Andrew Maynard Architects has designed the Barrow House which is located at Brunswick, in Melbourne, Australia. The house looks like a composition of timber boxes. Every box rotated independently and subjected to varying amounts of extruding and manipulating forces. This house consists of variety of shapes yet united. It brings the impact to the interior [...]

The modern house was designed by Hanrahan Meyers Architects. Called the Holley House in Garrison, New York, the house design was a sophisticated “sanctuary” nestled far away from the Manhattan lofts. Located on a picturesque site near Garrison, the modern country retreat was personified by the exquisite residence. Locally quarried stone made the house. There [...]

This project included restoration and alteration to the existing Edwardian house, and the demolition and construction at the rear for a new addition. A deliberate counterpoint to the introverted Edwardian house with its dark central corridor was the transparency and openness of the new part. To create an “Inside is outside is inside” environment, where [...]

The Old Bernal House is one of the oldest houses in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood. Built in 1860, this cottage house sat in broken for years. So the house was redesigned to be modern but still keeping the rustic charm of the original building. Incoming search terms for the article: spanu house  freshomedesign com  simple small house [...]

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 [...]