The Mill, Scottish Borders House

The Mill, Scottish Borders House

The Mill, Scottish Borders by WT Architecture – shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year

Borders Steading is collection of disused farm buildings that nestles into a steep hill overlooking a valley in the Scottish Borders. The mill building was converted into modern, rural holiday home that retained much of its historic character.

Sussex House in the Countryside

Sussex House

Design: Wilkinson King Architects

This stand-alone contemporary villa set in the Sussex countryside is an exceptional retreat. Externally the house is quietly confident, with its row of low-profile roof pyramids, windows positioned to take advantage of the views and a muted colour palette of materials.

Nogueiras House in Viana do Castelo

Nogueiras House

Architects: Sofia Parente e André Delgado. The Nogueiras House occupies an existing stone construction in direct relation with the front patio and with views to the sea. Formerly used as a barn, it has now been converted into a house.

House Without Borders in Russia

House Without Borders

Design: Architectural Studio Chado. Modern homes have long ceased to fit into the idea of four walls, or a box. Now the environment is free to come into the house, and the house seamlessly expands its boundaries, capturing the surrounding area.

Lo Curro House in Vitacura: Property

Lo Curro House

Design: Nicolas Loi. The house is located in Lo Curro, a residential area of Santiago, Chile. The area has some hills and forest, with a great view of the city of Santiago. The design strategy is based on a 7 x 25 meter rectangle, located over an existing parking space.

Murphy House Hart Street Edinburgh property

Murphy House

The AJ declare this as their house of the year. The building is a very rare example of the construction of a contemporary property within the World Heritage Site of the New Town of Edinburgh

Villa N Arezzo House, New Tuscany Property

Villa N Arezzo House

This Tuscan property design by Architettura Matassonin is organized around a central courtyard with the function of home life’s core; this compositional logic allows a visual reciprocity between the different environments.

Terminal Aoyama House, Minato Home

Terminal Aoyama House

Design: Apollo architects & associates. The site is located at Aoyama in Minato ward, which is an area residential and commercial uses are mixed in Tokyo. The client couple sought to build a housing complex on the back lot of a dead end street, and earn their livings by renting a part of it.

Grand Trunk Revival in Montreal, Quebec

Grand Trunk Revival in Montreal, Quebec

Design: Mark+Vivi. Nestled steps from Montreal’s Lachine Canal, the newly renovated 1,100 square foot row house currently serves as residence and design studio for designers Mark Fekete and Viviana de Loera.

Ark Tokyo House, Contemporary Property

Ark Tokyo house

Design: Apollo architects & associates. The site is located in a quiet residential area. The client is a couple who both work at a university. Their request was to keep two independent and equal private dens: an open living environment but with privacy.

Levring House, Bloomsbury, London

Levring House

Design: Jamie Fobert Architects. A sophisticated contemporary house on a tight corner site in a central London mews is the latest home to be shortlisted for the 2015 RIBA House of the Year award.

Concrete Cut House in Ramat Gan

Concrete Cut House

Design: Pitsou Kedem Architects. The creation of a line, this birth of the visual act, has been a meeting point throughout history of art, science and technology- from the dawn of writing to the abstractness of cave drawings and the penning of mathematical formulas – all of them make use of graphics to express a novel idea.

Kol-Tzivion Residential Project, Kfar Shmaryahu

Kol-Tzivion Residential Project

Design: Studio de Lange, Architects. Titled ‘Aluminum Vested Home’ this property is located in one of central Israel’s earliest communities, and sitting on a hilly 1000 m² plot. The house was created for a young family of 5.

Casa Lara in São Paulo, Jardim Paulistano House

Casa Lara

Design: Felipe Hess. Casa Lara is about: taking advantage from the local construction laws, which allow to build up to the side borders of the plot, the architects designed two gardens, one in the front and one on the back of the house.