This Single family residence locating in Achterhoek, Netherlands designed by 123DV.Sustainability also inspired the design of the house. The villa is self-sufficient. At any time, the occupants can go off the net without losing their energy supply. Water is drawn from a private well, and the…

Australian studio dKO Architecture has designed the A-G House.Completed in 2011, this single story contemporary home is located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.The A-G House reinterprets classic mid-century California Modern design principles to suit the Australian design vernacular, creating a…

Patterson Associates have designed this Summer residence on Waiheke Island, New Zealand.This beautiful Islands is famous for its vineyards and local wine.Located on a steep coastal escarpment above a tree fringed white sand beach the home usesthe same local pyrite rock strata responsible for the…

This luxury building is located on a southwestern slope, with a great view over the hilly landscape of Taunus (Germany). This landscape inspired the shape of this structure.The building’s strict geometry negotiates between the neighboring buildings and tries to conect without closing-up or…

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…

Clean lines and magnificent view help SAMI Architects to shape the design for C/Z House in Portugal's Pico Island.This house aims to overlook the various views which can be seen from the highest point of the land. Starting from a set of separate volumes and following the adaptation of the…

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…

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…

 LA House is a 410 square meter house, in three levels, which was completed in 2009; the house is designed for a young couple who wished to eliminate the small spaces and the traditional partitions in the existing condominium in Londrina, Brazil.  The architectural concept is to ‘break…

The four concrete wings of this house in Girona, Spain, appear to hover in the air above an underground entrance.Completed in 2010 by Barcelona studio Hidalgo Hartmann, the single-storey Casa Pocafarina has a cross-shaped plan that sits on four pillars and hovers a metre above the lawn.The house is…

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…

Based in california and switzerland, XTEN architecture has completed 'nakahouse', a single family residence located in hollywood hills, california, USA.Sited along the steep slopes below the hollywood sign, the dwelling is a contemporary update to an established home from the 1960's.Geotechnical,…

Russian architect Andrey Tiguntsev has designed and completed the charming, contemporary House on the Bay project in Mill Fold village on Irkutsk Reservoir, in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia; from which it owes its name. Completed in 2010, the residence comprises of two stories, and utilises a vast and…

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…

Japanese architect Kimihiko Okada has designed the Toda House in Hiroshima, Japan.The site is located in a residential area developed on a gentle perch in Hiroshima, overlooking a far view of the Inland Sea and Miyajima. The land of this area is developed into platforms form with several levels. The…

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…

Antoni Associates designed the interior of this home in Cape Town, South Africa. Located on the slopes of Signal Hill in Cape Town, this property overlooks the Atlantic Seaboard and historic Robben Island. ANTONI ASSOCIATES was commissioned to re-furbish a SAOTA designed house to a new luxurious…

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…