Housing

Moriyama House situated in Tokyo, Japan, and designed by Ryue Nishizawa is one of the most influential private houses in Japanese contemporary architecture.

Villa corresponds in volume with its surroundings by hiding about a third of its program in an underground level. The house itself consists of three floors, each representing a different spatial organization (open common floor, a grid of private rooms, a

La Balma is a project promoted by Sostre Cívic, which was the winner to develop a plot in the Poblenou neighborhood in the first public tender for leasehold of land for cooperative housing. The project seeks to expand the stock of non-speculative and aff

1-1 Architects - ST House, Anjo Aichi 2021. Photos © the architects. [[MORE]]

On the edge of the historic city centre of Utrecht, tucked away between the railway tracks and the Tweede Daalsebuurt, the former Werkspoor terrain can be found. The Wisselspoor neighbourhood is part of the larger transformation of the Werkspoor area into

“The host is a guest. He who receives is received. The host, the “maître de céans”, is already a guest received in his own home” _ J. Derrida This quote encapsulates the essence of what this project is aiming for: to gather and welcome. The occupant expe

The silence, the nature, the wind. You, floating under a pine canopy. That’s it. Trakt’s five suites are merely shells that put nature in focus and make a stay in the woods possible. By elevating the buildings, the suites get closer to the treetops and le

The project, designed for a catless cat lover, is a warm and colorful space. Each element acts like a living creature – independent, cute, free. A perceptible and vibrant tension is set with the existing architecture, without diminishing it. The choreog

Das Glashaus is a weekend House in Uckermark north of Berlin. It’s designed for a small family with plenty of guests. The house offers a chance to spend time in the countryside and enjoy the nearby preserved forest and lakes. The house has a simple floor

Lorenz Bachmann - Music pavilion, Winterthur 2022. Via, photos © Lukas Murer. [[MORE]]

The process of sustainable adaptation. Working with a typified slab block floorplan from the 60´s. Definedness of the relationships in the family and the scale of intimacy change through generations. The original space misses lightness. It is too rigid, t

Raw concrete penthouse and event space designed by Studio Andrew Trotter are located inside former Athens warehouse owned by 10AM Lofts.

One person, one animal and „peace of the soul“. The original scheme of the apartment did not fit the brief for this project. We wanted to arrange the interior in a way that achieves a feeling of lightness and ethereality. Something that is big and small a

In the summer garden, the plants are in a more natural and wild state, and the original clear boundaries fade away, with plants staggering in height, creating an experience from enclosure to seclusion and then to openness. Disappeared architecture The tea

Amunt - House on a slope, Sankt Blasien 2021. Photos © Rasmus Norlander. [[MORE]]

Ryan Kennihan - Beach Road house, Galway 2021. Photos © Shantanu Starick. [[MORE]]

Raamwerk - Halewijnkouter house renovation, Drongen 2020. Photos © Stijn Bollaert. [[MORE]]

AMUNT - Lake house, Trenthorst 2021. Photos © Filip Dujardin. [[MORE]]

Groothuijse de Boer - Vaneker house, located on a former military site, Enschede 2021. Photos © Max Hart Nibbrig. [[MORE]]

35 meters long, 2.8 meters wide, 4 meters high, a geometry that does not match housing standards. The objective for this rehabilitation was to develop in a former factory in the Zola district, rehabilitated into workshops and housing in the 1990s, a loft

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Tradition meets philosophy The KLEINE BLEIBE is an ensemble of three houses: two cabins and a sauna. Each one of these is unique. The philosophy they stand for and the local surroundings are found in the architecture. Comprised with well thought-out detai

Studio McW has completed the revitalisation of a converted warehouse apartment in East London for climate activists and filmmakers, Jack Harries and Alice Aedy. Arranged over two floors, the live-work space was designed to seamlessly balance rest and rela

Originally built as a symmetrical two-apartments dwelling during the 1930s, it has undergone extensions over time which partially broke the neatness of the floorplan and tangled the flow. The project wanted to redesign the extensions in a more ordered man

Balconies fan out like leaves from the mixed-use L'Arbre Blanc tower, which Sou Fujimoto has completed in Montpellier with Nicolas Laisné, Dimitri Roussel and OXO Architectes.

Local firm Burr Studio is on a mission to guard the Madrid’s industrial heritage by turning vacant spaces into homes.

From the use of exposed structural concrete and large windows to the flexible and functional layout and the meticulous study of light in space, this elegant and contemporary house designed by Plural is inspired by Le Corbusier.

Underground Patio is a minimal space located in Rovagnate, Italy, designed by Stefano Larotonda and Andrea Tregnago.

The Atelierhaus for the german artist Markus Oehlen is located in a formerly illigal settlement in the north of Munich. Inbetween makeshift buildings a house was formed with just one room, constructed with just one layer. The materials concrete, pumice st

Danish-based NORRØN Architects breathe new life to abandon, yet unforgettable building mass. On the Danish peninsula Jungshoved, in the outskirts of the small town Roneklint, is located the first version of a new housing typology titled The Danish Cottage