residential

Game On home in Aspen by Rowland + Broughton takes cues from historic neighbours

May 10, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

A lot in Aspen was divided in half to make way for this white, slender home by US studio Rowland + Broughton, which is meant to bring “a sense of clarity and elegance to a traditionally ornate Victorian form”. Called Game On, the dwelling is located in the Colorado mountain town’s historic West End neighbourhood.

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Farm buildings inform design of Canadian lakeside home by Trevor Horne Architects

May 10, 2017 John Trujillo 0

London-based Trevor Horne Architects has completed a waterfront house in Ontario, referencing local barn structures through expansive spaces and a zinc-clad pitched roof. The Corbourg residence is situated on the Canadian shore of Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes that define the country’s southeastern border with the United States. As the clients had previously resided on a farm, the architects sought to

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Five of the best houses in Costa Rica on Dezeen

May 10, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

Costa Rica is slowly gaining recognition for its contemporary architecture, so here are five residential projects that demonstrate the small Central American country’s particular style of tropical modernism. Casa Flotanta by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture A series of pillars raise the interconnected rooms of this house by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture above the tree tops

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Glazing in jagged roof brightens Los Angeles home by Studio William Hefner

May 9, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Los Angeles-based Studio William Hefner has built a local home that features abundant clerestory windows and an overhanging upper floor that shades terraces below. Situated in a residential neighbourhood in west Los Angeles, the Toulon Drive House was commissioned by a couple who wanted “an emphasis on natural light and the surrounding landscape”. A path

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Mami House is a “mini bunker” built for a family on a very tight budget

May 9, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Faced with the difficult task of delivering a family house for less than €100,000, Portuguese architect José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira designed this cuboidal concrete property. Nunes de Oliveira, who leads architecture studio NOARQ, was initially asked by the clients to build them a 160-square-metre home for just €80,000 (approximately £67,000). He told them it was impossible, so they

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Idee Architects updates house on Vietnamese citrus farm with pavilion-like living space

May 9, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Idee Architects has modernised a traditional Vietnamese farmhouse for a large family, adding a glass and steel structure that overlooks orchards and the Ba Vì mountain range beyond. The Hanoi-based studio built the farmhouse in two main units, constructing the living and dining area on top of the basement of a dilapidated building, and renovating existing structures for the bedrooms. Mian Farm Cottage was designed

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Grove of trees shades hillside Costa Rican house by Carazo Arquitectura

May 8, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Costa Rica studio Carazo Arquitectura has completed a concrete residence that sprawls across the summit of a hill and steps down the slope into a canopy of vegetation. The Murray Music House is situated in the small Costa Rican city of Heredia, which forms part of the capital San Jose’s greater metropolitan area. The clients

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ISA creates hybrid housing complex for gentrifying neighbourhood in Philadelphia

May 8, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

The massing for this residential development by US architecture firm ISA was driven by its varied types of living units, from apartments and duplexes to three-storey townhouses. Called Folsom Powerhouse, the housing development occupies a full block in Francisville, a gentrifying neighbourhood between Philadelphia’s urban core and outlying areas. Constructed on a gently sloping site,

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Gabled guesthouse by Sutherland & Co extends countryside cottage in Scotland

May 8, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

This modest extension to a cottage in the Scottish countryside was designed by architecture studio Sutherland & Co so the owners could invite their family to stay. Featuring shingle-covered walls and a light-filled interior, the simple gabled extension – called Sydserf – adjoins the single-storey property in East Lothian, a county on the outskirts of Edinburgh. “Our clients needed a

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Jan Skuratowski’s “pavilion-like” House M features large window walls

May 8, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Large windows are slotted in between concrete and timber-clad floorplates to form this polygonal house in the Swiss town of Möhlin, designed by Basel-based architect Jan Skuratowski. The single-family house was designed by Basel-based architect Jan Skuratowski for a plot adjacent to an existing property built in the 1980s. The new building is positioned alongside the existing house on

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