Wonderful people who did everything to save trees during home construction
These wonderful people did everything to save trees during home construction instead of cutting them off. You can almost see it for real – your dream home all detailed and built in your mind. You have also bought that perfect land property you’ve been looking for! But there’s just one, not-so-little problem. There’s a tree […]
From grain silo to a comfortable home…
Phoenix, Arizona – Christoph Kaiser LLC Year Built: 2014 Total Livable Space: 340 sq. ft. Photography: Mark Lipczynski While driving though Kansas, architect Christoph Kaiser , noticed a dismantled 1955 era grain silo. A short conversation with the farmer owner and the bits and pieces has a new owner, and soon, […]
Dutch Underground
Netherlands – Denieuwegeneratie Year built: 2011 Photography: Jaap Vliegenthart, John Lewis Marshall This underground home sits in the Dutch moorland. In winter, when the sun is lower, the large glass facade allows the sun in to warm the concrete shell. The thermal mass holds the warmth releasing it slowly during the night. In summer, when the sun is higher relative […]
Shibuya Skinny
Shibuya Tokyo Japan – Masanori Kuwabara, Sabaoarch Site area: 40.12m2 (433 sq ft) Building envelope: 24.06M2 (260 sq ft) Floor area: 78.06m2 (843 sq ft) If you have been to Japan, you will have seen how every scrap of land is used in some way. It is either developed, […]
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Wall House
Shizuoka, Japan – Keiji Ashizawa Design Project duration: 2007 – 2009 Photography: Michael Nicholson If you are going to look at this house from the street, you wouldn’t be able to imagine that a very different and beautiful landscape awaits inside. This has to be one of the most extraordinary houses there is; a perfect […]
Casa Chipicas
Valle de Bravo, México – Alejandro Sanchez Garcia Arquitectos Total Built Area: 720 m2 (7,776 sq. ft.) Unit size: 180 m2 (1,944 sq. ft) Year built: 2009 Photography: Jaime Navarro Soto The land was a well established garden, subdivided off an existing home. The brief was to make […]
Great Wall Bamboo House
Commune by the Great Wall Near Biejing China – Kengo Kuma and Associates Year built: 2002 Built area: 529 m2 (5,713 sq. ft.) The Bamboo Wall House was completed in 2002 as part of a multi-dwelling project near Beijing. Requirements were to use local materials and conform to the topography. The […]
Miyska Residence
Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan – Robert Harvey Oshatz Designed: 1995-96 Completed: 1998 We’ve featured five homes from this one architect – more than any other. We’ve favoured him because of the way all of his homes delight the senses. It’s almost as though a straight line offends him. His designs, including multi-residential, religious and commercial […]