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The website features a selection of the best new countryside building designs around the world, by respected designers. Examples include bird reserve structures such as hides and visitor centres.
In addition, we post information and images of significant contemporary nature architecture projects on this international website. Our focus is on internationally-significant architectural works.
This bespoke house in the Cairngorm National Park designed by architects Brown + Brown sits on a beautiful south-facing site. A stacked stone wall extends out from the building into the landscape
Design: Arouca municipality and engineer company Trimetrica. Embracing the Paiva river this is a new walking path with breathtaking natural beauty, picturesque landscapes, waterfalls and a variety of fauna and flora species.
Design: BTE Architecture. Located on a peninsula overlooking the UK’s largest stretch of inland water, Loch Lomond: the viewpoint takes the shape of a triangular platform and is positioned at the end of a long curved path stretching form the car park to the highest point of the peninsula.
‘The Kettle’ cafe-kiosk in Dunollie Museum, Castle and Grounds is the most structurally ambitious live-build project delivered during Tog Studio, an intensive ten-day summer school led by architecture and engineering graduates.
Design: Daniele Verducci of ODA – Workshop Design and Architecture. The design of the shelter, is based on a concept of space minimum without leaving the comfort. The cell ecological proposal is thus revealed a mix of simplicity and high technology, reversibility and durability, easy detectability and feasibility.
Design: Moxon Architects. Set in the rolling landscape of Lower Deeside, Strachan House is a contemporary family home set into a steep landscape, made up of a series of connected volumes that utilise the banked terrain.
Grotto Sauna on Bernyk Island, Ontario residence design by Partisans. Perched at the edge of a stunning rock island, in the harsh conditions of Northern Ontario, Canada, the sauna pushes architecture to the limits of imagination and buildability.
Design: OFIS. The extreme climatic conditions in the mountains introduce a design challenge for architects, engineers and designers. Buildings must withstand extreme weather, radical temperature shifts, and rugged terrain
Design: Chevallier Architectes. Located on a natural promontory in the lower Valley, surrounded by rock faces giving it the appearance of a natural fortress, Solelyâ boasts a superb site and orientation
Desert Wash in Paradise Valley by Kendle Design Collaborative Architects: have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a modern home? A home where the line between inside and out is so blurred that nature sometimes comes crawling into your room
“There is no brief. The forests are open for your ideas. This is a call for bold, broad-thinking proposals that explore the potential of forests as sites for art. Proposals can be for work in any discipline or medium, temporary or permanent, site-specific or for touring to more than one location.”
Design: Moxon Architects. Nestled in a manmade bowl carved out of the landscape, Quarry House is concealed from public view in a wooded site in the Cairngorms National Park
Architects: Stonewood Design
This small discreet building serves as a space to work, sew, play guitar and sleep in.It is built into the side of a steep hill below an accessible, flat, sedum roof perforated with flat roof-lights. Whilst modest in scale, it possesses a clear and positive presence.
An environment that embodies living structure allows people to live life more fully, encouraged rather than inhibited by architecture.
Patterns describe essential relationships among the elements of systems, and provide a unique and useful tool for handling and organizing complexity. This truth, embodied for centuries in the practice of creating human habitation, has in recent years been dissected and catalogued by science.
The desire to modernize has created a situation in which traditional customs and practices are being abandoned. This is true even in the most remote of villages.
Located on one of the many islands dotting The Archipelago in Georgian Bay, Ontario, this private boathouse and docking facility designed by Kevin Weiss of Weiss Architecture & Urbanism Limited exemplifies a quiet and precise modernism.