While this type of space can be elegant and modern, it doesn't really afford you a lot of privacy. In this house, from the designers at Russian studio Fedorova, doors that run run from the floor to the ceiling manage to blend into the walls and create the illusion of a wide open space, while still allowing the homeowners to close off rooms when necessary. Combined with b...
This home outside of Moscow, from the architects at Pana, actually takes its inspiration from a snake. The design of the house is based on the straight but flexible line of a python's body, which is why the architects refer to is as Python house. Each room was placed on a straight line, and then the line was folded in half, resulting in a ground floor of common areas and...
A grey day is dreary and cool and can put you into a bit of a funk. So why would you want to bring that drizzly, damp color into your home? Because it can actually be a beautiful and seductive neutral. After all, it's no mistake that the hit book-turned-film 50 Shades of Grey uses the color right there in its title. There are so many different shades and textures that ca...
In this Lithuanian home renovation, interior designers Ramūnas Manikas and Valdas Kontrimas from the Ramūnas Manikas firm streamlined and simplified an existing house, giving it an entirely new life. From the open floor plan they created on the ground floor to the sunny and sleep spaces dedicated to the upstairs bedrooms, the minimalist home became a place of easy relax...
When making that important life transition from young married couple to new parents, it can be difficult to figure out how to incorporate your old sense of style with your new needs. This apartment, from visualizer Natalia Tsetsulina, uses playful colors, open spaces, and plenty of natural light to create an apartment that is efficient in its use of its 50 square meters ...
But interior designer Pavel Voytov manages to create spaces that feel as bright, sunny, and welcoming as any warm summer day. The designer uses many elements of modern design, including clean simple lines and limited color palettes, to create beautiful homes that are beautiful, modern, and also livable. In this post we will take a look inside eight of his designs for a b...
While ancient castles hung elaborate tapestries to cover the cold, barren stone of their walls, today many modern designers celebrate the aesthetic of bare concrete. What once indicated a desolate warehouse or unforgiving artist's loft can now be used in conjunction with sleek, modern, stylish choices for a finished look that is anything but dank. Take a look at these ap...
The large modern house on the shore of the storage pond was a small summer cottage where family spent the summer. The customer applied to NOTT Design Studio when the process had been already in the height of transformation – a new much bigger part with the second floor was being added to an old little house. So that architects have introduced adjustments during the pr...
The crisp, looming roof lines highlight the beauty of the natural cedar soffits while sitting comfortably on a minimal material pallet of stucco, glass, detailed metal, concrete and featured marble slabs. The grade has been manipulated to allow a walk-out side garden from the lower floor suite while preserving the garden relationship to the main floor living room, lib...
Between olive, oleander and cypress trees, in a 4000 m2 plot and a few meters away from his dwelling in Dilesi, Boeotia, the ancient Delion, the erection of the new workshop of painter and sculptor Alexandros Liapis was determined. A part of the landscape was incorporated in the open-space sculpture gallery, hosting the artist’s creations. The basic criteria of the n...
The Grade-II listed brick building is one of a cluster of artist's houses constructed in 1873 for Barnard, whose best known work includes drawings for nine Charles Dickens novels published between 1871 and 1879. London studio Sevil Peach was tasked with converting the lower floors of one of the historic homes, located in London's Primrose Hill, into a single residency c...
Architecture studio Corpo Atelier has restructured in a rural area of northern Portugal, adding a bulky wooden framework behind its thick masonry walls. Corpo Atelier carried out the refurbishment on a dilapidated building in Sernancelhe, a municipality in northern Portugal, to create a family home. The project was named Wood Structure Inside Stone Walls. All that r...
Portuguese studio SAMI Arquitectos has slotted a modern concrete house behind the crumbling stone walls of a ruined building, located on an island in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. Pico belongs to a group of volcanic islands far west of Portugal and is an area that architects Inês Vieira da Silva and Miguel Vieira of SAMI Arquitectos have been working to rehabi...
London-based Zminkowska De Boise Architects made alterations to the ground floor of a two-storey Edwardian terrace, occupied by a couple and their young children. The project is named Rosa and John's home, after the two clients.The architects created a series of large new openings through the existing interior walls, merging the ground-floor living spaces to create an op...
The staircase forms part of a refurbishment of a 1960s family home, named Closse Residence, by local studio Naturehumaine. Situated in the suburban area of Saint-Lambert in Montreal, the pitched-roof property was originally designed by the client's father, but after 50 years was in need of modernisation. The architects opened up the plan by removing partition walls...
House "O“ is situated on Silba island in Croatia. It replaced the original modest single-family house surrounded with thick vegetation. The house perfectly meets the requirements of its owners who intend to enjoy its cool interior and its sheltered courtyard. Areas of the house used by day and those used by night are placed on different floors and differ in character. ...
The term “Vancouver Special” refers to an architectural style of houses that were built between roughly 1965 to 1985 in Vancouver. The relatively cheap and easy to build houses were popular with house builders looking to fill the demand for new housing in the fast growing city. So many of the houses were built, and became such a common sight, that they were given the nic...
– which follows the London home with a combined bookshelf and staircase we published yesterday.Buj+Colón Arquitectos incorporated storage space into plywood structures for its redesign of an apartment interior in the centre of Madrid. The Plywood Trio Apartment renovation comprises three elements made from the engineered timber – a staircase that steps over a row of c...
