Falling Water, Revisited: Modern Green Pool-Cooled Home

The Frank Lloyd Wright home featuring a flow-through waterfall may be the most recognizable residential design in modern history, but for all of its innovations its construction was extremely costly, not to mention the subsequent renovations required to hold its structure together over time. If that was the prototype for integrating moving water into houses, then this design may be one of the best executions of a contemporary, environmentally-integrated approach.

Tree-Inspired House Has Green Canopy & Geothermal Roots

Concepts play a central role in architectural studio projects, but sometimes grow into real-life buildings as well Whether this ‘house tree’ was too literally developed or well-designed is still up for debate, though the sketched diagrams from Ignatov Architects are impressive either way.

Charming Sustainable Home in Washington With an Inviting Interior Design

  

Torreagüera Vivienda Atresada by Xpiral

Spanish architect Javier Peña of Xpiral has completed two houses in Murcia, Spain, with the lower volume built from stacked ceramic wine racks.

Sun Moon Lake visitor centre by Norihiko Dan and Associates

Tokyo architects Norihiko Dan and Associates have completed this visitor centre on the shore of Sun Moon Lake in Taiwan.

santiago calatrava: denver international airport

denver international airport's - south terminal redevelopment program by santiago calatrava all images courtesy santiago calatrava, LLC

La Cornette by Yiacouvakis Hamelin, Architectes

La Cornette by Yiacouvakis Hamelin, Architectes

Κατοικία Σταυρίδη στο Γέρι

Linearn volumetric positioning and creation of enclosed covered veradas.

Arkansas House

Dwelling in Pozuelo de Alarcón

A-cero designed this house located in “La Finca”, one of the most exclusive urbanizations in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid.

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Thrice-Sliced Steel Silo Used as a Single-Story Solar Home

One key to sustainable design is going local, so with many old rural grain silos having already gone vacant they make for prime prefabricated old parts for potential new homes. This student project shows one way in which one could cut apart an existing storage silo and use each slide as part of a novel residential structure.

Deck-Centric Home in Chile is All About Patio, Pool & Views

Set along a gentle slope, surrounded by trees but with unobstructed lines of sight to distant mountains … well, this landscape called for an environment-engaged solution, and these architects answered with appropriate awe and reverence for the surroundings.

Apartment House Design by Formwerkz Architects in Singapore

 

The Apartment House is a excellent family home with minimalist design that combine between traditional patterns and modern lifestyles. A contemporary house design idea of cluster living “apartments” which have two blocks on two levels with a central pool and common areas for large family across three generations that living under one roof. The Apartment House design by Formwerkz Architects is located in Seletar Estate, Singapore.

Bold stadiums for Qatar’s winning 2022 FIFA World Cup bid / AS&P

With “Expect Amazing” as its slogan, the 2022 FIFA World Cup promises to be, well, amazing. To achieve this “wow” factor, FIFA chose as host a country willing to go the extra mile: Qatar. And Qatar is already bringing big ideas: German architecture firm AS&P (Albert Speer & Partner), along with the help of PROPROJEKT and SERVICEPLAN, has already designed eight of the 12 new stadiums that will be constructed or retrofitted for the global event.

Tay Yee Wei, a Malaysian architect.. project

Inspired by Le Corbusier’s Living Machine, this housing project situated in Johor, Malaysia examines the advantages of a hexagon as building unit. The proposal takes into consideration the rapid development of Asian cities due to an unprecedented exodus from rural to urban settlements.

Coral Reef – Matrix for the Construction of 1000 Passive Houses in Haiti / V. Callebaut

Called “The Pearl of West Indies”, Haiti was during a long time the most visited country of the Greater Antilles representing the occidental third of Hispaniola Island. Devastated in 2010 by an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, the country has now to be rebuilt from new innovative architectural and town-planning concepts.

Montecito Residence a single-family home

 Montecito Residence is a single-family home set in the fire-prone Toro Canyon. The owners wanted a house that minimized its use of scarce natural resources and recognized the challenging environmental conditions of the area. The design solution is a house that functions as an umbrella to shield the house from the sun and allows naturally cool offshore breezes to move through the space. The house is made of simple, fire resistant materials. Steel will be allowed to oxidize and concrete will be toned to allow the house to blend into the landscape.

Historic Brick Lodge Saved Inside a Modern Glass Box Home

Need to keep something safe, but want to leave it on display? Just like a museum artifact, but on a much much larger scale, this boxy, two-story, glass-and-metal house contains an aged relic, preserving (while using) uncovered remnants from the elements.

Explosive Mix: Regional Cabin Meets Concrete Modernism

The entire time I lived in Seattle, there was something about architecture of the Northwest that defied description but defined much of the amazing work found in the area. This lake house (designed by Tom Kundig but built in Northern Idaho) embodies some of the best aspects of regional Modernism that spreads out from around Puget Sound. Pop the top, and see what surprises burst from the box.