This sprawling home was designed and built atop a steep hillside, 75 feet above Lake Austin. The homeowners, a young professional couple with three small children, wanted their home to be all about ‘lake life.’ To take advantage of the spectacular lake views and the surrounding heritage oak trees, LaRue Architects designed the structure with large...
Project name
Cliffside House
Architecture firm
LaRue Architects
Location
Lake Austin, Texas, USA
Design team
James LaRue, Emily Haydon
Interior design
Fern Santini
Landscape
LandWest Design Group, John Hall
Construction
Reynolds Custom Homes
Material
Brick, concrete, glass, wood, stone
Typology
Residential › House
House in the Rodeo, moving blocks. This single-family home is located in the closed neighborhood El Rodeo, La Calera, which is part of a succession of suburban closed neighborhoods located to the west of the city of Córdoba, with the idea of living with greater security and contact with nature, few minutes from the city. The mountain environment th...
Project name
Rodeo House (Casa en el Rodeo)
Architecture firm
Pablo Senmartin Arquitectos
Location
El Rodeo, La Calera, Córdoba, Argentina
Photography
Andrés Domínguez; Video Credits: Andrés Domínguez
Principal architect
Pablo Senmartin
Design team
Giovanna Rimoldi, Suyay Baigorri, Valentin Vodanovic, Alfaro Guadalupe, Giordano Agostina, Mansilla Ariana, Nieva Florencia, Oviedo Macarena
Structural engineer
Andrés Mole
Material
Brick, concrete, glass, wood, stone
Client
Alejandro Dragotto, Gabriela Puchetta
Typology
Residential › House
To design a house that ensures security for a single old lady & her tenants. The site is located in Panchkula (Haryana), a satellite town adjoining the border of Chandigarh. Chandigarh city was designed by Le Corbusier and is a symbol of modernism in India. The site is in a newly developed plotted sector, adjacent to the Information & Technology Pa...
Project name
Residence 414
Architecture firm
Charged Voids
Location
Panchkula, Haryana, India
Principal architect
Aman Aggarwal
Design team
Swati Agarwal, Meher Aditya
Built area
500 m² (5350 ft²)
Site area
450 m² (4850 ft²)
Completion year
November 2017
Structural engineer
Pankaj Chopra
Visualization
Haneet Khanna
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
The site shape is almost triangular and is located between a main street and a residential area. More than half of the site faces the street. Because of its good location, the client requested a house with a space that could be used as a rental store.
Project name
Michiyama House
Architecture firm
Niko Design Studio
Principal architect
Taketo Nishikubo
Design team
Niko Design Studio
Structural engineer
Noriyuki Osajima
Construction
Kurihara Koumuten
Typology
Residential › House
The Pastel House in Raipur is a similar intervention that takes a unique stance on ‘living with nature’. Designed for a family of medical practitioners with an affinity for nature, the client’s design brief clearly emphasised the proximity to greens and abundant natural light, leading the architects to choose biophilic design as the defining design...
Project name
The Pastel House
Architecture firm
Creative Designer Architects (CDA)
Location
Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
Photography
Studio Noughts & Crosses
Principal architect
Ravideep Singh, Maninder Kaur, Mohanbir Singh
Design team
Maninder Kaur, Mohanbir Singh, Ravideep Singh
Collaborators
PRODUCTS / VENDORS: ACP / Glass / Concrete: Saint Gobain. Sanitary ware / Fittings: Bath line. Flooring: Michael Angelo, Satvario. Furnishing: Bespoke, Within. Furniture: Bespoke, teak wood and Stainless steel and brass Air Conditioning: Daikin. BMS: Schneider. Lighting: Philips, bespoke. Paint: Dulux, Asian Paints. Arts / Artefacts: Etash Art Gallery Elevator: Mitsubishi Elevators.
Interior design
Creative Designer Architects
Design year
2019 (Start Year)
Environmental & MEP
Electrical: Acrobat Engineers. Plumbing: Acrobat Engineers. HVAC: New Growth Associates
Landscape
Roots Landscape
Construction
Structural: Aggarwal Constructions Mechanical: Aggarwal Constructions Electrical: Aggarwal Constructions Civil: Aggarwal Constructions Landscape: DIA Landscape HVAC: Aggarwal Constructions Plumbing: Aggarwal Constructions PMC: Client Façade: Aggarwal Constructions Engineering: Aggarwal Constructions
Typology
Residential › House
The form was inspired by the sloping site and how we could create a bold point of difference on a site that sat far beneath the street level. We aimed to perch the building within the landscape, like a rock juxtaposed in nature and creating a monolithic street presence.
Project name
Christmas House
Architecture firm
Taouk Architects
Location
Northcote, Victoria, Australia
Photography
Emily Bartlett
Principal architect
Youseph Taouk
Construction
ARPACI Constructions
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
This country house was designed for a family with two kids and many friends. It is in a gated community, and though surrounded by neighbors, it enjoys some isolation from them, so the project can better explore the interaction between the interior and exterior spaces. Relevant aspects of the proposition are to be able to contemplate the dawn, the s...
Architecture firm
Memola Estudio, Vitor Penha
Location
Porto Feliz, São Paulo, Brazil
Design team
Vitor Penha, Verônica Molina, Simone Balagué, Bianca Sinisgalli, Augusto Vicentainer
Collaborators
Luciana Facio; Interior Decoration: Manuela Figueredo; Automation: Raul Duarte; Installations: Ramoska Castellani
Material
Brick, concrete, glass, wood, stone
Typology
Residential › House
Casually taking up position along a classic adelaidian streetscape, number 78 cheekily shies away from the limelight, taking up position ‘out back’! A contemporary but classic addition to a very much-loved symmetrical cottage is where this story starts.
Architecture firm
Black Rabbit Architecture + Interiors
Location
Rose Park, South Australia, Australia
Principal architect
Sean Humphries
Design team
Bettina Hildebrandt, Anastase Paraskevopoulos
Interior design
Bettina Hildebrandt
Construction
DIMCO Building
Material
Brick, concrete, glass, wood, stone
Typology
Residential › House
