contemporary home

CM House in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was built by studio Dado Castello Branco Arquitetura and features a rough concrete façade. The architects chose a contemporary approach both regarding the exterior and the interior of the house. Behind the concrete shell stands a very warm and welcoming environment infused with lots of wood and beautiful earthy... 

American studio MW Works has created an “intentionally modest” dwelling in the Pacific Northwest that serves as a nature retreat for a multi-generational family. The project, called Whidbey Island Farm, sits on a perch overlooking a meadow where cattle graze. The dwelling serves as a country home for a senior-aged couple, their three adult children... 

Named for the ferns planted around the lush property, Los Helechos is a modern oasis in the Mexico City neighborhood of Bosques de Santa Fe designed by Chain + Siman. The angular volumes are finished off with oversized windows that frame the natural surroundings while keeping the interior filled with light. The multi-level structure features... 

Located in Mae Hong Son, a northern province in Thailand surrounded by majestic mountains, lies the MHS house designed by ASWA. The small residential project, designed for a German – Thai couple, was meant to look like a sculptural volume amidst the vegetated landscape and have open and illuminated interconnected spaces in its interiors. ASWA‘s... 

Echo House is located in Elysian Heights, a neighbourhood north of Downtown Los Angeles built on hilly terrain. The house is built by US firm Aaron Neubert Architects, and working with a tight site, they designed the home to stagger down the plot in three levels. This main structure sits atop a technical floor containing... 

REI House by CRUX Arquitectos was designed around the changing needs of a family. The project began by questioning the notion of a dwelling and considering how the spaces transform throughout the day and over time to create a flexible and interactive interior. The architects adopted the concept of the ‘basilica plan’, which comprises connected naves... 

This Vietnamese house is called House for a Daughter, it’s located in Ho Chi Minh City and was built by Khuôn Studio. The dwelling is built around a triple-height atrium filled with plants and shaded by a perforated facade of grey brick. The whole house is split into two zones, one for a family who... 

Located in Washington D.C.’s Chevy Chase neighborhood, the Stephenson House is a project led by Assembledge+ (Design Architect) and Fowlkes Studio (Executive Architect) that involved the renovation of a 1962 modernist house. The original home’s traditional shape was kept and with the addition of neutral colors and contemporary details, it still fits in with the... 

This home called Mercer Modern, takes its name from its location – Mercer Island, a land mass in a freshwater lake just west of Seattle. It used to be a 50-year-old dwelling in Washington that has been renovated by US firm Wittman Estes Architecture + Landscape. Nestled into a hillside, the two-storey house is afforded... 

This unique house by Vo Trong Nghia Architects is built in Vietnam, and the most unusual thing about it is its fruit trees on the roof. Formed from brick and stone boxes stacked around a green courtyard, Thang House is the latest in the practice’s House for Trees series. Vo Trong Nghia Architects designed these...