Franz House in Buenos Aires Summer House

Franz House

Design: BAK arquitectos

This work is the result of a process that begins with the construction in 2004 of a summer house in the forest of Mar Azul with the following premises.

Firth 114802 Residence Cape Town

Firth 114802 Residence

Design: Three14 Architects. Designed for a young family in the suburban area of Rondebosch, Cape Town, this house sits on an elongated site with views towards Devil’s Peak and The Back Table, which is the south-eastern edge of the iconic Table Mountain.

Wein House in Costa Esmeralda, Buenos Aires

Wein House

Design: Besonias Almeida arquitectos

Costa Esmeralda is a real estate development over the dunes on the coast, 390 km from Buenos Aires. This is a recent urban development with young acacias and pines forestation and some sectors of consolidated forest.

Cape Tribulation House in QLD

Cape Tribulation House

This off-the-grid home design by m3architecture is close to the beach at Cape Tribulation in the Daintree Rainforest — an ancient ecosystem deserving of a thoughtful approach to its site.

Cube-2-box House in Myslowice, Poland

Cube-2 Box House

Redevelopment of a small single-family house from the 1970s located in Mysłowice, Poland, design by Zalewski Architecture Group. The main aim was to increase usable area of the house and improve building standards.

Stealth House on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland

Stealth House

Design: Teeland Architects: one of the challenges was to configure a design that enabled the house to have views towards the ocean to the east, as well as maximizing the north facing glass to capture winter sun and north views to the creak and rainforest.

Garden House Portland: SE Clinton Home

Garden House in Portland

Design: Waechter Architecture

Juror Kevin Daly said, “One of the things that is really striking about this project was it took three or four very onerous zoning requirements and turned them into real attributes of the project.”

Annex House in Toronto property

Annex House in Toronto property

Design: Dubbeldam Architecture + Design. When the client, a young couple, purchased this property with its two structures – the main building and coach house – both had been used as rooming houses for many years.

Villa Het Tolhuis in Zaltbommel, Netherlands

Villa Het Tolhuis

Design: Bekkering Adams Architects. The design for Villa Het Tolhuis is fully built by the owners themselves and reflects their passion for exceptional materialization and building techniques.

JQ House – Brazil Residence

JQ House Brazil 3

Design: Aguirre Arquitetura

The word obvious is not a part of the aesthetic vocabulary of this project, where togetherness and comfort are closely linked. Due to maximum integration—both between users of the space and the architecture itself, the house can be enjoyed completely.

Flint House, Waddesdon Residence, Bucks

Flint House, Waddesdon

Design: Skene Catling de la Pena. The site is a seam of flint geology surrounded by ploughed fields with the flints sitting on the surface. The project is conceived as two wedges of that geology thrusting up through the flat landscape

Vaulted House, London

Vaulted House

Design: vPPR Architects

This family house, built on the walled site of a former taxi garage, is almost entirely hidden in the middle of a Victorian block in Chiswick. The approach is via a covered passage, beyond which is a brick-lined front porch.