New York city-based studio Steven Harris Architects has designed the Casa Finisterra project. This contemporary home features five bedrooms seven baths sits upon a breathtaking promontory in the exclusive gated resort-community of Pedregal in Cabo San Lucas, a city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, in the Mexican state of Baja California [...]
Posted on May 14th, 2012 under Luxury House Design | No Comments »
The NaCl House was designed by Virginia-based studio David Jameson Architect in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Breaking the prescriptive mold of horizontally layered homes, NaCl House aspires to render unclear the spatial organization of the project and explore an architecture of ambiguous scale. The resultant massing reveals an imperfect, rough-hewn form recalling the natural isometric formation [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2012 under Modern House design | No Comments »
A house and studio building recently completed by Bernheimer Architecture for a photographer and his family, this domicile is a series of spaces sequenced by cropped views of the surrounding environment. A pairing of stacked boxes, the main social spaces of the house are on the ground floor in an open plan layout while bedrooms [...]
Posted on April 11th, 2012 under Minimalist House Design | No Comments »
The Mary Lake Residence was designed by Toronto-based studio Altius Architecture in the Village of Port Sydney, Huntsville, Ontario. This year-round house takes advantages of the entire site set amongst towering white pines. The project consists of two solid volumes connected by a glazed entry space and indoor/outdoor living room. The roof of the living [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2012 under Lake House Design | No Comments »
Mexican studio Central De Arquitectura has designed the Casa Reforma in Mexico city, Mexico: The proposal was created through solid stone volumes which respond to the horizontality that the spaces and the program generated and to their proportions. The project retakes the geometries of the context and urban image, unifying them in a tectonic volume. [...]
Posted on April 2nd, 2012 under Contemporary House Design | No Comments »
Mexican-based studio Colectivo MX has designed Casa Gavión in Mexican modern architecture with sensuous aesthetics, vivid colors, attention to spaces and light, while accentuating the building’s natural surroundings. The use of massive proportions, volumes, forms, textures and colors aims to move feelings and emotions. Incoming search terms:mexican architecture, gabion wall design, define regional, casas de [...]
Posted on March 7th, 2012 under Modern House design | No Comments »