McGinlay Bell has completed a house in a leafy Glasgow suburb featuring a sequence of rooms arranged around compact courtyards that allow the natural surroundings to permeate indoors. The narrow rectilinear site sandwiched between existing houses presented several challenges, as it borders the road at the front and is lined on one side by tall...
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Modern Stone House With A Courtyard In The Center
Casa Tapihue by Matías Zegers Arquitectos is a house in a vineyard built from white stone around a courtyard with a firepit in Casablanca, Chile. The residence is named for the valley of Tapihue between two mountains in Chile’s wine-growing region. Matias Zegers Arquitectos designed the family home to give the resident plentiful ways of...
51 Stunning Indoor Courtyard Design Ideas
An indoor courtyard is ideal if you don’t have good weather conditions or space outside, or maybe if you want to add a part of nature right inside the house. Such a courtyard is especially fantastic for a minimalist interior as it’s usually deprived of plants or natural-looking pieces and materials, so greenery creates a...
45 Calm Japanese-Inspired Courtyard Ideas
Japanese décor is known not only for its rich history and traditions, not only for its stunning minimalism and a talent to show beauty in simple things but also for how amazing Japanese designers manage to mix modern home décor with nature. Look at these inspiring courtyards! Traditional Japanese gardens and courtyards mixed with minimalist...
49 Beautiful Townhouse Courtyard Garden Designs
A townhouse is a type of medium-density housing in cities, usually but not necessarily terraced or semi-detached. A modern townhouse is often one with a small footprint on multiple floors. You could think that in such a home there’s no space for nature but that’s not true! We’ve rounded up some courtyard gardens to prove...
Courtyard House With The Views Of Lake Michigan
The Courtyard House sits on the sandy shores of Lake Michigan, within the quaint beach town of Saint Joseph. It was built by American firm John Ronan Architects and it’s rather large, 465 square meters, let’s take a look at it. The house is waterfront and it features a wooden exterior and rooms organized around...
Forest House On A River With A Dark Exterior And A Courtyard
Located just outside of Seattle in Greenwater, Washington, near Mt. Rainier is a new 2-bedroom residence designed by Robert Hutchison Architecture. Spanning 1,900 square feet, the house sits within a forest right on the banks of the White River, blending in with its wooded surroundings. The home’s exterior is clad in custom-run Western red cedar...
Perimeter House With A Private Courtyard And A Pool
Australian studio Make Architecture has added a brick extension to a Victorian cottage in Melbourne that bounds the street on one side and curves around a secluded courtyard on the other. The building aims to balance this industrial aesthetic with references to its residential use, which is achieved through the inclusion of the pitched roof...
Australian Country House With A Colonnade And A Courtyard
Goulburn Valley House is located on the outskirts of a small town in the north of the state of Victoria. Its plot is elevated slightly above the flood plain of a working farm and offers little in the way of shade. This single-storey house in the Australian countryside was designed by architect Rob Kennon with...
Modern Cedar-Clad House Divided By Courtyards
House-shaped blocks and courtyards make up this cedar-clad residence in Christchurch, New Zealand, which architect Case Ornsby designed to replace another destroyed in the 2011 earthquake. The property features four volumes of various sizes and proportions that each accommodate different functions. Set between them are a series of outdoor spaces designed to be used at...