The timber walls of this house outside Prague have been partially charred, intended as a reference to the clients' love of cooking.Designed by Czech studio Mjölk Architekti, the house is clad with vertical timber planks that have only been slightly burnt, giving the exterior a multi-tonal appearance that varies from pale brown to black. "Katka and Honza are cooking al...
A white spiral staircase that contrasts with the surrounding stone walls is one of several modern interventions that architect Elisabete Saldanha has added to this converted farmhouse in Portugal (+ slideshow). The house and its former stables are located just outside the city of Guimarães, in a grove of oak, chestnut and cork trees. Elisabete Saldanha has transformed ...
Architect Fernando Menis has developed a concept for a residential tower complex with rock-like walls, a cavernous swimming pool and plants growing out of every crevice. Proposed for a site in Taipei, Taiwan, Agora Garden was designed by Tenerife-based Fernando Menis as a way to bring nature back into the city, by combining it with domestic environments. "This housin...
A sculptural white staircase links a geometric tiled foyer to the upper floor of this remodelled apartment by Porto-based studio Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos (+ slideshow). Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos renovated and merged two floors of a 1990s apartment block in Braga, north-west Portugal, to create the 375-square-metre duplex for a family. The architects partially demo...
From the designer This apartment was designed for a young actor that lives alone. When we started the project, he asked for an open and clean space. The apartment in a beautiful modernist building from the 60s had an plan with lots of rooms and divisions. We decided to open everything, connecting all the social areas. After tearing all the walls down, the ...
From the architect This new house is built on a tight urban site, perched on the edge of a cliff 100 metres above the ocean. The wedge shaped block has a due north-south aspect with neighboring buildings very close to the boundaries on the east west. Large fin walls divide the separate functions of entrance and circulation from the living areas and garden, providing ...
From the architect This design was conceived as a modular concept with eight reusable 40’ High Cube containers, united by a central two-story module that serves as the unifying element for the rest of the spaces. This articulating space is highly versatile and can serve various purposes, both as a social area and workspace: the house “gets dressed and undressed” acc...
From the architect The project site is located along the shoreline at the intersection of a residential neighborhood and an industrial marine zone. Many of the neighboring facilities are clad in corrugated metal and the building uses this material and cedar siding in order to blend into the existing context. Perforated metal panels are used to form translucent screen...
The form integrates this home into a more formally and stylistically traditional neighborhood, while contemporary design elements and materials keep it modern. Elements like the pitched roof and hung windows make the connection to a traditional home, but such elements are abstracted – the roof becomes a skin that is wrapped around the exterior, and the wrap curls up into...
Japanese studio Alphaville raised the base of this Osaka house up on crooked stilts, revealing the complex arrangement of rooms, bridges and lightwells contained within (+ slideshow). The Dig in the Sky house is a three-storey family residence. Its name refers to its unusual composition – three similar-sized blocks bridged by suspended corridors and staircases, framing ...
This small black family house in Copenhagen was designed by Danish architect Sigurd Larsen to be built for a budget of just £95,000. Sigurd Larsen, who is based in Berlin, designed the 80-square-metre building as an affordable residence for a family of three, but also as a prototype for low-cost housing in the Danish capital. Named Sorte Hus, which translates as Blac...
The founder of London gallery and design studio 19 Greek Street has dressed a show apartment for residences created by architects Darling Associates in the city's former Saint Martins School of Art building (+ slideshow).Designer and gallerist Marc Péridis, who set up 19 Greek Street in 2012, was commissioned by developers Aquila House Holdings and Noved Property Group t...
Interior designer Sarah Van Peteghem dressed this Berlin show home with monochrome paintwork, assorted plants and furniture by local design brand New Tendency. Van Peteghem, author of interior style blog Coco Lapine Design, was asked by Berlin estate agents Fantastic Frank to style a turn of the century flat in Schoeneberg, Berlin. She chose to champion local design...
Dabs of plaster pattern the raw concrete surfaces in this Tokyo bedsit partially renovated by local architects Yuichi Yoshida & Associates as a short-term living space (+ slideshow).Yuichi Yoshida & Associates modified the 47.55-square-metre apartment to create temporary living space for a client who plans to resell or rent the flat after a period of five to 10 years. T...
Patterned floor tiles mark out the original layout of this 1930s apartment in Barcelona, restored by local architecture student Adrian Elizalde.Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona student Adrian Elizalde renovated and reconfigured the interior space of the dilapidated apartment in L'Eixample – a district adjacent to Barcelona's old city. Elizalde's main ...
Tokyo architecture studio Sinato added a L-shaped wall into the centre of this apartment in Japan to partition off space for two new bedrooms (+ slideshow). Sinato renovated the 64-square-metre Fujigaoka M apartment in Yokohama for a married couple, adding a wall in the centre that incorporates shelves, a seating ledge and storage, and encloses the master bedroom and a ...
Dutch studio i29 has refitted the interior of a two-bedroom garage conversion in the centre of Amsterdam (+ slideshow). The 230-metre-square dwelling comprises an open plan living room and kitchen, two bedrooms and a small courtyard. The conversion originally by Trabinc Architecture and with an interior by i29, named Home 11, features fitted oak storage and solid mat...
