Architects: Guz Architects Location: 18 Maryland Drive, Singapore Project Architect: Gan Ren Ying C & S Engineer: MSE Consultants M & E Engineer: Herizal Fitri Consultants Main Contractor: Sun Ho Construction Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Courtesy of Guz Architects The house is a contemporary interpretation of a traditional courtyard house, laid out around a central green courtyard with a doub..
Bark Architects have designed the Marcus Beach House, located on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. The Marcus Beach house celebrates a natural, coastal setting providing its occupants with an inextricable relationship to the landscape and sensitive surrounding environment. The dwelling explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdo..
Spanish architect Javier Peña of Xpiral has completed two houses in Murcia, Spain, with the lower volume built from stacked ceramic wine racks. Called Torreagüera Vivienda Atresada, the project comprises two residences, with one cantilevered above the other. Some of the holes in the wine racks that make up the lower level are plugged with coloured ceramic tiles. Torreagüera Vivienda Atresada (20..
Middenin de Jordaan in Amsterdam zijn de onderste twee lagen van dit monument uit 1748 getransformeerd tot een woonhuis en is het oude gebouw voorzien van een nieuwe fundering. Alle ruimten staan in open verbinding met elkaar (alleen het toilet is een aparte, afsluitbare ruimte geworden), maar door de indeling in dit relatief diepe grachtenpand en de vele niveauverschillen heeft iedere woonfunct..
The house, along the Lisdoddelaan in the Amsterdam vinex-area IJburg, is part of the Kleine Rieteiland, where private families have the opportunity to realize their dream home. In the urban plan by John Bosch, with a square type public space and surrounded by a high, enclosing walls from various houses, the front elevation is relatively closed and rather inconspicuous. This is quite a big contra..
The R|B House is a re-conceptualization of an end row house unit in Capitol Hill, Washington DC. The project furthers a continuing exploration in sustainable urban residential design. The existing two-story structure was originally built in 1906 and represents the archetype of single family dwelling units in the city. The house had been renovated in the early 1970’s, but the interior space remai..
Architect: bittonidesignstudio Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Project Team: Mark Bittoni, Ross Jeffries, Salomé Reeves Structural Engineer: C.W. Howe & Associates Area: 185.8 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Eric Staudenmaier Photography Los Angeles-based bittonidesignstudio has recently completed the evansHOUSE, located in the modernist landmark community of Crestwood Hills. This small moder..
Architects: Köppen Strauch Architekten Location: Leichlingen, Germany Project Area: 600 sqm Project Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Tomas Riehle Situated on a gentle hill this house overlooks the small city of leichlingen in western germany near cologne. with its precise shape and its reduced materials its creating a contrast to the mediocre buildings around. the open space of the groundfloors allo..
In the attic of an emblematic building of classical early 20th century Madrid, this new concept of living space is placed: UNLIMITED SPACE (Ceramic House) is presented by architect Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez and built out of total freedom of layers. As if the design would be a three-dimensional object, every one of the rooms or points of the home can be located by specifying the axis of coordinates. ..
Eastern Design Office have sent us one of their latest projects, the Mountains & Opening House in Takarazuka, Hyogo, Japan. This building is a design room for a Japanese sneaker brand as well as a residential house. The site is in Takarazuka-city of Hyogo Prfecture. It is located in an exclusive residential district that commands an entire view of the Osaka Plain. The architecture is built on th..