The architect’s description Located near the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, this house is formed by the tropical conditions of South East Asia as well as the values of its owners, a Swiss family living in the region. The house follows a simple arrangement of spaces, with five bedrooms laid out lengthwise on the upper floor. The lower floor consists of the kitchen,...
The architect’s description 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 o...
The architect’s description Dwelling is to put oneself in an interactive environmental domain that surrounds humans and other living creatures. There unfold various activities to which living creatures engage themselves for survival. Further expansion of such domain will surely lead us to view the totality of environment as a dwelling as it stretches unsegmented from ci...
Description from the designers: When we were approached by our clients to gut renovate and add to a 110 year old, 15′ wide row house, our goal was to create a home that could adapt to change over time. The building is designed to oscillate easily between a two-family and one-family configuration, giving the owners the ability to gradually grow into and out of the house...
The architect’s description The Holleb Residence is a home for a family of four in the Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica. Its main organizing feature is a sculptural stair and second floor “cut-out” terrace that splits the house into front and back zones. On the ground floor, the structure’s main entry separates the garage and guest room from the kitchen, dining,...
Description from Prototype Design Lab The Bella Vita Villa celebrates its natural, oceanfront site. The villa explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdoor spaces within dynamic patterns of light and shadow, providing a simple frame within which a contemporary sustainable lifestyle can unfold. The beachfront faca...
The architect’s description PROGRAM: Minimalist modern home with outdoor room, art display walls, recording studio and home theatre utilizing green building technologies. DESIGN INTENT:Clients are a Culver City art gallery owner and a musician with two young boys.From the street the house is a series of overlapping rectangular volumes each with different materials and ...
The architect’s description Built behind the heritage facade of a landmark property in Melbourne’s Fitzroy, this project retains and restores the original frontage while adding a rear addition with three levels of new living space. Conceptually, the design deals with the intersection of the old and the new through differing modes of visual connection and threshold. Th...
The architect’s description This house for a young family in Mount Martha was a process of building upon the knowledge gained from the neighbouring dwelling, also designed by Wolveridge Architects. With a steep slope across the site, the 4 bedroom dwelling provides a flexible living space that seamlessly connects the kitchen, dining and living space to the north facing...
The architect’s description This villa is built on the original site of a dated bungalow from the 60s in Haelen, The Netherlands. The villa caters to the taste of the residents for the outdoors. The home floats above the natural rolling countryside, and features panoramic windows that optimize the relationship between the inside and outside. The beautiful lower terrac...
The architect’s description Its shape stretches on the ground, unfolding from a wall that supports three volumes. Each one has a different scale, offering a different experience, resulting in a dynamic and playful composition. The first volume is empty at the ground level, providing a covered area for leisure or parking, facing the main entrance to the house, in betwee...
The architect’s description The Fitzroy residence is located within a dense pocket of Victorian houses. The house adopts the terrace house typology of its neighbours, and co-opts the party wall graffiti as a backdrop to the entry. A generous central courtyard space is at the heart of the house and provides northern light into the living area and main bedroom. A private...
The project simply and directly extrapolates existing formal qualities in plan and section, with extension of key existing materials and finishes to retain some memory of its previous incarnation – while providing a significantly expanded series of connected interior volumes that harness access to sunlight, ventilation and views of tree canopies, sky and district beyond....
The architect’s description Deep in the heart of Kensington Market, this laneway house is distinguished by its monochromatic, robust form, and a sculptural interior awash with light. Designed with its neighbourhood in mind and tracing the footprint of the existing building, this archetypal house is sited on an unconventional “L” lot, tucked away from the street, and sh...
The architect’s description America has many spectacular sites but this property is unique among them. The site is located at an elevation of 9,200 feet and had already been excavated for a discontinued residential project. Our normal preoccupation with not impacting the landscape reverted here to rehabilitating and reforesting the uprooted site. This was not a situati...
About the project The neighborhood where architect Pitsou Kedem designed a home for himself and his family was established in the 1950’s by army veterans and can be characterized by buildings with low silhouettes and horizontal lines set in a rich grove of eucalyptus trees. Kedem’s home was designed to blend in with the architectural characteristics of the other home...
The approach for the renovation and extension of the Hopetoun Road Residence is to retain the existing structure as an anchoring element, adding a series of pavilions underneath a floating copper roofline that wraps around the original building. Embracing the client’s desire to maintain a fairly conventional residential structure, the design strengthens the form by cr...
Rangr Studio’s description In response to the clients’ desire for a modern cabin, the design created three long cantilevers on the top of a secluded hill that give the spaces of the house commanding views into the woods and the feeling of being suspended in the trees. The cedar lined living and dining spaces combine to form a Great Room, with a wall of sliding glass do...
The owners saw potential in this 1914 craftsman home when they bought it in 2013. The Seattle family had the intention of restoring the home’s original details while also making modern modifications to the traditional layout on the main floor. Influenced by years of living in Japan, the clients wanted a clean and simple aesthetic to suit their minimal lifestyle. The cen...
