Housing

A window replaces a rolling shutter at the front of this former garage in Dublin that TAKA has converted to create extra space for an existing house

concrete created the ZOKU Loft, a relaxed place to live, work and socialise with like-minded people while getting wired into the city. The Zoku Loft combines hybrid-living (living and working) with...

Built by Studio Raanan Stern Architect in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel with date 2015. Images by Gidon Levin. Planning and designing of a 75m2 apartment in a residential building built in the 1930's. The...

Architectural practice B-ILD turned an old war bunker into a holiday home for two families as an advertising campaign at first though due to its success it was decided to keep the bunker permanently...

Completed in 2014 in Zapallar, Chile. Images by Pia Melero. The “La Palomera” (pigeon loft) project arose from a number of coincidences starting a few years ago, when, after remodelling a floor of...

For longtime readers of this very site, the name of Foster Huntington might already sound familiar. He was featured as one of the Top 10 Road Trip Photographers as well as with his projects The...

Built by Vécsey Schmidt Architekten in Buggingen, Germany with date 2013. Images by Doris Lasch. Till the 1970 a huge barn could be found at the place where the structural work of the garden house was...

Completed in 2013 in Bengaluru, India. Images by Vivek Muthuramalingam, Gautam Vishwanath. The home is located in the outskirt of Bangalore at the edge of the garden around the park adjoining a lake...

Czech architecture studio Mjölk Architects designed the ‘Fence House’, a linear residence located in Semtín, Czech republic. The structure consists of black and white wooden panels and features a red...

Completed in 2014 in Amsterdam, The NetherlandsOns Dorp is a school building that got converted into different apartments. This particular one was designed for a family of four. The teacher’s...

ARCA was named by the locals as it came as a ship in the middle of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. If fact, on a more anecdotic level, it’s an...

Swedish architecture studio Elding Oscarson designed a townhouse based around the preservation of a thriving garden in a small plot of land in Tokyo. Titled ‘Nerima House’, the residence was built to...

Completed in 2013 in Asakura, Japan. Images by Satoshi Ikuma. “Minka 2013” is the residence of a farmer husband, his nutritionist wife and their daughters. The wife is a skillful cook and uses plenty...

Spanish studio PYO Arquitectos undertook the renovation of a disintegrating house and stable in Parrés, Spain. Located on a steep south-facing mountain slope, the house’s facade was redone in local...

Covered with black bricks on the outside, John Pawson’s ‘Life House’ is the kind of place we’d happily take some time out in. The generous, balanced retreat welcomes guests with brightness and a soft...

Built by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in Point Roberts, United States with date 2015. Images by Nic Lehoux Photography. Designed as a home and studio for a photographer and his young family, Lightbox is...