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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Contemporary Forest House On Three-Meter Stilts
Canadian architect Natalie Dionne has completed a forest retreat in southeastern Quebec, which is raised up on stilts to meet the level of the rocky landscape. The site featured a rocky outcrop, including one particular boulder that rose three meters above ground level. As a result, more natural light is able to penetrate the living...
Unique Sustainable Welcome To The Jungle House
CplusC Architectural Workshop has built a house in Sydney with recycled materials, a rooftop vegetable garden and an aquaponics system containing edible fish. The project, with its solar panels, gardens and pond for edible perch, was designed in response to the climate emergency to be a model for more sustainable urban living. A complete roof...
Hinterhouse: A Contemporary Cedar-Clad Forest Cabin
Architecture studio Ménard Dworkind has designed a slender cedar-clad holiday home with a matching sauna on a forested hillside in Quebec. Located in a village called La Conception, the Hinterhouse cabin and sauna are clad in white cedar board, which Ménard Dworkind chose so it will weather over time and blend in with its natural...
Waterfront Family Retreat With Coastal Interiors
Useless Bay in Washington is a beautiful location for waterfront cabins and seasonal retreats but it’s also an area that presents certain particular challenges. It’s here that the architects at Hoedemaker Pfeiffer were commissioned to build a family home to take the place of an old cabin that had been passed from generation to generation....
Bright Contemporary Open-Plan Apartment In India
This bright contemporary open-plan apartment was designed by architecture studio Saransh in Ahmedabad, India. The studio removed all of the partition walls so that upon entering the apartment, all areas of the home are visible. A cozy nook for reading and entertainment sits adjacent to the dining area, a bathroom is opposite the den and...
Refined And Soothing Victorian Townhouse
London-based interior design practice Daytrip Studio renovated Powerscroft Road, a renovated Victorian terraced house of subtle sophistication in Clapton in northeast London. The interiors are a combo of the past and modernity, they are done with a refined and calm sensibility that manages to combine the soothing gracefulness of craftsmanship and the clean cut polish...
Flemish House Extension In Contemporary Style
This is an extension of a Flemish house, it’s just 5.5 meters wide and 18 meters deep, typical dimensions for a Belgian terrace house but challenging none the less. Antwerp-based practice i.s.m.architecten managed to turn on creativity to fit these restrictions. The architects devised an open-plan configuration that unfolds across the entire depth of the...
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...
Cedar-Clad Home Inspired By Traditional Danish Barns
Christoffersen Welling Architects has designed a house in the Danish countryside for a family and their pet falcons. Set within a green, wooded landscape at the edge of a village, these blocks have been arranged in a U shape around a central courtyard onto which the main house opens with Corten planters and seating. Conceived...