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Contemporary Home Designs
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Contemporary Home Designs. e-architect aim to include the best quality of new Residential Properties. e-architect cover completed Residential buildings, new home designs, architectural exhibitions and housing competitions across the world. The focus is on contemporary residential buildings but information on traditional residential property is also welcome.
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Plane House, Skiathos, Greek Island – 25 Jun 2013
Design: K-STUDIO
photo : Yiorgos Kordakis
Plane House is a new-build, family house of approximately 500sqm on the island of Skiathos, Greece. The brief for the architects was to create a summer escape for family and friends with the emphasis on laid-back, social living. The aim for the project was to merge internal and external space, maximising the benefits of both and minimising the impact on the surrounding landscape.
Pearl Valley 276, Cape Town, South Africa – 22 May 2013
Design: Antoni Associates
photo : Adam Letch
A young family re-locating to the Western Cape was looking to change from city living to a more relaxed country lifestyle in which to bring up their young family. They settled for the exclusive Pearl Valley Golf Estate located near Paarl, just 30 minutes away from the Mother City of Cape Town, in a home designed by Antoni Associates.
The Phoenix House, Arizona, USA – 24 Apr 2013
Design: Messana O’Rorke
image from architect
This vast and strikingly beautiful desert landscape is the inspiration for the design. The tectonic mechanisms responsible for the landscape, where mountain ranges seem to slide past each other, is emulated by massive parallel walls of the house.
PQ House, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Architects: TaAG Arquitectura
image : Redo Arquitectura
22 Feb 2013 – This is a residence in an exclusive subdivision in San Luis Potosi City, in a steep land (greater than 5 meters). The main interest of the client was to have a house on one level, which was complicated by the topography. It was decided to build a breast wall by a cut in the ground creating a game room and a terrace.
PGA Catalunya Villas, Catalonia, Spain
Design: Studio RHE
photograph from developer
The architecture strives to incorporate the beautiful environs into the living areas with wall to wall sliding glass doors, expansive terraces, private gardens and double height vaulted ceilings. As such this home is inspired by the region and its traditions whilst still maintaining a 21st century feel.
Pier House, Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Arquitetos: Gabriel Grinspum / Mariana Simas
photo : Pedro Vannucchi
The proposal was to divide the house in two volumes. The first one is a solid box covered with whitewash, and its “muxarabi” windows filter the light and allow permanent ventilation. It is the result of the region’s typical construction method, a legacy from colonial times.
P-K House, Austria
picture from architects studio
The P-K House is oriented north-south and located in a setting in southern Burgenland that has an agricultural character which it was wished to preserve. The approach driveway from the road comes from the north-west and is incised into the terrain. It starts with an embankment on both sides and is then flanked by a retaining wall that, as a building element, rises continuously out of the ground and reaches storey height towards the entrance.
Paraty House, Paraty, Brazil
photo: Nelson Kon
Paraty House’s two reinforced concrete boxes, sit atop each other, connected on the mountainside of one of the islands of the colonial city of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), like two modern prisms between the large colossal stones of the Brazilian coast. The house outward from the mountain, almost onto the beach, in an 8m cantilever.
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Palisades House, USA
render from architects firm
Palmerston Road house, Dublin, Ireland
photo : Paul Tierney
Palmerston Road Studio, Dublin, Ireland
photo : Paul Tierney
Parabola house, Japan
Atelier Tekuto, Photographer : Makoto Yoshida
Park Houses Preston – designs, UK
picture from iloniemi
Paul Harris Street Home, Chile
photo : Luis Poirot
Plastic House, Dublin
photo : Paul Tierney photography
Plinth House, London
image from architects office
Pozuelo de Alarcón House, Spain
photograph from architect practice
Precast House, Howth, Ireland
photo : Verena Hilgenfeld
Princeton house, New Jersey, USA
image from architect firm
Prometeos home, Portugal
picture from architecture studio
Project X, Almere, The Netherlands
photograph © Christian Richters
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