The Alternate Horizon Residence situates at the foot of the highest mountain of Shanghai and is next to a meandering river. The surrounding native landscape represent the conceptual source and guideline for the architectural idea. Before the renovation, the interior and exterior ...
Modified: September 30, 2023Masuto is a duplex project in the Melbourne, Australia. The elongated duplex residence is its own contemporary urban oasis; it enjoys an abundance of natural light, has a feeling of openness, is connected to the landscape, is spacially refined and efficient and beautifully textured and sophisticated. The project is an elegant ...
Modified: August 29, 2023Designed by Blaze Makoid Architecture, this North Haven, NY project is a 6,000 square foot home, spread across two, half-acre waterfront lots. As the homeowners often host family and friends, the goal was to create a design conducive to year-round entertaining, while taking full advantage of the sweeping views across Sag Harbor Cove, the village wharf and a small, salt water pond. At the approach, the form of the house is presented as primarily a solid – simple and tight – the only interruption...
Modified: August 10, 2023THE CONCEPT Casa Suarez moves inside a preserve in the city of Zitácuaro, Michoacán; the main objective is to bring the architectural wealth to the interior of the house, to turn it into a serene and peaceful place, since the city shows an incessant activity since all the conurbated municipalities are concentrated in it due to its commercial activity and its exterior maintains a Sensitive chaos for users. THE FORMAL Inside, two wells of light become the heart of the project, they modify the transitions...
Modified: July 30, 2023The Dame of Melba is a weekend holiday residence for a retired couple, set into a hillside overlooking the rugged Anglesea coastline. Exposed and in a harsh, salty environment, materials that weather well over time and require minimal maintenance were key selection criteria. The house is dug ...
Modified: July 29, 2023DEX Studio designed the Keeshen property to highlight warm, modern design with indoor-outdoor living for a small family with Midwestern roots. To accomplish this, DEX re-oriented the overall layout and added a second story to the original non-descript, single-story home. Using the firm’s signature visual language of texture and natural materials, the home has open, but idiosyncratic feel that stimulates the senses. What were the solutions? A second floor with views of the surrounding landscape, was...
Modified: July 28, 2023... for the swimming pool and the garden towards the favourable orientation. Wooden partitions plough the surrounding landscape into individual zones – extensions of the interior structure of the building. The movement from the public space towards the residence constitutes a sequence of successive disclosures, like the reflecting pool or the atrium with the seasonal flowers which “conceals” the main entrance, transforming the path of approach into a “sacred” route. The design of the building ...
Modified: July 25, 2023The design of this functional residence, which emphasized visual connection between living areas, features grand clean modern lines. The integration of most rooms with the living/entertaining areas, enabled the use of ample glazed doors and window openings over large spans; all framed ...
Modified: July 21, 2023The project is located in one of Dubai’s busiest residential neighborhoods and accordingly surrounded by many low rise houses. The client requested for a design that ensures the highest level of privacy and allows for the construction of a 1600 sqm house on a relatively small sized plot. He has also requested for a certain level of grandeur with a great deal of natural light. VSHD Design accordingly envisioned an L-Shaped house that looks into the inside of the plot where the family can enjoy the...
Modified: June 23, 2023The New Canaan Residence is nestled into a lush hilltop site in this forested part of Connecticut. The house was designed to engage the landscape and immerse the occupants in the full range of environments that the site offers. What the completed house doesn't show ...
Modified: June 02, 2023Three simple rectangular volumes hover above the desert floor, oriented to harness the sun, frame the views and capture the breezes. In much the same way a photographer crops an image, the house organizes the landscapes into intelligible formats, which focus and celebrate the environment. The plan organization is based on simplicity, functionality and "collapsibility", enabling the house to be operated as a smaller home when the guests are away.
Modified: June 01, 2023Though desirable ocean front/viewing properties are becoming increasingly limited, rare opportunities still exist as diamonds in the rough waiting to be discovered/transformed. This three-level hillside (4 bedroom, 4.5 bath) single family home exemplifies that pursuit and creative occupation of challenging topographical conditions rewarding unparalleled panoramic and private ocean views, while remaining nestled within close proximity of the city. An active family of four requested the re-visioning...
