The kitchen is one of the most used rooms in your house, so it’s important that you enjoy your time in there. People spend many hours everyday in their kitchen, not just cooking or baking, but also socializing. Whether you prefer a contemporary style kitchen or a more traditional one, there is a … [Read more...]
The 10 Best World Records About Houses
A house is the most expensive purchase most of us will ever make in our lifetimes. They are our homes, our castles and our sanctuaries. Generally a measure of success, they regularly form the topic of conversations. These days we have programmes dedicated to them. Some have even set their own world … [Read more...]
Ninety7 @ Siglap | Aamer Architects
While I know some of you love Singapore architecture, this specifically house will make your jaw drop because Aamer Architects created a design that is nothing less than amazing. But like all great things, it's best to show them than to describe them, so here are some images. Here's a brief … [Read more...]
David Vandervort Architects | Lopez Island Residence
Lopez Island Residence by David Vandervort Architects This 1800 sf home is located on a heavily wooded, medium-bank waterfront property on Lopez Island, Washington. The house is carefully sited amidst the existing trees and the existing land form which slopes up to the bank and view. … [Read more...]
Yiacouvakis Hamelin Architects – La Cornette
Designed for two families, the house is modeled on traditional Quebec houses that lodged large families and their relatives. From the architects: "An out-scaled structure, like the agricultural buildings that surround it, the house is both traditional in its morphology and innovative in … [Read more...]
Belmont Freeman Architects – Kowalewski Residence
Atlantic Beach is an established beach community on Long Island, immediately outside of New York City. It is filled with modest houses from the 1920’s and 30’s in Tudor, Spanish and Art Deco styles. As real estate prices rose in the last decade, the village saw a lot of “tear-down” activity, … [Read more...]
Scott Edwards Architecture | The Mulligan Residence
The 2200 sq ft house was created by Rick Berry, from Scott Edwards Architecture, is in the heart of the coastal community of Manzanita, Oregon. The composition illustrates the northwest vernacular, including large overhangs and expanses of glass walls, natural indigenous materials for example … [Read more...]
L.E.FT | Baabdat Residence
Courtesy of L.E.FT The Baabdat Residence is surely an inversion design of the traditional agricultural terracing. This results in stunning 180 degree views out to the mountains beyond, and a camouflaged home from above. Architects: L.E.FT Location: Baabdat, Lebanon Team: Daniel Colvard, … [Read more...]
Bembé Dellinger Architects | House D
This is a contemporary house, created by the Architecture bureau called Bembé Dellinger Architects, and is a perfect example of a open-space, modern architecture and living space. Description made by architects: A house, south of Munich, in a traditionally grown, 100-year-old garden suburb. The … [Read more...]
Sagan Piechota Architecture | Otter Cove Residence
If you're anything like me, and you love both the sea and the mountain, you will definitely like the following piece of work. The following images made my brain dance around with ideas all day. I love what the Sagan Piechota Studio created, and I'd love to live in this house... oh, the shape, the … [Read more...]
Studio Aisslinger | Fincube Prototype
German Architecture Studio Aisslinger, comes with a new modular housing prototype, sustainable and transportable. The low energy house, named ‘Fincube’, is comprised of thin horizontal “ledges” of locally grown wood that wrap the slightly bulging form. You can only find this concept … [Read more...]
Modern Courtyard House Design
You like courtyards, huh? Bet you do, they're intimate, and have lots of light and atmosphere. The design we're talking about has the access to the house through a series of excavated exterior terraces and stairways, across water features and bridges, then down another stairway, finally … [Read more...]
Isay Weinfeld Arquitecto | Sumaré House
The brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld designed this house for a graphic designer in São Paulo with a studio situated below street level opening into a garden. Called Sumaré House and completed in 2007, the two-storey house features a studio and a long étagère to display the owners work. The … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Straw Bale House
If we learned anything from childhood, it was not to build our houses out of straw. After all, that big bad wolf was just waiting to blow it down. But that was before the world knew the numerous advantages of using compressed straw bales, as a key building material as outlined in the book The Straw … [Read more...]
The Pond – Sustainable House
Situated in a suburban area, south of San Francisco, this particular dream home comes from Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects and brings two strong attributes to the table: design and sustainability. The house was built considering the future owner’s requests: he wanted place that “maximizes the … [Read more...]
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