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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Saenz de Santamaria Designs, Swimming pool, Thailand, Tropical architecture, Waterfront architecture
Villa of a Million Stars of Casas del Sol by Saenz de Santamaria Designs is one of the larger villas and steals views from Sairee town to the open ocean. This trendy refuge is never short of relaxation space in which to tune in, turn off and chill out. + Please click here for more [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Landscape architecture, Saenz de Santamaria Designs, Swimming pool, Thailand, Tropical architecture, Waterfront architecture
Australian designer Christina Saenz de Santamaria has completed the 5 executive tropical villas of Casas del Sol in Koh Tao, Thailand. The 5 villas are, Villa of a Million Stars Villa of Green Palms Villa of the Blue Sea Villa of the Full Moon Villa of the Rising Sun The primary goal of Casas del [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected Tags: Japanese architecture, Random pattern, TOFU
Japanese architect TOFU has created the N House located in villa subdivision areas in Otsu, Shiga, Japan. There are rich natural environments with Lake Biwa in the southeast and Mount Hira in the northwest, so in the first stage, TOFU have decided to use cedar panels as exterior materials. The exterior wall is colored with [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Japanese architecture, TOFU
Y House is a small house designed by Japanese architect TOFU in Obama, Fukui, Japan. There is a vacant lot around the site. So, by creating a large window on the second floor, it is possible to see paddy fields, mountains, sky and feel to spread over a floor area. This plan has high ceilings [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: China architecture, Foster + Partners, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers, Waterfront architecture
New CITIC headquarters tower in Hangzhou breaks ground construction has commenced on Foster + Partners’ first project in Hangzhou, China, with a sustainable, landmark headquarters tower for CITIC Bank. The tower has a prominent location in Hangzhou, next to one of the city’s most recognisable landmarks – our challenge has been to create a new [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Coates Design, Concrete, Landscape architecture, Stair, Timber, USA architecture
Coates Design has designed the Dorsey Residence in Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA. This custom island house symbolizes its owner. From the outside, the home is an anonymous, almost austere, monumental concrete facade anchored deep into the hillside on a waterfront property. Much of the home is hidden behind the two-story concrete face. Upon entering, it [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: USA architecture, Valerio Dewalt Train
Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, in partnership with Webcor Builders, has recently completed a nine-story, 226-unit residence hall that anchors UC San Diego’s new medical school campus. Faced with a projected increase in the enrollment of graduate and professional students, a shortfall of on-campus residences, and the goal of housing half of the student population in [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Netherlands, Prefab
The Dutch supplier of prefabricated modular homes – Being Development, has recently launched 6 being homes in The Netherlands. Designed by Nanne de Ru from Powerhouse, the homes are produced off-site, thus reducing waste (only 2% of waste can’t be recycled), high efficiency and offering the contractors a healthy environment to work in. BEING DEVELOPMENT [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Japanese architecture, Stair, White
Japanese architect Takeshi Hamada recently has completed the Narrow House in downtown, Abeno-ward, Osaka, JAPAN. Background, Atmosphere The location is Abeno-ward Osaka, JAPAN. Though it is a superb location just 10 minutes from Tennoji Station, it is in the downtown streets filled with traditional emotion, there are traditional tenement houses, old houses and shops, just [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Courtyard architecture, Lattice screen, OOIIO Architecture, Spain, White
OOIIO Architecture recently has dsigned a villa project “Casa 2xS“. The “Casa 2xS” is a house placed on the urban limit of Mora, an olive-producing town in the centre of Spain. This particular condition of the site, the border between the urban and the nearby countryside landscape, defines the starting point for the project. In the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Architecture Paradigm, Concrete, India architecture, Refurbishment / Extension
Indian architectural practice Architecture Paradigm has completed the renovation for a house in Bangalore, India. The project is about exploring this notion of joint family culture in the changing urban scenario. The site is a 400sqm with a steep drop of 2.5 meters from northeast to the southwest. It is flanked by roads on the [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand, Courtyard architecture, Timber
ASPECT Studios designed a private terrace garden in Birchgrove, Sydney, Australia. Giant black bamboo, one off in situ concrete details and Australian native hardwood creates a beautifully considered external space. Multi use spaces are created by the layout of these well crafted elements. Sculptural concrete walls double as seating back rests and mediate level changes. [...]
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