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Built by Orkidstudio in Nakuru, Kenya with date 2014. Images by Odysseas Mourtzouchos. Built with a diverse group from a small Kikuyu community in the rapidly developing agricultural outskirts of...

Built by Pezo von Ellrichshausen in Concepcion, Chile Hemmed in between a steeply sloping hillside and a wood of eucalyptus trees, the narrow plot of land compels one to c...

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...

mA-style architects finished Koya No Sumika as a subtle extension for a young couple’s traditional one-storey house in the coastal city of Yaizu, Japan with amazing white and wood balance. The well...

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...

Built by Didone’ Comacchio in Rosà, Italy with date 2014. Images by Make that studio. The dwelling is a 120mq addition to a rural complex in the Veneto countryside. The addition was built in the early...

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...

Built by Architect Lieven Dejaeghere in Izegem, Belgium with date 2013. Images by Tim Van de Velde. The client is a local social housing company (named Izegemse Bouwmaatschappij), operating in a town...

Built by Ryuichi Ashizawa Architect & Associates in Naha, Japan with date 2011. Images by Kaori Ichikawa. Okinawa is a beautiful Japanese southern island where it’s possible to appreciate many...

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...

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...

Casa Mora is an unbuilt project by Iñaki Ábalos y Juan Herreros, two Spanish architects who worked together from 1985 until 2008. (Cf another post we wrote about them on Socks). The very essential...

Geoffrey Bawa’s house in Colombo (1959 - 1970) is an exercise in horizontal densification. The result of decades-old process of annexation of four rows of existing bungalows is a labyrinth of...

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...

What are the characteristics of preservation-worthy architecture? In his book "Belyayevo Forever: A Soviet Microrayon on its Way to the UNESCO List,"...

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...

Il Girasole by Luigi Moretti, Rome (IT)

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 2014 in Camperdown, Australia. Images by Ross Honeysett . This project sensitively inserts new architecture into a former industrial warehouse building, located in the inner west of...

Built by CollectiveProject in Bengaluru, India with date 2014. Images by Tina Nandi Stephens. Ekya Early Years: Kanakapura Road reconceives an abandoned watch factory and overgrown two acre site into...

Built by Albert Faus in Koudougou, Burkina Faso LAAFI VILLAGE The nursery school is one of the buildings that make up the cultural center LE VILLAGE LAAFI of Koudou...