Local firm FORM, led by architect Kouichi Kimura, created a beautiful inward-facing house with a few strategically-placed windows that face the narrow street and neighboring buildings. Kimura created a variety of spaces enveloped with minimalist facades that protect the family privacy. He integrated the furniture into the architecture, with small niches that function ...
Architect Robert Konieczny and his studio KWK Promes – whose past designs include a fortress-like home featuring thick shutters and a drawbridge – designed the home for a young family residing in Katowice, a city in southern Poland. The two-storey house bears all the traits of a typical suburban property – a pitched roof, red brick walls and a large garage – but the u...
The buildings, located in Chengdu, China, will be linked by a variety of elevated green spaces, including marinas, waterways and land bridges that will feature recreational spaces. Each apartment will have its own garden, which surrounds the unit. The towers are situated on a manmade lake and a tea house on the main level of the building cantilevers out over the water...
The main floor addition contains a kitchen, dining, and lounge area - all open to one another. The central rustic 14 person dining table is the first viewpoint entering into this addition. A grand light fixture is suspended above the table with a linear fireplace at the far end of the table to draw you into the space. The kitchen was designed to fade away when not in u...
Instead, many people choose interior designers because they know they can handle the exact style they like. The four apartments here, designed by YoDezeen, all have striking similarities. Utilizing plush leather sofas, dark neutral color palettes, and right wood tones, each creates its own dreamy, masculine atmosphere. The dark gray wingback chair is ultra modern and ...
Providing countless patterns and blueprints, the natural world has evidently influenced creative minds, thus helping to make many projects and products a reality. Cleverly designed rural shelters and retreats can be striking in their impact and aesthetic, offering visitors or proprietors the opportunity to slow down and repose. One such fitting example can be found in...
The semi-detached house was the chosen model out of a number of models presented to the customer. The selected model was not designed for a specific customer; it is trying to answer an anonymous architectural program. The "Henkin Shavit" studio, headed by Irit Henkin and Zohar Shavit, conducted the planning and design of the project, with their vast experience managed i...
Especially one described by Mary Arnold-Forster, of Dualchas Architects, as 'distilled to the most important aspects of scale, form, siting and proportion by using only two materials and with no other distractions or decoration'. However, belying this rigorous, even austere concept is a generous, light-flooded and eminently user-friendly four-bedroom home for a family...
Designed by Australian firm Carterwilliamson Architects, Spiegel Haus in Sydney's Inner West district is home to a young family with small children. Its efficient yet polished design makes an ideal home for the client, while its welcoming open plan and annexed guest house allows the family to host visiting relatives and friends. The 330 sq m house is spread across thr...
Apollo Architects & Associates swapped timber frames for concrete and fibre-reinforced plastic to reduce the cost of building this house and studio for a fashion photographer in Tokyo (+ slideshow).The house needed to be constructed on a strict budget and within a short timeframe, so Tokyo-based Apollo Architects & Associates chose to use concrete and FRP as a cheaper 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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Lampshades with five-metre-long woven cables have been draped and twisted around a refurbished 20th century apartment in Berlin by interior stylist Sarah Van Peteghem (+ slideshow).Sarah Van Peteghem, who also runs interior blog Coco Lapine, used a selection of products by German design company Llot Llov to rejuvenate the 100-year-old flat in Prenzlauer Berg. The Berl...
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...
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 ...
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...
A common issue to address in the design of a detached house is the relationship of the internal to external areas and how do we achieve privacy in a fairly densely built up environment. The particular issues relating to this site were as follows. Firstly the site was narrow (10m wide) and long (50m). Secondly it was originally a semi-detached house and was able to be ...
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 ...
German studio Franken Architekten milled a pattern of squiggly lines into the outer surface of this house and studio in Frankfurt's old town, replicating the outline of timbers from the building it replaced. Franken Architekten was asked to oversee the renovation of a traditional building in the protected Sachsenhausen neighbourhood, but the discovery of dry rot in the ...
Local studio FCC Arquitectura gutted two farm buildings in the Porto municipality of Felgueiras to free up space for the new two-storey home, named Casa RM. Given the poor condition of the aged buildings, the architects decided to demolish everything behind the thick outer stone walls and insert a new structure within. A further white block extends from the upper stor...
This rust-coloured copper home extension by British studio Poulsom Middlehurst sits above the red-brick walls and clay-tiled roof of a Victorian terrace in east London. Poulsom Middlehurst extended and refurbished the top floor flat inside a Victorian property in Clapton, east London. The one-bedroom flat had previously been spread over two floors, with an uninhabitable...
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...
Japanese studio Nano Architects has renovated a small 1960s apartment with custom-built wooden furniture, ornamental driftwood and unusually shaped openings – a process described by the team as "cyborg surgery" (+ slideshow). The project, named The Times Resuscitation Building, involved refurbishing the interior of an apartment in the 1967 red-brick building known as Sa...
When Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects designed the remodel of this house in Piedmont, California, they included a bathtub in the master bathroom that looks like a large bowl embedded into the floor.
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...
A red brick wall spans the gap between two crumbling facades on a street in Catalonia, hiding a home by H Arquitectes with two courtyards and a central garden Wooden gates slide back from the lower storey of the brick facade, situated just outside Barcelona in the centre of the old city of Granollers, into an enclosed patio and parking area to the rear of House 1014 by ...
A sauna is housed within this wooden hut by Andre Tchelistcheff Architects, which perches on a grassy knoll overlooking the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains in upstate New York The boxy timber structure, comprising a sauna, changing facilities and a pump room for a hot tub is topped by a flat earthen roof. The ashen tones of the wooden planks that clad the exterior c...
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. ...
Architecture studio Sinato raised the ceiling level inside this Japanese apartment to create a mezzanine reading room that can be glimpsed through a narrow opening (+ slideshow). The wooden platform adds an extra room in the small Fujigaoka T apartment in Kanagawa, bringing its area up to 68 square metres, while the supporting columns work to subdivide the existing spac...
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...
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 ...
