Single family residence, Hawaii, USA

 The single family residence in Hawaii (USA) includes  main living space, media room, common areas and master suite. Focal and organizational feature is the exterior gallery corridor along a central axis.

Architecture: Belzberg Architects

Low energy luxury villa, Mallorca, Spain

In this luxury villa project in Mallorca (Spain) have been used such low energy, sustainable and innovative technologies as geothermal, passive cooling, photovoltaic, daylighting, super-insulated and solar water heating.

Architecture: tecDesign, Sebastian Knorr

Treehouse home on the slope, Seattle, USA (+plans)

The treehouse residence built on an inaccessible slope lot. This resource efficient and cost effective building designed to minimize long term site impact and use light and view to accentuate the experience of living in the treehouse.

Architecture: SHED

Artist studios, Newfoundland, Canada

The artist studios situated on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada. The houses recycle their own waste and produce their own power and 100% off-the-grid.

Architectors: Saunders Architecture
Photos: Bent Rene´Synnevåg

Modern highland house, Pyrenees, Spain

This modern highland house in Pyrenees (Spain) stands out among the surrounding mountain scenery and a few buildings in the neighborhood. Location on the slope combines privacy, the opportunity to enjoy the spectacular views and breathe the fresh mountain air.

Architecture: Cadaval & Sola-Morales

Rustic natural stone Swiss house, Alps, Switzerland

The rustic natural stone Swiss house situated in rural mountain area of Switzerland, was designed to combine comfort and work on paintings of owner-artist.

Architecture: Lawrence Savioz
Photos: Thomas Jantscher

Large single-family house design (+floor plans)

Contemporary design of this large single-family house creates an atmosphere of openness and support a visual link with the surrounding landscape through extensive glazing.

Architecture: Architrend Architecture
Photos: Umberto Agnello

Unusual house with underground rooms, Leiria, Portugal

The house consists of social area and private area, which include living rooms and bedrooms, respectively. The private patios are used to communicate underground rooms with the environment.

Architecture: Manuel Aires Mateus
Photos: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

Contemporary minimalist villa design with indoor patio, Italy (+floor plans)

The contrast between the dark surfaces of the ground floor and large windows, the white walls of the first floor and lava stone makes the construction of the contemporary minimalist villa design with indoor patio to be light and suspended. The living room has a glass central patio, natural light  illuminated, with a green palm tree in the middle.

Architect: Architrend Architecture
Photos: Moreno Maggi

Custom residential interior design & decorating, Dallas, Texas, USA

Minimalist style custom residential interior design decorating includes modern elements of art, assortment of wood types and custom pieces to attract the attention of visitors to all the right places.

Architects: Bodron + Fruit

Sails concrete house design, Sydney, Australia

Exterior curved walls of the Australian concrete house was designed for windblown sails facade feeling. The house looks more like a white sailboat, if we look at it from the pool. Large facade glazing allows a lot of natural light in.

Architects and photos: Tony Owen Partners

Modular frame prefab cottage, Michigan, USA (+floor plans)

The modular frame prefab cottage consists of 2 modules separated and raised for privacy, space and light. An open rooftop deck establishes a direct connection with the outdoors and creates a sense of openness.

Architecture and photos: Garrison Architects

Compact glass wall house, Austria

The compact glass wall house (Austria) made of prefabricated structural panels, which were installed onto the floor slab in a few hours with the help of a crane. The high degree of prefabrication, the application of external shading and calorific value technology as well as the simple form of the building volume all contribute to making this a very ecological and economical  building.

Architecture: Caramel Architekten
Photos: Otto Hainzl

House with big outdoor water pond design, Indonesia

The compound consists of three sleeping pavilions, center two-story pavilion with living/dining facilities and roof garden.

Architecture and photos: Yoka Sara International

Luxury sustainable green roof house design, Singapore

Cross ventilation and passive cooling with solar water heaters and photovoltaic cells reduce energy usage of this luxury sustainable green roof house.

Architecture: Guz Architects
Photography: Patrick Bingham Hall

Horse riding (equestrian) stables photos&plans, South America, Chile

This horse riding (equestrian) stables (South America, Chile) project include saddle, cleaning rooms and offices.

Architecture & photos: Pablo Lamarca & Tomas Swett

Luxury ocean villa with pool, Phuket, Thailand

 The living spaces of this amazing luxury villa with pool by the ocean (Phuket, Thailand) are located at three main levels, each of which offers a picturesque view of the Indian Ocean.

Architects: Original Vision Ltd, Adrian McCarroll, Waiman Cheung, Jamie Jamieson
Photos: Marc Gerritsen. Helicam Asia Aerial Photography

Unique unusual tree hotel, Harads, Sweden

Unique unusual tree hotel close to the polar circle, near the small village of Harads, Sweden. The exterior mirrored glass reflects the sky and the surrounding trees, creating a camouflaged refuge.

Architects: Tham & Videgard Arkitekter
Photos: Ake E:son Lindman

LEED Platinum sustainable home, Washington, USA

 Design of the LEED Platinum sustainable home (Washington, USA) involve photovoltaic, geothermal, advanced heat-recovery, solar hot water and rain water technologies. Energy consumption of the house is more than 70% less compared to a typical house.

Architect: Coates Design
Photos: Northernlight

Concrete, glass and wood house, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 This concrete, glass and wood house in Buenos Aires (Argentina) was designed to leave as many trees on the site as possible.

Architect: BAK Architects (Maria Victoria Besonias, Luciano Kruk)
Photography: Gustavo Sosa Pinilla