Hernandez Silva Architects have designed a modern house in a private neighborhood outside the city of Japopan, Jalisco, Mexico. The house called “Godoy“, built during a situation where this material was at a low price, allowing to build an almost floating house.

The house opens with a long and folding window system in the background, integrating the garden into the interior, making social spaces in a fully integrated large terrace with a garden and pool, this allows to live the cool and privileged Guadalajara’s weather, the dining room looks out above …

Modern Office Buiding
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) recently design a modern office building for China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). This building situated at a major crossroads along the Second Ring Road in Beijing’s eastern Dongcheng district, the CNOOC headquarters building acts as an urban counter-point to the massive Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building situated on the opposing corner.

The building’s form evokes the images of offshore oil production. The prow-like shape recalling an oil tanker’s bow, and the tower mass elevated above the ground on piloti suggesting an offshore oil …

The Cyan Building reflected the priority at every scale, created with sixteen stories in downtown Portland offers a new mode of sustainable urban living. This building designed THA Architecture with the belief that less can be more, most of its 364 units are compact one and two bedroom apartments, with many under 550 sq ft. However, strategic detailing and efficient environmental systems create a sense of spaciousness that belies their affordable cost. With convenient proximity to urban amenities and LEED Gold building performance, Cyan offers quality over quantity to those …

The Wooden Larix House situated near Snagov Lake Romania, designed by Corvin Cristian. The walls are to be filled with a collection of paintings. The lot is narrow thus generating the plan and position. For intimacy reasons, the street elevation is totally opaque while the openings abound towards the courtyard. Sun protection is provided by exterior electric aluminum blinds that slide underneath the wood facade when not in use. In the austere geometry of the house we introduced some “romantic” elements as the curved balcony handrail or the 1900 colored …

The Karlusic Residence was created by Hirsch Bedner Associates with simple and modern form. In front of the yard there are 30yr old Japanese Maple. The house from the outside feels quite defensive but as soon as you enter the space it opens up and you have an internal courtyard with a lap pool and a line a bamboo running down the full length of the north boundary. The courtyard is surrounded by the living spaces and therefore you are able to enjoy the views to the courtyard no matter …

Valle House by Materia Architecture

Materia Architecture has finished “the Valle House” in Mexico City, Mexico.The house responds with courage to the obvious physical and natural conditions of the immediate context. The design means the pursuit of an architectural character feeds contrast exercises. Minimum and refined materials textures are facing artisanal solid organic forms of balance implied transparent and black boxes, light versus heavy. All these elements are organized and placed under the interior spaces that surround programming thus expressing the relationship between public and private. The walls are carved entered …

This Albert Reichmuth Wine Store’s interior designed by Swiss based interior designer firm OOS. The intent of the interior design is to present an image of a landscape consisting of wine cases in which the high-quality wines are presented together with their cases as in a museum gallery. Some 1,500 unbranded wine cases from the Bordeaux region cover the entire room up to the ceiling, creating a cave-like environment. Arranged in a grid pattern they serve as a platform for about 570 wines, books, seating areas and illuminated table display …

This modern house was created by Madrid based architecture firm A-Cero. The pedestrian access takes place by the ground floor where are located the most social rooms such living room, lounge and dining room in the right side of the house. In the left side are the following rooms: a bathroom, cleaning room, a courtyard, kitchen – office, a larder and a cleaning room. The first floor has 273,46m2 and includes the following rooms: two children bedrooms with dressing-rooms, bathrooms and a living room; a guests’ bedroom with bathroom; …

Studio101 Architects© just finished family beach home at Point Lonsdale Australia. The primary living space contains the kitchen, dining room and living room, floats above a masonry podium, cranking towards true north to maximise sun exposure and frame the elevated treed outlook. Each pavilion is wrapped in a skin of White Cypress timber that visually folds and interlocks with the expressed concrete block work blade walls. The primary block work spine provides a continuity of materials from outside to within allowing an honest and space-defining structural element that also provides …

This contemporary house sited on a densely built block in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood in Montréal, designed by Paul Bernier. This house created with natural light, appeasing, and thought with the day-to-day life in mind. The garden, an interior courtyard under the shade of trees, is defined by three buildings and a tall fence. It is a green room, the walls are clad with ivy, and the ground is covered with shade plants, river stones and a flat stone path that leads to an outdoor shower. The long wall made …