Ways to Make Your Home’s Value Skyrocket
While climbing the social ladder, people tend to improve their lifestyles as they earn more. You look around yourself and observe that anyone having a […]
Mooikloof Heights: A Spectacular Home with Natural Stone and Rusted Steel Panels
Situated on a north sloping 15000sq.m. site, Mooikloof Heights is a spectacular home that can be stretched to extend to nearly 85m from east to west. This big house is located in East of Tshwane in Gauteng, South Africa, designed by Nico van der Meulen. Clad with natural stone and rusted steel panels, the house ables to frame the openings in the facade and provides a style of open plan living for its residents.
The 9 Best Places to Live in Wales in 2020
Ready to make a life-changing move? Discover the most charming towns and villages in Wales! Here are some of the best places in Wales to […]
Tunbridge Winter Cabin: A Small Painting Studio with A Larger House and Warm Design
Tunbridge Winter Cabin is surrounded by dense forest and overlooking a pastoral valley. This small painting studio sits on 65 acres in the Green Mountains of Vermont, United States. It is a 2017 project of a studio with a larger house and warm design where all grow on and around each other. Designed by New Affiliates, the structure is built and designed only in eight months.
Garden Rowhouse: A Combination of Three Homes Horizontally with An Expansive Open-Plan Floor Plate
It is a pre-construction project located in Toronto, Canada with 3,600 sqft in size. Designed by Batay-Csorba Architects, Garden Rowhouse is designed to fill a void in Toronto’s housing market. The development of this rowhouse combines three homes horizontally instead of vertically with an expansive 48-ft-wide open-plan floor plate boasted by each home.
Baby Point Residence: A House Renovation/Addition with Warm Tones and Original Exterior
Baby Point Residence is a 2019 project of a house renovation/addition by Batay-Csorba Architects located in Toronto’s Baby Point neighborhood, Canada. The project consists of the addition of a kitchen and master bedroom suite, opening up of the existing layout, re-organization, and structural renewal. The residence spaces are not only warm but also rich. The original exterior of the stucco and stones of the house also has been kept intact.
House T(Int.): A New Spatial Experience with A Series of Dynamic Spaces and Feeling of Openness
House T(Int.) is designed by META-Project located in Aranya, Qinhuangdao, China. Started in 2015 and completed in 2017, this house has a series of dynamic spaces and also a feeling of openness that embraces the stunning views. A new spatial experience is recreated in a sustainable way through this house building.
Fireworks House: A Private House for Client’s Mother to See Fireworks through Glass Panels
This private house is designed by Nendo from Japan, located in Japan’s Chichibu region where the residents look forward to the festival of annual December fireworks. Completed in 2015, Fireworks House is built for the client who wants her elderly mother to be able to watch the fireworks from the festival. Part of the roof is replaced with glass panels so it is very easy to see the fireworks from upstairs.
Studio Franz Messner Renovation: A Traditional Workshop Renovation with Light Catchers
Studio Franz Messner Renovation is a project of partial transformation and renovation of a traditional workshop by Messner Architects. This workshop is located in an alpine region, Collalbo, Renon, Italia. It has two parallel walls that separate its large of the existing structure and “light-catchers”, two large openings that replace the existing windows of the workshop.
Stage of Forest: A Unique Building with A Sensuous Form and Rough Materiality
With 277㎡ in size, Stage of Forest offers a unique and sensuous form at the edge of the forest next to the ski slope. This building is located in Ji Lin – a northeastern Chinese province – and it sits the hillside with a panoramic view towards the Songhua Lake and mountain range. Designed with rough materiality, META-project tries to stimulate people to come up with more ideas through this viewing platform.
Stairway House: A Two-Family Home with A “Stairway-Like” Structure and Functional Elements
Located in a quiet residential area of Tokyo, Stairway House sits on a site with other apartment buildings and houses pressing around. This two-family home is designed by Nendo with an architectural volume that pushes to the north and a layout plan to preserve the existing persimmon tree. The “stairway-like” structure connects the house interior to the yard and also bonds one household to another, supported by some functional elements of the house.
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