Architecture

The owner is an innovator and a fan of technologies and gadgets, the project includes a 'smart house' system as well as a security system. Aside from the scientific advances, the owner enjoys history, art and vintage furniture collections impacted the house interior.

Cutouts in the facades are designed to trace the notes of Frédéric Chopin's renowned Romantic-era composition Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op 9, No 2.

Stepping Stone House perches above its aquatic environment with the lightness of an origami building, capturing the immersive aspects of the surroundings: trees, ferns, lake, lawns, fountains, and the varying patterns of sunshine and shadow as they dance across the water and its interiors.

The glass-walled IH Residence in Bandung, Indonesia, has been protected from severe rains and strong sunshine by the architecture firm Andra Matin, which employed a huge, overhanging concrete roof.

In Vietnam, urbanization is spreading rapidly from cities to rural regions. The city tube houses have begun to proliferate in rural regions, upsetting the serene and lyrical image of the village. Diên Khanh House existed to preserve traditions.

A bizarre, larger-than-life staircase adds next-level utility to a Minato, Tokyo residence. The three-story house is intended to house three generations of the same family. It takes the place of a smaller, timber-framed structure that had gotten overshadowed by nearby residential complexes.

With a single floor and without any dividing element, this is "The Plain House", the house of the Japanese firm that proposes us to connect more with nature and family.

As tiny homemakers find success in the midst of the epidemic, a new $75,000 bulletproof concrete prefab tiny home is now available for presale.

Modern, minimalist, and neutral. This home in the outskirts of Pamplona was designed by the architects Pereda-Pérez and was awarded the 'COAVN Arquitectura' prize.

This light-footed home demonstrates that honest architecture with no bells and whistles may nonetheless result in lovely buildings.

The cantilevered top stories of Japanese architect Shogo Iwata's house in Osaka float above a driveway.

The sloping site served as the starting point for the design of this residential house, which was intended to create a conversation between architecture and landscape.

The exposed concrete on the bottom level connects the areas, opening up to the home and providing continuity to the grounds that surround it.

 

A new, contemporary triangle-shaped refuge emerges from the lush, wooded area surrounding Lake Placid in the United States. The A-Frame home is both basic and remarkable; a simple, timber construction nestled in the lovely, verdant Upstate New York countryside.

A pair of Corten-clad houses with slanted roofs constitute a natural refuge in Washington built by US architect David Van Galen and his wife.