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The Eels Lake Residence was built in Apsley, Ontario, Canada. The house was designed in clean, modern spaces, rich in material and texture, in concert with a solid sustainable foundation results in enduring architecture. The Altius Architecture has designed this fascinating house with on-site trades to fuse new technology with traditional craftsmanship.
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– May 2, 2010
This 172 sf treehouse is located in Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles, California. The house perched atop steel pylons that abstractly emulate natural branches. The design respects to the pre-existing tree and it results in literally shaping itself around the contours of the trunk. The relation between the indoor and outdoor is provided by a single [...]
– March 20, 2010
With the trees in its surrounding, this house design which is located on a remote 10 acre site in Central Oregon consists of two simple cubes. The one box which is low & burrowed into earth purposed to be sleeping area. The other box is for living area, hanging at the treetop level, floating above. [...]
– March 11, 2010
Barry Alan Yoakum from Archimania has designed a house in Memphis, Tennessee on a pie-shaped site with views of the Mississippi River. The house consists of two components: a whit-brick cube and an elevated box. The cube aligns itself with the established street scape of row houses. The orientation of the box is unusual; it [...]
– January 21, 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 [...]
– January 10, 2010
Sits on the natural landscape near the calm lake and a vast wood area, this house was designed carefully to reach the wonderful vista of its surroundings. The house has floor to ceiling glass facade to frame the lake picturesque while on the other side the mature trees become a beautiful background of this house. [...]
– December 27, 2009
This retreat house lies on a site of coastal town of Kamakura, Japan. Designed by London-based architecture firm Foster and Partners, this modern house is built for a prominent collector of Buddhist art. The house composition is in harmony with the Japanese architecture. The house comprised a gallery for displaying art works, a large function [...]
– December 26, 2009
This house design is focused on the melding of indoor and outdoor, the constant invitation of natural light to the interior, and the search for a spiritual calm in and around the spaces. Called as the Tree House, the facede of this residential building is unique, consist of two wood-sheathed volumes hanging above the concrete [...]
– December 9, 2009
Szirtes House is designed from the practicality inspiration. This residential building sits atop a small footprint. Chenchow Little Architects has designed this modern house enclosed in an aesthetic armor that provides privacy from the outside. This contemporary house design has an inner courtyard with a tree inside. This enclosed outdoor courtyard can be accessed through [...]
– November 28, 2009
This modern house cluster situated on the slope of Merapi Mountain, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Not too far from the heart of Yogyakarta City, this cluster has easy access to all part of Yogyakarta, such to Adi Sucipto Airport, Magelang City, and some universities. The developer of this modern housing complex offers many facilities for the [...]
– October 26, 2009
This is a black box house for two generations, sited by the coast of the north of Zealand, Denmark. This house plot is a part of a larger plot belongs to an old thatched house, surrounded by the trees. The house is designed to make possible the garden sharing and provide both separate and common [...]
– September 27, 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 [...]
– September 22, 2009
Located on sloped site in Guadalajara, Mexico, this house is composed by two rectangular prisms. One of the prisms is parallel to the street, and the other one is perpendicular. The house has two floors. The first floor is for private areas like bedrooms. While the living areas are in the second floor, consist of [...]
– August 31, 2009
This modern contemporary house is designed by Brian Bell and David Yocum of the Atlanta, Georgia based BLDGS Architects. This project is located in an historic downtown neighbourhood. Exactly, this project is an addition to an old house which is built in 1910. The old house had a site with a mature tree canopy and [...]
– August 17, 2009
This unique home has 1,800-sq.-ft total floor area. It sets on a steep escarpment and surrounded by 150 years old birch and oak trees located in Raleigh, North Carolina. The house is Strickland-Ferris Residence, designed by Frank Harmon Architect. The home lies high above ground on wood trusses and concrete piers. The facade of the [...]
– August 9, 2009
Beach house is a proper place for spending time during vacation. Here, the pearl beach house offers comfortable retreat with nice sweeping views of the beach. It is located on the southern peninsula of Pearl Beach, North of Sydney. Surrounded by the eucalyptus trees, the house is formed as two adjoining gabled pavilions; the building [...]
– July 31, 2009
A wonderful idea has applied in this house design. Sited near Krakow, Poland, the Jodlowa House is dominated with glass material for its façade. This modern glass home has steel frame to underpin the house above the ground. PCKO Architects and MOFO Architects have designed the house with an indoor swimming pool, 2 bedrooms and [...]
– July 25, 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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– July 23, 2009
The client’s original design brief was quite simple: to generate a master plan and design concept for economical, low-budget shop houses occupying one side of the site with an anchor shopping mall on the other. Despite the simple brief, the site context, however, was not that simple. Although strategically located a few blocks away from [...]
– July 11, 2009
