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Contemporary Property Designs

New Residential Architecture – Current Houses : F-G

post updated 3 November 2021

Contemporary Properties

We have various pages of Contemporary Property Designs selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages.

We cover completed homes, new house designs, architectural exhibitions and competitions across the world. Comments on the selection welcome. The focus is on contemporary residential buildings.

New Houses : main page

Homes, alphabetical:

House Designs : A

Residential Properties : B

Residential Designs : C

Contemporary Houses : D-E

Contemporary Property Designs : F-G (this page)

New House Designs : H

New Property Designs : I-L

Contemporary House Designs : M

Contemporary Residential Properties : N

Contemporary Residential Designs : O

Contemporary Home Designs : P

New Residential Designs : Q-R

New Home Designs : S

Property Designs : T-U

New Properties : V-Z

Contemporary Property Designs : F-G

Contemporary Residence – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

Guesthouse Ancram New York, USA – 11 Sep 2013
Design: HHF Architects and Ai Weiwei

photo : Iwan Baan
This property contains a bedroom, a workroom and a gallery for the two collectors’ art. It is designed by the interesting collaboration of Swiss architects and the world-famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.

Fishing Lodge in Batak, Bulgaria – 18 May 2013
Design: Simon Gill Architects

photo : Mike Daines
The architect says “Our aim was to create an enchanted place that would resonate with the great natural beauty and rich culture of its location. We felt it essential that the house created a presence that connected both to the landscape and Bulgarian traditions, rather than just creating a mute abstract object standing as something ‘other’ in the landscape. And this included reducing the impact of the house on the surrounding environment as far as possible.”

Glass House, Hampshire, England – 15 May 2013
Design: AR Design Studio

photo : Martin Gardner
The owner’s love of glass fuelled their brief to construct a beautifully simple sculptural glass staircase and a contemporary glass extension, situated at the rear of the property in the space created by the ‘C’ shape of the building, which would open itself up to the garden.

Major Contemporary Houses added to this page:

Fish House, Sjngapore

picture : Patrick Bingham Hall
This modern tropical bungalow encapsulates the essence of living in the hot and humid climate of Singapore by creating open spaces which encourage natural ventilation and offer residents views to the ocean. The main design concept is to create a house which has close relationship with nature and this is achieved by having a swimming-pool linking the house with the landscape and ultimately visual connections with the sea.

Grid House, Brazil

photo from architects
Residential project “Grid House” – Casa Grelha – a house located in the ‘Serra da Mantiqueira’: a small valley was chosen, protected from the winds and close to the forest. Three main issues have guided the project conception: the demand for a single-story house, the wish to establish a direct relationship with the land and nature and also the need to provide privacy to the members of the family, with the main area located in one single building.

Famous Contemporary House:

Farnsworth House, USA

image © gm+ad architects
“an icon of 20th century modern architecture”
“The Farnsworth House is one of the most significant of Mies van der Rohe‘s works, equal in importance to such canonical monuments as the Barcelona Pavilion”.