A Compact Rural Retreat Inspired by Thoreau’s Walden Philosophy.In Spain's Sierra de Gredos mountains, architecture firm Extrarradio Estudio has created a compact cabin that punches well above its 40m² footprint. Prado Toro reimagines local agricultural typologies through vertical expansion, with a...
Sleeping Among the Trees But Make it Luxury: The Montenotte’s Woodland Suites in Cork.The Woodland Suite Experience at Cork's Montenotte Hotel redefines luxury accommodation in Ireland with its €7.5 million ($13M AUD) development of nine architect-designed retreats. Nestled within the hotel's historic grounds, these...
Love Shack in Bondi Reimagines Material Reuse and Small-Scale Functionality.Second Edition's Love Shack is a small but powerful example of sustainable design principles in action. This chameleon of a space functions as a bedroom, living room, or office while championing innovative material reuse. From salvaged...
Familiar & Futuristic: The Glass Cabin by Mjölk Architekti.Mjölk architekti have completed a renovation of a 130-year-old cottage in Czech Republic’s Jizera Mountains with a glass extension. The home oscillates between familiar and futuristic, with the unusual layout capturing a multitude of...
Marra Marra Shack in Berowra by Leopold Banchini Architects.Marra Marra Shack overlooks a remote creek through a fully-glazed facade. Located in Berowra, the structure is sensitive to the surrounding site in a thoughtful design underpinned by a strong sense of place. It's a home indebted to its...
Paddington House by Retallack Thompson.Retallack Thompson has undertaken an alteration to a two-storey Victorian terrace in Sydney’s Paddington. Home to a growing family, the architects were approached to provide an additional bedroom to the current two-bedroom terrace house...
Tiny but Mighty: Picalo Cabin by Gerard Dombroski Workshop.Gerard Dombroski’s Picalo Cabin is a simple construction is made entirely of materials that are no longer useful on the buildings they was once on. The mini-construction resembles a classic corrugated metal shed framed by weather-worn...
House Meets Garden: Guest Pavilion in Quintay, Chile by Tironi Bartlau.For Santiago-based architecture studio, Tironi Bartlau, designing this guest pavilion in Quintay, Chile was an exercise in balancing the intimate and extroverted. “We set out not to simply build a new building in the vacant space,”...
Portable Cabin in Poznan, Poland by Wiercinski Studio.Wiercinski Studio turned to offsite fabrication to create this year-round living and working space, constructed from two adapted shipping containers. With 54sqm of usable space with an additional 24sqm for a garden terrace, the simple and...
