Stylish Contemporary House With Inner Courtyards

Stylish Contemporary House With Inner Courtyards
McGinlay Bell has completed a house in a leafy Glasgow suburb featuring a sequence of rooms arranged around compact courtyards that allow the natural surroundings to permeate indoors. The narrow rectilinear site sandwiched between existing houses presented several challenges, as it borders the road at the front and is lined on one side by tall... 
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Contemporary Apartment With The Living Cube Inside

Contemporary Apartment With The Living Cube Inside
Once a former factory building near Viktoriapark in Berlin, this loft apartment was transformed with the addition of a structure built in the middle of the open space. Neulant van Exel designed and built The Living Cube to span over two floors to form much needed rooms to make the apartment work for a family... 
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Casa Rio: A Modern Take On A Portuguese Farmhouse

Casa Rio: A Modern Take On A Portuguese Farmhouse
Studio Paulo Merlini architects introduces an architectural revitalization with its Casa Rio within the Portuguese town of Gondomar. The dwelling stands as a renovation and remodel of an derelict farmhouse which celebrates the rural language of the city. While deconstructed the preexisting condition, removing the damaged materials from the old facade, the design team discovered... 
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Renovated Mews House With Broken Plan Layout

Renovated Mews House With Broken Plan Layout
A nearly six-metre-high green wall and a basement floor with a walk-on skylight are among the additions made by design and development firm Echlin to this remodeled mews house in Knightsbridge. The resulting design is described by the local firm as a “reinterpretation” of a classic London mews house, with plenty of useable and flexible... 
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Contemporary Renovated Farmhouse With Comfortable Interiors

Contemporary Renovated Farmhouse With Comfortable Interiors
Inside the rough and rustic exterior of this renovated Belgian farmhouse is a perfectly styled and clean-lined home, ideal for today’s relaxed lifestyle. Light, bright and welcoming, the charming old structure was rescued from its dark and claustrophobic origins and transformed into the perfect antidote for the frenetic pace of life. Ghent-based JUMA Architects created... 
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Contemporary Meadows Haus Clad With Blackened Wood

Contemporary Meadows Haus Clad With Blackened Wood
Blackened timber and quartzite wrap the exterior of this multi-story dwelling by US firm Klima Architecture, which was designed for a family relocating from California to a Utah ski town. The dwelling is called the Meadows Haus and is located along the eastern front of the Wasatch Mountains. The clients wanted a home that was... 
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Contemporary Refined Apartment With Gorgeous Art

Contemporary Refined Apartment With Gorgeous Art
Given carte blanche by the owner, French interior and furniture designer Emmanuelle Simon approached the renovation of the 85-square-metre Haussmannian apartment in St. Germain as if composing a painting. Rather than using color though, she relied instead on a tactile vocabulary of natural textures and a visual language of abstract forms, manifested by an eclectic... 
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Charismatic And Comfortable Apartment Renovation

Charismatic And Comfortable Apartment Renovation
Lab House is a recently completed project comprising a partial remodel of an apartment in Murcia, Spain. The home had recently been renovated but the client was not happy with the results which led to them hiring Laura Ortín Arquitectura. All of the new materials that had just been used on the previous remodel presented... 
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Victorian Townhouse In London With A Charred-Wood Extension

Victorian Townhouse In London With A Charred-Wood Extension
Rider Stirland Architects has remodeled the interiors of a Victorian terraced house in south London by adding a small rear extension clad in blackened wood and London stock bricks. Aptly named Charred House, the project was carried out for a family of five to help make more efficient use of their home and improve views... 
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Unique Disneyland-Inspired House Extesion

Unique Disneyland-Inspired House Extesion
Architect Mat Barnes, founder of CAN, renovated and extended the two-storey Edwardian house in Sydenham for his own family adding a fake Disneyland mountain of foamed aluminum to it. This element is designed in tribute to the Matterhorn Bobsleds ride at Disneyland in California. This element gives the project its name, Mountain View. The imaginative... 
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