As a typical picturesque Chinese Jiangnan town, the village of Jijiadun locates about 1.5-hour drive from the central city of Shanghai. With the rapid development of urbanization in China, the problem of rural hollowing-out is becoming increasingly serious
Architecture firm
B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio
Location
Jijiadun Village, Kunshan City, China
Principal architect
Shuhei Aoyama, Yoko Fujii, Yixin Yang, Yu Cao, Lu Chen
Material
(exterior) laminated bamboo, white stucco, matte white metal roofing, galvanized steel sheet / (interior) terrazzo, exposed aggregate concrete, wood, stucco
Typology
Residential › Boutique Guesthouse
The Los Angeles based interior design studio Nobel designed and built latest project in Hidden Hills, California. 12,000 sq ft Modern Barn House in the most exclusive gated community of Calabasas.
Project name
Hidden Hills
Location
Hidden Hills, Los Angeles
Material
Wood, Stone, Steel, Glass, Brass
Typology
Residential › House
A lattice screen is lost inside the white walls by day, at night a screen of light and shadows appears on the facade of Casa la Blanca. One of the typical Mexican lattices, widely used within the State of Colima, for decades, within its cities and on the coast to protect itself from the intense sub-humid warm climate and its strong climatic changes...
Project name
Casa La Blanca
Architecture firm
Di Frenna Arquitectos
Location
Av las Parotas, Residencial Las Parotas subdivision. Villa de Alvarez, Colima, Mexico
Photography
Lorena Darquea
Principal architect
Matia Di Frenna Müller
Collaborators
Mariana de la Mora
Structural engineer
Luis Flores
Material
Concrete, Stone, Glass, Wood, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
How to create a single-family home, comfortable, functional and out of the ordinary, in a lot with dimensions of 4 x 69 meters without dying in the attempt. This was our challenge when designing “kaleidos House”.
Project name
Kaleidos House
Architecture firm
Taller Estilo Arquitectura
Location
Calle 78 número 484 B por 55 y 57 Colonia Centro. Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Photography
David Cervera, Elías Collí Medina
Principal architect
Víctor Alejandro Cruz Domínguez, Iván Atahualpa Hernández Salazar, Luís Armando Estrada Aguilar
Design team
Víctor Alejandro Cruz Domínguez, Iván Atahualpa Hernández Salazar, Luís Armando Estrada Aguilar
Collaborators
Silvia Cuitún Coronado, Daniel Rivera Arjona, Jorge Escalante Chan, Adrián Morales
Structural engineer
Rafael Domínguez Barjau
Construction
Juan Diaz Cab, Carlos Canto Trujillo
Material
Walls and ceilings are made of polished gray concrete as well as the floor of the ground floor where the same polished finish is preserved, while in the upper floor the concrete is hammered creating a texture that gives warmth to the space.
Typology
Residential › House
The Grant Park House began with a classic Atlanta craftsman style bungalow in the historic Grant Park neighborhood that was in need of significant repair. The extensive renovation to the roof that was required allowed for a complete reconceiving of the home in plan and section, creating a new sky-lit single volume and wide open living spaces with a...
Project name
Grant Park House - Atlanta
Architecture firm
ARCHITECTUREFIRM
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Principal architect
Adam Ruffin
Collaborators
Carie Davis
Interior design
ARCHITECTUREFIRM / CARIE DAVIS
Visualization
ARCHITECTUREFIRM
Material
Wood framing within large expanses of soft white and plaster walls
Budget
WITHHELD AT CLIENT’S REQUEST
Typology
Residential › House
Completed in 2018 by Russian architceture firm Snegiri Architects, the cottage was created as a “passive house”, with the ability to save 90 percent more energy than a regular home thanks to a little technical know-how.
Architecture firm
Snegiri Architects
Photography
Nikita Kapiturov
Principal architect
Nikita Kapiturov
Design team
Snegiri Architecture
Interior design
Nikita Kapiturov
Visualization
Victoria Dementieva
Material
Foundation with cold-proof Swedish plate, carcass with monolith, with cold-proof mineral wool covered with larix wood saturated in natural flax oil
Typology
Residential › House
Algarve, in the South of Portugal does not only live by the sea. Proof of this is the village of São Bartolomeu de Messines, municipality of Silves - located in the interior of the Algarve, far from the mass tourism that occupies the whole coast, and privileged by the mountains that surround the whole region.
Project name
House in Messines
Architecture firm
Vitor Vilhena Arquitectura
Location
São Bartolomeu de Messines, Algarve, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Principal architect
Vitor Vilhena
Collaborators
Vitor Vilhena, Fábio Guimarães, Nuno Gonçalves, João Simões
Civil engineer
PLANN Engineer
Structural engineer
PLANN Engineer
Supervision
Vitor Vilhena Architecture
Construction
Window to the Future, lda
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
The Three Dragons House is a creative architectural proposal that rescues and integrates the existent and the new, giving the house unity and harmony.
Project name
Three Dragons House (Casa Tres Dragones)
Architecture firm
Taller Estilo Arquitectura
Location
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Principal architect
Víctor Alejandro Cruz Domínguez, Iván Atahualpa Hernández Salazar, Luís Armando Estrada Aguilar
Collaborators
Silvia Cuitún Coronado,Pedro Quintal Ruz, Carlos Marrufo Tamayo
Construction
Taller Estilo Arquitectura S de R.L de C.V.
Material
Stone, Wood, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
