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...
“The wallpaper feature seen throughout took 18 hours to hand draw the design onto the ceiling and walls and then to cut up and lay each piece of paper strips into position. It was designed to visually separate the kitchen from the lounge area to retain the open feeling whilst creating a delicate separation,” says James.
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 ...
The Johannesburg home was designed for a family and is located at the foot of a local nature preserve. In order to maximize the views of this stunning landscape, attention was placed on opening up the North side of the home with plenty of glass of outdoor entertaining areas. The resulting home is a testament to its architects, with its unique exterior and open, welcoming...
The team began its design process with a number of seemingly contradictory goals: they wanted Casa Country Club to be strongly charged with a sense of place and connect with nature, but also to be very private. Further, despite its luxurious scale, the three-storey house was to sit lightly in its stunning setting. With landscape so key to these ideas, the architects bega...
It's no different when it comes to designing a home that perfectly suits a client. For instance, this row house in Washington, D.C. was built around the idea of a cook's kitchen where the owners could spend hours creating elaborate meals for friends and family. While that wasn't the end of the design, it was an effective place to start. Let's look inside the house to see...
That is easy to see in this Saint Petersburg apartment design for a young couple. The team at INT2 Architecture uses a few carefully chosen midcentury pieces as a nod to the stylish time in design history, but weaves them in with a broader, more modern feel that is largely inspired by Scandinavian design. The resulting 60 square meter (645 square feet) apartment is lovel...
The house we are featuring today sits nestled into a Sonoma hillside, overlooking the valley below. Its modern aesthetic, from DNM Architect, includes clean lines, and beautiful textures and give it all the dimension of one of the state's most fragrant pinot noirs or decadent cabernets. Being located in California, there is also that state's almost stereotypical environm...
The result is an open, light-filled space that showcases the talents of both the designer and his wife Kelly Smith. The couple purchased their South End apartment under Boston’s first time affordable homebuyer’s program at a time when both were starting design businesses—an architecture and design studio (over,under), and a felt design and distribution company (filz...
The architect’s description The L-shaped building is protected towards the street by a 7 Meter high white wall. A copper clad garage laid in front forms a protected driveway- space and one great opening marks the needle ear to the very private garden and living space behind the wall. A spatial continuum connected to nature by large sliding doors and a weather prote...
The architect’s description Bigger than furniture; smaller than architecture. A renovation of a 400 square foot studio in Manhattan.The client is a young single man who entertains frequently, has houseguests, and works occasionally from home. The challenge is to incorporate all of the aspects of a larger space for work and entertaining within a compact studio apartmen...
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...
The designer’s description This Kaohsiung apartment is a weekend home that allows its owner to entertain friends and family from outer cities while maintaining comfortable private space. Colors and materials in the interior are tapestries of wood, raw metal panels, hand crafted painted concrete and wooden floors. The living and dining / kitchen are grouped to crea...
This opulent house with a clearly modern exterior and structure uses interior elements that have a distinct feel that is quite far removed from the more minimalist spaces we tend to feature. Indeed, much of the home feels like the home of a wealthy widow with exotic tastes from a 1980s show like Dynasty. Either way, it's certainly fun to glimpse around this design from 爱...
The architect’s description The Elliott Bay House is located in Seattle on a narrow site facing Puget Sound. The architectural massing of the house has been wrapped around a south-facing courtyard containing a large reflecting pool with two “floating” basalt boulders. The reflecting pool gathers all the roof drainage from the house, with the downspout from the livi...
The description from the designers: The AC House is a 240 square meters residential project located in Panavia Residences in Istanbul’s Bosphorus district. The two-storey residence has a large lounge room with an open kitchen, a restroom and service rooms on the ground floor. The largest space is allocated for the lounge room and the kitchen, where the landlords can...
The project description: Light, both natural and created, envelopes each room and open spaces flow seamlessly between the outdoors and the interior. The home, spanning four living levels and a panoramic roof-top deck, is a contemporary masterpiece built with exacting precision. The use of natural materials and the highest end finishes create a warm, inspiring enviro...
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...
aasb_agence d’architecture, maast, toa architectes and david besson-girard paysagiste, altogether collaborated on the design for the vast mixed-use development. having established a common floor plan and similar theme for all the proposed volumes, this enabled a consistency to be achieved throughout- while giving each practice creative freedom. the landscape plays with ...
