Architecture studio Smartvoll has preserved an old cottage in Klosterneuburg, Austria, enveloping it in three more buildings to create a spacious family home. House B is now a dwelling for a family of six, with its copper roof and wrought-iron balcony. The children’s tower, the living room, and the dining area, which connects old and...
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Modern Home Inspired By Traditional Hawaiian Shelters
This 4,800-square-foot (445.9 square meters) home is called Makani’ Eka and is located on Hawaii’s Big Island, atop a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the neighboring Island Maui. The home was designed by US firm Walker Warner Architects to strike a balance between modernity and tradition. Four wood-clad volumes define a central courtyard to...
Best Room Design Ideas of January 2020
In January 2020, we’ve shown you a lot of cool stuff. Here are the most interesting room design ideas among them. Spring is almost here, and have you prepared your balcony for this season? Here are awesome ideas to do that. 40 Awesome Spring Balcony Décor Ideas If you work at home and spend a...
Contemporary Double-Height Apartment With Natural Light
O. M. Shumelda Design and Architecture Studio has built a two-story apartment for a young creative client at the top of the city of Lviv, Ukraine, connecting the first and second levels to create a light and open interior. Titled 2 in 1, the project features a double-height space at the heart of the flat...
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...
A Tractor Shed Turned Into A Contemporary Home
Called the Tractor Shed, the house was built by HeathWalker, and yeah, it used to be a real tractor shed. The architecture studio turned it into a house clad in timber cut from trees on the client’s own land and scorched using a blowtorch. The house is built for an artist who grew up in...
Modern Home Extension For Art Collectors
This 19th century long house in Waterloo, Belgium, was transformed by architect Louis Paillard into a lived gallery space for a pair of art collectors. The project comprises a wood-clad extension with views toward a raised park, which gives the impression of an urban barn. The extension is an anamorphic, wood-clad house. Developed for a...
Contemporary Meets Rustic Home With Love To Outdoors
Blaze Makoid Architecture has recently completed a modern house in Teton Village, Wyoming, for an active family of five who love the outdoors. The house has a cedar shingle, gabled roof with eaves that extend to protect the reclaimed barn wood siding from the elements. A ribbon of rustic local fieldstone runs the perimeter of...
59 Stylish And Dramatic Masculine Home Offices
If you are a guy and used to work at home, here are some cool ideas how to design a home office for you. You may choose any style you prefer and realize it in your home office, for example – classical, strict, minimalist, casual or any other. Usual masculine features are dark colors, squared...
Relaxed And Welcoming Coastal Island Cottage Extension
Built in 1830, Island Cottage is located in the seaside village of Sidlesham Quay. Paul Cashin Architects has refurbished and extended it, cladding the old and new buildings in larch. The renovation by Hampshire-based Paul Cashin Architects is aimed at combining building’s traditional vernacular with some contemporary design elements. The new timber structure is directly...