A plot in the row is being built on for the first time. In a street with mostly monotonous houses from the 1950s and 1960s, the rare bay windows are the only inspiring elements. The design makes an interpretation of the typical aspects: the neutral red br

Suzu is a project in Kyoto, Japan, that consisted of the renovation of two houses that co-inhabit the same land but that more than seven decades separate their architectural styles and construction methods. The two houses share the same entrance from the

Architecture has an influence on nature, and nature has an influence on our architecture. Art also influences our architecture. A sculpture forms the basis of this residential volume. In our quest for buildability, affordability, circular, energetic and e

In 1980, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers took part in a competition for a prototypal solar house to develop on a large scale in the community of Landstuhl in Germany and eventually through...

'Big Space Little Space' by Davidson Rafailidis is the low-budget adaptive re-use of a masonry garage built in the 1920s, where the main aim is to treat the space as a dynamic and ever-evolving space.

At the intersection of art and nature, Gutshof Güldenhof is Berlin-based architecture studio HEIM BALP ARCHITEKTEN’s latest completion conceived for and in close collaboration with Vietnamese-born Danish conceptual artist Danh Vo (b.1975). Located in the

In Kitami, a city just east of Hokkaido in Japan, local firm Jun Igarashi Architects has designed a unique building that houses both a store...

Airhouse has designed the reinforced concrete home as a single-story building that allows a smooth connection between indoors and outdoors.

The original bungalow was built by a social housing organization called

Depending on where you stand, the Fagan’s self-built home ‘Die Es’ has a mountain or seaside backdrop. ‘Die Es’—meaning ‘the hearth—is situated on the Atlantic Seaboard in Camps Bay, but it feels more like it’s on a little farm with its own private nature reserve.

Built by Niko Design Studio in Musashino, Japan with date 2011. Images by Shinkenchiku-sha. This is ISANA, a multi-layered row house in Musashino City, Tokyo. The owner of the house informed us that...

La casa está situada en Villa Adelina, un barrio ubicado en el norte de la provincia de Buenos Aires donde conviven grandes comercios, industria y vivienda. La construcción se ubica próxima a la calle en un lote donde ya existe una casa prefabricada que

Completed in 2015 in São Paulo, Brazil. Images by Pedro Kok. In 2011, a young man reached out to us about the possibility of designing a house for his mother, a person of few belongings, who lived in a house...

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...

Completed in 2014 in Chiba, Japan. Images by Daici Ano. This is a renovation project of single-family house, originally used as a typical two-story apartment-house with eight small rental units in the...

Built by a21studio in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with date 2015. Images by Quang Tran. Saigon has altered beyond recognition, for us, it is hard to call a development, it is, actually, a sequence of...

The ‘Unfinished House’ by Yamazaki Kentaro has barely any partitions and is more of a free, open space. The aim of the architects was to create an open container that ‘changes as you design and live...

Built by Enrique Mora Alvarado in Chone, Ecuador SITE The Project is located in Convento (Chone) a rural area in the Ecuadorian coast, in an overwhelming natural envi...

conceived by HAO design as an experimental living studio, the property has been designed to host workshops, lectures, and hands-on cement work.

Architect Guillermo Acuña has added a wide wooden stair to an old boathouse to form part of his self-designed rural retreat on a remote bluff in Chile.

Completed in 2015 in Beijing, ChinaThe Courtyard House Plugin is an award winning prefabricated modular system for urban regeneration. Using a house-within-a-house approach the system...

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Lopsided house by Adamo-Faiden with a pointed balcony on one side and a caged terrace on the roof.

architects juan pablo ochoa and ruben padilla unveil the restoration of a house from the 1970s in the americana neighborhood of mexico.