Murdock Young Architects did some excellent work on this house renovation in East Hampton, New York. The original home, although modern, was a bit tired and dated until Murdock Young got involved and produced a fresh contemporary update.The most noticeable change is probably the amount of windows they added, which is understandable considering the amazing setting that su...
The architect’s description This terrace sits at a corner site and thus the full side of the house fronts the side street. To preserve the privacy but still allowing light and ventilation, a slatted timber screen covers the entire side elevation. At the front, an outdoor terrace with a high volume fronts the main garden. The space continues into the double volu...
In approaching this project, we studied the composition of the existing building and identified multiple layers added to one another over time. These additions had compressed the living space since the original construction dating back to 1880. Inside the attic, we found that the current flat roof was built on top of a former sloped roof together reaching a thickness ...
The house was renovated from a simple cottage with a 60’s extension into a contemporary home with a living area that is designed to maximize the available light and space. The description from the architect Located in the north Brisbane suburb of Wooloowin, Kent Road residence is a contemporary extension to an existing character residential cottage. Originally constr...
Perched on a coastal bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, this new residence is designed to additionally afford views of the Pamet River and a fresh water pond. The entry side of the house appears very solid with its thick super-insulated wood clad walls and narrow strip windows enclosing the bathrooms, outdoor showers, stair, and laundry room. Little is revealed ...
“The owners brief was to design a flexible contemporary family residence. The site was spectacular requiring a design that could respond to a challenging slopped corner site and its aspects” says Thaabe Ramabina of SAOTA. The site is positioned on the ridge below Lions Head with 270° views of the Atlantic Ocean, Camps Bay and the Twelve Apostles beyond. A key strat...
The owners of this small duplex located in Greenwich Village wanted to live in an apartment with minimal obstacles and furniture. Working with a small budget, StudioLAB aimed for a fluid open-plan layout in an existing space that had been covered in darker wood floors with various walls sub-diving rooms and a steep narrow staircase. The use of white and light blue t...
When Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan designed this home in São Paulo, a sculptural screen wall designed by the famous Erwin Hauer was included on the top floor. The result is a white volume that allows some light to pass through, creating patterns wherever it falls.
The inspiration for this house emerged between the combinations of two cultures; Chiapas, the state where the couple were born, and Veracruz a city they love and have built a life for themselves and their children. The house is located on a hill, in a gated community “Playas del conchal” with an exceptional view of the Gulf of Mexico in the town of Alvarado, Veracruz....
The house is comprised of three black reinforced concrete shells that overlap one another. at the ends, glass walls let light inside and extend views to the exterior. the architects sought out to design a home that incorporated nature without losing any privacy from the inside. At the ground level, integrated planter beds sustain small green ecosystems of plants and tree...
Towering above the pool, a giant spiral staircase leads to the property’s guest room and gym. a glass bridge spanning lightly across the water’s surface leads into the living room, extending the scheme’s threshold, and highlighting the importance of the space within the house’s overall design. the rest of the property takes its cue from this scene, with the main living s...
Named the ‘flight house’ for its metaphorical escape from city life but also due to its layered airfoil roofs that hover over the living spaces beneath. on one end of the home, the great room is set firmly on the ground with an exposed concrete slab-on-grade floor that contains radiant heating and serves as thermal mass collecting natural heat from the sunlight. the shap...
With a dense green surrounding, the home engages the landscape with a careful combination of opaque and transparent vertical planes supporting two parallel planes forming the floor and roof. the bedrooms are situated within the the footprint of the structure forming a continuous walkway around the entire floor plan. at the center, an existing tree is allowed to penetr...
The home blends vernacular elements with modern designs and materials in an open-air concept that suits the temperate climate perfectly. a rather recognizable thatched roof and timber structure serves as the center piece of the design unifying the various components that sit underneath or inside of it. framing an open courtyard containing the kitchen and living areas, th...
Situated in an ideal environment on a green plain next to the ocean in svencelė, lithuania, the housing prototype departs from the traditional orthogonal-walled constructs and introduces a new form of living within the infinitely cyclical circle. the wood-clad sectional pipes are oriented in the same direction with the transverse facades featuring full glass curtain ...
Muka Arquitectura's ribbed concrete residence completes the "first piece of the urban puzzle" for a largely undeveloped area of the Spanish city Ciudad Real The local branch of Muka Arquitectura designed the Fuensanta House for a solitary plot on outskirts of Ciudad Real. With plans for the adjacent plots uncertain, the architects designed a fortress-like block, feat...
