contemporary home

Interior architect Jurjen van Hulzen designed a home on a remote mountain in the rugged north of Ibiza, Spain. The 100-year-old warehouse that formerly served as a workshop and storage space, was turned into a contemporary guesthouse and showcase project for the designers. The building was abandoned and had no running water or electricity –... 

This newly-built house designed by Moldovan Studio Line Architects is located on a small plot on a slope with panoramic views of the surroundings. All the spaces of the building with flowing areas are filled with modern objects of art, which is more like a museum, rather than a private house, in which you can wander... 

Brasil based Estúdio Paralelo completed the restoration of a 1950s São Paulo penthouse and revamped it for the needs of contemporary city living. The space has a total surface of 150 square meters and also displays an unconventional layout. The apartment absorbs both floor-plans of the two apartments per floor of this small building in Santa... 

This two-story addition was designed for a 1906 masonry home by Hsu McCullough for a growing family. The Ashland Residence, located in Santa Monica, California, needed to expand while preserving as much outdoor space as possible. The only way to make that happen was to build up and over the Phase I footprint with a... 

Bordeaux-based architecture studio Senecio has completed gGzouillis, a 70 sqm renovation project that comprises the interior design and extension of a 65 sqm house in the southwest ocean coast of France. Clad in perforated pinewood from the local forest, the residence includes a small, calm garden which has been conceptually extended by enabling access to... 

Nathan Buhler collaborated with his interior designer sister, Adrianne Bailie to create the Kalamalka Lake Home, located in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, and the pair had to make the decision to either tear down the 1970’s original house and start over or to renovate it. Buhler chose the later and worked to design the house... 

Chilean architecture firm Umwelt has constructed a wood house and a black cabin for a young family, on a property overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The residence features two buildings, BL1 and BL2, let’s take a closer look the houses. It is not a second home for resting or escaping during the weekends but the possibility... 

Architecture studio GRAS has transformed a derelict cottage in the Scottish Highlands into a pared-back contemporary holiday home by slotting a series of oak-lined “boxes” inside the existing stone structure. Now this two-storey house is situated at the tip of the Kyle of Tongue and is the only inhabited property to enjoy uninterrupted views along...