El Cisne Beach House is an incredible 11,230-square-foot home located on the coast of Sarasota, Florida. The result of an open-concept layout, this home redefines contemporary American architecture with a fresh concept that enhances panoramic ocean views and magnifies the natural surroundings.
Project name
El Cisne Beach House
Architecture firm
ORCA Design, Zafra Arquitectos
Location
Sarasota, Florida
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, Unreal Engine, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Marcelo Ortega
Design team
Christian Ortega, Marcelo Ortega, José Ortega, Paula Zapata, Sebastián Rivadeneira, Francisco Pérez, Gisselle Gamboa
Collaborators
Dolores Villacis, Wuilder Salcedo
Visualization
ORCA Design
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Residential › House
MXMA Architecture & Design completed a renovation of the Prince Philip house, a typical 1960s house that had already been enhanced by a contemporary addition. The main challenge of this project was to blend the architectural languages of two different eras in order to create a coherent, elegant, and well-integrated ensemble in its environment.
Project name
Prince-Phillip House
Architecture firm
MXMA Architecture & Design
Location
Outremont, Quebec, Canada
Photography
Doublespace Photography
Design year
1960 (Original building)
Material
Brick, Wood, Steel, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
The design of Casa Guaimbê seeks to enhance the views of the private garden as well as the city. The land is located on a steep slope, with neighbors on both sides. The orthogonal character sought to orient the openings to the main view, guaranteeing privacy for the house. This way, we managed to create a large free area for the garden and swimming...
Project name
Casa Guaimbê (Guaimbê House)
Architecture firm
Schuchovski Arquitetura
Location
Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Photography
Eduardo Macarios
Principal architect
Eliza Schuchovski
Design team
Eliza Schuchovski, Juliana Freitas, Júlia Sampaio, Isabella Borsato, Natália Cunha
Interior design
Schuchovski Arquitetura
Tools used
SketchUp, Layout, Lumion
Material
Brick, concrete, glass, wood, stone
Typology
Residential › House
Guilherme Torres accompanied the young couple from the purchase of the lot - a 463 m² house, built in the 80s at the heart of a traditional neighbourhood of São Paulo - to the final steps in the remodelling of the house. The desire of the future inhabitants of the house was to adapt the architecture of the house to their lifestyle, bearing in mind...
Project name
Parallel House
Architecture firm
Studio Guilherme Torres
Location
São Paulo, Brazil
Photography
Denilson Machado – MCA Estúdio
Principal architect
Guilherme Torres
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
Revaluing the open space. Living inside a closed space, not suitable for the development of the human being, becomes complicated and affects an endless number of physical and emotional aspects. Most of us know how difficult it has been to deal with the lockdown stemming from COVID-19; disease that unfortunately in most homes has changed the pace of...
Project name
Los Mangos Jardin
Architecture firm
21 Arquitectura
Location
San Pedro, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Tools used
SketchUp, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Manuel Castro
Design team
Lizette Castro R
Visualization
Brenda Fragoso R.
Typology
Residential › House
In an irregular property of 7m x 18m the house of 200m2 is planted within a private subdivision. The layout scheme is very simple. The longitudinal staircase in the transverse direction divides the ground floor into 2 areas; near the entrance there is a multipurpose room and bathroom and open to the garden is the social area combined in a single sp...
Architecture firm
Cotaparedes Arquitectos
Location
Zona metropolitana de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Principal architect
Abraham Cota Paredes
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
This 6-storey townhouse is located in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, surrounded by lakes and dense forests. It enables owners to take a journey to Shenzhen Bay and the South China Sea right from their front door. Drawing on various artworks of both Chinese and foreign masters of art, the designers mix Eastern elegance or Western aesthetics, Chinese ch...
Project name
Shenzhen Lakeside Villa
Architecture firm
ACE DESIGN
Photography
Ao Xiang, Shifang Vision
Design team
Hui Xie, Shali Yan, Subing Zhao, Shuai Yang
Collaborators
Mushang Art
Interior design
ACE DESIGN
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › Villa
The study concerns a traditional two-volume building extending over two floors, with an enclosed courtyard area and orchard, in the area of Mylopotamos, specifically in the traditional settlement of Margarites. The construction of the building dates back to around 1900 and its construction material is stone, with a wooden roof and clay roof tiles....
Project name
Mylopotamos House
Architecture firm
Zeropixel Architects
Location
Margarites Mylopotamos, Crete, Greece
Principal architect
Dimitris Koudounakis
Design team
Evelina Koutsoupaki
Visualization
Maria Drempela, Evgenia Hatziioannou
Typology
Residential › House
