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AdvertisePolish 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 [...]
Mesmerizing Minimalism at OH Residence by Koseki Architect Office
Japan has always been a great source of inspiration when it comes to contemporary house designs, and the Oshikamo House by Koseki Architect Office is yet another confirmation of this popular knowledge. The Japanese architecture studio produced a small, yet elegant home, characterized by typical minimalism, both on the inside and on the outside. [...]
Planting Modernist Seeds in Mexico – Casa La Semilla
Casa La Semilla, by Mexican studio T3Arc is an organic type of residence, a prevalent trend among modern homes. It was completed in 2011 and is located in Jiutepec, in the state of Morelos, Mexico. The team took great care in completing the design, as the vast plot on which the home is located [...]
Floating Green Home in Venice Beach, CA
The Hover House 3 by Glen Irani Architects is the continuation of a series in green home design, the Hover House series. More poetically put, it is a living box with most walls set in glass with a host of fireflies aflame inside, hovering above the ground, in an architectural effort to “set a [...]
World’s Tiniest Greenhouse Is a Lamp!
We’ve all seen great examples of green home design, but the Glass Greenhouse lamp by Czech designer Kristýna Pojerová is a true wonder. It is both a miniature greenhouse and a pendant lamp, that wowed audiences the world over at the Prague Designblok 2011. Do you want to grow fresh herbs or decorative plants [...]
Veggies Jump Off Manhattan Rooftop Farm onto Downstairs Restaurant Patrons’ Plates
Somewhere atop a 1929 building in Manhattan, a restaurateur called John Mooney, who runs a place called Bell, Book and Candle is tending to his dream – a vertical rooftop farm, replete with all the fresh goodies you would ever want to see gracing your plate. It seems like a scene out of a [...]
Aptos Retreat Dons Contemporary Barn Disguise
Little house on the prairie? The CCS Architecture-designed Aptos Retreat in San Francisco is rather a generous, modern barn-like home in SoCal. It was designed to accommodate the living needs of a family of eight, with kids as young as high school and as old as college. It’s all country charm at the Aptos [...]
Bionic Tower by Vincet Callebaut Hovers over Taichung, Taiwan
This gigantic garden in the sky is the Bionic Tower, designed by Vincent Callebaut for the Taiwan Tower contest. Although not selected for the second stage of the ‘Taichung Gateway – Active Gateway City’ competition, Callebaut’s design is so innovatively green and aesthetically impressive that it deserves better than to be tucked away in [...]
Five-Room Maisonette in Sweden Seeks Loving Family
Really, this is 110 square-meter five-room rustic dream abode is in the city? According to the Skeppsholmen real estate agency that has it listed it for sale, it sure is. The four-level duplex in Utby has been fully renovated from 2004 to 2006 and it’s selling for a little over EUR270,000. If you do [...]
Photog’s Heaven in a Warehouse –Studio SC by Studio MK27, Brazil
Aspiring photographers, it seems the guys at studio mk27 want you to eat your heart out. With the completion of their Studio SC project in Sao Paulo, Brazil, they appear to have designed and built the perfect photo studio, with especially set up spaces, partitioning methods and structures for any type of shoot or [...]
