Posts Tagged ‘House’

The Otake house is located in the West of Hiroshima prefecture, on a high plateau that neighbors the Kamei Park of the Kamei Castle Ruins. To the South is an industrial region and a beautiful mountain range, and to the North a remarkable view of the Seto Inland Sea and Miyajima. We created a design [...]


Takei-Nabeshima-Architects -TNA Architects designed this country retreat some 185 miles northwest of Tokyo in Japan. The house is wrapped in rings of glass and wood and has an beautiful uninterrupted 360 view of the forest.

TNA Architects designed rings around the facade so that areas of private spaces and utilities could be met. The height of [...]


Chile-based architect Veronica Arcos has completed an angular house in Santiago, Chile. The Casadetodos villa is a project that arises from a single family house commission, at the high region of El Arrayán, Santiago.

The project is articulated from the intention of exploring potentials in non conventional structures; the generation of complex surfaces and ensuring views towards [...]


Called Loft L by German based architects Adawittfelarchitektur, is a extension to a house that is located in Aachen, Germany. Loft L is a mixed context of detached 1-3 story dwellings and single-family homes.

The building extension consists of prefabricated timber framework elements placed on top of an existing house from the late 50s. The specific shape was [...]


Copenhagen- and Rotterdam based architects Powerhouse Company have completed a spiral-shaped  extension to a house in Burgundy, France. Called Spiral House, the extension is arranged around a central patio, where the visitors can enter the structure.

“We want a house with a twist, a house that has something something to say.”

The Spiral house is an extension of [...]


Hof is a (awesome) country residence in the Skagafjörður fjord, less than 100km from the Arctic Circle designed by Studio Granda from Iceland. The spectacle of the location, its remoteness and special program fuelled a unique rapport between the client, contractor and architect resulting in a building that is in every respect a direct consequence [...]


ALX Architect Label Xain, designed this house that is located in Yokohama in Japan. Called ‘Dancing Living House’, this house had put other houses in the neighborhood hide to humiliation. It’s designed as a single family residence combined with a dance studio.
This three-story reinforced concrete building is private and open to the sky thanks to the [...]


Wim Goes Architectuur designed this extension to this residence house that is located in the tiny hamlet of Bachte- Marie Leerne in the Flemish district of Belgium, about 10 kilometers from the country’s third largest city of Gent. Gent based architecture studio Wim Goes Architectuur designed the extension in wood.

The wooden addition sits above a [...]


The Japanese architect Akiya Matakao has designed this house in Meiwamachi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan in white polished concrete. The very interesting part about this project I think is how this Japanse architect follows a very rigorous and sculptural idiom. More info and pictures on Akiya Matakao’s website!

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Here are some pictures of a house, called ‘View House’ located in Rosario, Argentina and designed by American practice Johnston Marklee and Argentinian practice Diego Arraigada Arquitecto. The design aims to allow the occupant to enjoy as much as can from the surrounding views on all sides of the house without loosing some privacy. Interesting about the [...]