City View Residence in Austin, Texas, with its modernist and orthogonal design, screams summer vacation. The creation of Dick Clark Architecture is whitewashed with wood panels and large windows on the ground floor, and glass walls on the upper floor, flooding the atrium-like two story living room with light.
The charming lake house by architect Wim Goes resides quaintly and comfortably on a Belgian lake, near the city of Ghent. Aside from the steep roof conveying a traditional feel, and the employing of wood as the main material, there is nothing conventional about it.
Located in Big Sur, California, Divison Knoll residence is a prolonged light-flooded pavilion overlooking the sea. The masterpiece by Sagan Piechota Architecture exudes simplicity, sincerity of materials, filters oceanic light and complies with nature.
Tangga House in Singapore is a creation by Guz Architects, intended to re-interpret a traditional courtyard house in a contemporary fashion. On the outside, what impresses is the light staircase at the end of the pool, ascending to the lushly planted roof gardens.
Casa Son Vida is probably not what is generally expected from a home, but is definitely what is expected of Mallorca, Spain: an 8,500 square foot white giant that has transcended the status of a Mediterranean villa. The white cluster of 3 main volumes flows from a rigid wing toward a fluid organically shaped part.
This nature-loving luxury residence by Guz Architects is located in Singapore and goes by the name ‚the Fish House’. The space organization gradually brings nature into this eco-friendly home whose dominant texture and color is given by wood, most appropriately so for a house nestled in tropical vegetation and overlooking a supremely blue ocean.
The Maximum Garden House in Jalan Rendang, Singapore, is a curious appearance into the town street front, with its philosophy called “more planting space”, ingeniously applied. The “green” creation by Formwerkz Architects has its focal point established on the upper floor, a black rectangular case shape cantilevering over a brick coloured concrete supporting frame enclosing the ground floor.
Superbude Hotel by 3Meta is a totally new hotel and hostel concept, located in Hamburg. A sort of techno-industrial Alice in Wonderland meets Dali, the interior design of the „super shack” hotel relies on funky improvisation.
Melbourne architect Andrew Maynard managed to give a geometric, orthogonal and open air space a traditional shape through a steep roof frame. The residence is an extension on a Victorian terrace, around an enclosed patio. The house itself is really a contemporary blend of volumes and carefully and brilliantly selected construction materials and textures.There is a gradual transition from the dark wood patio spa to the old town charm of the mosaic tiled bathroom and the exposed brick interior which receives light filtered through a blends shaded facade. The inner space is contemporary and practical, minimalistic yet rich through its sincere textures and colours.
A simple and geometric modern home, this creation by Coop 15 Architecture is remarkable for the inspired furnishing of its prolonged and successive interior spaces, all the while emphasizing the integrity of the mid-century modern structure. Longitudinal strokes and stripes of color run all over the rich wooden floors, furniture and kitchen tiles: the textures of surfaces were chosen to express and convey naturalness, spontaneity and continuous flow.