Project description The residential and office building built by the FLI-GmbH, Magdeburg, houses three commercial and ten residential units and is the first element of a new city square on the banks of the Elbe river. Characteristic of the building, designed by Madeburg-based ARC architekturconzept, is an offset base area which with an extended wall subsumes outdoor a...
The architect’s description Built in the early 1930s, maintaining the integrity of the scale and form of the original building was a priority. Retaining the roofline, as well as preserving and repairing the existing brick, allows the building to blend with the houses that line the street. Yet, there was a desire to allow for modern interior elements to percolate to th...
Susanna Cots has designed the contemporary interiors of a house in Barcelona, Spain.The designer’s description The visual communication with the nature has been the axis of this project where slow design goes beyond design, since the surroundings where is located this residence gathers all and each one of the requirements to bring a “slow life”. The forest, the de...
Having bought a beautiful plot of wooded land in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, the client dreamt of building a country house that would be in perfect symbiosis with its natural environment. This rugged, sloped site came to a natural plateau just below its highest point, becoming the perfect location to erect the house. The house is characterized by two stacked volumes; ...
The W.I.N.D. House in the north of Holland incorporates both integrated sustainable solutions and home automation, whilst enabling a flexible use of space. Located on the outskirts of a Dutch village and close to the sea, the house is backed by a wooded area and fronted by an open expanse of polder landscape. The design of the house responds to both its setting and to...
Over the years, the owners of this bungalow in Peterborough had added two wings and cultivated a landscaped pond in the back accessed by a generous deck. Yet the 2,500-square-foot home was mostly closed off to this impressive little ecosystem, populated with frogs and butterflies, and the additions had created a labyrinth of disjointed spaces. AGATHOM was brought on t...
The Secretary is a writing desk with hidden storage under a hinged countertop. Designed by Copenhagen-based Isabel Ahm specifically to sit in the living room of a home, the raised level functions as a shelf for home accessories, books or a lamp – helping the workspace to look at home in a more informal environment.Pens, cables and other office accessories can be hidden i...
Project description The elegant residential and business district in Shanghai created for Shanghai Meizhu Industrial Co., Ltd. consists solely of German architectural imports. The planning of the 500 business villas in several construction stages and the master plan were carried out by Dusseldorf-based GNA Grimbacher Nogales architects. The impressive, high-quality in...
The house was conceived for a young couple and their teen daughter, and the program on this 9,600 sft plot required a basement for car parking, 4 bedrooms, a home theatre, gym and public spaces such as living, dining and kitchen interacting with a large garden. What drew us to the site in the upmarket Koramangala neighborhood in Bangalore was the number of mature trees t...
From the designers Built for a couple – with flexible space for their daughter to stay when she returns for visits – the renovation of this midtown century Toronto house converts it into a modern, warm and light-filled home, open to the sky and gardens front and back. The interior of the house and the garden were both completely rebuilt to create an integrated indoor...
A balcony shaded by steel fins projects from the upper storey of this house in Northern Ireland, which architect and farmer Patrick Bradley built using four used shipping containers (+ slideshow). Patrick Bradley developed Grillagh Water House for a picturesque site on his own farm near the town of Maghera, taking advantage of local legislation that allows farmers to bu...
"The Little Pilot" is а room for a little boy who loves the idea one day to become a pilot. He loves to build airplanes and stories about famous pilots. His room presents his little idea, which one day become a big. The room is divided into few zones. The bed is a place for dreaming. In every other zone the little pilot is working on his ideas. He has a few workplace...
The E3 House is located in a bustling neighbourhood near the very popular Jean-Talon Market in Montreal. It was designed for a family with a deep attachment to the neighbourhood; the parents work in theatre, film, and television, and the children are young adults. The exterior geometry of the residence is a simple parallelepiped defined by two largely fenestrated wall...
The architect’s description The first in a series of studies into the adaptation of vernacular Australian suburban typologies, ‘Blurred House’ is a major renovation and extension to an original 1930’s Californian bungalow in Melbourne’s inner-north. Reacting to the established convention of jarring juxtaposition of existing ‘old’ and introduced ‘new’ architectural ...
Grouparchitect have sent us images of a contemporary home remodel they completed in Seattle, Washington. This home remodel is located just north of the Ballard Locks in Seattle, Washington. The original split-level home configuration was maintained to limit scope of work while rebuilding the central exposed stairway to the new upper floor with access to a roof top d...
A single-family home located in a new forest development, the Veranda house is designed to be intimate and discreet. In addition to guiding the landscape design, the site’s trees serve as a privacy screen. On the street side, openings mark only the entrance and certain services. On the south side, the house makes the most of the ample private space surrounding the ver...
A family in Chicago needed more space to fit their four children into a recently purchased home, so they hired Space Architects and Buckingham Interiors to help them redesign everything. One of the space saving solutions was this custom designed bunk bed with built in stairs and storage.
The East Van House is located on an atypical 50′ x 75′ lot with no lane access (compared to the standard 33′ x 120′ lot) that backs onto a schoolyard. The neighborhood is eclectic and colorful, with streetscapes that reflect the diversity of the community and its inhabitants. The house is designed with a dominant asymmetrical geometry to comply with the prescriptive z...