The property is also currently listed on the market with CBRE Residential. The narrow deep plan of this tall terraced late 19th century building was ill-suited to its previous use as offices, with escape distances pre-determining the necessity for the centrally located lift and stair core that sub-divided the floor plate into small inflexible work spaces. This configur...
Feldman Architecure’s project description This complete remodel to a classic San Francisco Victorian set about to respect the grace and character of the original house while infusing a modern sensibility of space, light and materiality. The front facade of the house was kept largely intact; only a bright green door with a translucent polycarbonate panel hints that the ...
The homeowners of this Mid Century Modern home in Creve Coeur are a young architectural designer and his wife and their young son. Being avid collectors of Mid Century Modern furniture and furnishings, they purchased their Atomic Ranch home, built in the 1970s, and saw in it a perfect future vessel for their lifestyle. Nothing had been done to the home in 40 years but t...
The architect’s description This project, in the heart of Dumbo, Brooklyn, combined three individual apartments to create a 3200 square foot full-floor unit for a family of four with a growing art collection. The overall plan is U-shaped with common living areas facing the 75’ window wall and two bedroom wings at either ends. The transition from the common areas to th...
The project description The existing Spanish Style house had been modified ad-hoc (not to mention illegally) over the years with little attention to the net effect. As with many of the transformations we design, we took the existing conditions and capitalized on the best features of the house. These were the big, open back yard, the opportunity to connect the house to ...
The project description Built on 16 acres of land in the Niagara Escarpment – a working countryside and UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve – this house extension makes a strong connection to its natural environment and the existing century farmhouse on the site. Designed as additional living space for a family of four, the single-storey addition is connected to the existin...
Inspired by her beloved George Nelson Sunburst clock, with its lime green, turquoise, and pumpkin orange hues, Jennifer made a bold statement in the kitchen with color accents mixed with natural wood. Jennifer’s description The home is located in Central Austin, just south of downtown and Lady Bird Lake, in the Bouldin Creek neighborhood My husband and I bought the h...
Encompassing 131 acres of lush Catskills forest, Lang Architecture’s Hudson Woods features 26 architect-designed dwellings meticulously crafted from locally-sourced, sustainable materials. The two-story, 2,800-square-foot model residence is private yet welcoming, with generous spaces for living and entertaining, and distinctive wood details throughout. On the upper le...
The project description Project abstract – The pavilion was designed as a visitor centre for prospective clients of the Aditus development. It serves double duty as an entrance beacon and showroom, highlighting the natural environment that surrounds it. Gracefully deposited in the middle of a mature woodland, the pavilion reveals the exceptional nature of the terrain an...
For the extensive landscaping around the property that has a variety of outdoor spaces, including a saltwater pool, poolhouse, a sand play area and more, LGA Architectural Partners collaborated with landscape architect Scott Torrance. The architect’s description The parents of a close-knit, multi-generational family wanted a quiet and easily maintained urban retreat as...
Description from the designer: The home owners have supported Sergey’s idea and resolved to do some trailblazing experiments. Interaction of external and internal is highly important in this project. The distinction between them is eliminated due to a large-scale vitrescence of public zone and owner’s bedroom located on the second floor. On the house face we can see de...
The project description from thirdstone inc. Built on an elfin 25′ x 140’ infill lot, this affordable modern house was designed as a two-storey in order to make best use of the narrow site. The transparency of the front facade encourages ‘eyes on the street’ and active engagement with neighbours while providing a sense of belonging to the community. Comprised of main l...
Pitsou Kedem Architects gave this house a palette of rough gray concrete, that still has texture from the forms they used when casting it, black steel that maintains the industrial theme of the concrete, and wood that constrasts the cold industrial with a bit of earthy warmth.
The architect’s description Since 1951, generations of classical musicians have participated in Marlboro Music, a seven-week summer festival where young musicians collaborate alongside master artists on the tiny Marlboro College campus. Housing senior musicians on a15-acre site adjacent to campus, these five cottages find inspiration from the campus vernacular, reinter...
The architect’s description This residence, located in a noble and leafy suburb in western Sao Paulo, is on a flat and deep site, with the main premise of taking the most advantage of the existing green area at the back of the site. The spaces are distributed across four floors, including the basement, so the extended program could be concentrated in a very compact are...
The project description from Stephenson Design Collective A small home in the residential neighborhood of Ballard in Seattle, WA was carefully dismantled by hand to save and salvage every piece of available material in order to create the Lark House. The existing home contained a full height basement that was inspected and reused as the foundation of the new home in or...
The project description from Pleysier Perkins Accommodating the slope of the site as a terraced floor plan and landscape, this 5 bedroom family home extends around a central courtyard soccer pitch and pool. Strong horizontal canopies combine with a vertical split faced concrete core to create a home combining intimacy, volume and sheltered openness.
