This great Kawana House is a japanese residential architecture project designed by Foster + Partners. The Kawana house, with its adjoining guesthouse is a fusion of the Japanese love of harmony and respect for nature and the Western refinement of a dematerialized architecture of steel and glass. The house is an exploration of traditional Japanese architecture in a modern context. The building’s...
A new residential architecture project designed by PATH Architecture which was dubbed as “the Park BOX“, a two unit row house constructed on a standard 50’ x 100’ corner Portland lot. The house is located directly across the street from Unthank Park in Portland Oregon The placement on the site provides each unit with a large private deck on opposite ends of the site, one with a large...
This Luxury architecture villa design – Villa Berkel was designed by the dutch architect Paul de Ruiter which is also designed this Villa room in Rhenen. This nature inspired villa architecture project is located in the forest of Veenendaal, The Netherlands which blends between indoors and outdoors space; private and public. The layout of the site is repeated in the floor plan of the house. This...
This riverfront residence engages the landscape at the entry courtyard to visually minimise the garage and give the false appearance of a one story loggia. This sets up an unexpected arrival sequence to a central courtyard that opens up to a two story space with overhead parasol roof. This courtyard is the central focus of the house which embraces the notion of an outdoor/ indoor area for the family...
This new reinforced concrete boxes house design “Paraty House” is a new residential architecture project designed by brazilian based architects, Marcio Kogan. The Paraty house is located in in Paraty, Brazil, The building sit atop each other, connected on the mountainside of one of the islands of the colonial city of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), like...