This house is situated in a forested area near the town of Tapalpa. The project consists of a country house to be used at weekends, so the program was basic. The project evolves from the idea of making a place of refuge, where isolation from the urban life and noise is the main priority. The house…

The inspiring vibrant city of New York hides plenty of residential treasures. According to many, Tribeca is one of the top choices when it comes to choosing an apartment in the fashionable city that never sleeps. Amazing lofts, ingenious interior design ideas “trapped” in small apartments,…

John Wardle Architects have designed a shearers quarters on sheep farm on North Bruny Island in Tasmania, Australia.This beguiling shearers quarters sits as a companion building to an existing historic cottage on a working sheep farm.Located on the site of the old shearing shed that was destroyed by…

Casa Vale Do Lobo borrows the name from its proximity to the Vale do Lobo luxury beach and golf resort in the Algarve region of Southern Portugal. Focusing attention both on the white architecture pierced by glass walls and on the extraordinary swimming pool, architect Vasco Vieira of…

Johannesburg-based design studio Nico van der Meulen Architects have completed the ‘House The’ project. Built in 2012, the contemporary home can be found in South Africa.Following the trend of making alterations to and revamping existing houses, the owners of this contemporary South African home…

Paz Arquitectura have designed the Corallo house in Guatemala city, Guatemala.Located on a dense hillside forest in the Santa Rosalía area of Guatemala City, Corallo House integrates the existing forest into the layout of the house. It merges nature into the architectural intervention. The design…

New York city-based studio Steven Harris Architects has designed the Casa Finisterra project.This 9,000 square foot, five bedroom, seven bath contemporary home Sits upon a breathtaking promontory in the exclusive gated resort-community of Pedregal in Cabo San Lucas, a city at the southern tip of…

NaCi House has been designed by Virginia-based David Jameson Architect Inc. The contemporary home is located in Bethesda, Maryland.According to the architects: “Breaking the prescriptive mold of horizontally layered homes, NaCl House aspires to render unclear the spatial organisation of the…

California practice Edward Ogosta architecture has designed 'four eyes house', a weekend residence within the desert of the Coachella Valley,outside of Los angeles, California. derived from the specific site location, four towers dedicated for sleeping are oriented towards spatiotemporal experiences…

Swedish architects DAPstockholm are the authors of the family house Villa Midgård, which is set into a natural terrain close to the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Client had a clear picture of his future residence in mind. Several of the conditions were, for example, a maintenance-free facade, or a…

“Connemara” is a reconstruction of two degraded cottages in Connemara, Ireland by Peter Legge Associates. Transformed into a single family residence located in the rural countryside, constructed with stacked stones and low lying stone walls that run through the bucolic landscape as the main…

Gorki House was designed by Atrium and is integrated in a beautiful natural environment atop of a hill west of Moscow. The architects were commissioned to design a contemporary residence for a young couple and their kid, while maintaining a good relationship with the surrounding pine forest…

This Modern Minimalist private house located in Suffolk, UK,designed by  Storm Architects - Peter Guthrie. The current site has foundations, ruins and some low walls from a house that burned down eight years ago.  There is also an existing outdoor pool. Immediately to the west of the pool…

Markus Wespi Jérôme de Meuron Architetti a Swiss-based design studio has designed Brione House. Completed in 2005, this chic contemporary home can be found in Brione sopra Minusio, a small town in Ticino, Switzerland. According to the architects: “The new building is located in a privileged but…

Hamburg-based splendid_architecture recently won two awards for their design of "House at the Park" on the outskirts of the same German city. The BDA (Alliance of German Architects) awarded the house an "award for the most beautiful new built house," and it received a public vote for the same.…

Completed in 2010, this 2,368 square foot two-story residence is located in Goirle, a town in the southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant.Villa Rotonda was designed by the young architects Pieter and Thomas Bedaux, who are continuing the tradition of the bureau in Goirle which was…

Patane Residence was designed by the architects at Bureau^Proberts and is located in Newmarket, Queensland, Australia.The home was designed for a close knit, young family and occupies the crest of a hill facing south towards breathtaking views of the Brisbane city skyline and Mount Coot-tha. A…

With a total living area of 238 square meters, this inspiring modern home located in a municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden, is not what you would normally expect from a typical Scandinavian home. The residence (seen on Residence.se) is said to be designed in a contemporary international style…

The residence designed by JFAK Architects located in Santa Monica, California got its name thanks to the surname of its owners: Erin and Matt King. What makes it different from other houses? The architects concentrated on making use of the plot of land with the shape of the building  in order…

Located in Extremadura in the province of Cáceres, Spain, this country house was transformed into a family home from an abandoned stable. The rustic home with modern simplicity completely respects the environment. A solar panel system was developed to provide energy in the summer, and turbines were…

Hamburg-based practice Splendid Architecture has completed the 'Kitzbuehel Mansion', a residence overlooking the alps in Kitzbuehel, Austria. placed on a steep slope, the form is divided into two entities, appearing as if two pieces of wood have been strewn in the landscape. raising the interior…

This revolutionary and contemporary residence, the ‘Lilypad house’ was designed by Jorge Hrdina Architects in Sydney, Australia. Enveloped by two refined structures, the house was measured to accommodate ease of access by wheelchair and blur the line between private and public.The modern theme…

Nico Van Der Meulen Architects, a Johannesburg-based studio, has completed the House Serengeti project, a contemporary two-storey home perfectly encapsulating the beautiful South African scenery.Surrounded by gorgeous wildlife and natural beauty providing the house with a stunning modern edge, the…

This residence is primarily used when the clients’ extended family comes from England for long visits. They come to relax and to reconnect with their family and with nature, away from city crowds and traffic, at a retreat they neither want nor need to leave for a month.The design objective was to…

 Portuguese studio Bernardo Rodrigues Arquitecto has completed 'house on the flight of birds', a single family home on st. Michael Island in the Azores, Portugal. informed by the landscape and the prevalent high winds and rain,  the design looks to establish a strategy that allows the…