A Beachfront Bungalow in Sorrento by Fiona Lynch.With a wheat-toned interior and Italian Rationalist hallmarks, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Sorrento House is located somewhere along the Positano coastline. Instead, the house, redesigned by Fiona Lynch, sits quietly opposite...
Tiny but Mighty: Picalo Cabin by Gerard Dombroski Workshop.Gerard Dombroski’s Picalo Cabin is a simple construction is made entirely of materials that are no longer useful on the buildings they was once on. The mini-construction resembles a classic corrugated metal shed framed by weather-worn...
A Saramaga: A Sunset Sanctuary in Cartaxo, Portugal by DC.AD.Stepping inside 'A Saramaga, an old house in the Portuguese town of Cartaxo recently revived by DC.AD, it’s evident sunlight never really seems to end. Not in the living room, nor in the kitchen. Nor even in the deepest bedroom corners....
A Modish B&B in Red Hill by Tom Robertson Architects & Simone Haag.The very mention of a bed-and-breakfast can conjure up visions of chintzy chairs and lace curtains and fluffy three-egg omelettes that taste like Sunday morning. Bassano is none of that—except for the omelettes, which they will happily...
Always by Kennedy Nolan.The inimitable Melbourne architecture practice, Kennedy Nolan, knows a thing or two about designing domestic spaces. Their latest project is a weekender in Flinders with intense interior materiality punctuated by the vast coastal...
La Hacienda JardĂn in Tepoztlán, Mexico by Práctica Arquitectura.There's something thoroughly Willy Wonka-ish about the Mexican valley town of Tepoztlán. Known for its exotic ice cream flavours, great weather, and otherworldly flora and rock formations, it earned the title of Pueblo Mágico, or Magic...
House Meets Garden: Guest Pavilion in Quintay, Chile by Tironi Bartlau.For Santiago-based architecture studio, Tironi Bartlau, designing this guest pavilion in Quintay, Chile was an exercise in balancing the intimate and extroverted. “We set out not to simply build a new building in the vacant space,”...
DD House on the Coal Coast, NSW by Bokey Grant Architects.An exercise in restraint, DD House by Bokey Grant Architects cuts a striking figure against its soft hilly surroundings of Coal Coast in Southern NSW. With a tight budget and a difficult site to manage, the studio makes light of negatives,...
A House on a Cliff in Costa Brava by Marià Castelló and José Antonio Molina.The only thing more striking than the outcrops in the Costa Brava, is the houses that emerge out of them—as architects Marià Castelló and José Antonio Molina would know. Their curious cantilevered construction is like that friend you...
