The black exterior of this unusual building is an attempt to establish visual harmony between architecture and nature and to establish a continuous and simple overall aesthetic for this whole project. The building is a one-bedroom home for a couple, designed and built by studio Glamuzina Paterson Architects. It occupies a steep site in New…
Lots of people consider moving into a tiny house on wheels, but while they might want to scale down their home and carbon footprint, they don’t necessarily want to give up style or some of the modern conveniences of life. There are plenty of examples of bare-bones tiny houses on wheels, and many of them…
Inspired by their client’s need for a warehouse space, the architects and designers at Constanza DomÍnguez C. and Plannea Arquitectura managed to create something really using recycled shipping containers. The project was completed in 2019 in Chile and makes use of two containers which are positioned parallel to each other with a 6 meter gap…
Last year, in 2019, the amazing team of architects at studio Productora completed a gorgeous project in Quintana Roo, Mexico. It was a contemporary house set on a narrow neachfront site surrounded by lush greenery. The house is entirely powered by solar and wind energy and has a very interesting and unusual design but one…
This is a site located in Valle de Bravo, Mexico which offers magnificent views over the distant landscape. Such beauty deserves to be admired so when the architects and designers at Estudio MMX were asked to build a house here, they immediately recognized the powerful influence that the landscape had to have on the entire…
Driven by their clients’ desire to have a welcoming family gathering space on a beautiful site surrounded by nature, architecture studio Aguilo+Pedraza came up with a gorgeous design for a house on the Eastern bank of the Rupunco Lake in Chile. The house has a pavilion-inspired structure and a peculiar layout. The major elements in…
Today we have a really cool project to share with everyone but especially anyone interested in mobile houses and craftsman-style homes. This project is a combination of both those elements. We’re referring to the new 2021 structure designed by studio Woodland Park. This mobile house has a beautiful old-school exterior and a very welcoming and…
We’re quite used to seeing a lot of prefab cabins and other structures that are small and lack certain features but that’s not always the case. In fact, a great thing about prefabricated structures in general is that they can be modular and can be shaped in all sorts of interesting ways. The location of…
Modeled after the structure of traditional Hawaiian villages, this lovely house from Kailua-Kona, US is made up of four independent volumes designed by studio Walker Warner Architects. They’re clustered together fairly loosely and they serve different purposes. One of them is the main living area which has this pavilion-like design. The house is divided into…
Building on a small site is challenging but sometimes has great rewards. For this dual living home from South Africa the reward was the gorgeous view it has over the ocean. The house is located in Cape Town and was designed and built by Abon Studio. It occupies a site of only 550 square meters…
It may not look that special from the outside but this beautiful house in Brazil has a really cool design and an inspiring plan behind it. The house was designed by studio Julian Risso Arquitetura and was completed in 2019. The site on which the house is built has a slope which was elegantly accounted…
The small size of this site and its odd shape would definitely discourage a lot of people from even considering it as a potential spot for their new family home. Luckily, its new owners realized the potential behind this small area and enlisted the help of studio AD9 Architects to build here an amazing structure….
This 1978’s river house was beautifully renovated by Sar Merr. “When this 1978 split level came on the market along a river, 45-minutes east of Seattle, it wasn’t necessarily the home that made the owners fall in love, but the setting. Who could blame them with the river so close you could hear it from…
With proper planning and a good design idea, a tiny home can look amazing and be very practical at the same time. That’s exactly what you can expect from the Oasis Tiny Home designed by Ellie and Dan Madsen of Paradise Tiny Homes. This lovely little structure measures 24’L x 8’W x 14’H and is…
Houses across the United States are as diverse as its people, varying not only by general style by but features that are often driven by the landscape and region of the country. An American house on the eastern shores, such as in Cape Cod, generally looks nothing like a house found on the California Coast…