Still Life House by Untitled [design agency]

Still Life House by Untitled [design agency]

Design studio Untitled [design agency] has used materials such as limestone and fir woods, to create a calm ambiance within its renovation of this Vancouver home... read more here.

House in Cotswalds by Broadway Malyan

House in Cotswalds by Broadway Malyan

From the architect: "The home, built for a private client, has been specifically designed to flow into the surrounding tranquil woodland, giving its occupants a sense of respite and escape and affinity with nature. Taking inspiration from clean, modern architecture,...

Sheffield House, Massachusetts

Sheffield House, Massachusetts

"Pale Cedar walls punctured with large glass doors and windows to offer views of its lush settings"... New York architect Vincent Appel has designed Sheffield House in Massachusetts to replace the resident's childhood home with cedar walls as the "picture frame of the...

Residence 363, San Francisco

Residence 363, San Francisco

Residence 363 is a minimalist contemporary architecture project located in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, California, designed by Michael Kramer. More images and information here and floor plans here...

South Yarra Townhouse

South Yarra Townhouse

"South Yarra Townhouse is a reset, realignment and reinvigoration of a previously cumbersome 90's era townhouse..." By Winter Architecture, Melbourne, Australia. More images and text here...

House on 36th St.

House on 36th St.

This sculptural dwelling with big street facing windows, a cantilevered upper floor and a vaulted modern interior by Beebe Skidmore Architects overhauls an existing one-story cottage on the site on 36th St in Portland, USA. Click here and here for more images and...

Home In the Netherlands by Chris Collaris

Home In the Netherlands by Chris Collaris

Tiny Holiday Home is a compact black house by i29 Interior Architects and Chris Collaris, which is designed to stand out like a minimalist sculpture within a nature reserve near Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Read more here...

Casa Kwantes, Schiedam, South Holland by MVRDV

Casa Kwantes, Schiedam, South Holland by MVRDV

As a designer, I have seldom (if ever) included a curved facade, particularly composed of curved glass, in any residential design.  I tend to find it, for the most part, a self-indulgent design move on the part of architects, for the simple reason that it costs an arm...

Ark House, Southern Poland

Ark House, Southern Poland

Designed by architect Robert Konieczny, the main objective was to design a house that would make the most of the spectacular hillside views.  The unusual position of the house relative to the slope of the site creates an elevated ground floor.  This, coupled with the...

Concrete and Light…

Concrete and Light…

Board marked concrete contrasts transparent glazing in this North London extension by Paul Archer Design to create a bright light-filled open-plan kitchen, dining, lounge area...  fantastic recessed light detail in the exposed concrete beams... see more at his website...

Lakeside residence in rural Quebec

Lakeside residence in rural Quebec

A pair of separate volumes connected by a covered bridge form Atelier Pierre Thibault's latest project, a lakeside residence in rural Quebec... Take a look at the below images and some of the architectural drawings here ...            ...

“Like a stone in the landscape”… Angular home in the Swiss Alps

“Like a stone in the landscape”… Angular home in the Swiss Alps

Clad in mottled grey tiles, the house sits on the edge of a slope above a valley 'like a stone in the landscape'.  Surrounded by cattle-grazing pastures and vineyards, its six-sided roof is angled to match the incline of the mountains and a glass curtain wall on...

Long Island Residences by Bates Masi Architects, NY, USA

Long Island Residences by Bates Masi Architects, NY, USA

Architecture firm Bates Masi have designed a number of residences in a range of Long Island towns on the east coast of the United States.  As many of their designs are located within a context of more traditional buildings, their modern holiday homes adopt an...

Simple Brick House, Lansdowne Gardens, South London, UK

Simple Brick House, Lansdowne Gardens, South London, UK

Previously the site of a derelict dental surgery, this Lansdowne Gardens property follows the form of the original building – creating the illusion of a one-storey structure from street level. "From the pavement the house appears as a single-storey pavilion.  Its true...

Abode at Great Kneighton, Cambridge, England

Abode at Great Kneighton, Cambridge, England

Abode at Great Kneighton is a new development just outside Cambridge designed by Proctor and Matthews Architects.  Comprising of 306 homes, ranging from studio apartments to five-bedroom houses, the 6.4-hectare site was designed as a sequence of spaces, moving from an...

The Corten House, Belgium

The Corten House, Belgium

Strips of pre-rusted Corten steel run in vertical columns around this Belgian designed home. Designed by DMOA Architecten for a couple in the Antwerp suburb of Kontich, Corten House is a 3 story 540 sqm house named after the brand that produces the weathered steel...

Timber House in Bavaria, Germany

Timber House in Bavaria, Germany

This single family home in rural German designed by Kühnlein Architektur is made up of two gabled structures, one containing living spaces and the other a series of bedrooms connected with a flat-roofed extension creating protected courtyards at both the front and the...

New York City Nightlife… from a different perspective…

New York City Nightlife… from a different perspective…

                  Before soaring thousands of feet in the air, Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Vincent Laforet’s needed clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration and air traffic control towers. Once he received...

Wooden House in Austria’s picturesque Bregenz Forest

Wooden House in Austria’s picturesque Bregenz Forest

Named after its clients, Haus für Julia und Björn is a two-storey house built on a hillside between a lime tree and a walnut tree in Egg, which is in the picturesque Bregenz Forest region. Austrian studio Innauer-Matt Architekten designed a lattice of criss-crossing...

V-lodge, Buskerud, Norway

V-lodge, Buskerud, Norway

Cozy... a private cabin in Norway by Oslo-based architectural firm Reiulf Ramstad Architects. "The cabin is gently placed on the slight slope of the site, where the volume creates small micro-climate zones with beneficial sun conditions for outdoor activities and easy...