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life away from the city – Revisited

The brief was simple - create a home where you are constantly aware of the beautiful mountains surrounding us, the reason we gave up city life. As architect and client Johann Slee could explore his intense appreciation for our local honest farm structures, and use it as inspiration for his new home located in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The simplicity of the functional...
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hillside merge

Jutting out from the surface of a steep rock face over the valley of Poisses on the Greek Cycladic island of Kea, is a private residence that the team at Cometa Architects designed with equal parts traditional charm and modern minimalism. Rocksplit, as the project is titled, is built on a narrow plot of land which merges into...
El Mirador by CC Architects
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respecting the forest

El Mirador located high on a ridge taking in the emblematic lake and forests in which CC Architects drew their inspiration from. Based on respecting the forest where the pavilion was placed to reduce its constructive impact. The materials used are from the region such as railroad ties from old train tracks, which clad the exterior of...
Sambade House by Spaceworks
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the purist

The purity of wood and concrete sets the foundations for this family home designed by Spaceworks. The rectangle volume is set into the ground reducing the overall visual scale of the project and cleverly concealing the lower levels. Located in the countryside near Penafiel Portugal. The house designed to open up to surrounding landscape, the home has a...
House of Dust by Antonino Cardillo
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The house of DUST

In this house, created as it was through a poetical expression of ideas and gestures, the nuisances in the design guide the aesthetic outcome of the space. With ceilings of rustic plaster to mimic a cave roof and a colour palate that draws directly from the earth, the House of Dust, in Rome, draws upon these natural elements and contains them within strict mathematical proportions:...
Los Angeles’ new Line Hotel
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American and Korean fusion

Los Angeles’ new Line Hotel is the fine fusion of American and Korean culture. Andrew Zobler is the creator of the Wilshire Boulevard hotel, which stands amongst Koreatown’s pre-1940 brick colonial revival buildings and southern California’s bustling restaurants, bars, and businesses. The building was originally built in 1964 but it recently received a rather hip restoration and renovation complete with innovative public spaces and guest...
Regent Street Warehouse by Techne
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The nature of the subdivided warehouse …

Quite often the essence of the warehouse is lost when converting and industrial building into a home with many developers pushing it too far creating overly domesticated spaces.   This three level conversion by Melbourne Australia based studio Techne aims to promote the open nature of the subdivided warehouse space. The new architectural components attempt to recede within the shell and the subdued palate was...
The box house by Arquitetura: 01:01
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the BOX house

Located in Brazil the Box House designed by Arquitetura: 01:01 is a conceptual design on how people live in compact spaces. Designed for a professional young couple the house is a scaled down version of the large Brazilian homes we usually publish. The Box House features two bedrooms, a social bathroom, a small service area and a gourmet kitchen, all in less than 65 square...

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the DEPO

Argentinian born, Brisbane based Alexander Lotersztain is certainly no stranger to the design world.  At the ripe age of 35 he has certainly developed an expressive portfolio consisting of custom product design, interiors and his own furniture range. He was named one of 100 most influential top designers worldwide by Phaidon so it's no wonder when we stumbled upon one of his latest project –...
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New South Wales… South Coast

The Jamberoo Farm house designed by Sydney based studio Casey Brown Architects is located south of Sydney. Perched high on an escapement the property is afforded views over the rolling hills and beyond to the ocean. The design provides a new family home amongst the existing buildings including an old dairy, barns and cottages around a magnificent Morton Bay fig tree. Three gabled pavilions create...
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