Surman Weston has built a house in Surbiton, south-west London, with a facade that riffs off the mock-Tudor facades of the surrounding suburban homes. Named Ditton Hill House, the home was designed to combine the client’s desire for a contemporary house that had an industrial aesthetic with an acknowledgement of its location in a London...
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Off-Grid Olive House In Mallorca Mountains
This off-grid guesthouse was built by studio Mar Plus Ask has built in Mallorca, Spain, for creatives in need of a quiet escape. Tucked away high up in Mallorca’s Tramuntana mountains, the Olive House are run year-round by Mar Plus Ask as a silent refuge where solo architects, writers and artists can stay free from...
Whidbey Farm: A Nature Retreat For A Large Family
Tucked into the edge of a densely forested hillside on Whidbey Island, this home to a mix of artists, craftspeople, farmers, and sea captains, Whidbey Farm was conceived as a nature retreat for a multi-generational family Seattle studio mwworks have taken advantage of its scenic location to immerse the house into the landscape in a...
Contemporary House With A Triple-Height Atrium
This Vietnamese house is called House for a Daughter, it’s located in Ho Chi Minh City and was built by Khuôn Studio. The dwelling is built around a triple-height atrium filled with plants and shaded by a perforated facade of grey brick. The whole house is split into two zones, one for a family who...
Contemporary Geometric Sooke 01 House In The Forest
When it came time to design the Sooke 01 House, Campos Studio set up camp on the site as a way to gather inspiration from the land and surrounding forest. Instead of building the house on the edge of the forest as most would have done, they found a spot at the highest point of...
25 Cool Ways To Renovate A Nursery On A Budget
Many of us design nurseries while expecting, which means that your wishes and tastes before and after may differ, or you may find out that some solutions aren’t as convenient as you used to think. If you want a change for any reason, you needn’t spend lots of money again, just stick to some simple...
Modern Delaktig Bed By IKEA And Tom Dixon
Last year a collaboration between Tom Dixon and Ikea yielded the Delaktig, a sort of open-source furniture system built around a day bed/couch/seating platform, which could be customized in various ways. Now they’ve expanded the line to include a proper bed, Queen-sized, which features the same aluminum construction and snap-on, snap-off system of accessories (in...
Contemporary Apartment With Yellow As The Main Color
Yellow is one of the most cheerful and fun colors yet it’s rarely a main color tone in interior design. And of course you don’t expect to see it in Stockholm, Sweden, where Scandinavian design is the most popular and more often seen. But this apartment features yellow as the leading colors, and the whole...
Contemporary Forest House With Panoramic Views
The seamless integration of architecture into landscape has lately become a natural concern for builders, architects and designers all over the world. If you are interested in such ideas, too, it’s high time to look at the Forest House located in Durban, South Africa built by Bloc Architects, as this home is all about it....
Restored Captain Kelly’s Forgotten Tasmanian Cottage
This 320-square-metre cottage on Bruny Island in Tasmania dates back to the 1840s when it was built by its namesake, Captain Kelly – a harbourmaster who was noted for his voyage around Tasmania in a whaleboat and for being the first Australian to enter the Antarctic Circle in 1832. John Wardle Architects has restored the...