Rancho del Arbol in Salazar Residence

Rancho del Arbol

Design: Código Z Arquitectos. Conceptually the design is based on a box set of simple shapes that generate rotated volumes. These take full advantage of the natural resources, creating functional spaces that frame the landscapes each area offers.

House in Chitose, Ishikari, Hokkaido

House in Chitose

Design: Hironari Itoi of sside architects. This plan began in a heavily populated residential area. The are contains a swatch of mid and high rise buildings, meaning there is not much light left over for the low-risers.

Overlook Guest House Los Gatos, Santa Clara

Overlook Guest House

Design: Schwartz and Architecture. Despite an extremely steep, almost undevelopable, wooded site, this house creates a fully accessible indoor/outdoor dwelling to allow an aging family member to remain close by at home.

Link House in Sydney Waterfront Home

Link House

Design: Renato D’Ettorre Architects: set on on of Sydney’s stunning waterways, the design of this house attempts to blur the boundary between the inside and the outside whilst maintaining a strong sense of distinction between privacy and openness.

House Passage of Landscape, Toyota, Aichi

House Passage of Landscape

Design: ihrmk, Architects. Inspired by the local ‘Tanada’, the terraced paddy field. “This house become a passage of landscape which can feel difference of light, wind, sound and width of the sky.”

Tropical Beach House North Queensland

Tropical Beach House

Design: Renato D’Ettorre Architects: Exposed to the extremes of tropical elements the guiding principle was to incorporate glass against wind and rain and shutters in the heat and humidity.

Cruise Terminal at a Fjord, Norway

Cruise Terminal at a Fjord

Design: Francisco Rocha, Architect – “Due to the lack of conditions for the cruises in the valley and the increase of tourists the quality of living in the area seems to be drastically declining.”

East Di Lido Island Residence Miami Beach

East Di Lido Island Residence

Design: Strang Architecture. Built on speculation, this tropical modern residence is located on DiLido Island in Miami Beach. Open water views of Biscayne Bay informed the design of this six-bedroom home.

House Husarö Stockholm Archipelago

House Husarö Stockholm Archipelago

Design: Tham & Videgård Arkitekter. Tall pines give the forested site an untouched character. The house is placed in a clearing with a high position in the landscape, on a plateau facing the sea in the north.

House RT 2012 Riec-sur-Bélon

House RT 2012

Design: Patrice Bideau, Architect. It was through searching the web for information on passive buildings with arched roofs that the project manager chose an architect who also aims to create healthy living conditions in a natural environment.

I house Sasebo City, Nagasaki

I-house in Sasebo city

Design: Masahiko Sato, Architect. The building site is a long, narrow piece of land between a coastline road and a cliff. The key design concept, besides assuring a sufficient living space, was to harmonize with the surrounding natural environment.

Cle Elum House in Washington

Cle Elum House

Design: Lane Williams Architects. The structure is pulled apart into three houses to provide added privacy, to protect the exterior terrace, and to inflate the scale of the building to match the heroic setting among rocks and pine trees.

Residence Du Tour in Laval, Quebec property

Residence Du Tour in Laval, Quebec property

Design: Architecture Open Form. The Du Tour Residence is a renovation project. This Laval home, designed by an architect in the ‘60s, has belonged to the same family for decades. Its very special character and distinctive details were to be retained.

The Autumn House in Daellikon

The Autumn House

Architect: Daniele Claudio Taddei. For 3 generations, 2 cats and 1 dog living under one roof was a bit tight, so the grandparents decided to use a leftover corner from their property to get their own roof, building a house attached to the old one for themselves and their pets in this neighborhood adjacent the City of Zurich.

11 K Vaks Week End House, Pune Building

11 K Vaks Weekend House

Design: Ketan Jawdekar, Studio K-7
Surrounded by rice farms, the inspiration for this home, very naturally came from the surrounding paddy fields. The entire house and its landscaping were designed following the principal of Less is More.

Camber Beach Houses East Sussex

Camber Beach Houses

Design: Walker & Martin Architects. WAM win the prestigious Surface Design Awards for the Sustainable Exterior Surface category with Kebony for the cladding of its two contemporary beach houses located on Camber Sands.