Casa Cher is an incredible concrete and glass home in the forest of Mar Azul, Argentina, designed by BAK Architects. The residence is a holiday home for a couple and their two teenage children and is comprised of 1,130 square feet (105 square meters). The owners required that the home have two bedrooms and two […]
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Spectacular Island House along the Han River
The spectacular Island House is built on the Han River in South Korea’s Kangwon-do prefecture. This stunning residential complex runs over an area of over 700 square meters. The 3,630 square foot (337 square meters) steel structure glass house was designed by Seoul-based firm IROJE KHM Architects. The angled steel and glass façade is designed […]
Picturesque contemporary home immersed in nature
The Woodway Residence is located in Washington and is designed by Seattle architecture firm Schuchart Dow. This Northwest contemporary home is comprised of 11,000 square feet and is the result of the owner’s desire for privacy, love of nature and deep appreciation for craftsmanship and design. The property’s seclusion and expansive, picturesque landscape, was perfectly […]
Modern lakeside shelter in the woods of northern Idaho
The incredibly talented architecture firm from Seattle, Washington, Olson Kundig Architects brilliantly infused contemporary class to a country cabin. This modern lakeside shelter is known as the “Chicken Point Cabin”, situated on a lake in northern Idaho which the architects describe as “a little box with a big window that opens to the surrounding landscape.” […]
Gorgeous contemporary residence on Venice Beach
This contemporary residence in Venice Beach, California was designed by architect Lewin Wertheimer. The 3,100 square foot home consists of an open downstairs plan with a detached two car garage off the rear alley and 3 upstairs bedrooms and a guest house/studio, and 3 1/2 bathrooms, including the guest house/studio. The 5,000 square foot corner […]
Contemporary beach house in Australia
Beached House is a spectacular holiday home is Western Port Victoria, Australia by design firm BKK Architects. The home comprised of a sequence of unfolding spaces that deny, and then release views. The journey through the house is through a series of subtly shifting spaces that alter one’s orientation to climate and terrain. The 3,757 […]
Incredible Brazilian cliff top home in the rainforest
Casa Do Dean is a beautiful vacation retreat immersed on the exclusive cliff top of Alta Mucugê, located in the village of Arraial d Ajuda, Bahia, Brazil with magical views of the Mata Atlantica, the house was designed by local architect Carlos de Oliveira Rodrigues in close collaboration with its owner. Stylish, clean contemporary but […]
Rustic retreat in the Santa Cruz Mountains
The Aptos Retreat was designed for a San Francisco couple and their six children by CCS Architecture in Aptos, California. The residence is located on a 20-acre site with ocean and mountain views, about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic as well as […]
Glass home perched on the edge of a historic cemetery
85 Swains Lane is a sexy, modernist vision in concrete and glass set over four floors with balconies, terraces and a fully retractable glass roof for entertaining under the stars. The elevations facing the cemetery are mostly comprised of floor to ceiling glass, filling the interior with natural light and washing the concrete structural frame […]
An enormous dwelling off the Japanese coast
By the Japanese coast lies Villa Ronde, a 19,375 square foot (1800 square meters) building designed by architecture firm Ciel Rouge Creation which includes a private museum, a guest house and a resort. It is thought of as a wide free organic space in which rooms can be closed or in continuity to each other […]