Huntingtower House in Armadale, Melbourne by Workroom & AGUSHI Construction.Home to AGUSHI’s Founding Director, this new 4-bedroom residence unfolds dramatically from the street as an imposing 3-storey box cantilevered over glass rooms and embedded in sunken...
Bosc d’en Pep Ferrer: House on Formentera Island, Spain by MariĂ CastellĂł MartĂnez.It’s a wonderful feeling when you encounter harmony between Mother Nature and the built environment. When architecture not only contemplates nature but intimately engages with it as a pivotal element of design. This quality is deeply...
Hoa’s House: Conversion of a 150-year-old Melbourne Pub by ioa studio.Over a year in the making, emerging Melbourne-based design practice ioa studio transformed a dull office space, once an old pub, into a warm and playful home brimming with personality. “Our friend Hoa took a huge risk and bought the...
Two Cork Houses in Palafrugell, Costa Brava by LĂłpez 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...
Plywood House in Palma de Mallorca, Spain by SMS Arquitectos.Spanish studio SMS Arquitectos have delved deeply into the construction process of this terrace home in Palma de Mallorca, exploring the craft of plywood manufacturing - a traditional process of the Spanish island. The use of CNC routing...
House in Binningen, Switzerland by Buchner BrĂĽndler Architects.From the street, the structural ribs that form this house in Switzerland peek over the black-painted boundary wall like soldiers in a marching line. With their edges also painted, the orderly members offer a fleeting glimpse of the...
ReActor Balancing and Rotating House by Alex Schweder & Ward Shelley.And just as I thought I’ve seen it all before, along comes a rotating home that’s balancing on a single concrete column... This, of course, is not a real home, although it’s very much designed to look and function like one. Called...
Epic Home of London Design Festival Director & Stirling Prize-winning British Architect.In honour of 2018 London Design Festival, we take a little look-see at a rather epic home of London Design Festival Director himself, Ben Evans, and Stirling Prize-winning architect Amanda Levete. Talk about a power couple, huh? I mean,...
The Alchemy of Things by Karen McCartney.I suppose you can call me a Karen McCartney groupie. I am genuinely in awe (and a little bit in love) with this talented, passionate woman whose work ethic has cemented her as one of most respected experts and authors in the world of...
