The impressive three-level Sea and Rock villa gets its name from its surrounding landscape, a mountainside site with fantastic seascape views over Camps Bay in Cape Town, South Africa. This expansive retreat features plenty of decking areas, pergolas with potted plants and a large ying and yang-shaped Zen garden. The design compliments the textures of […]
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Contemporary Bridge House in Cape Town
The recipient of numerous design awards, Bridge House is an icon of Cape Town’s best contemporary architecture, designed by Van Der Merwe Miszewski Architects. Comprising three separate areas, the main part of the house is accessed by crossing over a timber walkway into a floating glass and steel box, surrounded by trees, and with city […]
Gorgeous renovation of a small apartment in Sweden
This completely renovated spacious apartment is located on the 4th floor with an elevator and balcony. Turn of the century details with beautiful bright interiors, high ceilings mixed with modern comforts in the form a large kitchen, master bedroom and bath with incredible views overlooking the city. The 1,033 square foot (96 square meters) apartment […]
Take a tour of this inviting Los Feliz guest house
Los Angeles-based designer Alexandra Angle worked in event design and wrote an entertaining guide with her husband, Eliot, called Cocktail Parties with a Twist, before setting up her interior design practice. For this Los Feliz guest house, she combined midcentury Scandinavian pieces with a Southern California palette. In the picture featured above the cottage’s bedroom […]
Exotic 18th century Moroccan getaway
Almost 10 years ago, Londoners Emma Wilson and Graham Carter moved to Essaouira, Morocco. Owners of a shop that sold “quirky furniture, they shut it down and loaded up a red transit van they bought for the haul to their new home. They bought this 18th-century house, spent two years fixing it up and after […]
Absolutely breathtaking family home in Auckland
‘Incomparable’ is probably the best way to describe this breathtaking property, with a house of this standing rarely seen in Auckland, New Zealand. Not only does the 7,072 square feet (657 square meters) house sit on 1806 square meters of waterfront land but it was designed just a few years ago by award-winning architects Fearon […]
Beautiful modern beach house in Chile
This incredible beach house is located in Tunquén, a costal area in the central region of Chile, in a 5,000 square meter site overlooking the sea. The acres of the site are located in the lower part, so you enter with your back to the sea. Designed by Loi Arquitectos, the 1,500 square foot (139 […]
A tropical paradise on Hideaway Island
This amazing property is one of Noosa Sound’s best waterfront homes with a prime north-east aspect. Located in Noosaville, Queensland, Australia, this Frank Macchia architecturally designed home is just simply incredible! The home features a comfortable cool ambiance, enhanced by the use of dark recycled ironbark timber for doors, fittings and floors in several of […]
Extraordinary home immersed in the mountains
The Peaks View residence, designed by Carney Logan Burke Architects, is located near Wilson, Wyoming, in a grassy meadow, adjacent to the Teton mountain range. The design solution for the project had to satisfy two conflicting goals: the finished project must fit seamlessly into a neighborhood with distinctly conservative design guidelines while satisfying the owners […]
Modern sustainable living on the Venice Canal
Situated on the Venice Canals of Los Angeles, California, Hover House 3 represents the third in the Hover House series by Glen Irani Architects. This series focuses on maximizing outdoor living on small lots by ‘hovering’ the building envelope above the grade level in order to create space for outdoor living environments. This series proposes […]










