Two Cork Houses in Palafrugell, Costa Brava by López Rivera Architects.Two houses rest upon a sloping site both completely immersed in the dense woodland of Palafrugell, Spain. Wrapped in cork panels, these stealthy structures mirror the stippled texture and mottled grey tones of surrounding slender pine and...
Jim Jennings’ Own Desert Retreat in Palm Springs.Set against the backdrop of the San Jacinto Mountains in Palm Springs is an unassuming weekend retreat for San Francisco architect Jim Jennings and his wife and architectural writer Terese Bissell. The deceptively simple structure is...
Casa La Quinta: Weekend House For a Retired Couple in Guanajuato, Mexico.Architects Pérez Palacios and Alfonso de la Concha Rojas have designed a blissful sanctuary for a retired couple located in the town of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato in Mexico. Casa La Quinta was designed around three courtyards, each...
Open-Air Holiday Home in Zicatela Beach, Mexico by Ludwig Godefroy & Emmanuel Picault.Balanced between the mountains and the sea on the south-west coast of Mexico, Casa Zicatela is a concrete marvel and the latest collaborative project to emerge from the studio of architect Ludwig Godefroy and designer and furnisher...
Werri Beach House in NSW by Atelier Andy Carson.Pitched on a cliff at Werri Beach just past Kiama on the south coast of NSW, this new home by Atelier Andy Carson has been designed to celebrate its airy and rugged seaside setting. To one side of the sprawling 150-acre coastal block lies...
Interview: Felicity Slattery & Sarah Cosentino of Studio Esteta.Today we celebrate the work of two cool chicks in Australian Architecture & Interiors - Felicity Slattery and Sarah Cosentino of Studio Esteta. Hooray! We've previously featured two fantastic projects by the dynamic duo, so I thought it...
Rural Meets Contemporary at Bejing Cottage Refurbishment by Christian Taeubert + Sun Min.First built in the 1970s, the home was left unoccupied and forgotten when its owners shipped off to the heart of the city. Beijing-based architect, Christian Taeubeut’s idea was to maintain the rustic identity of the house, but to layer...
Holiday House in Monterrey, Mexico by Tatiana Bilbao.Like something out of a Guillermo del Toro fantasy, this holiday home near the mountains of northeastern Mexico is an enchanting illusion in three parts. Called Los Terrenos (‘The Terrain’), the home is the work of Mexico City-based...
Chalet in the Swiss Alps by Pierre Yovanovitch.Imagine a warm, cosy timber-clad ski chalet, with a picturesque vista across the snowy Swiss Alps. Now imagine if the chalet’s interiors had been designed by a former Pierre Cardin menswear designer with a keenness for luxurious, storied...
