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 …

The Kayu Aga conceptual sketches provide insight into the design process and clarify the purpose of the walls. The site is divided into four layers from west to east, expressed as slightly radiuses line, the first layer being a physical barrier to the noise from the road that runs along the western boundary.

The architectural language is totally modern and the design process is explained in terms of rational responses to site and climate, but ultimately the house is a visually delightful place with a myriad different moods and emotions. The …

The Hyderabad House redesigned by Indian architecture offices Rajiv Saini & Associates in Hyderabad, India. The additional rooms got cantilevered over existing structure for example the copper clad gym overlooking the front garden is a newly added cantilevered steel structure,as are the guest rooms and the steel and glass study attached to the master suite, redundant spaces got axed / demolished.

New spaces were created wherever possible such the new dining room was created by enclosing a part of the rear garden,the grand spiral marble staircase fell a victim to the …

A-Cero Architects presents modern sculptural house in outiside Madrid. This house can be aesthetically inscribed in the series of projects made by the studio since its international expansion, in places like the Dominican Republic and Dubai, presenting a greater spatial complexity and use of shapes that underlines the relation between A-cero’s architecture and contemporary sculpture.

This house built with the dominance of stylized curves and bold shapes that relate harmonically to its natural context while keeping a clearly modern character. The spaces are freed of columns and other elements that would …

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 …

The Ubon House designed with modern style sited very close to the Moon river in Thailand, has a splendid view towards the loneliness green swamp created by the meandering river to the north side. Although the villa is built with modern architectural language, it takes a lot of tropical and social factors into consideration. When the sliding gates and glass doors on the ground floor are fully opened, the ground floor will be fully ventilated by natural wind South-North. The living space then is extended outward to the terrace and …

Artistic Architectural Design
The Kayu Aga conceptual sketches provide insight into the design process and clarify the purpose of the walls. The site is divided into four layers from west to east, expressed as slightly radiuses line, the first layer being a physical barrier to the noise from the road that runs along the western boundary. The architectural language is totally modern and the design process is explained in terms of rational responses to site and climate, but ultimately the house is a visually delightful place with a myriad …

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 …

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects just finished a modern flagship store building for Uniqlo Shanghai, introduce their brand and house their offices. The branding of the store required visibility of location with windowless space to display product however the government prevented exterior lighting or removal of the existing facade glass. A rotating series of mannequins inhabit the entry. Robotic lighting tracks patron activity and engages them in a dramatic experience. A glass shard cuts through the existing concrete floors, and is animated with mannequins flying vertically on theatrical rigging. This new …