A large disk, with a mirror on the surface, slides across to reveal the laundry chute that goes straight to the laundry room on a lower floor.
The designer’s description Conjoined to its immediate neighbor on one side, this semi-detached house in Singapore separates from its neighbour at the other, by a mere 4 meters. Local planning regulations stipulates this minimum 4 meter wide airspace, which often becomes the maximum as owners more often than not, build to the broadest allowable width on the typicall...
The designer’s description This wonderful home has been designed with a holistic approach, creating positive spaces to suit a contemporary lifestyle. Once a single story 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom house, this simple Victorian has been transformed into a double story 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, modern yet classic Albert Park Home. Spatial planning was the key driver in the...
Further, the comparison between the three spaces gives a great sense of how the style expands, contracts, and adapts to fit different size spaces. Take a look inside these small, medium, and large homes and channel your inner Goldilocks to find the one that might suit your tastes. The first home is awash in white for a fresh, stylish feel. Natural light streams in fro...
The home has an open plan dining/living area, that allows the parents to keep an eye on the children from their offices behind the glass and aluminium partitions seen on the left. The home has a combined dining room and kitchen, with the dining room kept bright, and the kitchen featuring darker materials to define the spaces. Sculptural black pendant lights create ...
Says Addadi, “As the conversion required the creation of a new staircase to the loft, we designed a combined solution that incorporated the staircase and bookcase into a single element.” “A major challenge was the size of the first floor landing, which was only 160cm wide; we aimed to achieve a sense of lightness in this space, despite the introduction of such a large...
The spaces featured here are from the architects at Leqb Architecture. Though each unique in style, the utilize neutral, dark color palettes throughout spaces, creating livable homes of all sizes. These colors truly allow for the occupants of the home to leave their own mark on the design, through the things and people they cherish, rather than through throw pillows and ...
When you enter the home, you are greeted by an open floor plan with the kitchen to the left, and the living room to the right. Connecting the open spaces is the hanging tree that immediately creates a focal point. Highlighted by the skylight above, the hanging planter is suspended using 4 cables that allow it to appear as though it is floating in space.
By simply employing a grid layout and elegant finishes for the hardware-free fronts, the kitchen appears as a paneled focal or art wall. But, at the touch of a button, the central portion’s face raises, revealing a sleek countertop that provides ample prep space and is outfitted with a sink and induction cooktop. Integrated lighting, cantilevered wall shelves or racks, a...
The Mexican architect has designed a low-cost house that can be adapted to suit varying numbers of residents, and can be expanded as a family grows. It can also be altered to suit the variety of climates around the country, by using a variety of materials and spatial layouts. In an exclusive interview, Bilbao said there weren't enough architects developing this kind o...
the functionality of the house in informed by a series of parallel shifting CMU walls that subdivide the site, directing the spaces towards the dropping landscape. the partitions, while remaining open at the ends also provide a certain level of privacy from the other axis, shielding the living spaces from the adjacent homes. small apertures in these walls offer calculate...
Tokyo-based Hugo Kohno Architect Associates designed the three-storey house for a site in Edogawa, an area on the east bank of the Edo River. The client requested a concrete house. But the ground condition in the area is very soft, so a complex structural system that integrates timber had to be developed to achieve this without making the building too heavy. "For a...
Open House, situated in the city's Indies neighbourhood, was transformed by eliminating the entrance hall and placing all functional elements into the piece of furniture that runs along one wall of the ground floor. The space "opened up in the most radical way", Shift co-founder Harm Timmermans told Dezeen. Extending the cabinet by three metres into the private gar...
Set within a 17th-century hotel complex in Japan's Gunma prefecture, Maruhon Ryokan was redesigned by Kubo Tsushima Architects as part of a long-term plan to attract tourists and promote sustainability in the area. "The existing building has been extended and reconstructed many times, and has a complex geometry with connected-accommodations," architect Hidekai Kubo to...
their latest product, the ‘floatwing’, is equally able to function as a romantic getaway for two, or a buoyant mobile house for a group of friends. measuring six meters in width, the modular nature of the house means that its length can be extended to contain up to three bedrooms. traveling at a speed of three knots, the ‘floatwing’ is equipped with two small outboard...
The description from the architect: The building is a very long, carved rectangle that captures a stunning westward view. The house was designed around the idea of a covered, exterior living space, which is open to the view and morning light through a glazed clerestory window band. On the east side, the floor plate is indented in 3 places which brings the landscape ...
The island, made famous by Greek poet Homer in mythological tales the Iliad and the Odyssey, sits off the west coast of mainland Greece in the Ionian Sea and is popular with tourists for its sandy beaches and deep blue waters. Dwek set about creating an island home called Silver House, with bright white walls that would contrast with the colour of the water and frame ...
The architect’s description This substantial alterations and additions project has transformed an elevated and highly exposed west-facing waterfront double block into a private oasis encapsulating the peace and tranquillity of its setting. The disciplines of architecture and interior design have successfully combined to fulfill the client brief to create a home tha...
The description from the designer: The Kipling Residence is a new addition to the Montrose neighborhood of Houston just north of the Menil grounds. Designed for a growing family of five, it allows for generous open family zones oriented to large glass walls facing the street and a courtyard pool. The courtyard also creates a buffer between the master suite and the c...
