Santiago Hills Villa is built by architecture firm Studio Saxe in a remote part of Costa Rica. The 400-square-metre residence is formed by several white volumes formed by steel frames that are each oriented towards the ocean. Atop the diagonally arranged structures is an angular roof held up by steel I beams. Every space in...
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Costa Rica Jungle Villa With An Industrial Facade
On a jungle hillside in Costa Rica, this luxury home quite literally blends with its wild environment thanks to a low profile and a green roof. The house built by architects Dagmar Štěpánová and Martina Homolková of Formafatal features an industrial façade and a serenely luxurious interior. The exterior of the house is protected by...
Greek Villa Mandra With Scandinavian Design
The 6-bedroom house in Mykonos by in Mykonos unfolds around an outdoors living area that can be used throughout the day in the true spirit of laid-back summer living. At the same time, the use of traditional materials such as lime-wash, stone and wood in combination with an aesthetic of Scandinavian minimalism evokes the island’s...
Unique Villa Surrounded By Unique Plant Life
While designing unique Cam Thanh A&A Villa, VRA design took advantage of the project’s rich cultural and natural contexts. The house is located in the ancient Vietnamese town of Hoian surrounded by diverse and unique plant life. The design of the house serves to highlight and promote such elements as the geometries and materiality recall...
Villa Vught Inspired By The Layout Of Dutch Farmhouses
In the design of Villa Vught, a remote residence in the Dutch countryside, Mecanoo sought to reinterpret the region’s farm typology. Traditionally, the Dutch Hoeve is an ensemble of farmhouses and living quarters loosely clustered around a courtyard. The central open space is protected, yet open to the surrounding landscape — a spatial arrangement that...
Mid-Century Modern Villa Built With Worn Materials
Architecture studio Woods Bagot has completed the latest stage of a weathered seaside house in Australia that has been 20 years in the making. Designed as a home for Woods Bagot CEO Nik Karalis, the St Andrews Beach Villa began in 1999 as a simple shack on Mornington Peninsula. Over the years it has gradually...
Cantilevered Roof Villa With Much Wood In Decor
Hidden in a wooded coastal area of the Dutch town of Bergen, Bosvilla by Natrufied Architecture encloses nature at its full. The residence incorporates a house, a guest house, a carport, and a bike storage, all laid out carefully according to the different heights of the surrounding trees. Natrufied architecture has set the main house...
Minimalist Four Leaves Weekend Villa In Japan
Designed to accommodate the owners and their friends in the rich natural environment at a mountain retreat 150 kilometers away from Tokyo, the Four Leaves weekend villa built by Kentaro Ishida Architects Studio is located in the middle of a forest in Karuizawa, Nagano prefecture of Japan. Each function of the building faces its own...
Chameleon Villa Disappears Within Its Surroundings
The home we are featuring today is Chameleon Villa in Bali designed by WOMhouse Architects. The residence blends within its surroundings very well. The architects worked around the idea of ‘landscape architecture’ to create a group of buildings that appear as part of the land itself, and sometimes disappear within it, while at other times...
Vintage Tuscan Villa With A Touch Of Glam
Today I’m going to spoil you with a cool eye-candy, a vintage Tuscan villa that is sure to make you dream of a holiday in Tuscany. Villa Laura is a classic Tuscan villa, which was restored in 2006, it’s nestled on a hill outside an ancient town. The villa is clad with stone, it’s original...