The Allen Key House is a project by Architect Prineas, an Australian architecture studio, it is a contemporary home is located in Lane Cover, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. This project wasn’t a complete design, it was a renovation and an addition project that aimed to bring a new sense of space to the existing house which isRead more
Sonoma County in California is known for its fun art scene and its vast offers of cinematic culture and yet if you still find it difficult to make yourself visit it, we are going to give you a reason more. Cazadero, one of the wettest cities in California, is the home of this tiny A-frameRead more
Atelier FCJZ have designed the Vertical Glass House as their entry for the annual Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition. It is located in Shangai, China and it is now used as a guest house for visiting architects and artists. The Vertical Glass House’s structure consists of a concrete cast with rough timber exterior. The interior uses smooth wood andRead more
Your Facebook feed is probably full of breathtaking photos of Greece’s white jewel – the Santorini Island. Chances are you’ve probably seen quite a lot of shots taken from the Porto Fira Suites, a luxurious hotel located on a steep cliff in Caldera, Santorini. The Porto Fira Suites have been recently refurbished by Interior Design Laboratorium, aRead more
Balance Associates Architects have designed and built an airy cabin in Washington State with an immense challenge upfront : not to impact the environment at all as it is located on a former campground. In order to achieve this feat of strength they decided to lift the cabin off the ground and stack it onRead more
William O’Brien Jr. is an assistant professor of Architecture in Cambridge, Massachusetts but he does much more than just teach students, O’Brien has designed a very unusual plan for a vacation house, one splendid A-frame house nestled among trees. The Allandale House is not just a regular home design. It is a shelter not onlyRead more
Architects from the Belgian architecture firm dmvA located in Mechelen, have designed and completed Extension vB4 – an addition to an already existing A-frame house. The home is located within the countryside of Brecht in Belgium, in a municipality with strict building regulations and therefore taking these regulations into account, the architects were able to transform the oldRead more
BaksvanWengerden, a Dutch studio based in Amsterdam have designed the SH House in a village between Haarlem and the North Sea Coast in the Dutch province of North Holland. The house was originally constructed in 1932 as an A-frame home with a masonry exterior. The enlargement intervention by the architects has basically topped the exterior withRead more
Entitled Boat House and envisioned by Copenhagen-based architecture practice WE Architecture the simple wooden cabin that follows joins the ranks of “countryside calm and peace” that became a movement in our hectic, chaotic urban medium today. It has been designed for a private client in serene, surreal setting, 20 meters from the water line; it uses woodRead more
It is entitled‘The Edris House‘ and thanks to renown modernist architect E. Stewart Williams, the architect behind the masterpiece, its design became a sensation rapidly in the architecture world ever since its erection in 1954, today the original design showcases the extraordinary simplicity of the `50, untouched. Palm Springs, California, one of the world`s mostRead more
Completed i the year of 2010 by ÁBATON, the following home in Extramadura is positioned in the province of Cáceres and represents the conversion of a stable into a family home. The process of integrating the structure with the natural surrounding environment has been considered crucial by the architects. After taking into account all the options availableRead more
An off the grid retreat has been built in the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia. Designed by M3 Architecture, the architectural piece connects the natural with the antropic and creates a bridge between the two. “The exterior of the house is camouflaged with black plastic cladding and mirrored glass, allowing it to recede into the shadowRead more
The constant work with the landscape humanity struggles with dwells in the primary necessity we have to find and secure ourselves shelter. The cave with its primordial form and natural formation has represented the ideal medium to host life. Nowadays, after having subdued the natural we find the beauty in its pureness and we re-seekRead more
Architect Andrew Trotter is the creator of the following architectural masterpiece, entitled “Masseria Moroseta‘ , a shelter offering the perfect mixture between modern living conditions and a pure, simple, traditional and regionally integrated layout, with the usage of natural materials and local techniques. “The building represents both rural simplicity and modern minimalism, fitting perfectly into the surrounding landscape.”Read more
Japanese architecture practice Moriyuki Ochiai Architects has recently converted a botanical garden in Hakone into a museum’s multi-purpose space, the spectacular project has been entitled “Waterscape/Memory of Spring“. A rich environment embellishes the space that neighbors Lake Ashi and Mount Hakone, it is a humid area in which moisture can accumulate around the plant roots thus filling a naturalRead more
The picturesque foothills of Sierra Morena in Spain shelter the Cuevas del Pino estate, a home under a rock, a dwelling that uses various rock strata and geological formations to shape a remarkable shelter, shelter usually used by livestock. UMMO Estudio rehabilitated the region in 2012 to form rural housing meant to emphasize new countryside activities.Read more
