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The creative team at Spain-based architecture practice Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos have revolutionized house designs and floor plans to such an extent that they wowed the architecture festival scene. Their ‘Puzzle Piece”’is a functional element, essentially a canopy structure, which they designed for local school La Herradura. The design won them the ‘Best New [...]
Polish House with Zero Stairs Combines Elegance and Practicality
One amazing thing about contemporary house designs is how they transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, and this certainly applies to the House with ZERO Stairs project we found on ArchDaily. The single-story residence was recently completed in Wroclaw, Poland, and bears the signature of local architects Przemek Kaczkowski and Ola Targonska. At first [...]
A Home Unlike Any Other: House in Pankyo by Office Kokiwoong
Modern house designs and floor plans often offer unusual visual and structural solutions in terms of architecture, as displayed by the House in Pankyo by Office Kokiwoong. To say that this single-family home is innovative would be an understatement, given the clever and odd way in which it plays with lines, volumes and residential [...]
Young Couple, Clever Designers at mode:lina Architekci Update Cool Loft
The design team at Poland’s mode:lina Architekci had their work cut out for them when they were handed the brief for the remodel of the interior house design of this 70 square meter loft. The brief, which came from a young, urban, dynamic couple, asked the designers for quite a lot. The owners pretty [...]
Dry Creek House Brings Understated Simplicity to Austin, TX
The Dry Creek House by Austin-based design practice Brian Dillard Architecture is a gem of modern house design, located in Austin, Texas. Coming in at 2,700 square feet, the single level family home is a superbly modern, yet very simple, understated structure. The home was commissioned by a couple who wanted their home to [...]
Luxury Cabo Villa Rentals Display Picture Perfect Interiors
If you’re looking into luxury villa rentals for this New Year’s Eve bash, then have we got good news for you. Absolute luxury, total comfort and utter beauty await you on the sunny shores of Mexico. And not just any place in Mexico. If you want a travel destination that can offer you both [...]
Upcycling a Boeing 747: Wing House by David Hertz
Modern house design is often about reinventing the conventional, and the team at David Hertz Architects Inc fully understood that when they decided to create Wing House. The property is located in glamorous Malibu, California, which places at its tenants disposal wonderful views of the nearby mountain range, valley and islands peacefully floating on [...]
Openness and Inspiration from Coates Design via Dorsey Residence
Contemporary house designs can sometimes be deceiving on the outside, as illustrated by the Dorsey Residence, authored by Seattle-based studio Coates Design. In 2010, the practice completed this single-family home located on Bainbridge Islans, a city in Kitsap Country, Washington State. Seen from outside, the home looks like nothing more than a slab of [...]
From Cramped Back to Luminous Small House Design with 51N4E
Small house design can pose constraints, while also stimulating creativity, as typified by “The Vault Room”, a remodeling project in Belgium undertaken by 51N4E. The architects chose to renovate a small terraced house at the heart of the lovely historic town of Bruges. Bruges, like most of the Flemish-speaking world, is filled with “cramped [...]
Utsunomiya-U by Architecture Lab Opens Up all Interior Spaces
Japanese design practice Architecture-Lab once again manages to surprise us with the innovative house designs and floor plans of their Utsunomiya-U home. The two-story home is located in Tochigi, in a rather conventional residential setting. However, this home’s interiors are anything but conventional. The core of the house is formed by an ample two-level [...]
