When I hear the description “intimate villa”, I automatically start dreaming about a cottage-like home of mignonne proportions, but this Sandvik Villa put my imagination at rest: glass and aluminum can bring intimacy too. The Sandvik Villa by Helen and Hard Architects is an four stories oasis of glass, aluminum and brick.  If you enjoyed [...]

Two families have decided, upon retiring, to build their dream house/s using the same architect who has originally designed their homes 17 years before. Being neighbors all those 17-years long really meant something to them, enough to ask architect Torin Knorr to design a unique home in Calistoga, California.  If you enjoyed this post you [...]

What aesthetic approach would make your house look different? Pleasantly different? How about James Rizzi’s Happy Rizzi House? Would that change your architectural perspective? But take that without shallowness for the Happy Rizzi House is an important historical moment in Brunswick, Germany. Built in 2001 by the German architect Konrad Kloster and designer James Rizzi, [...]

Architect Nancy Copley doesn’t think being in harmony with the site of a construction is just a concept. She believes in that concept at the point of shaping her own home to really fit the site. Not only she integrated her home in the surrounding nature and used the site’s specifics, but she made the [...]

Remodeling an existing house wasn’t enough for this residential project sent to us by DLF Studio. The old house was demolished and replaced with a modern house (2,000 sf), three times the size of the original one (600 sf). The client’s sole concern was expressing its desire, the rest having been taken care of by [...]

These metallic structures from Keremma, France with a hybrid look, more suitable for a storage facility or office building, are, in fact, a house! This glass and metal house by the sea is made of three separates buildings placed in an arc of a circle, for better weather protection (the arc is opened to the [...]