Perched high on Teneriffe Hill and within walking distance to Teneriffe Park and James Street markets 30a Gibbon Street presents itself as the concrete essence of what life in New Farm, Queensland, Australia is all about. Designed by Architect Larry Weston, this Avant-Garde masterpiece exudes modernism. The home has been constructed with poured concrete to […]
A couple lived in a very old, beautiful house in Bordeaux, France. They wanted a new house, maybe a very simple house. They were looking at different architects. Then the husband had a car accident. He almost died, but he survived. Now he needs a wheelchair. Two years later, the couple began to think about […]
Spanish architects A-cero have completed the Open Box House in Madrid, Spain. The three storey home is 8,073 square foot (750 square meters), designed according to the A-cero sculptural philosophy. This is inspired in the “Oteiza” work, a very important Spanish sculptor. With a powerful look, Open Box is notable for its facade in concrete […]
Bruno Erpicum was the architect entrusted with designing this warehouse conversion. It is now the home of a couple with a passion for architecture who were keen to make one of Dusseldorf’s rare ruins their own. The reconversion was closely overseen by the administrative authorities, since this old factory in the city center miraculously avoided […]
This fabulous 3315 square foot Villa PM in Ragusa, Italy has been designed by Architrend Architecture. The research projects its own identity through the creation of simple volumes and divided between them. The contrast between the large windows and dark surfaces of the ground floor, lava stone, and the white walls of the first floor […]
Plan B Arquitectos together with architect Giancarlo Mazzanti have designed this incredible home featuring a garden roof design with spectacular views of a wetland in Sopo County, nearby Bogota, Colombia. Instead of designing the home as a large geometric volume, it unfolds along the high slope of the plot as a branched horizontal extension. With […]
Isay Weinfeld Arquitecto designed the Sumaré House, in Sao Paulo, Brazil for a graphic designer who desired a “spacious house, where she could work, exercise, entertain friends and, of course, live in.” The plot is not a small one 7,535 square feet (700 square meters), but due to height restriction laws, the building could not exceed […]
Barcelona architect Anna Noguera has converted a sixteenth-century house in Girona, Spain into two contemporary holiday apartments. Located in the core part of Girona’s medieval quarter, within the scope of the first wall and overlooking the Plaça de Sant Domènec, is the property Alemanys 5. The refurbishment has been undertaken with very few materials: iron, […]
This modern holiday home is located on dunes covered by shrubby vegetation on the spectacular coastal village of Yzerfontein, which is north of Cape Town in South Africa. Designed by Richard Townsend and Stefan Antoni for a couple of professional New Yorkers, its modern architectural lines’s defiantly stand out in amongst the traditional vernacular figures […]
This stone building is located on a ridge overlooking Lake Orta, in Pettenasco municipality, in the province of Novara, Italy. The project, designed by PRR Architetti involves the construction of a unit of approximately 1,292 square feet (120 square meters), as a holiday residence fully integrated with nature. Conforming to the landscape, the home has […]
