On a jungle hillside in Costa Rica, this luxury home quite literally blends with its wild environment thanks to a low profile and a green roof. The house built by architects Dagmar Štěpánová and Martina Homolková of Formafatal features an industrial façade and a serenely luxurious interior. The exterior of the house is protected by...
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Contemporary Home That Disappears In The Landscape
The main goal throughout this entire project was to create a house that blends into its surroundings and disappears into the beautiful landscape. The topography of the land made it pretty easy to achieve that. The house which was named Witklipfontein Eco Lodge is located in Vredefort, South Africa. It was designed and built by...
Organic Futuristic House With An Artifical Landscape
House In The Landscape by Russian firm Niko Architect is an organic, futuristic residence integrated into an artificial landscape on a village outside Moscow. Taking into account the limitations of visual contact with the external surroundings, the project sees the construction of a private zone with a landscape, formed terrace, and adjacent body of water....
Colorful Contemporary Home With An Extension
Iguana Architects worked with a growing, musical family on a recent project that involved a renovation, a loft, and a new addition on a 1930s semi-detached home in London. The finished design is a larger home that maximizes daylight, uses natural materials, and is topped off with a green roof. The original property was a...
Prefab Minimod Curucaca Cabin In Brazilian Forest
Little prefab cabins are getting more and more popularity nowadays as everybody wants to escape to nature, unite with it and forget all the worries. Today we are sharing one more cabin that may inspire you to get one, too, as it’s really brings the comfort while connecting you to outside. Architecture studio MAPA and...
Modern Prefab On A Cliff With Ocean Views
Australian practice Archiblox has recently finished the construction on the modest 106 m2 prefab Avalon house perched high atop the cliffs surrounding Avalon beach outside of Sydney. Specializing in prefabricated and modular construction, the architects employed this practice to build a home with minimal effect on the landscape both in terms of construction and natural...
All-White Scandinavian House With A Patio
Laura Dragotti owner of Riad store in Milan, lives in a family house in Scandinavian style that she has completely decorated in white. The house is 260 square meters, it has two floors and a patio. The kitchen is all white, filled with much light because of double-height windows. The kitchen is like a white...
Modern Home Made Of Three Irregularly Shaped Volumes
Architects Marc Fornes & Theverymany completed the design of MaHouse, a contemporary single-family home in Strasbourg, France. The modern building features three stacked, irregularly shaped volumes, which decrease in size from bottom to top. This creative approach allows the inhabitants to maximize their living space in a neighborhood with strict building requirements. Each white “box,”...
Stylishly Minimalist House With Mid-Century Modern Touches
This small 1950’s building, which is a former workshop, is located in Montreal, Canada, and was designed by Atelier Moderno. There is a common area that includes a cozy living room with a corner desk, a dining room, and a streamlined kitchen where each element asserts its modernity. The décor is stylishly minimalist with mid-century...
Edgeland Residence Inspired By Traditional American Dwellings
Edgeland Residence on the bank of the river Colorado by Bercy Chen Studio is a rethinking of a traditional American dwelling. Such dwellings were partly in the soil using the energy of the earth for supporting warmth and comfort during the year. This residence is a pit house with a green roof to feel warmer...