100 Contemporary Houses: TASCHEN Book

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Exceptional contemporary houses from Chile to Croatia to China. Designing private homes offers architects more freedom than corporate projects to express their ideas and try out new concepts.

Domaine des Vignes – Palhes Houses

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Domaine des Vignes, Palhes Building, Languedoc-Roussillion houses arranged as interlocking elements to allocate each one a southern aspect and view over the terraced vineyard: French residential design

Spiral Cafe Birmingham, Costa Seashell Bullring

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Spiral Cafe Birmingham, Costa Seashell Bullring

Spiral Cafe aka Costa Seashell cafe due to be relocated to make space for a design by Chapman Taylor Architects for Hammerson. Spiceal Street Birmingham replaced this curved bronze roof building at The Bull Ring

Fobe House: Marrakech Residence, Morocco

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Marrakech House. Improving the quality of life has long been my professional creed, where the core value is space rather than the object. A demanding personal commitment to clean space and well lit volumes.

Winchester Pool house property, Hampshire home

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Bluebell Cottage is a large detached private home that is situated in Crawley, near Winchester. The house, occupying the last development at the end of a track, faces north with a large ‘front’ garden as the main usable space

Lake Union Float Home Seattle

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Lake Union Float Home: Seattle Float House, Washington

The Float Home is situated on Lake Union, and inhabits what was one of the last unoccupied slips. The Seattle Houseboat and Float Home community is unique.

Ginkgo Beekbergen, Apeldoorn Building

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Ginkgo Beekbergen Apeldoorn building

The transparency of the facade facing the park, the long balconies of the apartment block and the generous terraces of the park-houses integrate the dwellings visually and physically in the park.

Oshikamo House, Toyota Home, Aichi Residence

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The lot is located in a residential area and is surrounded by neighboring housings, with a mother’s house on its west. Requests for the house include: encourages the family to spend time together.

Istanbul Telecommunications Tower Building

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The beauty of Istanbul, and this particular place is due, largely, to the environment, the landscape, the Bosporus, the Marmara Sea, the Black sea, the Golden Horn, the nearby mountains.

Europan 11 Leeuwarden Building: Budcud

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On the beginning, Leeuwarden village was located by an inlet that in fact was a lake. The big water determined the city sprawl. Then the lake was changed into grid of canals, and fields.