The black exterior of this unusual building is an attempt to establish visual harmony between architecture and nature and to establish a continuous and simple overall aesthetic for this whole project. The building is a one-bedroom home for a couple, designed and built by studio Glamuzina Paterson Architects. It occupies a steep site in New…
Non-residential projects that make use of shipping containers are always interesting and inspiring, revealing new and ingenious ways of incorporating these structures into amazing designs. The Doca Steak Burger restaurant located in the city of Patos de Minas in Brazil is a very inspiring project. It was completed by studio Meius Arquitetura in 2018 and…
Lots of people consider moving into a tiny house on wheels, but while they might want to scale down their home and carbon footprint, they don’t necessarily want to give up style or some of the modern conveniences of life. There are plenty of examples of bare-bones tiny houses on wheels, and many of them…
In a small town close to London, Ontario there’s a gorgeous area filled with beautiful pine trees and a lovely view over Lake Huron. It’s here that architecture studio SAOTA together with their interiors division ARRCC took on the task to build a contemporary family retreat up a bluff between the forest and the lake….
Although Canada is a highly urbanized country, there are also plenty of cabins, retreats and beautiful houses that take advantage of the wild landscape. There are a lot of forests, mountains and tundra regions which have inspired architects to create amazing structures that adapt to their surroundings and bring the outdoors in. Let’s check out…
Perched on a lush jungle hillside overlooking Costa Rica’s Playa Hermosa Beach, this luxury villa is a tropical paradise that melds spectacular architecture, stunning views and an interior where every bit of decor is a work of art. Art Villas near the town of Uvitan in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, was designed by architects Dagmar Štěpánová…
Inspired by their client’s need for a warehouse space, the architects and designers at Constanza DomÍnguez C. and Plannea Arquitectura managed to create something really using recycled shipping containers. The project was completed in 2019 in Chile and makes use of two containers which are positioned parallel to each other with a 6 meter gap…
Last year, in 2019, the amazing team of architects at studio Productora completed a gorgeous project in Quintana Roo, Mexico. It was a contemporary house set on a narrow neachfront site surrounded by lush greenery. The house is entirely powered by solar and wind energy and has a very interesting and unusual design but one…
This is a site located in Valle de Bravo, Mexico which offers magnificent views over the distant landscape. Such beauty deserves to be admired so when the architects and designers at Estudio MMX were asked to build a house here, they immediately recognized the powerful influence that the landscape had to have on the entire…
Driven by their clients’ desire to have a welcoming family gathering space on a beautiful site surrounded by nature, architecture studio Aguilo+Pedraza came up with a gorgeous design for a house on the Eastern bank of the Rupunco Lake in Chile. The house has a pavilion-inspired structure and a peculiar layout. The major elements in…
Situated on a piece of land adjacent to the Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro, this beautiful house serves as a peaceful and quiet retreat, a place to engage with nature and to enjoy all the amazing landscape unfolding all around it. The project was recently completed by the architects and designers at Olson…
This beautiful rustic cabin is the type of place we often dream of escaping to, the type of holiday retreat that’s away from the noise and chaos of the city and which welcomes us into the middle of nature. Located in Wensleydale, Victoria (Australia) this beautiful barn-inspired villa enjoys tranquil views over the countryside and…
Today we have a really cool project to share with everyone but especially anyone interested in mobile houses and craftsman-style homes. This project is a combination of both those elements. We’re referring to the new 2021 structure designed by studio Woodland Park. This mobile house has a beautiful old-school exterior and a very welcoming and…
Tiny homes keep getting better and more impressive every day with new projects being developed all over the world. One of the latest ones is this amazing Gooseneck trailer home designed and built by studio Liberation Tiny Homes. Its overall dimensions are 40′ x 10′ x 13’6” and inside there’s a total of 400 square…
We’re quite used to seeing a lot of prefab cabins and other structures that are small and lack certain features but that’s not always the case. In fact, a great thing about prefabricated structures in general is that they can be modular and can be shaped in all sorts of interesting ways. The location of…