appearance of a property that hasn't been finished. "The surface of the wood constitut...
Francesco Librizzi was asked to insert the new staircase as part of the renovation of an old fisherman's cottage in Cefalù – a city on Sicily's northern coast – owned by a journalist who writes for Italian newspaper La Repubblica. The stairs link the property's two storeys and provide access to a tiled roof terrace that overlooks the city and Tyrrhenian Sea. The st...
Kichi Architectural Design designed the two-storey home for a couple and their three children in Tsukuba, a city 40 miles outside Tokyo. While the home has been given the name Circle House, it gives the impression of having three rectangular floors. According to the architect, the name originates from the building's layered form, which is intended to represent the circu...
The properties, completed by JYA-rchitects between 2013 and 2014, are located in the country's southern provinces and were developed in collaboration with non-profit organisation The Child Fund Korea. The young team used the project as an opportunity to hone their architectural skills, while also providing a service to people in need. "There were people living in quite...
The extension to a 1930s property on Della Torre Crescent, in the city's Ivanhoe neighbourhood, was designed to provide a new kitchen, dining room, living area, bedroom and bathroom for a family of five. As the existing house was still in good condition, Andrew Maynard Architects chose to add a structure with an extruded shape onto the rear wall to improve the link with...
Dublin office GKMP Architects – whose previous work includes an angular house extension clad in white glazed tiles and another covered in tiles that resemble brickwork – designed the extension to create more practical space at the rear of an 1860s house in the suburb of Rathmines. The owners asked the architects to remodel the ground floor area of an annex that projects...
