Home Architectural Design

Architectural firm, Nico van der Meulen Architects, was commissioned to design this home according to the owner’s specifications. The brief to the architect was to create a single-storey home with an urban feel. In order to achieve this, the architect updated the 1950’s house and converted it into a timeless modern space with a better [...]

Kiev-based studio Yunakov Architecture Construction has designed contemporary two-story house Kiev Residence in Kiev, Ukraine. The house has a diagonal plan with access to river Dnieper. Just because of the close proximity of neighbors and a good viewing area of adjacent windows, it was decided to create a set of green terraces on the roof [...]

This project was a redesign of outdated home by Nico van der Meulen Architects on climate area in Limpopo, South Africa. The brief was to transform the look of the existing visually unattractive face brick house with vaulted roofs, small windows to something stunning and modern. The street façade transformed to an inviting entrance with [...]

The project site is located on a ridge in the foothills of Carpinteria. This contemporary residence is designed by Neumann Mendro Andrulaitis Architects in open plan unto the panoramic coastal ridge via expansive operable glazed walls. The glazed transparency is balanced and the home is anchored in place by substantial cut native sandstone walls. The [...]

An Australian based architect Chenchow Little has design the Pitched Roof House in Sydney, Australia. The Pitched Roof House evolved from a strict interpretation of planning codes that require new houses to have pitched roofs. The new house reinterprets the traditional pitched room. Unlike a traditional pitched roof, the triangles not only pitch up, but [...]

Allen Residence by Skiles Architect in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA: The Allen residence is a two bedroom residence with carport and workshop on a small infill lot that incorporates environmentally aware construction methods, materials and passive solar design. Described as “Sustainable Modern” by its owners, this residence is characterized by two simple shed roofs at opposite [...]