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Villa 4.0 by Dick van Gameren architecten in Netherlands: Sustainability is a concept that has been crucial in informing all components of the design, construction and daily use of the house. The idea was to consider practically and level-headedly at every step how the house could be least taxing on the environment in both the [...]

The main aim of this project is to seek out more garden spaces/surfaces in an attempt to redress this imbalance while fulfill the client’s brief. The mother of 2 young boys wanted a house where she could keep an eye on her kids without the need to be in the same space. Loos’s Raumplan. Incoming [...]

This Elrod House was designed by John Lautner perched at very tip the Southridge enclave take view through Palm Springs, California. This iconic home commissioned by designer Arthur Elrod in 1968 and has been featured in numerous books, magazines and museum exhibitions. Organic shapes, monumental construction and world class design create an extraordinary experience of [...]

The arrival sequence is a procession toward the sea; past the protective garage, down into the protected courtyard, along a bench, into the foyer, then into the double-height living pavilion, and onto a terrace above the sea. The south-facing social pavilion is anchored by a totemic concrete hearth. Incoming search terms:mackay lyons sweetapple, sweetapple architects, [...]

The Spiral House seeks to engage, enhance and reflect the surrounding coastal climate and its atmospherics of light, air, water. Conceptually, the house is the resultant form and operation of an interface and tension between two systems of geometry, one projective (fixed) and the other, radial (dynamic). Through a overlapping system of spatial and geometric [...]

The Heliotrope Architects projects this Loop Residence on rock outcropping several hundred feet above the ocean. The design using simple plan with wood frames and a prefabricated steel moment-frame roof structure to create a memorable residence with pristine views. Exterior walls consist of a custom site-built teak and cedar curtain wall system, with the ‘boxes’ [...]