New Open Office Space Mill Valley

New Open Office Space in Mill Valley

Design: Studio VARA, architects. This adaptive reuse project transforms the most banal of commercial box buildings into a light-filled courtyard office space specifically outfitted for a discerning, high-end residential builder with an exclusive clientele.

Hadar’s Hus on Stokkøya Island

Hadars Hus

Architects: Asante Architecture & Design. The small house on the coast is part of the project Bygda 2.0, a rural development on the island of Stokkøya, focusing on building modern Norwegian houses shaping a dynamic village.

Yan Lane Residence Richmond

Yan Lane Residence in Richmond

Design: Justin Mallia Architecture. This scheme uses architectural understanding to drive a development project to meaningfully infill an otherwise ignored space.

Glass Wall House in San Mateo Property

Glass Wall House

Design: Klopf Architecture. The clients wanted multi-generational living and extended spaces in the new house, but all parties agreed that the house should respect the neighborhood and blend in with the other Eichlers

Lakewood Art Studio in Florida, USA

Lakewood Art Studio in Florida

Design: KZ Architecture. An artist’s studio addition to an existing home serves as a catalyst to transform a back yard into a series of terraced outdoor rooms, pulling an indoor lifestyle out into the subtropical climate. Nestled between mature oak specimens in the front and a lake in the rear.

Sonoma Residence, San Francisco Property

Sonoma Residence

Architects: Turnbull Griffin Haesloop. The location for this house is a meadow with magnificent oaks, gentle slopes to a spring fed pond creating an unusually verdant landscape. The clients requested that the house be suitable for outdoor/indoor summer living.

Kopua House on Waiheke, NZ

Kopua House on Waiheke

Design: Daniel Marshall Architect. The site for this residence was a steep basin sloping down to the north east facing a sheltered bay on the eastern side of Waiheke Island. Two 100 year old Pohutakawa trees marked the transition from the earth to the sea.

The Ribbon House in Hong Kong: FAK3

The Ribbon House

Architects: FAK3 . The idea of the house was to create a ribbon-like structure that sweeps through the floors in a sequence of twirls. This gives an exciting transition through each level and the void space created by the stairs acts as a light well, drawing natural light into all levels.

Portola Valley Ranch San Francisco

Portola Valley Ranch

Design: Feldman Architecture. The client’s passion for the project brought new depth to the collaborative design process and fostered frank communications with the architect to create a coherent reality from the wishes they originally expressed.

Naremburn House in Sydney

Naremburn House in Sydney

Design: Bijl Architecture. This house in Sydney interrogates traditional typologies, providing a site-specific response with an emphasis on thoughtful spatial planning and a robust materiality in response to the client’s brief to ‘live long’.

Recreation House in Utrecht Property

Recreation House in Utrecht

Design: Zecc Architecten. In the rural area north of Utrecht a compact recreation house has been realized. The house is constructed in wood and opens its façade with window shutters towards the green garden

Fence House in Poznań Property

Fence House

Design: mode:lina, architects. The layout of this building has been designed by its function. The parents and two children, wanted to live independently. Therefore it divides into separate areas – on the first floor allowing adults to enjoy peace, while kids can go crazy in their “own house”.

Right Stairs for a Loft Conversion: Interior Design

Greer Residence by brett zamore design

Often overlooked possibilities for the position and design of stairs can lift an otherwise ordinary loft conversion. With the benefit of a good architect’s vision there are various clever options.

Teaching Building for St Clare’s College in Oxford

Teaching Building for St Clare’s College in Oxford

Design: Berman Guedes Stretton, architects

An additional three laboratories, three flexible teaching rooms, two offices, two maintenance workshops and generous circulation spaces that double-up as social learning areas. The project is crowned with a feature staircase.