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Weave House, Spain: contemporary Spanish coast residence – design by A-cero, Joaquin Torres & Rafael Llamazares architects – single-family house project in an exclusive residential area of the Spanish coast.
The site is located in Northwest Skye, overlooking Loch Dunvegan. It manifests itself as a contradiction: far reaching views to the Northeast and harsh winds from the Southwest. The constant is the horizon.
Hofman Dujardin Architects designed a large villa set in the Dutch countryside. Villa Geldrop is no ordinary house, however. What appears at first sight to be a simple block with an angled roof turns out to be a complex composition of space and light as well as a study of the modern home’s function.
Due to site constraints, it was challenging to create a feeling of openness. Hence, the strategy was to pull Dalvey Road House apart by incorporating courtyards and gardens to allow wind to flow and provide rooms with maximum views out and access to gardens.
The Hamersley Road Residence is the conversion of an early 1900’s Australian workers cottage to a practical, modern family residence. The external timberwork, moulded plaster, handmade tiles and flannel flower glass of the existing house give the home a distinct arts and crafts aesthetic.
Design: Metropole Architects. Under the leafy canopy of an immense Albizia Tree nestles Aloe Ridge House, a 300sqm contemporary home in the Eden Rock Estate on Kwa Zulu Natal’s South Coast of South Africa.
The fact that the best potential views are generated towards such a complicated orientation for sunlight at this latitude, results in a volume that not only opens towards the context, but is also protected to the sun incidence, generating a very peculiar volume and personality to the project
Cortes Island Residence, British Columbia home, Canada – design by Balance Associates, Architects – Cortes Island house, BC: Canadian residential architecture
Waiatarua House: The brief was for a new house on a challenging, steep site in a bush clad creek gully. One of the design challenges was to insert a bold intervention into a sensitive bush reserve whilst still maintaining a sense of modesty and poetic.
This pristine contemporary home, Pearl Bay Residence is located on the west coast 90kms north of Cape Town – bordered by a nature reserve adjoining the ocean.
For something to be sustainable it has to be able to continue developing itself. Sustainable architecture is the result of continual dialogue with the client and the understanding of the influences of the context and the characteristics of the site.
The Aldea House’s site is located in front of a golf course. On the first visit to the site the amount of native trees that were in the place resulted very remarkable.
Sunshine Canyon Residence was, in a way, created by the Fourmile Canyon Fire of 2010. The owners, who lost their home in that fire, wanted to rebuild near their original home site. Embracing the beauty of the burned landscape, they chose a steeply sloped southern facing site, also burned by Fourmile fire.
The owner’s brief was to design a house inspired by its indigenous surroundings, which is part of the recently established Sea Farm Private Nature Reserve.
House in a Forest in Montréal, five minutes from the village of Val-David, near Dufresne Regional Park, a jewel of a development is hidden up on a hill. So few of these properties, destined for true nature lovers, are left in the region.
Travertino Becagli – crafted in the Vaselli workshop at Rapolano Terme where the company is based – was used for the tiling, the steps incorporated in the pool, and the seating around the edge.
Contemporary Residence in Eastern Long Island, NY: elevated, wooden boardwalks extending into the beachscape are a common occurrence in the dunes: hovering slightly over the ground