Taking reference from construction sites, Andrew Maynard Architects used a steel framework to renovate and extend the timber house in the Melbourne suburb of Seddon, for a couple who asked for a house that was "ridiculously inside-out". The project, named Cut Paw Paw after its location, creates a new open-plan living area for the two-bedroom property. Galvanised st...
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...
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...
Named Box House, the three-storey apartment block is located in Rawoda, Kuwait, and accommodates a trio of separate homes, all organised around small glazed terraces. "The idea is to give each family a unique and private spatial experience, hence the program was divided volumetrically and each volume overlooks a private courtyard," said Massive Order, which is led by ar...
The two-storey Casa Guna was designed by Pezo von Ellrichshausen for a rural site in San Pedro de la Paz, central Chile, where it sits between the lagoon and a wood of eucalyptus trees. Aiming to put most of the house's living spaces on one level, the architects designed a bulky concrete building where a compact lower level supports a much larger upper storey, with ...
Located in Takasaki, a city in Japan's Gunma Prefecture, the three-storey House in Tourimachi was designed by SNARK and OUVI to provide a home for two generations of one family. The restricted nature of the plot – measuring six metres long and 13 metres wide, and with three-storey buildings on either side – prompted the architects to integrate ceiling voids, set backs...
Hiroyuki Ito Architects created the staggered apartment block, named Bloom, in the Setagaya area of Tokyo. The 524-square-metre building contains ten duplex flats within its distorted rectangular plan, each with a varying configuration of rooms. The stepped concrete form takes its cues from the the tiered rooftops of neighbouring blocks, while a cast-concrete const...
– 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...
A wooden staircase cantilevers over the central atrium that architect Andrew Pilkington has cut through the first floor of a Victorian building in west London to transform two small apartments into one large residence (+ slideshow). London-based Andrew Pilkington merged the first and second floor of an end-of-terrace block to create 3floor-in2 Apartment, a 120-square-me...
Porto studio ODDA has renovated two 19th-century buildings in the city to create apartments that contain monolithic freestanding units housing the kitchens, beds, bathrooms and other furniture (+ slideshow). ODDA was asked to oversee the transformation of two partially occupied but neglected buildings in central Porto into 18 studios for tourists and students, as well a...
A warren of interconnecting spaces moulded to resemble melting snow form an après-ski apartment in China's Hebei province by Vienna and Beijing-based studio Penda. Located 160 kilometres north of Beijing in the ski resort Zhangjiakou, Snow Apartment was designed by Penda as a weekend retreat for the client and his friends. Set over two floors, the first level of the ...
Program: International Architectural competition “a house for 2050” which resulted in achieving the 3rd rank in Materials & Technology Exhibition, Tabriz International Exhibition Co., IranProcess: To give ideas based on conceivable conditions and technologies available in the year 2050 for solving the difficulties encountered in future. Proper lighting: By the y...
Result of technical constraints (foundations difficult and wish for a minimal footprint in favor of a generous garden) and program (desire for an isolated space and benefiting from a private outdoor space), the project extension is directed to a heightening of the existing buildings. This heightening takes the shape of a "box", "tube" that only allow opening onto the...
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 legendary Tugendhat villa became an inspiration for the iconic family home. An extraordinary terrain together with majestic trees defined shapes of the house, which is “stepping aside” of trunks and crowns of chestnut trees. Glassy walls provide maximum contact with nature in the garden, which creates an impression of living beneath tree crowns. In this case, luxu...
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 ...
The architect’s description A spectacular but compact waterfront site with relatively close adjacent structures, tight and irregular building setbacks and an extreme exposure to the prevailing weather provided a fantastic beginning to the creation of a weekend retreat for a single father, his family and now their ever present guests. Flood zone requirements demanded ...
The architect’s description The architectural project for this house consists of two main volumes; ground floor and superior floor. The ground floor embraces the architectonical program of the house and is organized by a longilineal volume that incorporates all of the wet areas; two bathrooms, kitchen and laundry room. This main volume stretches along the whole ex...
Design/build firm Dwell Development have recently completed their net-zero ‘Reclaimed Modern’ home in Seattle, Washington State About the project from the architect Nestled in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood, the eco-friendly home proves the combination of modern design and pragmatic necessity is the future of development. Every home built by Dwell De...
The architect’s description In Manhattan’s landmarked Tribeca North area, the 3,000-square-feet top floor and roof of an 1884 caviar warehouse are reconceived as a residence with large open entertaining zones and a fluid connection with the outdoor environment. Outdoor Connection – The residence is transformed by a relocated mezzanine where a sunken interior court ...
