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AdvertiseModern Home Design Transplanted Inside Old Cape Town Church
We guarantee that you’ve never come across a modern home design quite like the remodeled Cape Town church featured on The Design Traveller. The church recently went up for sale, after having been abandoned by the clergy that used to serve it in the 1960s. That was the cue that Italian couple Samuel and [...]
When Architects Design for Themselves – La Grande Vue 5A, SAOTA
Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects (SAOTA) have once again proven that they are true masters in matters of contemporary house designs and floor plans, with the La Grand Vue 5A project. The residential building comprising two suites was designed in collaboration with interior design studio OKHA and is located in a posh neighborhood of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Soak Up Sun, Sea, Style at Victoria 73 Villa, by SAOTA
Ever since featuring them here, we know that the team at Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Architects (SAOTA) is adept at creating incredible, ample, open and opulent spaces. This Victoria 73 villa, perched on a spur of land between Bantry Bay and Clifton is no exception, as it seems that every detail of the interior design [...]
“Dude Looks Like a Book Shelf!” by Alexi McCarthy
Alexi McCarthy’s Face Shelving design is a pretty easy-going kind of guy. Doesn’t matter if he’s got books between his teeth, books for hair or a book ‘stache, he’s always smiling and he’s always bright red, ready to cheer up any living room, no matter how drab. It all started out from a [...]
Nettleton 195 Rises Proud in Cape Town, S Africa
The Nettleton 195 House, in Cape Town, South Africa, gathers all the best things contemporary architecture has to offer, throws in lots of light, dynamic spaces and clever floor planning, adds a dash of local color via the décor and serves it all up on a silver platter. It is the product of two [...]
Modern Gem Unearthed at Foot of Table Mountain: Mountain House, S Africa
You could easily drive past the foot of Table Mountain, in South Africa, and not notice the Mountain House, a five-pavilion residential structure lovingly tucked into the rock. The estate was designed by local studio Van Der merwe Miszewski Architects, whose declared goal in designing this property was “to achieve as little visual [...]
