House in Avandaro, Mexico by Taller Hector Barroso.Taller Hector Barroso’s Mexican weekend family retreat uses mud, wood, and vernacular building processes to seamlessly merge the home with the surrounding forest environment. Spaces are shaped from solid materials; however, the interiors...
Glass Ribbon House Extension in Dublin by Scullion Architects.Scullion Architects’ glazed extension to a traditional Dublin home celebrates the historical details of the original 1930s house while injecting the project with a contemporary expression. Thin black mullions form a repetitive rhythm...
Jolson Converts Red-brick Mechanics Workshop into the House of Bricks.Designed by Jolson Architecture and Interiors, House of Bricks is a warehouse transformed into a robustly styled industrial aesthetic. Integrated neatly into the streetscape like its companions, the interior unveils a sleek and generous...
GreenHouse in Porto, Portugal by OTTOTTO.There is a fascinating and ever-present tension between the old and the new, the commonplace and the avant-garde in OTTOTTO’s GreenHouse located in Portugal’s capital Porto. Existing stone walls lay encased beneath layers of metallic...
1960s Industrial Sugar Mill in Guilin, China, Transformed into Yangshuo Sugar House Luxury Hotel by Vector Architects.Can we please take a moment to appreciate just how breathtaking this project is? I mean the sheer scale of it alone is extraordinary but paired with a dramatic landscape and historically thoughtful architecture, and we are in for a treat!...
JJ House in Lilyfield, Sydney by Bokey Grant Architects.Once covered in pitiful changes, JJ House by Bokey Grant Architects is a former worker’s cottage turned family residence woven with elements towing between the original and the contemporary. What appears to be a house full of complexity,...
The Olive Houses in Palma De Mallorca by mar plus ask.Mar plus ask have unveiled their cavernous stone Olive Houses that sit perched within a vast grove of olive trees high above the Mediterranean Sea. The pair of dwellings dubbed, Pink House and Purple House, stands as a celebration of Palma...
Flat House Zero Carbon Farmhouse in Cambridgeshire by Practice Architecture.A crude agricultural shed is slowly undressed to reveal an astounding farmhouse created predominantly from hemp. Designed by London-based Practice Architecture, Flat House is a trailblazing, low-embodied carbon farmhouse that champions the...
Terracotta Dream: Dois Trópicos in São Paulo by MNMA Studio.MNMA Studio’s Dois Trópicos in São Paulo, Brazil has been crafted by artisan's hands using imperfect natural materials, bringing a homelike familiarity to a commercial space. Dois Trópicos cannot be easily defined by its form or its...
