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American architect Robert M. Gurney has designed the Wissioming2 House in Glen Echo, Maryland. The house sited on a sloping, wooded lot with distant views of the Potomac River. The house is organized into two volumes connected with glass bridges that span a reflecting pool which separates the volumes. Secondary volumes intersect and overlap the [...]

Metcalfe Architecture & Design has redesigned an existing mid-century dwelling of the Seidenberg House in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, USA. MA&D reconstructed this mid-century kit house, taking advantage of its location by creating a bedroom nestled in the treetops, transforms it into a house in the sky. A glass connector bridge links the bedroom to the [...]

Rural Design has redesign a former mill building to a dramatic house in Dingwall, Scotland. The starting point was the few existing freestanding walls and creates a series of courtyards, some of which has begun to be re-inhabited by nature. The brief for this Mill House was for a large family house. Therefore the architect [...]

Description of Hijauan House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by Twenty-Nine Design: Hijauan is a house in the city of Kuala Lumpur. Situated on a small plot in a mature residential development, we took the Malay term “Hijau” meaning “green” as our design directive. Our aim was to avoid cutting a single tree on site. As [...]

Lagoon Beach House is set by Birrelli Architects as a special island retreat, a place for shared living and holiday experiences. The main living spaces, main bedroom and study are efficiently planned all on first floor for the comfort of two. Lagoon Beach House while modernist in programme is nonetheless a contemporary shack referencing the [...]

The Owhanake Bay house is designed by Strachan Group Architects hunkers-down below a ridge line at the head of a gully on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. The program set as ease of movement and single level accessibility on a site with a significant natural slope. Incoming search terms:courtyard house veranda, house on a sloping site [...]