Set within an aspect that combines the links golf course, a gravel road leading up to the property and the area's rugged coastline, the development is a peaceful retreat, built to house the clients' busy family life. The design was conceived to reflect the calmness and beauty of the location. The project's geometry is simple. A rectilinear plan contains the house's ke...
A bedroom in this Italian home has a column in the middle of the room, most people would probably just ignore it, but the designers from STIMAMIGLIO decided to incorporate it into an extended custom bed frame, which now provides a place to sit and get dressed.
The architect’s description A two storey extension to a classic Edwardian villa in Malvern East’s heritage Gascoigne Estate, which includes a double garage, open plan living area and master bedroom on the ground level, with a study and guest retreat on the first floor. The north facing living ‘pavilion’ includes full height glazing and an adjacent loggia characterised ...
The designer’s description Positioned on Edgevale Road in Kew, the property belongs to a young couple and their two children. The couple purchased the site in 2010, with the intention of creating something extraordinary. Living in the house for two years gave them a better understanding of the type of spaces they wanted to inhabit; spaces with an emphasis on raw materia...
Here’s the architect’s description about the project The house replaces a drab bungalow on the clifftop site – a scenic area protected by very strict planning conditions. From the outset, Hudson Architects were determined to replace the existing house with a superior contemporary scheme that would fully do justice to its setting.The site sits on a plateau with extensive...
The architect’s description The rear addition presents as a long, tall timber-clad tube wrapped around the remaining existing boundary walls and cleared out GFL interior. The newer works provide a more generous engagement with the exterior and garden foliage via extensive use of glass and continuity of material externally. A whimsical and artistic ‘giving back’ to t...
concrete’s description concrete has designed Zoku, a new hotel industry brand facilitating global living and working for the travelling professional. Zoku, which is Japanese for family, tribe, or clan, will disrupt and create a new category in the hotel industry. A home-office hybrid, also suitable for long stays. Zoku will have the services of a hotel and the social ...
This house, ideally situated across the street from Cooper Park, is part of a row of single family homes built in the 1950s. With front and rear yards and an alley for parking these homes have become desirable, however the existing footprint and layout are outdated and too small to accommodate the young family moving in. Features include a master bathroom with a floati...
About the project A wood and steel structure creates a modern indoor outdoor oasis featuring three open, yet defined living areas. On either side are two enclosed cedar shingled boxes, one a bedroom and one a spa, with a connected roof stretching over the central entertainment area. The structure is scaled proportionately to the length of the rectangular pool, with a b...
The designer’s description: The flat is located at the top of the block of flats from 1920’s is situated close to the Center of the Capital of Slovakia – Bratislava. It belongs to some of the older neighbourhoods of Bratislava, formerly known as “Ziegelfeld” that has an interesting historical context, being a mix if industrial and residential nature. This imprint of his...
The architect’s description Complexities of the project were the site’s light industrial zoning, its location in a flood zone, under a flight path and heritage issues requiring the retention of the existing roof trusses and street facade. Another key issue in the design was getting light and air into the living and bedroom areas given less than 15% of the enclosing wall...
The architect’s description Though many buildings are made from wood in Japan from the old days, it is getting more and more difficult to use wood for houses in the urban area. Especially for the exterior. The reason for this is because lot of effort has been put on to fireproofing buildings in the urban area for fire at the occasion of earthquake and also since we lost...
Hidden inside, is a contemporary ensuite bathroom. The box floats within the historic environment, and demonstrates an attempt to respect the past, while offering an updated amentiy.
Inside the apartment, there is a fireplace with a large sculptural surround that hides a concrete column.
The architect’s description Apartment owners – family of two and a dog – re-planned a 2-bedroom flat into a spacious studio filled with natural light and air for the most part of the day. Defending every square meter of the space, architects assigned functional zones in the most effective way. Architects used only natural materials in a perfect mixture with steal, rust...
The architect’s description The staircase is a multifunctional design for a house in Amsterdam. The clients wish to connect two floors without loosing the book-storing capability of the cupboard which currently occupies the space. By treating a staircase as a furniture element, a flexible object is created, redefining the role of the staircase in the house. Several mat...
The designer’s description The stunning natural backdrop of Lake Eildon and its surrounds was our inspiration for this unique project. Natural, textured and sustainable materials were balanced with the reflective properties of the water to create calm and light-filled areas. All spaces were made to feel generous and flow-through achieved through clever space planning a...
The architect’s description As a typology, the semi-detached house is often perceived as a Siamese twin, reluctantly conjoined to its symmetrical other via a single party wall. The desire to challenge such a notion drives the parti of this single-family house. By separating and pulling the main building block away from the party wall, a semi-detached house breaks free. ...
The designer’s description The “L” shaped house generates a square garden in which there is a huge ash. In order to keep the magnificent tree and to avoid seeing the house from the inside of the studio, two main windows will focus the views to the corners of the garden. The plan of the studio is cross-shaped, where the main working space is double-height while the othe...
