The Ardmore House marks the first built project for Chicago-based design studio Kwong Von Glinow, immediately proving their design chops are already well honed. Situated on a traditional Chicago lot next to an alleyway, the design reflects a contemporary floor plan where the private and public living spaces are flipped, with the communal areas on...
Lookout House Raised On Stilts Over An Alley
US architecture firm Hybrid has designed and built a compact house along a back alley in Seattle, which is partially lifted off the ground to make way for parking. Called The Lookout, it occupies the back of a narrow, sloped lot and faces an alley. When the company purchased the 4,200-square-foot (390-square-metre) property, it decided...
Cabin On Stilts Deep Within A Brazilian Forest
When coronavirus broke out, Marko Brajovic took his wife, two children and dogs to live in ARCA, a house he designed in the Brazilian part of the Atlantic Forest. He built the Monkey House cabin in its grounds as a guest house for friends to stay. Brajovic decided to build the cabin up on stilts...
Modern And Rustic Mountain Ursa House
The Ursa House is a lovely retreat that can be found in the Beartooth Mountains, in Montana. The name is quite appropriate for this area. The house sits high up in the mountains which gives it a really nice view over the valley. This project was a collaboration between studios Pearson Design Group and On-Site...
Modern Logan House In The Rocky Mountains
CLB Architects co-founder Eric Logan has renovated his self-designed home in Jackson, Wyoming, adding a cold-rolled steel gabled roof and a new kitchen. The house was originally built in 1997 and was called Logan Pavilion. Its long, low form and gabled roof echo the hay sheds that populate the rural landscape in the shadow of...
Refined And Chic Geometry Apartment With Shiny Metals
Polish studio Blackhaus Karol Cieplinski Architekt has turned a boring neglected space into a stylish home. As the name of the project suggests, the Geometry Apartment is all about the consistent geometric division of space, as well as quality material finishes. Situated on the first floor of a modern tenement house, the modest 570.49 ft2...
Modern Industrial Loft With Boho Accents And Retro Vibes
This gorgeous apartment from Barcelona, Spain measures 150 square meters and it feels a lot more spacious than that. This is due to how the interior was redesigned and decorated by Sincro Interior Design Studio. The designers managed to open it up and to redistribute the rooms and to rethink the way in which they’re...
Modern Stone House With A Courtyard In The Center
Casa Tapihue by Matías Zegers Arquitectos is a house in a vineyard built from white stone around a courtyard with a firepit in Casablanca, Chile. The residence is named for the valley of Tapihue between two mountains in Chile’s wine-growing region. Matias Zegers Arquitectos designed the family home to give the resident plentiful ways of...
Modern Retreat-Like Farmhouse Split Into Three Sections
Modern farmhouses are beautiful, welcoming and very cozy, and they keep inspiring us for farmhouse living. The one we are discussing today is create by the talented team at Surround Architecture, this is a permanent home for a family of five but wanted it to feel like a retreat, to be intimate, inviting and comfortable...
Stylish Dark Modern House In NYC Suburbs
Stuart Shanks Architecture has collaborated with B^space Studio to realize a custom residence outside of NYC. The dwelling is designed to reinterpret the traditional forms of the neighboring houses from the 1930s, stripped of all traditional decoration. Since the house is situated at the corner of a busy intersection, the design starts from the interior,...