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Photo©Ryota Atarashi

Architects: Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Location: Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Site area: 177.27 sqm
Building area: 106.33 sqm
Total floor area: 259.72 sqm
Project Year: 2006 Read the rest of this entry »

Photographer: Toshiyuki Yano

Architect: Bunzo Ogawa / FUTURE STUDIO
Project Name: WRAP HOUSE
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Program: Private House
Size: 2 stories
Structure: Wood
Site Area: 108.75sqm
Building Area: 64.46sqm
Total Floor Area: 118.86sqm
Design: Sep.2008 – Jun.2009
Construction: Jul.2009 – Nov.2009 Read the rest of this entry »

Wood Block Residence

Architect : Chadbourne + Doss Architects
Mercer Island, WA
3,000 s.f. single family residence
Photography by Benjamin Benschneider – http://www.benschneiderphoto.com/ Read the rest of this entry »

Photo©Dianna Snape

Marcus O’Reilly Architects has carefully designed a low key, site responsive beach house in Sorrento on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula in Australia.  The timber clad structure reinterprets a longstanding beach house tradition in the area.  It uses local materials to blend into, respect and compliment it’s sought after, national park adjacent location. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo©John Gollings

Winner of The World Architecture Festival 2009- House Category, Klein Bottle house designed by McBride Charles Ryan. They applied the Topology Mathematic thoery & CAD technology combined with Joyfulness concept of vacation retreat. Here’s their statement; Read the rest of this entry »

Photo courtesy of Axelrod Design

eHouse by Axelrod Design is a single family house that was inhabited in 2008 and borrows from two traditions in architecture – a Mediterranean aesthetic of sun and light and a minimalist discipline of line and plane. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo Courtesy Predock_Frane Architect

Courtyard house + Hillside house  = Twin Houses from Predock_Frane Architects Read the rest of this entry »

Photo©John Chisholm

Cottesloe House designed by Paul Burnham Architect from Australia. Here’s architect statement;

A new house on a narrow, elevated north facing site for a structural engineer / builder client. The design has achieved north facing aspects to all internal and external living areas. The saw tooth roof profile allows deep winter sun penetration throughout the length of the upper floor. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo©Oskar Da Riz

The Rothoblaas office is a large scale commercial operation specializing in assembling systems and power tools for the woodworking industry. Warehouse and commissioning are situated on the ground floor and a showroom can be found on the upper floor. The aim of the project was to create a compact building with a high level of recognition. Read the rest of this entry »

Photograph©Peter Wright Photography

A REMARKABLE TRANSFORMATION

The Threshing Barn is a Grade 2 listed farm building dating from the 16th century. Through the sensitive work of owners Janine and Roy Naismith, and their architect the Haddow Partnership, it has been transformed it into a striking and award-winning contemporary home.

Hidden in a small village in southern England, the barn lay derelict for many years before its current owners spotted its potential.“The character and history of old wood combined with the opportunity for open-plan living attracted us to this old barn” said Roy Naismith. “But we wanted to put a contemporary home inside the old timbers, not a faux farmhouse” Read the rest of this entry »