The designer’s description The clients for this small bathroom project are passionate art enthusiasts and asked the architects to create a space based on the work of one of their favorite abstract painters, Piet Mondrian. Mondrian was a Dutch artist associated with the De Stijl movement which reduced designs down to basic rectilinear forms and primary colors within a gr...
Here is the designer’s project description The client wants to transform the last two levels of a building to create living spaces for her two athletically inclined children, who are now grown adults. The primary goal is to create a shared living space in which all utilitarian functions are shared but which still allows each person to have privacy. The architectural co...
The layout of the old house from the 1960s, situated on the outskirts of a village in the south of the Netherlands, did no longer meet the needs of the family’s changing lifestyle. The clients wanted more space for their two growing children and for working at home. They wanted to take this opportunity to realise their desire to connect to the surrounding landscape, whic...
Here is what Chris Price has to say about the project… Located on 230 Parkview Dr, Summit Park, Park City UT lies one of the most efficient houses in the country. The Summit Haus is an exploration in design and construction of advanced high performance housing. Seeing a rising demand for sustainable housing along with rising Carbon emissions leading to global warming, ...
Well situated in Mont Royal, this split-level home had many positives apart from its dated interior, and layout of many small and inefficient rooms. This was all at odds with the owners’ lifestyle and aesthetic. The client had architectural plans designed for a third floor addition that were to include a master bedroom and ensuite bathroom. The desired look for the enti...
A family cottage in the Gatineau hills infused with Canadiana shifts its way over the edge of a cliff to command views of the adjacent lake. The retreat is gently embedded in the Canadian Shield; the sleeping quarters firmly set in the rock while the cantilevered family rooms slowly emerge from this stone base. The modest entry visible from the road leads to a calculate...
This project by Australian firm Allen Jack+Cottier converted an existing two-level warehouse of 1060 sqm. Sections of the building were radically altered to introduce light and spatially connect the two levels, incorporating 4 bedrooms, living space, large commercial quality kitchen, music room, a swimming pool and a terrace. Allen Jack+Cottier’s client had been searchi...
Set in tropical north Queensland, the house embraces the heritage rainforest surrounds and utilises experimental passive design methods. The simplistic approach and use of Lo-Fi technologies results in a raw and honest dwelling. Contours of the site ridgeline have formed basis for the playful lines utilised in concrete profiles. As not to protrude out with the ridge, ...
Description from the designers: A split-level open plan warehouse conversion in Melbourne’s CBD needed a flexible solution to divide the open space into 2 rooms, while retaining the option of keeping the larger combined space when needed; an answer that would allow for light and airflow throughout the spaces but also a division between living and sleeping areas. The ...
The stairs which lead to the upstairs accommodation, weigh one tonne, and are made from black steel with a rough textured finish provided by the natural patina of the material.
The designer’s description Set within the Kew Green Conservation Area of southwest London, the four bedroom family house is formed of two sculptural weathering steel volumes inserted behind a retained nineteenth century stable wall. The brief evolved through a series of conversations with the clients which ranged over imagining the children running about the house, s...
Situated at the edge of ever-expanding gentrified Brooklyn in South Park Slope, this renovation maximizes the potential of a non-descript building shell, and limited budget, to create a modern, light filled home that acknowledges the building’s past, while envisioning the neighborhood’s future. The top two floors of a three story building were converted to an owner’s dup...
The architect’s description The former Dutch Reformed Evangelism Building in Haarlo has been transformed into a unique loft. The starting point for the design were the retained (mostly with a need for restoration) qualities of the 1928 dating monument, the facade, the bell tower with clock, the volume, the iconic location on the outskirts of the village and nice details...
The architect’s description Located within a private oceanfront community established in the 19th century, most houses in the neighborhood are more conservative in design and scale than surrounding contemporary oceanfront communities. As a result, the clients desired a modern home that would fit within it’s historic context while embracing the modest scale of the proper...
This 250m2 apartment has become the holiday home of a German business family of seven. Bright floors, cosy grey tones, and lavish white surface areas are the sound foundation of this apartment’s serene, harmonious atmosphere. The centre of the apartment is a spacious living room with the so-called “camouflage kitchen”, which was also designed by destilat. The fronts o...
After his doing a lot of research, he came to us and hoped to have a home with natural cement-based environment for him to relax after long busy work. We see this house as hero’s house and combined some industrial elements. During construction, he had to keep his parents from knowing the truth that we applied cement finish to walls since normally senior people think of c...
Low maintenance, no frills materials were used to create a cost effective yet compelling extension to the rear of a family home in Newport. The middle of the home had long suffered from substandard foundations, this extension replaced this middle section with a new kitchen, living, dining, bathroom and laundry. In addition, existing spaces were extended and converted int...
