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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Portugal, Swimming pool
The project of a dwelling house in Mascotelos sees on its terrain a conceptual opportunity as well as a circumstance to which it cannot escape: a narrow lot with a slope of three meters between the two fronts, in a relatively rural environment. The accessibility is solved in fronts, an automotive access to the ground [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: A-cero, Folding architecture, Spain, Swimming pool
Spanish architectural studio A-Cero recently has completed a detached house in Madrid, Spain. + All images courtesy A-cero
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Metropole, South Africa, Stone, Swimming pool, Timber
Clean architectural lines with a warmth and Zen like ambiance. The clients requested that we create a dream house for their site in the Zimbali forest estate. Several bodies of water, including Koi ponds, water features and a rimflow swimming pool appear to coalesce into one, and flow through the house and out into the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Interior Tags: Glass, LEED, Lobby, Swimming pool, USA architecture
The City of Dallas, Matthews Southwest and Omni Hotels & Resorts appointed a team of leading experts in sustainability and green buildings to create a luxury convention center hotel for Dallas, designed with innovative features and constructed in a process to meet the highest industry certification standards possible. The fine work of the entire team [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Architects Collective, Austria, Concrete, Folding architecture, Landscape architecture, Swimming pool
Living surrounded by the brilliance of natural light The new home for a young family is located on the outskirts of a small settlement in the South of Austria’s Burgenland region and is harmoniously placed into the hilly landscape. The traditional and typical L-shaped floor plan of the region was developed further in an imaginative [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: China, Hirsch Bedner Associates, Restaurant, Spa, Stair, Swimming pool
HBA, one of the leading global hospitality design firms, created a brand defining design for the new luxury hospitality nameplate. The hotel marks the first Swisstouches property in China bringing contemporary Swiss style to the city of Xi’an. HBA’s inspiration for the property was the Swisstouches brand concept. They were required to implement what the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: ACXT, Color architecture, Random pattern, Spain, Stadium, Swimming pool
Bilbao, Miribilla neighborhood, built on ancient iron mines adyacent to the old part of town. A very hilly solar (46 m from one corner to another, just 200m) in which the building was caught in the neighborhood park. Limestone rocks sticking out between the banks and trees in the park gave us the key to [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: AH Asociados, Concrete, Landscape architecture, Swimming pool
Being built as a coastal refuge, the house of Martossa is located in an exceptional place. From the street, it is only possible to notice its presence by the almost imperceptible view of the roof that protects the cars parked below. The house has been built on the hillside, at a lower level, so that [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, New York, Stair, Stelle architects, Swimming pool, USA, USA architecture, White
The house is sited on a bluff overlooking the bay within a grove of cedar and locust trees. Discrete volumes of varying public and private functions are organized around an axial promenade, extending to the outdoors. Single story volumes, separated by glass interstitial spaces, were utilized to lessen the overall impact of the structures while [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Concrete, Landscape architecture, Mexico, R-ZERO Arquitectos, Swimming pool
Located at San Gaspar Golf Club (Jiutepec de Morelos, Mexico), in an area of 1,600 square meters on top of a hill; Widescreen materializes in a one floor house to accommodate a versatile program. Today is a rest house, but tomorrow it will turn into a house where the client will enjoy his retirement. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Landscape architecture, Stone, Swimming pool
The private residence is situated in the outskirts of Monemvasia, Greece, in a high pitch ground with panoramic view to the sea. The functional units of the residence are distributed along a synthetically emphasized axis of movement creating two alternative open spaces allowing a maximum exploitation of the panoramic view and continuity between indoor and [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: A-001 Architectural Workshop, Concrete, Stair, Stone, Swimming pool
We have accepted the gravity as an imperative for too much time. There´s no reason to believe that the weight of an apple has to tie up the architecture to the floor; those things who makes us humans consist in transcend what seems natural. Block house materializes the freedom that creation gives to the man. [...]
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