Modified: May 29, 2023Pictures of the interior and exterior of a residence in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, designed by the architects 3Arquitectura de Guadalajara.
Modified: May 27, 2023The new residence is a located on a large flat lot adjacent to a busy street. Our goal was to design a beautiful family home while minimizing street noise. It is essential that the outside world be left behind and our ides focused on creating a zone of decompression ...
Modified: May 03, 2023This zinc clad house trimmed in black richlite is built on an existing foundationin a tall pine forested site high above the St. Criox River in Minnesota. Theexisting home was beset with serious moisture infiltration problems which inturn gave rise to a host of environmental efficiency and air quality issues. Thedesign team saved all the foundation and masonry components that weresalvageable. The form evolves from the varying height spaces of the interior, informed bythe tall trees surrounding the...
Modified: May 02, 2023Residential building AATN Location: Haag am Hausruck, Upper Austria Photographer: Mark Sengstbratl Year: 2013 The existing property and residence of postwar years was already rebuilt in the 90ies of the last century. Now it has been extended to an ensemble by an additional building. The open courtyard was completed and the existing garage partially built on. Special attention was paid ...
Modified: April 24, 2023This kid-approved home was built to last. This one acre lot proved to be the perfect canvas for a one-story, U shaped residence with contemporary Balinese flair, where “our goal was to make a beautiful architectural statement with a home that’s comfortable and practical for everyday life.” With the heart of the home dedicated to the main living spaces - living ...
Modified: April 19, 2023The Les Pointes residence, a new construction recently completed by Ghoche architecte, is located at the end of a peninsula on the shores of Lake Archambault, in Saint-Donat, Quebec, Canada. In the context of scarce waterfront properties, the owners, who wanted to build ...
Modified: April 12, 2023The Nanton Residence is a modern brick home located in Vancouver, Canada. Designed for a large multi-generational family, this residence makes a bold statement from its position on a highly visible corner lot next to Vancouver’s Arbutus Greenway. The house is ...
Modified: March 31, 2023... fully connected to the beauty of the surrounding landscape. In the master bathroom, a sculptural, freestanding bathtub floats in the middle of the all-white room. A single slab of semi-precious stone serves as the only counterpoint. While Northpoint residence is rigorously modern, its rich palette of materials and textures delights the senses. In the best Northwest modernist tradition, it captures an innate sense of place, making the best possible use of our light and landscape. It is designed for ...
Modified: March 18, 2023The Sunshine Canyon Residence was, in a way, created by the Fourmile Canyon Fire of 2010. The owners, who lost their home in that fire, wanted to rebuild near their original home site. Embracing the beauty of the burned landscape, they chose a steeply sloped southern facing ...
Modified: February 24, 2023Working within the bones of a solid, well-constructed water front home built in the ‘60s on Sydney’s Parramatta River, the adaptive reuse of this multi-level dwelling involved removing the entirety of the internal workings of the existing structure, re-invigorating the central circulation core, promoting light and cross ventilation while embracing the waterfront outlook to the North West. The dwelling is arranged over four levels cascading from the road frontage towards the water’s edge through a...
Modified: February 11, 2023... side. The layout offers expansive interior and exterior views, and the external treatment employs natural materials, such as Algonquin limestone, copper detailing and awnings, rift-cut oak, and teak windows to integrate with the surrounding site. The residence has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2006 Ontario Association of Architects Award of Excellence, the 2005 Architecture Magazine’s Home of the Year Awards, and was declared by Art Info to be one of the world’s 12 best ...
Modified: January 14, 2023Our client for Painted Sky requested an “elemental home,” a home of modern simplicity, void of cliché ornament or stylistic language that often looks dated in just a few years, a home that is as timeless as its natural desert surrounding. Our response was to organize the home about an enclosed courtyard, a traditional southwestern architype that provides privacy and shelter from the elements while drawing light to the interior. Walls of glass surround this courtyard such that interior social and...