The designer’s description The Long Island Residence is located in a rural community on the edge of the Long Island Sound. Approximately twenty-five miles from the heart of Manhattan, the area is known as a tranquil counterpoint for daily commuters seeking to escape the city’s frenetic pace. The project is the result of a renovation seeking to both preserve and ref...
A description from Peter Rose + Partners Nestled into the native shrubs on the Martha’s Vineyard coastline, East House’s site-cast concrete façade welcomes the tendrils of coastal vines, while providing a robust face to New England’s coastal weather. The ten-inch thick concrete walls are cast in the form of a collection of concrete boxes, relieved with sustainably ...
The three interiors featured in this post, each from the visualizers at Kuten Studio don't focus on electric colors, but use them as an integral and interesting piece of a larger design. You could not accuse any of these interiors of being boring, nor of feeling cartoonish as these palettes have a danger of becoming. Let's look inside. In the first space, a clean mode...
The 120-year-old storehouse was badly damaged in the Great East Japan Earthquake – which killed almost 16,000 people and damaged over a million buildings when it hit in 2011 – but the client was still keen to preserve the building for future generations. Ryo Matsui and his Tokyo firm rebuilt the structure and renamed it Rebirth House. It now provides a generous living...
Brothers Carlos Ignacio Cruz Elton and Alberto Cruz Elton of Santiago firm Estudio Valdés Arquitectos designed the building as a holiday retreat for their families in a forest that extends along the edge of Lake Ranco. The brothers wanted to make use of the remnants of a large barn they had purchased with two friends in the Aculeo Lagoon region, which was badly affect...
But living by the water in a windmill hitches that dream up a few notches. Sotheby’s Realty is featuring this Essex, Connecticut windmill home with a wrap-around porch that makes it easy to soak in the full beauty of the nearby river. If you’ve got the $1.85 million to spare, the Windmill at Foxworth Point could be your family’s new sanctuary. Originally built in 1967...
based in the middle of the uninterrupted countryside of forest-in-teesdale in country durham, this peaceful english holiday home has a large open-plan kitchen, living room and four bedrooms. dating back to the 1880s, the existing structure was left vacant and in a state of disrepair for a protracted period of time. the conversion project enabled architects and engineers...
formed as three elongated volumes, the spaces within have been organized, designed and naturally lit to provide the family with an enjoyable living to coincide with their day-to-day lifestyle. the uniform façade and roof have been clad in varying materials to giving the building a texture, while timber paneling and fiber-cement panels have been used to highlight the ...
the project called ‘H67′ features the re-organization and renovation of the living spaces, where the designers have fluidly integrated contemporary qualities of an individual home and garden into the prefabricated, cubic format of the apartment. its unique composition of stacking elements has resulted in the areas to be layered, eliminating the use of walls and most of a...
A multifunctional wall cabinet, 14 meters in length, plays a key role in opening up the ground floor. the idea was to create a loft-like entrance by eliminating any walls and using the cupboard to house all the functional elements. to emphasized the relationship to the street, one enters the house directly into the open living space and can immediately see the garden ...
the structure was renovated in 1719 by alessandro specchi, and the design remains fairly consistent to those changes today. interior architect alessandro de sanctis was commissioned to update the space, and give it a contemporary look to fit the client’s modern day needs. ‘apostoli’ is openly organized with living, kitchen, and bathroom located on the first floor, and...
located in japan’s shiga prefecture, ‘ishibe house’ was completed for a young family who enjoyed the idea of flexible open plan living offered by converted former industrial spaces. however, essential modifications such as heat insulation and construction maintenance mean that building a new home from scratch is often comparable in terms of price to renovating an existin...
designed by pitsou kedem architects, the generous home is spread over two levels where the array of programs have been arranged around the ‘nucleus’- the core. the architects described the process of organization through ‘four principal rings': the enclosure of the nucleus, corridors of movement, interior spaces, and the confinements of the building’s exterior. the in...
In light of this — and responding to her country’s dearth of such accommodation — mexican architect tatiana bilbao has developed a project whose objective is to offer good spatial and material qualities at an affordable price. presented at the inaugural chicago architecture biennial, the flexible family dwelling can be constructed for under $8,000 USD. in order to ac...
The architect’s description This intervention into a private loft uses over 40,000 individual wooden dowels. The dowels activate a pegboard wall liner that wraps a new, second bathroom space. The pegs were cut at 30 different lengths and then individually inserted into a grid of ½”-diameter CNC-cut holes. The resulting undulating surface operates as both storage spa...
working alongside property developers yoo, the british supermodel has furnished ‘the barnhouse’ – a peaceful respite set in the heart of the english countryside in cotswold. currently on the market to buy, the five-bedroom residence features an array of spaces including a double height living room which spills onto a decked patio and pool. encompassing a ‘displaced ...
cao pu presented the finished scheme during beijing design week 2015, which features a clever, adaptable architectural plan that gives space back to the existing courtyard — a important social site for members of the local community. now, after more than a year of research and development into the lifestyle of the surrounding residents, the maximum space allowed for reno...
