Blouin Tardif Architecture is Canadian architects who have designed a home in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Occupying an area in the middle of the wood on the rocking slope, this house performs natural in its exterior with wood cladding. The design is in minimalist approach which is characterized by the clean lines and the [...]
By freshome
– April 24, 2010
Located on a hill, this modern house was raised up in order to provide the vistas of vast valley. Also the design intends to create passive cooling for the house during the summer. The cantilevered metal roof protects the floor-to-ceiling glass windows and doors that passively cooling the house. The Architects Magnus finished the house [...]
By freshome
– January 12, 2010
This house is in Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles, CA. Designed in luxury, this Banyan tree house is perfect for retreat house, for staying out of the everyday business and traffic. So natural is the righteous word to describe this compact house. This natural house features wood structure which is raised 12 feet up on steel [...]
By freshome
– January 10, 2010
This house located in the exotic location of Kurucesme region of Istanbul, Turkey. Called as Flooded House, this modern house comprised four storeys on the 4,000-sq.-ft. site area. The house is full of water appliances. It has outdoor and indoor pools that are connected by ground-level floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors. The upper ground accommodates the [...]
By freshome
– December 17, 2009
This house has geometric structure that consists of three rectangular boxes. This weekend house has large glass walls and a series of top windows which make possible much natural light pass through into the Riverside House. There is also lovely half-floating continuous deck for outdoor activity. Keiji Ashizawa design, a Japanese architecture firm has designed [...]
By freshome
– October 24, 2009
Engawa is a traditional Japanese design element that means wooden strip of flooring immediately before windows and storm shutters inside traditional Japanese rooms. Recently this term has also come to mean the veranda outside of the room as well. This term is the basic of this long rectangular house. Actually the house is like a [...]
By freshome
– October 20, 2009
Baltazar House is a residential building for a growing family located on small lot with the beautiful views to the ocean. The concrete base rices the ground of the house with a minimal amount of openings until the second story. Panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean can be seen from the glass window wall second [...]
By freshome
– September 23, 2009
Lloyd Russel has designed unordinary house in a busy street of San Diego. The other side of the house is an interstate embankment. Called as R3 House, this is a triangular house to fit 1500 sq ft. The building is built to some purposes such as a community art space, a studio, location for dinner [...]
By freshome
– September 22, 2009
This home is designed by staff architect Julian Weber. The house located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle. This is a modern house with response to sustainable design. The interior and exterior are finished with incorporation of variety of locally produced and recycled materials.
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By freshome
– August 14, 2009
Paul Raff is a Canadian architect who has visionary thoughts about architecture and sustainable environment. This is one of his residential projects in Toronto with passive solar technologies to minimize the ecological effect. This house blends environmentally responsible building strategies and elegant architectural composition.
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By freshome
– July 23, 2009
This house is located on the edge of the Asterdplas in the Hague district meadows in Breda. As a modern house this S house is designed in box-shaped with large spacious interiors. Designed by Dutch architects from Grosfeld Van der Velde Architecten, this house offers a beautiful panoramic view with its extensive use of sweeping [...]
By freshome
– July 21, 2009