i29 Architects have completed the interior design for an apartment in Amsterdam. This single-family apartment for four people is situated in a stately building in southern Amsterdam, NL. The original structure, with rooms for staff, a double hall and long hallways with lots of doors has been transformed into a spacious, transparent dwelling full of light and air. A kitchen in combination with ca..
Located on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the 3,500-square-foot Zeidler Residence arranges interior and exterior living spaces to maximize views, natural light, and ocean breezes within a subtle, sophisticated material palette. Designed for a retired couple with grown children, the house sits on a relatively flat corner lot with expansive views of the Pacific and vegetated cliff that ..
Architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales added this steeply-pitched roof to an old dry stone construction in the Spanish Pyrenees to form two homes. Nestled into the mountainside on a former farm the building has windows along one side overlooking the valley and a tall window in the gabled end affording views up the mountain. The building houses a father and son in two connected residences. More about ..
Middap Ditchfield Architects have designed the Peregian Beach House in Queensland, Australia. This holiday house is located on an elevated site overlooking Peregian Beach and foreshore. It has been designed to take full advantage of dramatic ocean views. The house steps down the site which helps connect internal and external spaces to the ground plane. Courtyard spaces have been introduced to re..
Davide Macullo Architects have completed a house in the hills of Canobbio, Switzerland. Nestled on the Alpine slopes north of Lugano, this house is characterised by a volumetric architecture that emerges from the terrain and follows the natural contour of the land. Its constructed volumes embrace the land in an organic and fluent sequence of spaces, each relating to each other and to the surroun..
Architect: Iñaqui Carnicero Alonso-Colmenares Location: Los Peñascales, Madrid, Spain Technical Architect: Manuel Iglesias Contractor: Antón Iakobiny Pitch S.L. Client: Guirao-Carnicero Project Year: 2005-2009 Photographs: Courtesy of Iñaqui Carnicero The house is located in a small neighbourhood on the west boundaries of Madrid in a place called “los Peñascales”, that mean something as well as ..
Architectural photographer Joao Morgado has sent us some images of a house made of glass in Maastricht, Netherlands, designed by Wiel Arets Architects. Called H House, all the internal and external walls are a combination of transparent and opaque glass, however a series of curtains on the interior provide privacy. The building has no structural walls, with a few rectangular columns providing su..
Architects: Studio Mumbai Location: Kashid, Maharashtra, India Principal Architect: Bijoy Jain Project Year: 2005 Photographs: Helene Binet & Studio Mumbai Surrounded by mountains, forests, and the waters of the Arabian Sea, the house is configured around a tropical garden filled with Plumeria, ferns, grasses, bamboo and jasmine. Under the wood framed roof, rooms are loosely arranged around the ..
Austrian architect Stephan Unger designed the Villa San Valentino in Merano-Alto Adige, Italy. Task: Planning of a bi-familiar house on high architectonic level for the cohabitation of 3 generations with common spaces. Idea: To create a monolithic house with common spaces, under whose roof two independent habitation units are unified. Orientation: Considering the orientation of the views. The ea..
BAK Architects have completed the JD House, located in the forest of Mar Azul, in the Argentinian province of Buenos Aires. from contemporist
