The Mash House by Andrew Maynard Architects is an original double-fronted renovated and re-imagined Victorian house. The whole structure uses recycled materials in order to have eco-friendly features like the recycled spotted gum used for the floors or the concrete slab in the back of…

Modern Finnish designer Lincoln Kayiwa created the  AAKKOSET as a stylish solution to divide a room and also keep books, magazines, CDs or personal items. This storage solution that comes in the shape of an alphabetized wall. It is available in many colours – black,…

The Bridle Road Residence (or the Gubbins House ) in Cape Town, South Africa, was designed by  architectural designer Antonio Zaninovic, Rees Roberts and Partners and ASLA partner David Kelly. Winning a 2010 Honor Award from the American Society and Landscape Architects, the home is…

This unique furniture collection by German designer Valentin Loellmann cannot really be assigned to any style. The pieces can be regarded as art installations, a post’modern interpretation of classical wood furniture, that falls just short of elegance, giving it up for naive design. Surreal, burlesque,…

With the minimal appearance of a retreat or bunker skylight, the Scholar’s Library is located in the forest of Catskill Mountains, northwest of New York. A very special and personal architecture programme, the library-and study-was designed by architect Peter Gluck to accommodate the book collection…

The amazing push and pull V-Two sofa by DesignJoo prides on a clean and multi-functional design. The clear-lined, light and futuristic piece of furniture has the shape of a triangle tuned upside down and is adjustable to the room space. It provides storage space and…

Located in a tranquil Japanese village near Nagoya, the Pentagonal Residence by Kazuya Morita Architects belongs to a young couple. With the older house of the parents in its proximity, the architecture of the Pentagonal House maintains, despite its comforable modernity, a traditional appearance given…

The Sea Ranch home by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects is a pavillion-like residence between the forest and the sea. With its uncomplicated and holiday-like appearance, the “understated” and “flowing” house conveys the clients’ love of Japanese simplicity and a comforable and warm Scandinavian feel. The…

Bruce Stafford Architects designed this beautiful family house on a small space and did his best to equip it for comfortable, contemporary living. The 2 story residence features a white modern facade with a timber clad wall. Something about the facade structure and the vertical…

This remarkably modern and materially sincere building is a converted farmhouse and barn combination updated with concrete additions by the Swiss architectural studio Clavienrossier. The upper floors feature walls of clean cream colored concrete, geometrically and diagonally folded toward the window frame, strikingly modern on…