Princeton House 02 stands out proudly, clad in a shimmering, white corrugated metal that shows off the beautiful colours and landscape of this former white pine tree farm, by contrasting them. Situated on a plot teeming with 100ft tall trees, the house is a celebration of nature. As the architects David Leven and Stella Betts explain, 'nature, greenery and the changi...
during beijing design week 2015, local practice TAO / trace architecture office has unveiled the complete renovation of one such dwelling. located in beijing’s historic baitasi district, the ‘split courtyard house’ provides rental accommodation for young people working in the area. a traditional ‘siheyuan’ features a central courtyard with a series of connecting rooms...
formed as three stacked volumes with contrasting materials and sizes, the living areas have been clustered together on the ground floor and decorated in a retro and contemporary style. the home is then topped with a flat-roof, featuring a sun deck and a curtain-wrapped shelter which hosts an outdoor dining and kitchen area with panoramic views over the city. each floo...
Its varied volumes connect seamlessly, emphasizing outdoor spaces, natural light, and of course, wood finishing. The wood throughout the home is not perfectly matched to every other room. Instead, the different shades complement each other with each different piece emanating its own warmth and style. When you have a house that’s perched on a hill, it’s important to maxi...
The living, kitchen, and dining space all have easy communication with one another. In order to make this possible, the design has to both separate and connect the disparate spaces. Patterns and unique design elements manage to do this well. In the kitchen, a half wall made out of wood slats creates more division but still allows light and air to flow through. Similarly,...
With this penthouse in Kiev, Olga Akulova DESIGN has created a space for their client that is not just stylish and sophisticated, but that actually does a lot of the party prep at the touch of a button -- from blackout curtains to watering the plants. The open floorplan in this industrial loft space is no surprise, but the creative way the different rooms and sections a...
The first home from visualizer Andrew Skliarov is a contemporary apartment in Kiev. The home measures 98.6 square meters (1061 square feet) and the chief direction from the clients was to maintain simplicity — with neither excess or deficiency. Wood paneling is aligned with the client’s particular affinity for natural materials and it is used to great and stylish effec...
The main way that this micro home is able to fit so many different areas into the tiny square footage is the vaulted ceilings, which measure 5 meters (more than 16 feet) high. This nearly doubles the available space because it allows the home to have a completely separate bedroom that is lofted above the main living area. The living room, with a small exercise space an...
tucked away from the street, this purposeful siting enables the property to form a ‘plazoleta’ ie, a small square which is popular among traditional yucatecan architecture. having this extra area sitting in front of the home serves as a public area for social purposes and subtly highlights the building’s access. perceived in the interior spaces and in the front of the...
The designer’s description Richmond House was a small and unattractive 4 bed house; it was built from London stock in a neo-Georgian style. The clients’ instructed AR Design Studio to re-design and extend the property and the brief was to introduce a new master bedroom, a walk-in wardrobe, a large living space and a kitchen with strong links to the garden. Discussions ...
The designer’s description The custom home at 9606 Dunsmuir Way provides a warm, sophisticated environment to enjoy the natural beauty of Martis Camp. Overlooking a tributary to Martis Creek and park-like surroundings, the home is within close walking distance of the Springs Pavilion, Tennis Pavilion, and Lookout Lodge. The layout of this family retreat is designed f...
Energy company AMPLA, part of Italian group ENEL Brasil, aiming Rio’s 2016 Olympics and the challenges of energy and water supply in Brazil, started with the support of Rio’s universities and the city of Niteroi, the project N.O.V.A. (which stands for We Live Tomorrow Now, in Portuguese). It sought to seek alternatives to answer contemporary concerns on sustainability...
Paul Preissner combined two apartments in Hyde Park’s tallest residential tower leaving shapes of lights and windows, and corners and floors collide to create a space that is indifferent to perfection as relaxed people are. The building names its unit types after famous Chicago architects. The project combined an Adler and a Mies van der Rohe apartment together, so the ...
The village of Besse in the French Alps is outstanding for its solid architecture, its stone squat houses huddled all together to protect themselves from the cold weather. They are separated by narrow steep staired streets allowing the water to flow when the snow melts. The walls are made whith flat stone slabs; they look dark and austere but they are brightened by the ...
The interior renovation of a one-bedroom, attic-level apartment on the island of Kefallonia was driven by two primary concerns: on the one hand, the creative reuse of locally available materials; on the other hand, the playful and sensuous nature of the interior, to be used as a summer house. The primary architectural element characterizing the transformation of the apa...
The project is located between Bulher street and Neppert street in Mulhouse, Neppert gardens ZAC (joint development zone). It includes 59 social rental dwellings developped by SOMCO, with an approach in the continuity of Cité Manifeste’s dwellings project. The aims of the project are first defined in terms of quality of living: creating dwellings surfaces bigger than...
