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AdvertiseLavish 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 [...]
Non-Stop Parties at Modern London Home
JJ Locations, a British rental website, is an inexhaustible source for modern home designs, as illustrated by this awesome London Home. It’s light, young and vibrant, it features tons of great contemporary furniture items as well as a pool, and it’s just ideal for use as a party home. The pool area is definitely [...]
Rita’s Island Home is Detailed Perfection
An old saying, which perfectly applies to new home designs, explains that ‘God is in the details’, and this is certainly true of the Casa Rita, designed by Alessandro Negri. It’s a simple single-story structure situated on the Spanish island of Formentera, and it’s glorious as either a holiday residence, or a permanent home [...]
Desert Rose – Modern Desert Villa Project by Uri Cohen
The Desert Villa, completed by Tel Aviv-based studio Uri Cohen Architects is modern house design at its best – a rhythmical, simple, white conglomerate of volumes sitting in an endless expanse of land. It was completed in 2006, it’s 1,830 square feet wide and plays wonderfully with solid and transparent, glazed surfaces. The open [...]
East Oakland Sports Center 3D Design Project: Rebuilding Inner City
The East Oakland Sports Center, designed by California-based practice ELS Architects is a fine example of 3D-designed contemporary architecture, as well as an effort to rejuvenate a troubled inner city area. In a joint venture with the City of Oakland, ELS designed this new, 50,000 square foot structure, located in the neighborhood of Brookfield. [...]
Abstract Beauty of Concrete House, Piedmont, California
A Concrete House does not sound like an inviting residence, but the Ogrydziak and Prillinger Architects redesign of a 1974 California home proves quite the contrary. The 7,000 square foot home is at once ultra-minimal and warm, mind-warping and simple, fluid and reliable. It is located in the superb natural setting of Piedmont, California, [...]
Creative Volumes of Lion’s Head Residence, NY
Before the Lion’s Head Residence sat here, on a ¾ acre plot in East Hampton, with its unusual, yet elegant volumes, the narrow site used to host a vacation home shared for 25 years by two brothers and their families. Since then, a fire destroyed the vacation house, which prompted the team at Bates [...]
Minimal, Majestic Living at Heart of Wasteland – Punta House, Uruguay
There’s something implacably majestic about the negative space of a desert, and the design team at Marcio Kogan highlighted just this when they came up with the project of the Punta House. It is located in the proximity of the city of Punta del Leste in Uruguay, smack-dab at the heart of the wasteland. [...]
House on the Flight of Birds Soars above Portuguese Azores
Not only is the Bernardo Rodrigues Arquitecto–designed ‘House on the Flight of the Birds’ poetic, odd and striking; it’s also situated in the dream setting of Portugal’s Azore Isles. Its outward appearance is no fanciful coincidence, and the team of architects involved professes having built it with the local climate in mind. The farmland [...]
Local Trees Nurture Fray Leon House, Chile
Modern Octopus features yet another stellar design by Chile’s 57 Studio – the Fray Leon House, warm on the inside, loved by and loving of nature on the outside. Set in the lush landscape of suburban Santiago de Chile, the home is surrounded by local species of trees, which shield and protect it, while [...]
