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If you’ve come here to get your daily fix of new home designs, then get ready for an outstanding concept – the three-story Front to Back Infill project, completed in 2008 by Colizza Bruni Architecture. It’s modern perfection to a tee and comprises two semi-detached, small, yet spacious, luminous homes. The two homes were [...]
Medieval UK Barn Receives Modern House Design Facelift
Have you ever considered living in a barn? In case you haven’t, British architecture practice MOOARC are about to give you some serious food for thought and possibly alter your perception of modern house design forever. In a wonderful display of creativity, the UK-based team took an old, run-down fifteenth century barn entirely set [...]
Dreaming up 3D House Design of Desert Villa – Studio Aiko
Israeli design duo Studio Aiko, comprising Yair Alony and Meny Hilsenrad have come up with a 3D house design that speaks of the future and the past at the same time. They have created The Desert Villa, a residential structure buried into dunes of sand, which does manage, however, to preserve a contemporary feel [...]
Replacement Windows Grant New Look to Your Lavish Home
If you’ve recently come to the conclusion that your home is in dire need of window replacement, then let us share with you priceless info on the highest-value products available on the market. Perhaps you want to replace your windows because their style is outdated, they are not as energy-efficient as you’d like them [...]
Openhouse Teeters Gracefully on Hollywood Hills
It might be risky to create a modern home design titled Openhouse and located in the paparazzi-playground area of the Hollywood Hills. However, LA-based design practice XTEN Architecture took that chance and came up with this wonderful project, whose name is based on more than the typical open floor plan. It actually stems from [...]
Bathing with Venus at Elounda Villa, Greece
Since the cold season is upon us, why not turn this into the perfect opportunity to look at a sunnier modern house design for a change, such as the Elounda Villa, in Greece. It’s located right off the northern coast of the island of Crete, traditionally thought to be the birthplace of the Greek [...]
Norwegian Fairy Tale Home Shines as Bright as Snow
This modern house design is fully deserving of its fairytale-informed name – the ‘Villa Woodnotes – Snow White’ is an award winning home, and not surprisingly so. Designed by Helsinki-based studio Helin & Co Architects, the home was recently short-listed in the house category of the 2011 World Architecture Competition. Perhaps it is garnering [...]
Lavish Modern House Seamlessly Integrates into Lavish Landscape
Our journey from one modern house design to the next takes us to the Camps Bay House in South Africa, designed by Cape Town-based practice Luis Mira Architects. Now, if you’re a regular of the website, you know what to expect: a luxury, ultra-modern villa, effectively applying simple design principles, so as to let [...]
Updated Tradition at Six Courtyard Houses, Tucson, AR
The Six Courtyards Home project is a complex and refined example of modern home design, an urban infill project with a private courtyard at the heart of each home. The Ibarra Rosano Design Architects work aimed to blur the boundary between inside and out, thereby achieving a wholly new residential concept. Essentially, the project [...]
Listen to the Forest’s Whisper inside Japanese Forest House
If you’re somewhat of a wannabe recluse and if you enjoy innovative 3D house design concepts, you will like this forest house, designed by Israeli Ando Studio for TNA Architecture. Not surprisingly, the project was commissioned by Japanese clients, the perfect candidates for a residential retreat away from the noise and bustle of the [...]
