The Fabric Façade Studio House, a small house building with unusual facade presented by Rob Veening architects. The house completed with minimally sized and narrow but spacious, open and giving one a sense of freedom and movement. One of the most expensive items in a building budget is the facade which is usually the first item that is reduced in ambition. This always has serious consequence for the architectural image.

The municipality of Almere has C2C in high esteem and even drafted its “Almere Principles”! This course offered a chance …

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 …

Spain based architeture office Santiago Parramón (RTA-Office) recently designed House F, a modern house situated in a land with a high incline and a stream that crosses it. Finally the architect decided preserve the site intact to lean on it an object, a big volume which rests in a minimum surface. The house only takes contact with the land through a central nucleus with small dimensions. It was an archaeological work where the architect worked as a surgeon in order to minimize the impact on the rocky land. Inside the …

The Deronda Residence located in Los Angeles, sited near the apex of Beachwood Canyon, in the Hollywood Hills just under the shadow of the Hollywood sign. The more public “living” areas of the house are situated on the ridge of the site, so as to take advantage of flanking outdoor spaces which are designed as extensions of the living dining, and kitchen areas. Large expanses of sliding glass panels connect these spaces to the adjacent terraces and views beyond, inverting the interiority into an open, covered outdoor room. The more …

Situated in Southern California, Richard Meier & Partners Architects was designed beautiful beach house. This white house boasts the Pacific Ocean to the south, a gorgeous courtyard to the west, and the Pacific Coast Highway to the north. There’s a perfect harmony between the straight ‘boxed’ and organic designs of this modern house. The architecture is very interesting and fully loaded with detail. The bright white interior offers a grand space for dining and entertaining, where residents and guests are surrounded by floor to ceiling windows and a collection of …

The Ravine Residence situated in a huge gap in the system environment of North Toronto, design by Hariri Pontarini Architects. Designed to accommodate the integration of living with nature, the external treatment of this house will examine carefully honed language of natural materials, while the slightly curved front façade carefully sculpted, presenting a solid entities into the street. Accented with simple tones of limestone France, wood detailing, rift-cut oak and teak window, this private home is juxtaposed with the natural greenery of the adjacent ravine. Completed within the central site, …

The evanHOUSE situated in modernist landmark community of Crestwood Hills Los Angeles, created by local architecture studio bittonidesignstudio. This house originally built at 1957, sited high above with panoramic of the Los Angeles city. The project was framed around taking something ‘modern’ and making it more contemporary. The existing spatial condition of the house was clearly divided between public in the lower level and private at the upper level, as well as fixed within a completely horizontal orientation. The major move was to carve out a double high space above …

The Vivienda 4, modern home architectural design nearby lakes designed by Spanish architectural firm A- Cero Architects. The exterior of the home is a wooden-clad structure of interesting shapes. The grounds contain manicured gardens and courtyards of vibrant grass, trees and shrubs. There are also concrete walkways and patios complete with outdoor statues. Interior featured black, white and brown walls, with an array of furniture and fixtures. The décor style is best described as modern yet somewhat eclectic, with wall art, decals, sculptures, statues, interesting lighting fixtures and intriguing furniture …