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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
Sulla Morella house is a minimalist house design. This house was designed by Andrea Oliva from Cittaarchitettura on a flat area about 60m away from the street. This rectangular house has dimensions of approximately 11 m wide, 34 m long and 6 m tall. The house consists of two elements: the main body [...]
– April 29, 2010
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 [...]
– April 24, 2010
On a hillside site inland from the coast of southern Spain, this contemporary house was built. The design of this house is calm and flowing space but simplicity in detail, considering the topography and climate of the site. The British architect Peter Thomas de Cruz has broke the ordinary of the recent pseudo-vernacular development in [...]
– March 13, 2010
Seeing this house between its neighbor’s houses, just like a sandwich because of its contrast. This modern contemporary house consists of three level plans and it was designed by Sweden architecture firm Elding Oscarson. He designed this townhouse in minimalist style and boasts the white monolithic façade. Inside the house, there are industrial-chic staircase and [...]
– March 3, 2010
This Kyneton house is a single story house located in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia. This house is facing to the north generously. The house is stretching east to west across the site where the roof was designed to let the interior flooded by the northern natural light. The sustainable design is applied to manage the thermal [...]
– February 25, 2010
The Pott Architects have designed an individual house for a four person family in Berlin, Glienicke Germany. The house L was designed with careful consideration to harmonize with its natural surroundings. The shape was determined by the site’s topography. The back of the house is a continuous exterior wall; this side is stuck to the [...]
– February 18, 2010
The modern house with the vistas to the fields and Fyn beech forest was designed by Jeppe Utzon. This house is wonderful with two composite boxes in simple-gray of custom-made stone. The large windows set on the side with the view to the fields and forest. While the side facing to the neighbors, the windows [...]
– February 16, 2010
The CG House is a mountain house in Monterrey, Mexico. The house sits on 17,250 sq. ft. site adjacent to the Sierra Madre Mountains generously. The house is clad with the brown/black volcanic stone, IPE wood, white stucco and steel. The large windows in the living room, dining and family rooms provide the vistas to [...]
– January 30, 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 [...]
– 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 [...]
– January 10, 2010
This residential project is a transformation of a Water Tower into a contemporary house in the historic village of Lymm. Lymm Water Tower House was designed by Ellis Williams Architects who won the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) award. The house consists of five storeys above Cheshire, England’s countryside. Through the floor to ceiling [...]
– December 30, 2009
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 [...]
– December 17, 2009
Giulietti/Schouten Architects have designed a low maintenance house situated a few miles outside of McMinnville on 2.5 acre sloping site in a walnut grove. The low maintenance of the house will be reached by the materials chosen those are galvanized metal siding, aluminum windows, exposed concrete wall and veneer wood panels for siding. The house [...]
– December 10, 2009
Located between the sea and a pine forest in Nesodden, Norway this contemporary house is clad in wood. Designed by Norwegian architects Jarmund/Vigsnaes AS Architects MNAL, the house has a rustic style. The house consists of three level floors defined by wood panels. This triangular shape house has many windows to maximize the natural light [...]
– December 1, 2009
The owner of the house wants a contemporary house design with energy efficient which fully embraces the view and relates to the surrounding context and landscape. Simon Winstanley Architects has designed this Deepstone house in south west Scotland. Here are some architectural principles as design guidelines of Deepstone house:
• The external walls, floor and roof [...]
– November 25, 2009
The villa has main theme that is the spatial connection between the three floors. Zecc Architects has designed a void from basement to the second floor. This void connected some functions those are toilet, wardrobe and closets. The house is composed from box-shaped as geometric shape of minimalist style. The exterior is cladding with natural [...]
– November 21, 2009
This house belongs to a couple architects, located geographically in Gurgaon Haryana, India. Designed by DADA Partners, this house take an over 350 square meters of site with the upper floors as residential areas and a basement that houses a studio. There is a courtyard as the modifier climate and use as social gathering space. [...]
– November 12, 2009
Sited on a river, in a nine-acre area, this small house design has only 600 square foot floor area. In quite place, this environmental friendly house constructed from a reclaimed wood and concrete. The relation between indoor and outdoor is created by combinations of windows and transparent doors application. This comfortable yet functional house accommodates [...]
– November 4, 2009
This floating house located on Lake Union, Seattle, Washington. This two level house uses exterior materials that have aesthetic value and low maintenance. The first level uses aluminum panels and storefront windows while on the second level, Slatescape Xtreme panels blend with the Alaskan Cedar windows. The public space is housed in the second floor [...]
– October 25, 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 [...]
– October 24, 2009
This sculpture-like house is a dialogue between contemporary living and a completely new experience of space. The Libeskind Villa, designed by the famous architect Daniel Libeskind, has dramatic in appearance, elegant, clean lines and wall-windows. The house is flooded with natural light, consists of spacious spaces and plush lounges. This modern house accommodates 515 sq. [...]
– October 23, 2009
This house is sited on 322 sq. ft. corner lot in Tokyo with only 899 sq. ft. of total floor space. But the architect has designed this Penguin house to be seemed larger. Yasuhiro Yamashita, the architect of Atelier Tekuto has manipulated the ceiling height and the natural light is streamlined to get the feeling [...]
– October 22, 2009
