Concrete Box House with Glass Platform on the Top

De Blas House is placed at the crest of a north faced hill with views to the mountains near Madrid. The house consists of concrete box build as a platform with a transparent glass box roofed by delicate and light steel structure painted in white on it. The poured-in-place concrete box like a cave houses the living areas of a traditional house separated for...Continue Reading...

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Architect’s Island Home – Clingstone House

103-year-old Clingstone mansion set on a rock island in Narragansett Bay is owned by Boston architect Henry Wood. Even though the all-wood home with 360-degree view of the ocean is quite old and rough it’s still warm and beautiful. Three stories tall house features 23 rooms, 10 of which are bedrooms. Even though the house is quite expensive to...Continue Reading...

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Unique and Brutal House Design – Volcano House

This house is sited upon small volcanic cone in the high desert midway between Las Vegas & Los Angeles. Its design it is a great combination of an uniqueness and brutality. Its roof consist of concrete and truss beams that forms its dome allowing the interior to embrace 360 degrees of stark, strong almost lunar landscape. Main house has two bedrooms,...Continue Reading...

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House on the Hill Linked to the Landscape – Krater House

The house is situated on the top of a hill on Antiparos, in the Cycladic islands, Greece. There was a lot of challenges in designing it related to its position. First of all there was a need to protect living areas from strong winds of the Aegean Sea and to hide them from the settlement at the foot of the hill. That’s why part of the house was dug...Continue Reading...

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Modern Wooden House Design with Original Shape

Fro a basic form this house in Utrecht, Netherlands is something that stands out in the countryside landscape. Designed by Amsterdam architect Rocha Tombal, House Bierings has timber-clad and differently shaped windows at various angles on all sides. The house is unusual not only outside. At the ground floor it has the angled ceiling with different shaped...Continue Reading...

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Rectangular Concrete House Turned on its Side

Villa Drusch, designed by Claude Parent, famous French modernist is built in 1963 for local industrialist Gaston Drusch. It implements architect’s “theory of oblique architecture” because looks like the home turned on its side. Simple rectangular concrete box become very original living space with tricky angles and open spaces. Outdoor lap...Continue Reading...

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Mexico Home with Artificial Bamboo Forest Inside

House 7N2 was recently remodeled by popular Mexican architects, Anonimous-LED. The main feature of this two-store home is an open hall with artificial bamboo forest which rests in the water. Great lighting system make this place look unforgettable in evenings. The hall also helps to make better connection between indoor and outdoor areas by being an...Continue Reading...

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Old Factory Renovated into Home with Studio

Sunrise Residence by Stephen Jolson is an old factory renovated into beautiful and practical home combined with working studio. Working in such large space is the dream for many people and Stephen manage to implement it in his home. The factory is located in Grattan Gardens Community in Melbourne so it’s surrounded by very green environment. The home...Continue Reading...

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Small House with Reinforced Concrete Frame – Hall House

The Hall House was designed for a couple without a child in Shiga, Japan which wanted to have enough space for spare time activities on a small site. The house has parking lot, billiard-theater, dining-kitchen and bedroom with bathroom which all are contained in one hall changing their heights according to the slope of the front road. The frame made of...Continue Reading...

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House With Sculptural Cast Concrete Facade – Herne Bay House

Stevens Lawson, a New Zeland architect, made a nice contribution to inner Auckland suburb of Herne Bay’s neighbor by creating this house. The house is for a single family and its main contribution to the street where it’s situated is its sculptural facade made of cast concrete. The facade has quite unusual shape and hide private spaces behind...Continue Reading...

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