House in Shigaraki / Junichi Kato & Associates
This is a two-storey wooden residence located in Shiga Prefecture
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Toh Crescent / HYLA Architects
In most typical residential developments the living spaces face central communal areas.
Townhouses at Macaulay Road / Squire and Partners
Squire and Partners has completed a development of three contemporary townhouses in Clapham, London SW4.
Kensington Lighthouse / TANDEM design studio
The Kensington Lighthouse is situation of a 160m2 strip of land between a former factory and its kitchen, in a densely urbanised, mixed use inner city context.
2211 CAMBIE / Arno Matis Architecture
A sweeping, spiraled building vocabulary utilizes new ‘green’ spandrel system symbolically capturing energy created by the adjacent bridge ramps
La Fábrica / Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
In 1973 Ricardo Bofill found a disused cement factory and he decided to transform it into the head office of Taller de Arquitectura
Canyon House / omb
When architect Steve McFarlane, a principal of Vancouver’s office of mcfarlane biggar, architects + designers purchased this 1950s post and beam house in North Vancouver, he immediately saw its potential
Student Housing & Nursery for Paris-Habitat / VIB Architecture
On 117 rue de Ménilmontant in one of Paris’s busy northern neighborhoods, VIB Architecture took possession of a long and narrow plot to construct and rehabilitate several buildings for a mixed-use program
Gambier Island House / omb
The Gambier Island House is a weekend getaway for young Vancouver couple with two children
Binh Thanh House / Vo Trong Nghia Architects & Sanuki + Nishizawa architects
Located in the center of Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam, the house was designed for two families; a couple in their sixties and their son’s couple with a child.
The Great Wall of WA / Luigi Rosselli Pty Ltd
At 230 metres long, the rammed earth wall meanders along the edge of a sand dune and encloses twelve earth covered residences, created to provide short-term accommodation for a cattle station during mustering season.
Writer’s Cottage / JVA Architects
This small annex is located in the garden of two professionals in a suburban residential area of Oslo.
Puinhuis / FELT with 360 architecten
At the outskirts of the quaint Belgian city of Ghent we encounter an idiosyncratic renovation of a classic Flemish townhouse
VEDDW Farmhouse / Hall + Bednarczyk
Veddw Farm is a remodelled stone Victorian farmhouse occupying a secluded location within the Wye Valley AONB
SawMill House / Archier
The Sawmill House uses large reclaimed one tonne blocks of reclaimed concrete which anchor it into the landscape and a dynamic active building envelope to regulate the internal environment
Social Housing in Aigues-Mortes / Thomas Landemaine Architectes
The project of collective housing in Aigues-Mortes has been developed within an exceptional site, living witness of the 70s.
Charlotte Road / McLaren Excell
The building at no. 3 Charlotte Road has an interesting history. Like many of the streets around Shoreditch, it was built in the late nineteenth century as a merchant’s warehouse in the industrialised East End of London ..
Forest House / Primus architects
The site is a long, slender plot facing the edge of a forest. The diagonal offers view of the heath.
Castle Rock Beach House / Herbst Architects
A holiday house for primarily summer use with a boatshed /garage. The house will not be used as a permanent residence
Ingersoll Road / McLaren Excell
This was a project about making something extraordinary out of the very ordinary. …
NEMO house / Mobius Architects
The Nemo Building is located within a picturesque landscape of the Masuria lakes, on a plot with direct access to the lake via a private beach…
Pallet House / Cristián Irarrázaval Architects
The assignment consists of a house meant for a farmer, which will be used sporadically by him alone, a few days a week.
TB House / Aguirre Arquitetura
Located on a spacious site within a gated community, the TB House follows a one-storey plan that resulted in a functional design …
Bluebell Pool House / Adam Knibb Architects
Bluebell Cottage is a large detached private home that is situated in Crawley, near Winchester.
La Jolla Beach House / Juan Carlos Doblado
The house in La Jolla is located on the beach of the same name, on the coast of the Pacific.
Ranch Style Home Converted Into Tranquil, Bright Space / Sanders Architecture
Sanders Architecture has completed a residential project in Tarrytown, in collaboration with interior design firm, Christen Ales Interior Design; and general contractor, Miars Construction
Far Sight House / Wallflower Architecture + Design
This house sits on high ground, and the rear of the site has wonderful views overlooking the greener and more affluent residential addresses in Singapore.
