Today I have one more lakefront eye-candy for you, and this is a lakefront weekend home in Massachusetts by Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design. The house is an abstract composition of volumes and forms. A single stacked timber wall serves as both the retaining wall for the landscape and as the primary enclosure for...
Hut In Woods In Modern Japanese Interpretation
How do you imagine a hut in the woods? Japan architect Yoshiaki Nagasaka showed us his idea how it should look like: modern, eco-friendly and stylish. The house is “a series of contradictory aspirations”, which include and rooms that can be both large intimate and private and open. There are a living room, dining room,...
Circular Pit House With A Sunken Footprint
Japanese architecture often impresses, and this time also. UID Architects built Pit House in the Okayama prefecture for a single family of three. The primary structure consists of concentric concrete inhabitable cylinders in a sunken circular footprint; inside there are many separate levels containing small gardens and several elements. The amazing feature of the house...
Calm Minimalist House With Natural Details In Kuala Lumpur
This house was built in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. This house was restored and rebuilt with saving of some original elements. The designer used a lot of steel and wood and stone for the walls. All the interiors were made in neutral tones: dark or light grey, white, beige, natural wood and even...
Contemporary Wooden House On Shores of Lake
It isn’t necessary that you can’t have awesome water views if your home doesn’t located near an ocean. It coud be located on shores of some lake like this house on shores of Lake Walensee in Switzerland. The Walensee House is designed by K_M Architektur and features not only view of the lake but also...
VHouse – Modern Wooden Home by XTEN Arcitecture
I already wrote about some XTEN Architecture works. They usually characterize with modern look and straight forms. Although one of their more earlier works hasn’t such straight and clean lines like usually. It’s modern wooden house. VHouse is situated in Sherman Oaks, California. The Los Angeles couple anted a residence that kept public and private...