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Fallingwater – One Of The Most Famous Houses In The World Built Over a Waterfall

Fallingwater is the name of a very special house that is built over a waterfall. It instantly became famous, and today it is a National Historic Landmark. Imagine the house, that doesn’t even appear to stand on solid ground, but instead stretches out over a 30′ waterfall. Such structure captured everyone minds right after first...

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House with Forest Inside It – House at Orchard by Chang Architects

Located in Singapore this house unites concrete, glass, timber, steel and elements of nature like plants and trees. It has interchangeable rooms floating in a bigger volume of space. This volume is fitted into a terrace plot with a 2-storey high retaining wall at the rear, which was transformed into a pebbled waterfall that opens...

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Modern and Minimalist Wrap House by Japanese Architects

Future Studio is an architect’s office based in Hiroshima, Japan, headed by architect Bunzo Ogawa. Like many others Japanese architects they have interesting works under their belt. This house is one of those works. It’s called Wrap House because of its characteristic shape. Its second floor features cool terrace “wrapped” by several walls. Besides that...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 pool is placed to...

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McBride’s Experimental House Design in Hawthorn

McBride Charles Ryan is Australian house design company which mostly specialize in experimental designs. Their other project, Klein Bottle House was mathematics experiment when this house is a try to create sphere shaped house without unnecessary parts. By selectively removing parts of the sphere, there is the sense internally of being in and surrounded by...

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Minimalist home designs

The Most Minimalist House in Japan

There are plenty of minimalist house designs in Japan. Although the house designed by Datar beat them all. This family private house is all about clear lines and simple white color. There isn’t anything not white outside so it will stand up even near other minimalist Japanese houses. If floors was made white too than...

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