If you're at the city of Sapporo in Japan then right at its borders lies a simple residential construction, which has lately been getting a lot of curious attention from bystanders and passersby. Onlookers glance at the aesthetic magnificence erupting out from the serene hilly outskirts of Sapporo. Privacy and seclusion has been given prime [...]
At eastern Long Island, New York, a 12 acres site is the weekend retreat spot for this mother daughter client for whom Leroy Street studio has designed the Stone Houses. The Stone Houses incorporate Westchester granite in its making. The house also incorporates great expanses of glass in providing for scenic view all around. The [...]
We have seen houses atop trees, homes at the precipice of a mountain, bamboo huts and ice houses (igloos), but this newest guest house designed by Poteet Architects has caught us by surprise. The designers have built a house out of a container. Yes you read that right, a shipping container. The client had wished [...]
If you're looking for the perfect getaway spot then you must have a perfect getaway house to compliment it. In the modern times, with breakneck pace of our lives, a place of recluse, a home away from home is one of the most treasured assets and the Sea drift residence beach house is exactly that. [...]
This house does not seem alien, and does not look anomalous to the existing topography of the valley. The architect has made it seem that the house has grown into the valley and not erupted out like a boil. It harmoniously forms itself around the contours of the area. The architect Guiilherme Machado Vaz Arquitecto [...]
This magnificent weekend retreat has been constructed on the hill side of Mazama, situated in Eastern Washington, USA. The project team of Eli Troyke, Christina Haislip and Megan Sheets have planned the whole 1,900 sq feet project on the hillside, tucked to the tree line, so as to preserve the surrounding view. The whole project [...]
The Floating House is a magnificent double story building. This floating building has been designed by Designs Northwest Architects and the house is situated on Lake Union, Seattle, USA . Both the interior and exterior of the house is made of structural connections which ensures a sort of continuity in design and facilitates interactions between [...]
This rather “old fashioned” stone house, located in the Bijaca, Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been designed by DVA Arhitekta. The intention was to design a house that mimics its surroundings and blends into its environment quite easily. The house is located over an area of 35,000 square meters and it is surrounded from all [...]
This is the Floating Bungalow, designed & built by Barbara Bestor of Bestor Architecture. It is a single-family residence located near the ocean front in Venice, California. The name “Floating Bungalow” may seem kind of a misnomer for this residence since the house is firmly grounded & is in no-way floating. But there is [...]
The Treehouse is an ocean front single-family residence created by Australian architectural practice FMD Architecture. The Treehouse is located in Lorne in Victoria, Australia. The house was designed for a Yogi couple & their two adult daughters. Because of the age difference of the people residing in the house, the architectural plan of the [...]
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