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Contemporary Gallery-Style Wrap House in Melbourne Suburb

Urban design is something of an attraction in this quiet Melbourne, Australia, suburb. The Wrap House by award-winning BKK Architects is a contemporary concept for housing, constructed of a series of solid blocks on a steel frame, wrappe [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Beautiful House Design by Arhitektura

The new longitudinal house is conceived as a wall a fence forming a secure atrium in the midst of the existing built environment. The house is turned outside in. It enables its residents intimacy, and at the same time it offers a compromise [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Modern home architecture for Single family house

House Uc is a residence designed for a couple in their 30s and their daughter. It is located in the quiet residential area of Tokyo standing on a small and narrow site of irregular shape – a result of the recent trend of dividing prop [...]

Posted On : Dec, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Architects design floating house for New Orleans

Architects challenged to design a low-cost home for New Orleans have drawn up plans for a wooden house that will float away from its foundations if the city floods again. Morphosis, the architects commissioned by Brad Pitt’s Make It R [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

MSP says new centre needed after crash of The Lighthouse

Mr Russell, speaking for the first time about The Lighthouse, the Glasgow centre that went into administration this week with the loss of 24 jobs, said that it was not possible for the government to bail out the struggling arts centre. He [...]

Posted On : Aug, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

House of Georg Spreng by C18 Architects

Marcus Kaestle, Andreas Ocker and Michel Roeder most famous as C18 Architects chose Yatzer to be the first to e-publish their latest project. The Residential House of jewelry designer Georg Spreng in Wissgoldingen, Southern Germany, n [...]

Posted On : Aug, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

AMPHIBIOUS HOUSES FOR RISING WATER LEVELS

The Dutch have fought their marshy surroundings with clever engineering since the country’s inception, and we’ve seen some impressive “floating architecture” from DuraVermeer and WaterStudio. Now that global warmin [...]

Posted On : Aug, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Glass House by Tonic Design

This unique glass house was designed by Tonic Design with modern architecture style: glass and steel. According to the project descriptions, this house is built upon the steel frame of the previous home and provides open perches as well a [...]

Posted On : Jul, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Compact House Design Nature-Inspired New York Nook

Designed for a historian to house his most-prized possessions – his books – this unique compact house design of 850-sq.-ft., complete with a writing studio and library, is the perfect place to sit, study, read, write, listen t [...]

Posted On : Jul, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Beaumaris House by Maddison Architects located at suburb of ...

Formally, the house is split into two rectangular boxes. The black, zinc-clad southern box encloses living, kitchen and outdoor spaces, and cantilevers out beyond its ground floor enclosure to capture 270° Port Phillip Bay views. The [...]

Posted On : Jul, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Posting architectural high-water mark with coast house

FEW would disagree with Professor Philip Goad's comment on the house that has won Victoria's top residential architecture award - "you are not going to see these in your everyday suburban subdivisions". The "Letterbox House [...]

Posted On : Jul, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

Family House in Yokohama by Torofu

Designed by Torofu, a Tokyo-based architect, this family house is located in Yokohama, Japan. It has uncommon 3D mass especially on it roof. This one-storey house is constructed with cast concrete. The house being one-storied, we we [...]

Posted On : Apr, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Architecture firm plans to rehab Mt. Clemens firehouse

Another historic structure in downtown Mt. Clemens is on its way to a rebirth now that Partners in Architecture plans to renovate the old Firehouse No. 2. The building on New Street, across from the New Street Lofts, will be redeveloped in [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Modern architecture - Farnsworth House

The one-room, steel-and-glass house designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe that has been called one of the most important works of 20th century architecture. Located in a beautiful meadow on the banks of the Fox River two miles south of Pl [...]