King Street Live/Work/Grow // Susan Fitzgerald Architecture
Located within an eclectic community in the north end of Halifax, Nova Scotia is a self-commissioned mixed use project by Susan Fitzgerald Architecture and her builder partner Brainard Fitzgerald.
Water-Cooled House / Wallflower Architecture + Design
Hidden away from the road, the site is surrounded by a verdant screen of mature trees from adjacent properties
Enclosed Open House / Wallflower Architecture + Design
The owners wanted a spacious, contemporary house that would be as open as possible but without compromising security and privacy at the same time.
Villa S, Norway / Saunders Architecture
Describing his latest project, a house for his own family in a leafy suburb of Bergen, Todd Saunders says, ‘It’s like three sticks, stacked on top of each other.’
Reclaimed Telegraph Poles House / WHBC Architects
A recycled timber house on Langkawi Island. The clients, a retired British couple, are very fond on the Malay houses …
Weston Residence / Specht Harpman Architects
The Weston Residence nestles in a valley adjacent to the Saugatuck River
Casa Xixim, Mexico / Specht Harpman Architects
This residence, on a narrow lot fronting a protected bay in Tulum, Mexico, was designed to be fully self-sufficient…
YIH House, Japan / aat+makoto yokomizo
This small house is located in the depths of the alley of Yanaka, Taitou-ku
House in Ishikiri / Tato Architects
The site is in a residential area developed around 1930, sloping to the west on a hillside of Mt. Ikoma, which overlooks the urban area of Osaka Plain
Casa Paracas, Peru / Riofrio+Rodrigo Arquitectos
Located in the desert coast of the Paracas bay, the perspective taken for the design of this house is a closed volume that extends along the total length of the plot.
House In Wicklow / ODOS Architects
This house is in essence a simple bold sculptural form which sits at the foot of a steep escarpment in the Wicklow hills
Esfera City Center, Mexico / Zaha Hadid Architects
From a client brief that originally called for 12 homogenous residential towers, ZHA has proposed an alternative community-orientated design …
Zgharta House / platau
Zgharta house sits in a Mediterranean olive grove landscape. The site slopes gently to the main road and enjoys an unobstructed view of the agrarian plain and mountains
Japanese House, Edinburgh / Konishi Gaffney Architects
In 2009 Konishi Gaffney Architects completed their own self built house and studio in Edinburgh. In 2010 it won the “Best Small Project” award from the Edinburgh Architecture Association.
Jewel Box, Switzerland / dps studio
The Villa is a mixed material structure utilizing recycled concrete, steel and wood as primary structural systems
Autofamily House, Poland / Robert Konieczny – KWK Promes
Autofamily house represents a new way of thinking about the entrance area in a suburban residence
LK House + Guesthouse/ Zack de Vito Architecture
Located in the remote hills of Sonoma County a Washington DC couple commissioned this modest, residential compound in Calistoga, California
Silver Wood House / 3r – Ernesto Pereira
“Simply … the Silver Wood House … any attempt to adjectives falls short of the final experience of contemplation … congratulations and thanks Ernesto”
Villa Spee, The Netherlands / Lab32 Architects
This villa for a married couple with child is built on the original location of a dated bungalow from the 60s in Haelen, The Netherlands
Edge House, Poland / Mobius Architects
Edge House is an attempt at designing a contemporary urban house in a mountain environment, where the local law requires traditional form
Sapphire, Berlin / Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind is developing his first apartment building in Germany on Chausseestrasse in Berlin, just metres from where the Berlin Wall used to run its’ course. “Sapphire” bears the rough edges characteristic of Libeskind’s work, making the body of the building resemble a cut gem, a sapphire. The project, which will create a total of …
Adamos Serafides Residence / Varda Studio
The variety of materials – white paint, fair face concrete, wood – highlights is an architectural composition, that converges with the yard area
Pergola, Japan / APOLLO Architects & Associates
The client asked for a house with a sense of openness, as seen in the Case Study Houses in West Coast of the United States. The site is situated at the back of a parking lot rented out on a monthly basis, and the architects decided to provide no openings on the exterior façades to …
HipHouse / Atelier Kempe Thill
The Hiphouse project in Zwolle presented Atelier Kempe Thill with a welcome opportunity to fundamentally question the assignment ‘social housing’
