Located in Suzdal, a picturesque rural town in Russia and one of the country’s oldest settlements, this recently renovated country house bridges both past and present together by combining the region’s vernacular heritage with contemporary art and architecture. Designed by FORM Bureau as a place for relaxation, the project reimagines the country estate as a...
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Minimalist House With A Black Exterior And White Interiors
The owners of this South Yarra Townhouse built in 1990s had come to dislike its visually busy interiors and instead wanted a minimalist home where they wouldn’t see the operations of domestic family life. They asked Winter Architecture to renovate it. The house features a black façade and simple, white-painted living spaces. The studio set...
Black Barn-Inspired Minimalist House In The Netherlands
On the outskirts of a Dutch village, studio AAAN’s House Zevenhuizen is designed as a modern home that fits into a rural environment. The sculptural black form of the recent intervention makes a strong visual impact on the patchwork landscape of greenhouses, farmlands and traditional dwellings. The simple form of the house makes it seem...
Unusual Rustic Zinc House Inspired By Local Barns
Situated on Chile’s rural Chiloé island, architect Baltazar Sánchez’s house is defined by the materials and building methods of its context. Using the region’s typical barn typology, the house integrates with the area as the island which its overlooks visually delimits the sea on all its fronts. As is characteristic of the area, the house...
Brick Barn House With Contemporary Interiors
Wrzeszcz Architekci has dismantled an old, abandoned barn and used its bricks to build a new house in a village on the outskirts of Poznan, Poland. Situated on a narrow plot, right next to a forest, the residence incorporates a brick façade with material from the old barn, which adds a historic level to the...
1900s Farm House Transformed Into A Contemporary Home
W Design Architecture Studio renovated an early 1900s farm house initially designed in the Cape Dutch architectural style into a contemporary residence. Located in an old eastern suburb of Pretoria, South Africa, the house combines the inside and the outside, the historic and the modern, and open and closed spaces. The architects’ idea for the...
Raw Concrete UF House That Cantilevers Over The Terrace
This house is called UF (unfinished) Haus and it was built by SoHo Architektur in Bavaria, Germany. This is a concrete house with an unfinished facade and a cantilevered upper storey – all the materials used for the project were left in their raw state. Split across three levels including a basement storey, the house...
Mountain House Influenced By Traditional Uzbekistan Architecture
While many regions in Uzbekistan have been modernized, there are a few regions where traditional architecture and design can be still admired and this also applies to newer projects such as this house. Located in the G‘azalkent mountain area, this country house was designed and built by ARC Architects. It’s a relatively small and cozy...
1940 Stone House Turned Contemporary And Chic
This house was originally built in 1940s and it has been recently bought by a couple with two children to move away from the city. It has been a jumble of stone-built structures in an agrarian community and then it has been completely transformed by COVO Interiores. The renovated home embraces the building’s humble origins...
Best House and Apartment Designs of November 2018
In November 2018, we’ve shown you a lot of cool stuff. Here the most interesting house and apartment designs among them. CABN is a tiny off-grid cabin that is ideal to bring outdoors in and unplug for some time. Tiny Off-Grid Cabin That Takes You Offline This super bold apartment with a metallic touch is...









