contemporary home

MAK Studio has designed a new house in Burlingame, California, that features distinct lines and dark accents topped by a peaked roof. Minimalist concrete stairs lead from the sidewalk up to the front door. A pivoting dark wood front door welcomes visitors to the home. Inside the front door is a foyer with high ceilings... 

FGMF Arquitetos recently completed Casa Jordão for a family in Monte-Mor, São Paulo that longed for a holiday retreat. The single-story structure is located on a stud farm that dictates building codes for the area. One of the main rules required that they use clay for the roof, a common sight in Brazilian architecture. With... 

This house in Montana occupies a 10-acre site situated at the confluence of two rivers. It frames gorgeous views of the valley and the mountains in the distance. Responsible for its design is architecture studio CTA Group. The team made sure to take full advantage of the amazing scenery so they did their best to... 

American studio Wheeler Kearns Architects has completed a single-storey residence on a wooded site outside of Chicago, featuring black facades and large windows that engage the landscape. The Ravine House sits quietly within a forested property, where an older home burned down years ago. A ravine runs through the site. The house was conceived for... 

When it came time to design the Sooke 01 House, Campos Studio set up camp on the site as a way to gather inspiration from the land and surrounding forest. Instead of building the house on the edge of the forest as most would have done, they found a spot at the highest point of... 

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... 

This house is called M and was created by Takeru Shoji Architects in the Japanese city of Uonuma. It features small rooms suspended above a double-height living space, which sits in a “live-in foundation”. The home eschews the conventions for building in Uonuma, which has a climate characterized by hot, humid summers and cold winters... 

Called Kawakawa House, this home was built in Piha, New Zealand, by studio Herbst Architects. The house is raised on a concrete plinth and steel stilts to give views through the dense woodland (pōhutukawa trees) to the beach. The site is extremely sun-challenged, and the concept for the design developed out of the need to... 

When designing the Sacha apartment in Paris’ 15th arrondissement, SABO project turned to simple materials, like Baltic birch plywood, white resin, and the original concrete, for a clean, family-friendly space. The design involved combining two identical, overlapping apartments into one with the lower floor housing the bedrooms and the upper floor becoming the social space.... 

BAM! arquitectura has designed a modern concrete house in San Isidro, Argentina, for a client who is passionate about landscaping. The house has been designed to have a garden which connects all of the architectural floors, which is immediately visible from the front door. Outside, the furnished patio leads to a swimming pool. From this...