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AdvertiseAptos 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 [...]
21st Century Chelsea Hotel – Hotel Americano by Grupo Habita
If you’re planning a visit to New York, why not choose a different, creative type of accommodation, such as the Hotel Americano, designed by Mexico-based hotelier practice Grupo Habita? We guarantee that designer Enrique Norten has created a living experience that is different from anything you’ve experienced before – a experience that is at [...]
Historic v Contemporary Georgia on My Mind – 320 East Jones St. Residence
Like all places south, Savannah, Georgia, has a particularly sunny kind of charm, somewhat rural, yet laden with historic sophistication. The three-bedroom home at 320 East Jones Street, currently on sale for $ 2.5 million, is a precise blend of all those elements, with loads of contemporary flair to boot. It’s a single family [...]
Bridge House over Troubled Waters by Van Der merwe Miszewski Architects
The Bridge House, designed by South Africa’s esteemed Van Der merwe Miszewski Architects is a vacation house with a wild, unhindered sense of freedom, which stems from the clever use the designers made of its location. The terrain is anything but smooth, but its steep slopes and rocky portions are more than compensated by [...]
Alex Meitlis’s House in Savion Heralds Mediterranean Minimalism
Completed in January, 2011, in Savion, right outside Tel Aviv, Israel, Alex Meitlis’s ‘Savion House’ is a noble white vessel sailing across an ocean of deep natural green. It is also a perfect illustration of the rising trend in contemporary architecture that one might dub minimalist Mediterranean. The 420 square-meter single-family home ideally combines [...]
Glass House No One Would Dare Throw Bricks At – Sentosa House, Singapore
Step inside this 12,000 square-meter Glass House created by Danny Chan and John Chan, of Hong Kong-based practice Beige Design. You will be instantly embraced by its tranquil silence and serenity, which exudes from every speck of its ample glazed areas, reflection pool by the foyer and impressive indoor pool. On the outside, the [...]
Picasso’s Bather Morphs into Luxury Clifftop Villa in Dover Heights, Australia
The House Holman, designed and built by Durbach Block Architects, didn’t even need such a spectacular design. Its location is that arrestingly beautiful. The unusually shaped living structure is situated at the top of a 70-meter cliff, whose chalk white walls spring up above the ocean in Dover Heights, west of Sidney, Australia. The [...]
Sun House a.k.a. Zen House – Guz Architects, Singapore
Look at the pictures of the Sun House, designed by Guz Architects in Singapore. It’s got ponds replete with greenery inside, overgrown grass atop the terraces, a crystal clear outdoor pool with floating trees, slits in the wood-clad skylight and genuine bamboo fencing. The L-shaped residential building is relatively small in size. It sits [...]
Green Within – Wohnzimmer House by Caramel Architekten, Vienna
The Wohnzimmer House, designed by Caramel Architekten in Vienna is the home to answer all your ‘if’s and quandaries. If you live in a cramped apartment, at the heart of the city, you’re most probably dreaming of a home in the midst of a sweeping green landscape. If you have a family, a child [...]
Graphic Adventures in Sao Paulo at Sumare House
Look closely at the Sumare House, designed by Isay Weinfeld Arquitectos, on the east side of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Can you tell who lives inside this 700-square-foot two-story cozy, chic retreat? Someone who loves open spaces, for sure. Both the two levels above ground, as well as the underground staff rooms open up into [...]
