A house with an earthen floor as a pathway. This project involved the demolition of an old house and the construction of a new one on a 530 m² plot of land surrounded by other old houses in the city of Yasu, Shiga Prefecture.
Project name
Yoshikawa House
Architecture firm
ALTS Design Office
Location
Yasu, Shiga, Japan
Principal architect
Sumiou Mizumoto
Design team
ALTS Design Office
Interior design
ALTS Design Office
Landscape
ALTS Design Office
Lighting
ALTS Design Office
Material
Wood, Concrete, Glass, Metal
Typology
Residential › House
Located a few steps from one of the most emblematic avenues of the city of Mérida, Casa Maca is a historic former residence from the Porfiriato era. Visitors are transported to the past, where they are easily captivated by the vitality of the structure’s colors and textures.
Architecture firm
Workshop Diseño y Construcción
Location
Mérida, Yucatán, México
Photography
Manolo R. Solís, Tamara Uribe
Principal architect
Francisco Bernés Aranda, Fabián Gutiérrez Cetina
Design team
Francisco Bernés Aranda, Fabián Gutiérrez Cetina, Isabel Bargas Cicero, Alejandro Bargas Cicero
Material
Chukum, Stone, Wood, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
Set amidst a volcanic boulder field in a pine and fir forest, Creek House is a family retreat that inhabits an existing outcrop clearing at the edge of the spring fed Martis Creek. Near the base of Lookout Mountain at Northstar California Resort, the house is conceived in plan as three directional bars that slide between and alongside the boulders...
Architecture firm
Faulkner Architects
Location
Truckee, California, USA
Photography
Joe Fletcher Photography
Design team
Greg Faulkner, Darrell Linscott, Jenna Shropshire, Owen Wright, Richard Szitar
Interior design
CP Interiors
Construction
Jones Corda Construction
Typology
Residential › House
KHI is located in a gently sloping olive grove in the southern Peloponnese. The project is formed by a single continuous rippling wall that frames a series of protected courtyards at the extremity of each wing.
Project name
KHI House & Art Space
Architecture firm
LASSA - Theo Sarantoglou Lalis and Dora Sweijd, with Jonathan Cheng (project Architect) , Nikolas Klimentidis, Jocelyn Arnold, Raz Keltsh
Principal architect
Theo Sarantoglou Lalis, Dora Sweijd
Collaborators
Formwork production Design: LASSA; Mechanical Engineer: D. Mantas; General Contractor: V. Spyropoulos; Formwork production: Rizakos; Floor finishes: Votsalota - Zoidis Polyzois; Marble: The Art of stone - D. Paraskevas; Steel Window frames: TD.Steel - D.Detilleux ; Aluminium Window frames: Alumet-petroulakis / Valvis; Mechanical systems: Fourseasons-Klimaengineering; Electrical systems: V. Psicharis
Structural engineer
Metep - L. Babilis
Material
Terrazo, Marble, Steel, Aluminium, Stone, Wood,Concrete.
Typology
Residential › House
Heliotrope Architects designs Suncrest, an idyllic island retreat on Orcas Island, which is part of the San Juan Islands archipelago that sits in the Salish Sea/Strait of Juan de Fuca between the USA and Canada.
Project name
Suncrest Residence
Architecture firm
Heliotrope Architects
Location
Orcas Island, Washington, USA
Photography
Sean Airhart, Benjamin Benschneider. Video by Juan Benavides/Filmatica
Interior design
Heliotrope Architects with the Owners
Structural engineer
Swenson Say Faget
Lighting
Heliotrope Architects
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel and Zinc
Typology
Residential › House
LLI Design completed a full interior design, interior architecture, architectural, lighting and landscape design scheme for this mid century townhouse in Highgate, London. The project won Best Interior Design, Private Residence London, in the highly competitive United Kingdom Property Awards.
Architecture firm
LLI Design
Location
Highgate, London, United Kingdom
Interior design
LLI Design
Environmental & MEP
Pegasus Property & Pegasus Automation
Landscape
Levene Landscapes
Supervision
Pegasus Property
Visualization
Vectorworks, SketchUp, Adobe Photoshop
Construction
Pegasus Property
Typology
Residential › House
A simple house on the border between buildings and landscape which provides a background for the creation and life of the owners. Premek´s land looked like a nice peaceful meadow under the forest but the whole thing looked easier than it actually was. The land lies on the border of the third and fourth zones of the Beskydy Protected Landscape Area.
Project name
House for a Photographer
Architecture firm
ValArch ateliér
Location
Valašská Bystřice, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Tomáš Jalůvka, Tomáš Kašík, Lenka Jalůvková
Material
Wood, Wood fibre, Faux concrete wall, MDF, Glass
Client
Přemysl Jurča, Tereza Jurčová
Typology
Residential › House
On the north-western Italian Alps, amid the lakes and solitary peaks of the Vialattea area, rises one of the most evocative landscapes in Piedmont, the Monti della Luna, or "mountains of the moon", named for the lunar-like terrain. The magnificent scenery is like something out of a fairy-tale with its numerous valleys and mountains: ideal for trips...
Project name
Andromeda / Moontain House
Architecture firm
Gruppo Building, Boffa Petrone & Partners
Location
Sagnalonga - Comune di Cesana Torinese, Italy
Photography
Piero Ottaviano
Collaborators
Ad83 Court Architettura, Abitare Legno, Elio Sereno Home
Interior design
Boffa Petrone & Partners
Civil engineer
Gruppo Building, Boffa Petrone & Partners
Structural engineer
Gruppo Building, Boffa Petrone & Partners
Environmental & MEP
Gruppo Building, Boffa Petrone & Partners
Landscape
Gruppo Building, Boffa Petrone & Partners
Lighting
Gruppo Building, Boffa Petrone & Partners
Visualization
Gruppo Building, Boffa Petrone & Partners
Tools used
AutoCAD, Blender, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop
Construction
Gruppo Building
Typology
Residential › House
