Kerr House has been designed as a modern family home by Tony Owen Architects, located close to Tamarama beach in Sydney, Australia and enjoys spectacular views of the beach from the upper level. The client sought a minimal light beach house. The existing house had a lush tropical garden at the rear. The architects sought […]
Architecture
Architecture projects offering anywhere from modern and contemporary houses infused with a “wow” effect to Mediterranean, Tuscan and Asian influence homes from across the globe. Ranging from exterior and interior inspiration, live-work buildings to incredible commercial and hospitality projects and projects with an emphasis on sustainability are just a few of the highlights in this category. Learn how to maximize the potential of all spaces in your home by viewing incredible projects from world-class architects and designers, collated on a single source.
Modern weekend retreat: San Marino Island House
San Marino Island House is a 1930s art deco home with a recent modern addition by Robert Kaner Interior Design, located just outside of South Beach in Miami, Floria. The residence is re-conceived as a weekend and vacation home and is designed to provide for either a calm and restful stay or for a high […]
Nakai House made of recycled materials for $25,000 in Utah
Nakai House is a cabin designed and built by eight architecture students from the University of Colorado in the southwestern Utah desert for for poet, farmer and entomologist Lorraine Nakai. The design of Nakai House was inspired in equal measures by her love of the land and literature. Under the guidance of tutor Rick Sommerfeld, […]
Innovative and Sustainable Green Lantern House in Texas
Green Lantern Residence is an innovative and sustainable single family home designed by John Grable Architects, sited in one of San Antonio, Texas’s oldest neighborhoods, Alamo Heights. The 4,000 square foot home was built upon the architect and client’s mutual respect for the environment. With the foundation of sustainability as a responsible and moral obligation, […]
Contemporary remodel and addition to treetop home in Austin
Westlake Homestead is a contemporary remodel and addition to an existing treetop home that has been designed by Michael Hsu Office Of Architecture in west Austin, Texas. The existing Fred-Day treetop home was modified to create a gourmet kitchen, an enlarged master closet, a laundry room, powder room, and a bridge to the addition. Other updates […]
Lookout Residence with dramatic views over Los Angeles
Lookout Residence is set on a dramatically elevated spur of land overlooking the Los Angeles basin in Beverly Hills, California designed by Bertram Architects. A set of carefully arranged planes and volumes comprise this modernist home for a couple and their small child. Referred to as “the jewel box” owing to its finely articulated detailing, […]
Amazing indoor outdoor living in Brazil: BT House
Offering indoor / outdoor living at its finest, BT House has been designed by São Paulo, Brazil based architect Guilherme Torres, who has developed ideas which fuse the modern and the traditional. Guilherme’s own house, designed by the architect himself, bears a checkered wood design, a kind of brise soleil called muxarabie, which is a classic […]
Contemporary 200 Chambers Penthouse by Incorporated
200 Chambers Penthouse was designed by architecture studio Incorporated as a pied-a-Terre for a European gentleman who makes New York his home only in the fall. A place for both work and the entertaining of friends and family, the residence was developed with a private suite, an entertainment area and two bedrooms for frequent guests. […]
Modern shelter camouflaged in the forested Blue Hills
Blue Hills House has been designed by la SHED architecture, perched on the edge of a mountainous slope in Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada. The single story 2,152 square foot (200 square meters) residence is nestled on a large forested property, sitting gracefully between the trees and is only hardly visible from the street. As per the occupants’ […]
Inviting suburban home in Sydney: Wentworth Road House
Wentworth Road House is a contemporary suburban home that was completed in 2012, by Edward Szewczyk Architects in Vaucluse, Sydney, Australia. This house takes full advantage of being on the sunny side of the street. Where sun access and vistas to Sydney Harbour are the same you have to embrace it. Three levels of the […]