Gatineau Hills Quebec home, Cantley residence

Gatineau Hills Quebec home, Cantley residence

Design: Christopher Simmonds Architect. This modern house, set into the dense foliage of the hills north of Ottawa, is designed to encourage the forested surroundings and natural light to subtly permeate the interiors through large expanses of glass. On the exterior, the use of reclaimed wood on the second level provides a textural balance to the white cement board and glass of the ground floor.

House in a Warehouse, Melbourne

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Design: Splinter Society Architecture. ‘House In a Warehouse’ is a new dwelling in an old warehouse shell, designed to be a ‘garden oasis’. The brief asked for a highly sustainable house, executed in a clean and contemporary way with a ‘warehouse feel’, minus the clichés of industrial off-the-shelf purchases.

Treetop House – Melbourne Residence

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Design: Matt Gibson Architecture + Design. The rear addition of this narrow single fronted terrace presents as a long tall timber clad tube wrapped around the remnants of the existing boundary walls and the open plan of the ground floor interior.

House in Boca del Rio, Veracruz

Casa Boca del Rio

Design: Gerardo Ars Arquitectura. Three House: built on an irregular plot of approximately 22 by 62 feet, this house is located in the town of Boca del Rio, at the Port of Veracruz. “The house is for our children” phrase essential and inspiring of the client that served as the basis for the development of the project.

Bonaire House design, Caribbean luxury residence

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This contemporary Caribbean island property located in Bonaire, a special municipality of the Netherlands, is designed by Silberstein Architecture. Photovoltaic panels power all lighting and the A/C compressor, a solar water heater provides 100% heating for pool, an underground cistern stores rain water for irrigation and the house is aligned with local trade winds to create a cross breeze effect.

Desert Wing Arizona Property

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Architect: Kendle Design Collaborative; Interior Design: Jack Wozniak. Programmatically the home is split into two zones, one a 4300 sf. residence for the owners, a couple requiring a very low maintenance lifestyle, and another zone for their extensive family and friends who visit the Arizona sunshine often

Bal House – California Residence

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Design: Terry & Terry Architecture. This project is an addition to and remodel of an existing mid century ranch house. It was designed for a retired couple, who desired a single-story home with open, accessible space. The addition, located in the rear garden area, is connected to the original structure by way of a transparent hallway that allows the garden to extend into the core of the house.

Hayes Home West Virginia Residence

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Design: Travis Price Architects. The home is a path through the West Va hills. The path splits and meanders to know where… to know where nothing is left but self and nature. The cloak of nature and soul are equally in harmony punctured by growth and rebirth all afloat. Swaying trees and swirling winds scoop clouds of water to feed the split trees. A rock opens as a stairway and leaves paths to take in or out.

Bruneel Residence, West Virginia home

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Design: Travis Price Architects. The home is much like an iPod. As one approaches it is at once a surreal object that stands like a wall, but beckons and then with the slightest movement opens and invites one in. The simple path divides the lower level of auto from the above dwelling place.

Beverley Hills House, New Californian Residence

Beverly Hills House

Design: Pablo Jendretzki, Argentine Architect: full reconfiguration of a Hal Levitt 50’s house. The main premise of this intervention was to open the the house and connect as much as possible the exterior with the interior.

Casa VR Tapalpa, Mexico Property

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Design: Elías Rizo Arquitectos. Casa VR, located in a secluded area near the town of Tapalpa, is an exercise in clarity and functionality. The program is arranged on four quadrants, which are defined by the intersection of two main circulation axes. Within this system, spaces are distributed according to privacy requirements and affinity.

Dunne & Crescenzi Kildare Village, Ireland

Dunne & Crescenzi Kildare Village

Design: Ghinlon Architecture. This is an Italian restaurant, Dunne & Crescenzi, set in the luxury retail Kildare Village, in the Republic of Ireland. The fit-out was carried out in phases within a live trading environment. It was a collaborative venture. Kildare Village were a key player in the process, providing logistical support every step of the way.

Far Pond Residence, New York

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Design: Bates Masi Architects. The waterfront site overlooks layers of wetlands to an estuary, the bay, and the ocean. The client required an existing structure to be doubled in size. The existing structure consists of glulam post-and-beam construction connected with steel plates.

Roca London Gallery Exhibition

Roca London Gallery Exhibition

London regeneration exhibition in building designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. Roca London Gallery will host a photographic exhibition during the London Festival of Architecture, exploring some of the Capital’s key regeneration projects.

Entitled Regenerating Capital: Healthy growth, healthy city?, the exhibition will look at the impact regeneration has on green spaces, small businesses, local communities and valued buildings.

Mirante Do Horto House, São Paulo

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Architect: Flavio Castro. The concept of the house has a strong influence of national and international artistic movements such as the modern architecture and Bauhaus. I believe that architecture is the result of an academic reflection on real needs that creates possibilities according to the culture, environment, etc.