This garden house in suburban Adelaide was designed by architect-in-training Reuben French-Kennedy as a retirement home for his parents. Willunga House is designed to work in harmony with nature, offering views of the surrounding landscape while minimizing its carbon footprint through passive heating and cooling techniques. At the same time, its form and layout are designed...
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Victorian Townhouse In London With A Charred-Wood Extension
Rider Stirland Architects has remodeled the interiors of a Victorian terraced house in south London by adding a small rear extension clad in blackened wood and London stock bricks. Aptly named Charred House, the project was carried out for a family of five to help make more efficient use of their home and improve views...
Dwelling On Wheels: A Portable Home With A Modern Design
Mobile homes and cabins got a new life and much interest cause of COVID-19, and today we are taking a look at one of these again. At 220-square-feet, The DW (Dwelling on Wheels) by Modern Shed is a modern, self-contained structure that’s spacious enough to make it a home, yet compact enough to take it...
Luxurious Craftsman-Style Tiny Trailer House
The Retreat is a craftsman-style tiny home that has a really inviting and cozy-looking design both inside and out. It was created by Timbercraft Tiny Homes and it is 37′ long. What you can immediately notice upon seeing it is that it’s built on a gooseneck trailer, the type that attaches onto a hitch in...
Unique Disneyland-Inspired House Extesion
Architect Mat Barnes, founder of CAN, renovated and extended the two-storey Edwardian house in Sydenham for his own family adding a fake Disneyland mountain of foamed aluminum to it. This element is designed in tribute to the Matterhorn Bobsleds ride at Disneyland in California. This element gives the project its name, Mountain View. The imaginative...
Sculptural Minimalist Apartment Inspired By Flow Of Time
Lyrically titled “Flow of Time”, this minimalist apartment in Taiwan by Taipei and Shanghai based studio Waterfrom Design was conceived as an architectural expression of the passage of time. Featuring a rich palette of natural materials, the spacious residence was designed to age gracefully, each material documenting the passage of time in its own tempo...
100-Year-Old Balinese House Turned Into A Zen Retreat
Rumah Purnama, which in Bahasa Indonesian means “The House of the Full Moon”, is a 100-year-old Balinese wantilan home that Bali-based designer Maximilian Jencquel brought back to life two years ago, thoughtfully renovating and turning it into a holiday retreat. Restored over a period of one year though an adaptive, sustainable design approach, the pagoda-like, two-storey...
Comfortable Botaniczna Apartment In Warm And Soothing Shades
The high-pressure medical jobs of the couple living in this Poznań apartment led Agnieszka Owsiany Studio to apply a calming mix of wood and pale marble throughout the interiors. The owners requested that the studio compose a calming home environment where they could unwind at the end of their often stressful workdays. They wanted a...
Modern And Colorful Apartment Renovation In Athens
Athenian apartment buildings, modernist, multi-storey volumes known as polikatoikies which proliferated in the second half of the 20th century. Located in Ilioupoli, a non-descript neighborhood in the south-east of Athens, a formerly unfinished, semi-basement space has been transformed by Athens-based architects Point Supreme into a hip, effortlessly elegant apartment by embracing its cave-like character and...
Contemporary Apartment In A Subdued Color Palette
Belarusian interior and furniture designer Sasha Hamolin renovated a family apartment in Minsk. Embracing a muted color palette and a no-fills aesthetic, the property is nevertheless imbued with a soulful spirit thanks to an eclectic mix of complementing textures and subtly contrasting accents, while the designer’s keen eye for detail makes sophisticated solutions seem simple...