This futuristic home was created for 3 generations of a prominent Malaysian family; including both private and public functions.  All in all, there are 9 bedrooms, 2 family rooms, family kitchen + private dining, family library, game room, swimming pool, study, formal dining room, reception…

Constraints are good for design. Sustainable minimalism can be another set of constraints. Los Angeles and Switzerland-based tecARCHITECTURE firm, approach their projects with a strong green agenda. They have earned environmentally progressive credentials with their sustainable high-tech…

We all know the level of details that CG artists are able to achieve today with sophisticated 3D softwares and renderers. In this post, we feature a set of inspirational renders that showcase the brilliance that exist in this industry. Most of the houses shown below are in the midst of dreamy fairy…

    Set in a suburban community of Augsburg, this house  was built in the face of considerable resistance from municipal building authorities and the immediate neighborhood. The two-storied residence was conceived as an inhabitable sculpture for a couple, and as a statement…

Located in Opole of Poland, this modern Poland house is situated on one hectare site near the forest. Due to its location, the design of the building opens up onto all sides with its terraces in an unrestricted manner, and the only way to get into the garden is through the atrium and the house.…

Located in the town where the hotel California sits. One hour south of La Paz Baja California Sur. There is a small magical town called Todos Santos. In witch our client had a vision of developing this 50,000 square foot lot and designing two houses, one for beach house rental and the other one…

The Breeze House is a contemporary study of indoor/outdoor living concepts. Throughout the house the outdoor's relationship to the interior program is a constant exploration, the result of which range from strongly sheltered space to complete openness facilitated by uniquely expansive sliding…

     SUSI is a small residential house plus veterinarian’s office on the south slope of Puster Valley in South Tyrol. It was designed as a passive house without heating. Energy and cost efficiency required a compact volume; nevertheless, the living area had to be generous in…

From Architects:The spaces of the house follow the archetype of the small Balaton-region summer houses. On the ground floor we have continuous spaces for an elegant social life: from the garden over the living room into the dinning room. On the first floor we designed small bedrooms and a bigger…

    Made from glass and steel construction materials, this modern box-like transparent house has outstanding appearance. This detached house built in flexible, sustainability, industrial construction method, so domestic comfort achieved. Built to provide comfortable work office space…

From Libeskind:The living space of this Connecticut residence is formed by a spiraling ribbon of 18 planes, defined by 36 points connected by 54 lines. This pure and dynamic architectural form generates distinctive interior spaces while dramatically framing both near and distant landscape…

I just adore this architecture..true it's modern..but a modern type of house that I adore!  This is Balaam House designed by architects Arkhefield, located in Hamilton, Australia. The house combines elements of zinc, aluminum, concrete, rich timbers, and raw battening. A main center piece of…

The Chatswood House is an alterations and additions to an existing California Bungalow house in a Heritage Conservation area of Willoughby Municipality.MCK’s core ideas, notions of journey, spatial experience, ambiguous space and interior/exterior transition, are all present in the Chatswood…

This house located in Londrina, Brazil, designed by Studio Guilherme Torres  for a couple and their two teenage children. The first floor, built at the street level, contains the laundry area which cannot be seen due to the span that forms the garage. Above the garage one can find the living…

    This House design, Whale beach house is located at the southern end of Whale Beach, Australia, an early idea was of a timber packing case fallen from a ship and washed to shore. Designed by Alex Popov architects, articulate the idea of a modernist approach to the peninsula’s…

    This is one of the strangest abodes I’ve ever come across. Designed by Undercurrent Architects, this curiously-designed house is a private residence located in Sydney, Australia. The roof looks like fallen leaves, thus it has been dubbed the “Leaf House”. The roof is…

Palabritas Beach House, recently completed by Peruvian firm Architect Jose Orrego, is a contemporary and stylish house designed to capture the view situated on the coast of Lima, Peru.The house is located on the first row of lots and was designed so that the architecture acted like a frame to the…

Axelrod Design has designed the eHouse which  is located in Tel Aviv. The beauty of the eHouse is the marriage of livability and minimalist/Mediterranean design sense.eHouse is a single family house that was inhabited in 2008 and borrows from two traditions in architecture – a Mediterranean…

  Located in Garby, a place near Poznan, Poland, this original residential project belongs to NeoStudio Architekci,  a company with a very inviting portfolio. We called the house “fun and fantastic” because we were fascinated by its design creativity. The architecture is simple and…

This 250 square meter dream home is designed by architect John Robert Nilsson near a lake in Sweden. It features truly amazing views of this lake as from terrace as from inside of the house. Simple shapes, clean lines are things that characterize its design. Very few materials were used in its…

This awesome house is designed by Fearon Hay Architects which is located in Auckland, New Zealand. Amazing Cliff House that provides you beautiful scenery of lovely bay surely will refresh you every day. Open plan house design will help you to supply large numbers of sunlight and sea breeze.…

Momo is a modern modular-based interpretation of the weekend cottage designed by Thomas Lind from Grasshopper Studio.  The house contains two modular boxes of living space separated by an outdoor lounge area.  The structure is covered with a tensile fabric roof structure and is…

Located adjacent to Hyde Park on Elizabeth Street in Sydney’s CBD, a state-of-the-art 17 storey residential development conceived by Tony Owen Partners has been approved. With only 19 apartments, each of the Eliza units will feature a unique parametrically designed façade, which responds to…

The Pitched Roof House by Chenchow Little Architects  is probably the most interesting home I’ve seen in a long time. From the outside, you wouldn’t imagine that you could actually even FIT inside the home with its “pitched” roof and interesting geometrical shape. While from the inside,…

Chateau d’eau is a remarkable home made from a reclaimed water tower in the small town of Steenokkerzeel in Belgium. Interior design firm Bham Design Studio’s reinvention of the historic structure took a modernist turn by preserving the industrial construction of the original structure and…