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The family of this house are water ski enthusiasts. Banding together with several fellow water skiers, they purchased agricultural land and modified an existing artificial lake to be used for water skiing/slalom course racing. The house sits in and on a berm dredged from the bottom; the design thus engages the lake in multiple ways. [...]

The Rutherford house was designed as modern holiday house for the hot summers of Lake Taupo and the cold winters for skiing on Mt Ruapehu. The architect builds this project in 4 main elements; (1) a concrete base, which at some points is folded up to contain interior spaces, (2 and 3) two black cedar-clad [...]

A-cero Architects presents their another magnificent project of a big single-family house : The Concrete House II in Madrid. The first impression seen for this architecture was a house that hidden between concrete walls and vegetable ramps that extend up to the roof. The building clad in dark grey color beyond vegetation areas that seem [...]

Ellis Park House by Altius Architecture The house built as an ecological urban home with sustainability and contemporary living designed in Toronto’s Bloor West Village. Sited over slope and shallow depth, it make a potential for an earth sheltered home. For reducing ones ecological foot print can be done without compromising comfort, luxury or style [...]

Located in Kona on the big Island of Hawaii, this house fuses the Hawaiian vernacular traditions of basalt masonry with the light wood customs of floatin roofs, wood sun trellises, and the covered outdoor space, or Lanaii. Lava masonry wall quite popular around the island and are made from the local black basalt lava flows. [...]