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...
Japanese studio Double Negatives Architecture used a multi-agent system (MAS) – a piece of computer software used in problem solving – to map out the forested site at the base of the Yatsugatake Mountains in Nagano Prefecture. This allowed them to design a building specifically adapted to its site, taking into consideration the gradient of the landscape, the direction...
The two-storey-high building occupies a triangular roadside plot on the outskirts of Takasaki, a city in Gunma Prefecture. The building needed to be clearly visible to passing drivers, so that became the starting point for the design. SNARK's Sunao Koase and Shin Yokoo of OUVI – whose previous collaborations include a bronze-coloured house and a pair of apartment bloc...
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...
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. ...
Dutch designer Piet Boon has renovated a former office building in New York to create luxury apartments that borrow aesthetics from interiors in his home country (+ slideshow). Huys apartments by Piet Boon The Park Avenue building, named Huys, contains 58 apartments – from 55-square-metre one-beds to 325-square-metre four-beds. Related story: Shigeru Ban redesig...
Slovenian studio Architektura d.o.o. has converted this Slovenian loft space into an open-plan two-bedroom holiday apartment – the second project we've featured by the architects today (+ slideshow). Attic Apartment by Arhitektura d.o.o. Alpine Apartment is situated within the attic of a house in Bled, a lakeside town in the north west of the country, designed by A...
The sustainable and user-friendly Godiva House consists of two rectangular structures interconnected by a central quadrangle pivot. The design takes into consideration the difficulties of a resident with limited mobility while also striving for maximum sustainability. There is a constant dialogue between the interior and exterior spaces of the property, and each reta...
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...
This bay front house is located on a quiet road off the beaten path in Water Mill within walking distance to the ocean. The new house is configured as two volumes separated by a central circulation core. The habitable portions of both volumes are raised to the required flood elevation, with the space below serving as parking and storage. Taking advantage of the distan...
The project is located in Krokskogen forests, outside the town of Hønefoss. Its location on a steep slope gives a fantastic view over the lake Steinsfjorden. The site is often exposed to strong winds, so the cabin is organized around several outdoors spaces that provide shelter from the wind and receives the sun at different times of the day. The interior is a shap...
The designer’s description SHED Architecture & Design, based in Seattle, recently completed a custom crafted urban remodel of a 1,702-square-foot Capitol Hill loft. The award-winning 1310 East Union Building designed by the Miller Hull Partnership for Seattle-based developers, Dunn + Hobbes, accommodates eight loft-style condominiums with big views of the surrounding ...
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...
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...
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...
Situated in Kensington, Sydney, this project worked within an existing first floor addition to a 1920s bungalow. Preserving the existing building envelope, the ground floor and first floor were tranformed to provide additional bedrooms and a versatile social area with Kitchen, Living and Dining opening up to a new outdoor entertaining area. The private bedroom spaces wer...
From the architects This house was an existing duplex that was to be converted to a modern residence. The existing house maintained some aspects of its history, but had been heavily (and not very carefully) remodeled over the years. The new design would focus on reunifying the form, and maximizing the minimal amount of space. Through adherence to strict and complex zo...
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...
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 project involved a large program that would yield a home on a limited and restricted site. The design strategy involved deconstructing the volume into pavilions that could generate a dialogue between built form and landscape and create intimate connections between the golf course and the living spaces. This Residence was developed as a home in a golf community in ...
A gentle three-story sloping site offers significant connections to grade on all levels of the house: a putting green on the upper floor, pool and entertainment on the middle level and more intimate views to natural bedrock at the lower level. A wide footprint and generous building area allows the central living portions of the house to expand into double-height space...
Following yesterday’s post about an apartment that has a bed attached to a bathtub, we thought we would show another bedroom/bathroom combination. Located inside an apartment in Kiev, Ukraine, designed by 2B Group, this one is slightly less unusual than the other one, since the bed isn’t attached to the bathtub, but it’s still not incredibly common to see the two togethe...
The Mazama house is located in the Methow Valley of Washington State, a secluded mountain valley on the eastern edge of the North Cascades, about 200 miles northeast of Seattle. The house has been carefully placed in a copse of trees at the easterly end of a large meadow. Two major building volumes indicate the house organization. A grounded 2-story bedroom wing ancho...
named ‘house in tsudanuma’, the property is situated alongside a busy road at the edge of a residential development, and is consequently set back from the street’s edge. the building’s form is also influenced by zoning restrictions, with the exterior tapered between the second and third floors. internal accommodation is connected through a series of sequential volumes...
founded by architect joana pacheco, the scheme makes contemporary residential architecture freely and readily available, while simultaneously stimulating debate between designers and clients. carl turner’s proposal, which is part house and part boat, seeks to build on the condensed eco-system that a boat at sea naturally creates. consequently, space and resources are...
thus, the exterior manifestation of the ‘narenjestan building’ from a street point of view is limited to a single two-dimensional façade – northern or southern depending on orientation of the lot in relation to the street. furthermore, due to particular dynamics of the real estate market, clients demand architects to design for the maximum allowed envelope to be built to...
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...
The home located in the bayside suburb of Sandringham belongs to acclaimed Melbourne pub owner Doug Maskiell and his young family with two small children. Drawing on their commercial relationship, Doug Maskiell of Sand Hill Road, and wife Jenny, commissioned Techne for the building extension on their bayside home in Sandringham and Doherty Design Studio for the interi...
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...
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...
More than 900 bamboo poles were used to construct this home, designed by architect Enrique Mora Alvarado for a site in a remote Ecuadorian rainforest (+ slideshow).Casa Convento is situated on a plot surrounded by mountains, a small creek and a bamboo forest. Recognising the importance of using local resources to reduce the cost of the project – and address the diffic...
Squeezed between two existing buildings in Barcelona, this family home by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes features a steel frame, a timber facade and two street-facing balconies (+ slideshow).Spanish studio Alventosa Morell Arquitectes designed CP House for a 15-metre-long site in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona. Sandwiched between a high-rise apartment block and a ...
A framework of chunky black I-beams supports the ceiling of a new basement floor, added by Pitsou Kedem Architects to the flat formerly owned by the late David Ben-Gurion, who was instrumental in the founding of the Israeli state and was prime minister between 1955 and 1963. "The ground floor apartment we designed was previously the home of Israel’s first Prime Minist...
This one-bedroom apartment in Barcelona has been remodelled by Nook Architects to include a second bedroom, as well as built-in storage around three arched doorways (+ slideshow). Nook Architects worked in collaboration with the architect Gustavo Cela on the project named Flatmate, after the newly acquired second bedroom and the potential flatmates it might host. The B...
