Torquay House designed by buck&simple is the ultimate abode for a surf-centric vacation in Torquay, Australia. The holiday home is centered around surfing and outdoor activities and is designed to accommodate up to 20 people. The structure plays off of the geometric nature of placing three different-sized structures together. A large house, a small house,...
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Machiya House Gets Renovated In Minimalist Style
Kooo Architects has renovated a Machiya house in Kyoto, Japan, with white-hued spaces that update its interior appearance while maintaining its historical value. A Machiya is a type of traditional Japanese house where the two side walls do not have windows because they are shared with the neighboring building. Such an interior tends to be...
Modern Texas House With A Canyon-Inspired Design
The River Ranch is located in Blanco, Texas. It’s a beautiful place with lots of character and it was designed by Jobe Corral Architects. Contrary to what the name might suggest, this is not really a ranch, not in the traditional sense of the term. It is however a very beautiful and very inviting family...
Sandy Point House: A Coastal Home With A Nordic Aesthetic
This family holiday home is gracefully embedded in the natural landscape, which is coastal dunes of eastern Victoria, and is built by Kennedy Nolan Architects. The house is primarily built of timber suitable to its bushfire prone setting, with the exterior designed in grey in order to be eventually camouflaged amongst the rolling sand dunes....
Modernist Well-Crafted Vacation House In Corsica
Architect Amelia Tavella was commissioned to transform a 1950s rundown house into a modern holiday retreat in her native land, Corsica. Located right by the sea, Casa Santa Teresa is blessed with beautiful views of the gulf of Ajaccio which Tavella has elegantly framed throughout the house. Pairing modernist purity well-crafted natural materials, the property...
A Modern-Day Medieval Castle With Views
Nestled high above Los Angeles in the Hollywood hills, this residence was conceived as a modern-day medieval castle whose breathtaking views and compact footprint are matched by an oddball grandeur that fuses industrial chic and old-world interiors. The house was designed by Kristen Becker of Mutuus Studio and she took cues from the owners’ travels...
Contemporary House B Enveloping An Old Cottage
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...
Preston Hollow House Of Three Cast-Concrete Volumes
This Dallas residence is called the Preston Hollow home and was designed by American studio Specht Architects being influenced by the texture and shape of modern Dallas, Texas houses built in the 1950s and 1960s. The architecture is brutalist and the long cast concrete volumes comprise 8,826 square feet (820 square meters). Specht Architects oriented...
25 Welcoming Small Garden Decor Ideas
If you are a happy owner of a garden, you are sure to enjoy some sunshine and fresh air right now. Have a small garden and don’t know how to design it right to make it look cool and very welcoming? Or just want to change something to make it look cooler? No worries! We’ve...
Modern Lisbon Townhouse Of A Historic Building
Located in Lisbon, this historic three-storey townhouse has been adroitly converted by local practice SIA arquitectura into two interlocking yet distinct residences that share a sunny courtyard. Taking its name from Rua de São Marçal, the street it’s situated on, the project involved the accommodation of two contemporary homes with minimal interventions to the centuries-old...