The owners commissioned the architect to design and coordinate construction of an off-the-grid lakeside pavilion with integrated water reclamation and photovoltaic technology for weekend use. A lightweight steel structure was chosen for durability and ease of fabrication. This structure was shop fitted with tabs to allow for the attachment of a secondary skin. In develop...
Built from the ground up on a heavily wooded, sloped lot, the RLW Cabin is both a viewing platform and a protective shelter. The environmentally sensitive construction incorporates a number of innovative materials and building methods, and the project has been awarded LEED Silver by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for achievement in green homebuilding. The Cabin ...
Seemingly a traditional japanese dwelling from the outside, the inside is far from ordinary. yamada intentionally left parts of the interior unfinished so that as the seasons change, as well as the families who live there, so does the home. the ever-evolving space is distinctly defined by the top, tree house floor. designed specifically for the addition of any number ...
This trapezoidal house in Toronto by LGA Architectural Partners features stark white interiors to frame its owner's art collections and create a projection screen for a light installation Local architects LGA Architectural Partners built the unusually shaped block, named Garden House, for a client who wanted to downsize from her large Edwardian house in Tortono's west ...
Children's bedrooms and play spaces take over the partially exposed subterranean floor of this house completed by Scandinavian firm CF Møller on the edge of a wood in Aarhus, Denmark . Named Villa R, the 300-square-metre family residence is made up of two square storeys. The upper floor, raised just above ground level, contains the main living spaces and master bedroom, ...
Swedish architect Tommy Carlsson has completed an affordable prefabricated home near Stockholm that is clad in corrugated iron and resembles a cube with some of its corners cut off (+ slideshow). Tommy Carlsson developed the Happy Cheap home as a prototype for a low-cost and space-efficient update of the prefabricated homes that are common throughout Sweden's suburbs. ...
Studiomama has converted the upper floors of a 300 year-old building in Stockholm's medieval old town to create a pair of 200-metre-square apartments with built-in wooden fittings (+ slideshow). London-based Studiomama removed layers of decoration that masked the interior structure of the Grade-II listed building, revealing original beams and features. They architect...
This residential house is introduced from the ambient surrounding and the conditions of site planning. In winter seasons, the strong west wind (the fall wind of Ibuki) blows in this area. So it is the plan of suppressing the load of the building by extending its roof up to the close to the ground soil and fending off cold winds at the roof.In summer seasons, it is the...
Originally commissioned to design a new home for a young family who had purchased the site, Standard found a way to maintain as much of the existing structure as possible, both minimizing code complications and the environmental footprint of the project. “Hidden House is the perfect example of how incorporating an existing structure can actually be the key to a successfu...
Project description This Washington Park Residence sits on a bluff overlooking Lake Washington with views of the Eastside and Cascades beyond. The house takes advantage of the site by contrasting mass and transparency to capture broad, unobstructed views while preserving privacy. Thick, thermally insulated concrete walls are layered and modulated on the street sid...
Shaun Lockyer Architects have designed Mackay Terrace, a contemporary house in Brisbane, Australia. From the architect Mackay Terrace is a progressive, contemporary reinterpretation of character vernacular architecture situated on a steep, inner-city Brisbane site. The house explores an industrial aesthetic along with ideas of transparency and volume to creatively ar...
From the designers The Brief When building an extension onto their 1908 home, this couple wanted a kitchen that would offer views across their garden. They also needed it to complement the old part of the house, whilst having a distinctive separation in the contemporary extension. The Challenge They now have a modern kitchen with light flooding in. The colours an...
located in the japanese prefecture of fukushima, this dwelling designed by life style koubou uses timber slats to delineate internal space. named ‘triangle house’, the two level property contains living accommodation at ground floor level, with a tatami room joining a kitchen and a dining space. above, a lofted area boasts additional floor space with an office found in a...
The first level of the property is articulated around a frangipani tree that sits in the middle of a pond framed by a timber clad box. the home’s second storey lies over the dining area and in front of the master bedroom, while the full height glass façade facing the courtyard is screened by interlocking vertical and horizontal timber members. the courtyard not only offe...
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 outlook beginning from the f...
Flexhouse 2 provides affordable, efficient, contemporary living in an attached row home format - a novelty in the Windy City. This 31-unit development occupies a fullblock site located in the emerging Logan Square neighborhood, just 10 minutes from the Chicago loop. The project encourages a higher density urban fabric than the typical Chicago single-family house allo...
In the luxurious and spacious spaces of the La Source Exclusive Apartment, located in the center of Paris VIII arrondissement, decorators chose our furniture ARIA PLUS collection, designed precisely for such precious and important bathroom environments: the metal supporting structure perfectly incorporates the fluted or lacquered wooden doors and drawers in different mat...
Like the facets of the mineral emerging from the depths of the earth, the salient faces of the Cristal are neither parallel nor identical. Like a diamond releasing its brilliance and sparkle in a play of mirrors between its different facets, the Cristal lamp gives off an astonishing luminous intensity. Behind this object of apparent simplicity hides a complex geometry: t...
Surrounded by greenery, in a strategically position connected to Milan city center, these self-sufficient and 100% green homes boast home automation on a human scale. Thanks to the KNX architecture and its flexibility, the AVE commands in fact offer a wide spectrum of configurable parameters, which made it possible to satisfy the system requirements for the control of a...