Modified: January 03, 2023A modest single story hillside home designed for a family wishing to downsize and simplify. The feel of this home is evocative of the mid-century modern homes which once dominated the surrounding area before the McMansion craze of the last decade. Humble, natural materials such as rammed earth walls, limestone floors and Douglass Fir wood ceilings are woven inside and out in a sophisticated play of interlocking interior and exterior living spaces. The scale of the home is decidedly “cozy” and visually...
Modified: January 01, 2023East of Tshwane in Gauteng, South Africa is the spectacular Mooikloof Heights home which is situated on a north sloping 15000sq.m. site. This home is approached from the north where it is completely transparent, but as the driveway curves around the west side it becomes a collection of stacked rusted boxes without any openings. Due to the size of the site, the house could be stretched to extend to nearly 85m from east to west: The north elevation is totally glazed across the three storeys with deeply...
Modified: December 25, 2022Victoria Street residence is set in the Waterfall Country Estate, on a site overlooking the waterfall development and a lush wetland. The Residence occupies the width of its constrained site to maximise on becoming a receptacle for the views and expanse of nature to ...
Modified: December 21, 2022CCS Architecture designed this sustainable, 1900-square-foot beach house in Stinson Beach, CA, as a second home for a three-generation San Francisco family. Located in Seadrift, a gated vacation community that originated in the 1950s at the tip of Stinson Beach, the Northern California architecture is at ease among neighboring homes by Joe Esherick, Stanley Saitowitz and William Wurster. The design follows a rigorous sustainability program, achieving the Marin Planning Department's highest rating...
Modified: December 18, 2022This project involved the expansion of a spacious single-story Outremont residence built in the 1960s. Situated on a site with a steep incline and majestic view, the two-floor expansion was designed to offer a generous window on the horizon. The architectural concept involved the addition of living spaces in the form of a ...
Modified: December 17, 2022... owners’ impressive art collection. Artifacts collected over long sojourns through the Zagros mountain range, India and Myanmar nestle next to modern Canadian art and bookend the exterior views. Looking back at the house from the Bruce, the program of residence blurs with gallery and public building. We are proud to provide this urban elevation to this important thoroughfare.
Modified: December 13, 2022Located in the verdant Laurentians in Quebec, the Estrade Residence reveals itself discretely on the shores of Lac de la Cabane in St-Adolphe d’Howard. It is by studying the steep and rocky topography of the place that MU Architecture decided to highlight the peculiarities of this site with an adapted and ...
Modified: December 03, 2022The Du Tour Residence is a renovation project. This Laval home, designed by an architect in the ‘60s, has belonged to the same family for decades. Its very special character and distinctive details were to be retained. The designers’ challenge was to transform ...
Modified: November 29, 2022This is our Toulon Drive Residence that we built for a client.
Modified: November 28, 2022The residence is located in Ancient Korinthos. Taking into consideration the importance of the broader archaeological area, an excavation of 12x12 meters initially took place in the southern part of the site, determining the opening gestures of the project....
Modified: November 11, 2022ELL is a 5,500SF ground-up Beverly Hills Spec residence designed for Luxe List Home. The building is located at the crest of the Benedict Canyon hillsides, overlooking the entire serene landscape of the Beverly Hills neighborhood. The project is loosely situated within the footprint of a former, ...
Modified: November 09, 2022A clustered residence near Athens, designed by architect Panos Nikolaidis to frame vistas and secure privacy. Designed to assure the privacy of its residents, this house could be described as a bunker, massive, imposing and seclusive. A child, though, would say that ...
Modified: November 06, 2022Located in a beautiful valley in the south of the Maresme Mountains, this home was designed to capture the magnificent views of the coastal mountain range with pine and holm oak forests. The clients, a Scandinavian family, wanted to create a dream holiday home with accommodations for their kids and guests: a unique, warm and comfortable contemporary space that would host an inviting and harmonious atmosphere. The home was planned as two different volumes connected by a large terrace with a swimming...
