Sunlit Sanctuary: A Ranch-style Home in Santa Barbara by Corinne Mathern.This 1980s ranch-style estate with a rambling ranch-style layout, is nestled deep inside the Santa Ynez Valley in California. It was set on acres and acres of land and dotted with olive trees, horses and emus. Just a 3-hour drive from Los...
An Exercise in Imagination: 1970s House Renovation in Bergamo by Officina Magisafi.In Bergamo, a Northern Italian province outside of Milan sits this intricately revamped 1970s house by Officina Magisafi. Inspired by the owners’ passion for industrial aesthetics and the United States, the design studio took an...
Casual but Sharp: ALUMNI Chengdu by FON Studio.Situated in China’s Sichuan province among Chengdu’s 1906 Creative Park, a patchwork of heritage and youth cultural attractions lies within FON Studio’s latest retail project for ALUMNI. Attracted by the mirage of history and the...
Rigour and Restraint: Das Glashaus by Sigurd Larsen.Designed by Sigurd Larsen, this striking structure in the countryside of Uckermark is a weekender just north of Berlin. Following a simple floor plan, interior and exterior spaces grow together through the many openings on the garden...
Secret Garden House by Kennedy Nolan.Somewhere in Melbourne, beyond a mystical arched gateway, hides a secret garden that is the stuff of storybooks. Like its famous namesake novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, it is big and wild, with birds and butterflies and blooms that come...
Restaurang ÄNG in Sweden by Norm Architects.Sitting as a solitary diamond in the fields of Ästad Vingård—one of Sweden’s largest vineyards—Restaurang ÄNG is a partly underground restaurant that stands as a modern and refined interpretation of a greenhouse turned inside out....
The House of Remembrance in Singapore by Neri&Hu.Neri&Hu constructed a new house in place of a family home for three adult siblings with a memorial courtyard for their late mother. Centrally located, the garden symbolically defines the heart of the home as an ever-palpable void,...
Traditional Inspiration Meets Contemporary Elegance: Shelter Island by Workstead.Workstead has combined traditional inspiration with contemporary elegance in a newly completed renovation in Shelter Island, connecting an existing house to a pavilion to fit the needs of a young family. The same modest scale, gabled form...
Encampment-like Home: Awaawaroa Bay House by Cheshire Architects.Three small volumes resembling more of an encampment than a home are situated around a sun-drenched courtyard in Awaawaroa Bay, New Zealand. By eroding the threshold between inside and outside Cheshire Architects have doubled the living...
