Located in the town of Medfield, Massachusetts, this home extension by SsD Architecture, features a new second floor, filled with light, above an existing stone ground level as well as a new entry porch, connecting both the new and the original architectures. Continue reading →

Designed by Portuguese architect Alvaro Leite Siza Vieira, Casa Tolo is a 180 sq. meters holiday home located on a long and narrow, steep hill in northern Portugal. The site’s extreme slope defines the main characteristic of this unique concrete structure. Continue reading →

This prefab, modular holiday home can be found in Aireys Inlet, nestled beside the Southern Ocean of Victoria on Australia’s world famous Great Ocean Road. Continue reading →

This modern studio is based upon an expanded loft design relocated to the countryside. The art studio serves as a place for both drawing and painting as well as providing for the amenities of storage, cooking, cleaning, and reading. Continue reading →

With a couple of Lavaflow houses up his sleeve, San-Francisco-based Architect Craig Steely knows a thing or two about navigating the execution of modern homes in remote Hawaiian areas as well as designing for the extreme climate of the region. Continue reading →

Located on a remote island in Canada’s Lake Huron, this floating, two-story summer house dynamically adapts to the drastic water level changes by floating atop a structure of steel pontoons, allowing it to gently sway along with the lake. Continue reading →

Katja and Adam Thom, from the architectural firm of Agathom, chose a long, windswept granite rock in northern Ontario, Canada to built a small, off the grid wood-framed cabin with a modern slanting roof resembling an airplane wing or a tent flap pulled down and pegged. Continue reading →

Over the last couple of years, Ryan Walsh of DRW Design Build has been consistently working on his 1925 bungalow in Portland, Oregon. Due to tight financial constraints, Walsh did an excellent job in remodeling and expanding the original structure into a modern home by using an alternative design approach combined with recycled materials. Continue reading →

The Slot House is a small home renovation project by Noroof Architects, located in Brooklyn, NY. Positioned behind a beautiful Maple tree, this compact home of 1000 sq. ft. got its name from the slot incision created to allow the tree to be seen from inside, only during the work the original structure’s cedar-framed handmade brick wall was revealed, becoming the spatial concept of the house, extending it vertically and horizontally. Continue reading →

The Anglesea House, designed by Melbourne-based architect Andrew Maynard, is a family holiday home extension, based on the great Australian tradition of the ‘shack’. Continue reading →