Modified: November 02, 2022Located in a quiet area of the Eastern Townships in Quebec, the Nook Residence sits in continuity with the landscape in which it is part. Turning its back to the street, it offers a virtually blind facade that encourages discovery and piques curiosity. Strategically located openings and a large gap in the white mass give ...
Modified: October 07, 2022This rural home sits on an 80-acre agricultural site in California's Central Coast wine region. From the plan layout to the assembly details, the building responds to the extreme climate of its desert locale, to the social dynamic of an extended family, and to the indoor-outdoor continuity of rurallife. The making of the home is grounded in the primal act of masonry walling. Concrete block walls create the spatial, social, and ecological organization of the building. Masonry was chosen for its elemental...
Modified: September 22, 2022Situated in the rural "Big Valley" of Central California, this private residence negotiates between the rigid geometry of its agricultural context on one side, and the serene pastoral setting of a natural stream basin on the other. Inspired by the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, simple forms cast in strong daylight and ...
Modified: September 04, 2022Creating a personal connection to the heritage of the client, the house on Cassell Street is referential of an ancient Byzantine building. The strong rectilinear form, made from natural stone, has a quality of looking older than it is – as though it could have been standing in the same place unchanged for a hundred years or existed in another world all together. Positioned on a corner block, the façade uses bespoke materials on the upper level appropriate for its high visibility from the street....
Modified: August 27, 2022The site for this home is a hill in Alibag, an erstwhile village near Mumbai which has now become a destination for resorts and second homes. The site enjoys a stunning view, not only of the rolling contours surrounding it, but of the sea and the skyline of Mumbai in the distance. Conceptually, the design of the home is a departure from the “stepped terrace” typology that one would conventionally employ on a heavily contoured site. Instead, we chose to deconstruct a cuboid that is tilted and suspended...
Modified: August 16, 2022A stacked rectilinear form, Bass Street Residence uses a series of subtly angled walls in opposing directions so the building composition creates a slight sense of tension between the property’s two key outlooks. A singular cutout in the front façade angles towards distant water views from ...
Modified: August 14, 2022Hamptons living takes a modern approach in this newly renovated home nestled in the popular town of East Hampton, NY. Located on Eastern Long Island in New York State, the Hamptons are a popular summer destination for couples, families, and homeowners alike. Many homes cover the expansive Hamptons’ landscape and the architectural and design opportunities are endless. While many decide to start from square one and build a getaway dream home, a remodel in the Hamptons can give greater results in half...
Modified: August 13, 2022The Grands-Jardins home is located in the Charlevoix region, specifically in Petite-Rivière-St- François, close to the Massif ski station. It sits on the mountainside on a rocky wooded site overlooking the St. Lawrence River. One of the major challenges of the project was to position the house so as to optimize the privacy and the views offered by the site. The home is built parallel to the street and at a slight angle so as to look out over the south and the river. From the inside, you feel you...
Modified: August 08, 2022The first requirement that the owners, a young couple with three children, expressed was that their new home should have a casual, barefoot feel, like a vacation destination, with strong indoor-outdoor connections. Their 2.8 acre site, with gentle slopes to the south and mature landscaping on all sides was the perfect setting to create a home that would fully engage the beautiful landscape for family living. The design that evolved is based on a simple “L” shaped plan with two wings. The east wing...
Modified: July 30, 2022The projects is locates in Los Carolinos Neighborhood , in the northwest of the city of Cordoba. In a well established residential area, away from the downtown area. It is a responds to current housing needs. A balanced construction was created, containing the functional program for two houses . On a lot portion of 22 mts by 36,5mts, and depending on the construction restrictions for the area (significant side and front withdrawals). The place has a steep topography on the back, that reduces significantly...
Modified: June 21, 2022The design of the residence had to meet three important challenges: architectural reconciliation of a Mexican inspiration in a Quebec context; exploration of a prototype house with predefined materials; and the objectives of LEED® Canada certification. The living spaces ...
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