Spanish architecture firm A-cero have designed a house in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain. + Project description courtesy of A-cero The house is hided behind a harmonious sculptural set of curved walls made of stone dark granite and marble travertino that seem to emerge from a big water plate arranged in the house entry. In addition to the beauty [...]

Australian architectural practice Marcus O’Reilly Architects has designed the Kyneton house located on a leafy well established street in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia. A central spine between the two roofs splits the house into public and private functions and visually connects the entrance of the home to the sculptural forms of the rear garden. Marcus O’Reilly Architects + Project [...]

Dutch architectural practice 123DV architecture has the Villa Dali in Vroondaal, near The Hague, The Netherlands . The villa was designed to capture the character of Dali, Jugendstill forms, Spanish facades and nautical life. + Project description courtesy of Villa Dali Home is where the art is Capturing the character of Dali, Jugendstill forms, Spanish facades and nautical [...]

Dutch architectural firm GROUP A has completed the Villa Bussum located in Bussum, a small town near Amsterdam. The car-porch is located at the basement level where is reached via a sloping path, serving as a transitional space between front yard and back yard. It is covered by approx. 1/3 of an irregular volume, the [...]

Sweden-based architectural firm Visiondivision has designed an extension for a lake house in southern Stockholm. + Project description courtesy of visiondivision Visiondivision was commissioned to design an extension to a villa for two kids in a picturesque lake setting in southern Stockholm. The owner of the old house had met his new wife in Thailand and the [...]

San Francisco-based designer Joanna Borek-Clement has designed the Tafoni Floating Home located in Sausalito, California. This is a conceptual house designed to promote a new type of residential design, living and lifestyle. It is also a multi-purpose living pavilion that serves as a permanent house, a weekend retreat, a relaxing summer destination or a place [...]

Residance O is the refurbishment project designed by Italy-based Andrea Tognon Architecture, the new square floor plane was completed by filling the missing corner to the old L shape plan, it looks clean. + Project description courtesy of Andrea Tognon Architecture The building we were call to refurbish was built in the 70’s as imitation of vernacular [...]

New York-based architectural firm Morris Sato Studio has designed the YN-13 House located in Shelter Island. The house was organized on its site as three independent volumes (Main, guest house and garage) enclosing a swimming pool and a courtyard, conceived as a buoyant mass and inspired by historic Japanese residential structures in Kyoto and Kanazawa, [...]

“Living Around a Court” is the recently project by Spanish architect Julio Barreno in Ubrique, Cadiz, Spain. Designed with the goal of keeping the traditional typology of  Ubrique city, it was restored from a traditional patio house, and fully utilized the advantage of internal court where to maximize the penetration of natural daylighting into the [...]

Ryszard Rychlicki of H3AR is a student of Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. He has designed a project Instant House for expo (”Instant Lung“). + Description courtesy of H3AR The main problem of the INSTANT HOUSE for EXPO is the placement of a house in the context of a motorway, where exhaust fumes and noise [...]

A young architecture office AR Arquitetos recently has completed the Cube House in São Paulo Brazil. The house is a small cube of 6X6X6m in a very tiny urban plot. It was designed with a goal of maximizing the area, physically and visually both the internal and external spaces were merged, allowing maximum use of [...]

Gabriel Grinspum and Mariana Simas have completed the Pier House located in Brazil’s Saco Do Mamangua, Paraty. + Project description courtesy of Mariana Simas The “pier house” was built to house a sailboat during the week and its owners during the weekends. The alternate usage was suggested by the clients, a young couple from São Paulo. The proposal [...]

In Maracon, Switzerland, it is a beautiful and contemporary house by Swiss architectural practice Localarchitecture sitting in the Swiss countryside, it was designed to respect the morphology and scale of the other constructions in the village. The project is inspired from traditional architectural forms and codes and is reinterpreted to the use of the building and [...]

Belgium architectural firm Compagnie-O architecten recently has completed the House Van Colen in Wingene, Belgium. The house is beautifully sited in the Flemish countryside with the minimum impact to the existing topography. Due to its condition, the living spaces was organized on the first floor which connected by a bridge from the street, while having [...]