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Mount Baker Residense

Mount Baker Residense designed by Pb Elemental Architecture, located in the Mount Baker neighborhood of Seattle, this dramatic home is perched on a hill, high above the street. The design captures the territorial views of the surrounding rooftops with floor to ceiling glass and roof top deck.
The 3,600 sqft home includes four bedrooms, two and a half baths, and a large open living floor with ten foot-tall ceilings and a two car garage with a 400 sqft roof deck above. Additionally, the home includes a separate, one bedroom apartment unit on the lower level, complete with a wrap-around patio.

The structure was conceived as the juxtaposition of three pure volumes, each containing a unique programmatic element. In turn, each element is clad with clear cedar, cement board or concrete to emphasize the massing.
Architects: Pb Elemental Architecture
Location: Seattle, Washington, US
Structural Engineer: Pangeo
Landscape: Volz Landscaping
Constructed Area: 2.940 sqft (273 sqm)
Project year: 2007
Construction year: 2008
Photographs: Pb Elemental Architectur
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House of inclusion — Japanese House Design

House of inclusion designed by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects, located in Shiga, Japan.
Here’s some text from the architect:
This house, located in a new residential area, is for a 30-something couple. Surrounded by other houses, the design goal was set up to block out the outside world while avoiding too much closure, as well as to provide rich and sensuous spaces.
First, a small patio and a path connected to it were laid out between the living or dining room and exterior. They are surrounded by a wall that blocks off the line of sight from outside. Planting and pond are laid out at the patio, so that the picturesque images of green and water are viewed from the rooms.
Enclosed by walls that create indirect light filling softly the entire room, the house presents sentimental scenes here and there. The living spaces and the life lived there are enveloped by green and light, creating an affectionate environment.
Architects: FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects
Location: Shiga, Japan
Client: Private
Construction Year: 2009
Site Area: 215,35m2
Constructed Area: 151,71m2
Photographs: Takumi Ot
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Sustainable Maintencillo House by Jonas Retamal

Jonas Retamal Architect recently designed a sustainable house in the coast of Chile’s Valparaíso Region. This house created with wooden material with 2 space. Interior was designed with contemporary style, with warm and cozy ascend.
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Lira House — luxury home

The house is organized around three events: Firstly, a patio over street level, secondly, a promenade composed of ramps and staircases that lead from the parking to the roof garden and thirdly, a perimeter wall that defines the domesticated territory of the house.

Regarding the expression of the house, it offers a silent facade to the street, which is no more than the simple echo of the wall that confines the small patio of the sleeping rooms. This elongated patio works as a filter towards the noisy movement of cars that pass tangent to the site.

Its interior space is characterized by the colonization of elements such as: the oblique pillars which endure the horizontal force of possible earthquakes, the prefabricated skylights which introduce light to the deepest part of the house and the ramps. Those elements altogether create boundaries and tensions within the space.

Architect : Sebastian Irarrazaval
Client : Martin Irarrazaval
Location : Santiago, Chile
Site Area : 700 sqm
Building Area : 200sqm
Construction start : 2005
Completion : 2006
Materials : Concrete, Timber & Glass
Photos : Carlos Eguiguren

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Mush Residence — luxury home

Mush Residence, a home incorporating an artists’ studio and exhibition space, Located in west Los Angeles, California. Designed by Los Angeles office Studio 0.10 Architects.

The residence comprises two buildings with a courtyard between. A two-storey building faces the street and contains a garage, apartment and art studio.

The circulation and exhibition spaces for the owners’ artwork and collections wrap around the three-storey main house.

Images are copyright Fotoworks; Benny Chen and Studio 0.10 Architects.
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Barn House — farmhouse — home design

Barn House is the farmhouse, designed by BURO II , together with Hendrik Vermoortel, Rita Huys. Located among the rolling hills of mid-west Flanders.

The central principle for the farmhouse conversion is the relationship between the building and its outside space, and the connection with the surrounding environment. The client was emphatic that tradition, innovation and respect for the landscape be combined in a single project. The structure of the landscape and research into rural building in Flanders stand in reciprocity to the design process and the final built environment. Crucial in this thought process is that the landscape confirms the footprint of the buildings and farmhouses in origin and as tradition. Here respect and tradition create a need for a contemporary continuity, reflected in the search for a new meaning for the farmhouse in its varying scenic mutations. The project is a spatial and architectural quest for methods to offer new perspectives in the relationship between landscape and

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House D — modern house

House D is modern house, designed by Bevk Perovic Architects, located in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The house includes an underground gymnasium including a sauna, swimming pool and music room, lit by three atria. Terraces on the ground and first floors are equal in size to the rooms from which they extend.

building: House D
address: Rozna dolina, SI-1000 Ljubljana
client: private
programme: private house
site area: 627,64 m2
project team: bevk perovic arhitekti
Matija Bevk, Vasa J. Perovic, Ursula Oitzl, Ida Sedusak
photographer: Miran Kambic

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Aquino House — Luxury Home Design

Aquino House, the single-family residence is located on a steeped lot in front of federal government lands and aside a river.

The house is configured by orthogonal shapes and materials such as wood, stone and metal without artificial claddings. It stands with no protagonism against the rich and abundant surroundings.
A series of spatial and comfort requirements led to juxtaposed concepts. The family wished for large open areas that could somehow, blend with the nature around, bluring the lines between “inside” and “outside”. Another request was an isolated studio with room for thousands of books, compact discs and LP’s, which must maintain related with the exterior.

The main intention was for each interior space to face the river or the old amate tree, which is located towards east and has a 30 meter extended foliage that appears to envelop the house.
The small pool of stone and its red cedar surrounding pavement stands as the most intimate space concealed between the house and one of the perimeter retaining walls.

Architects: Augusto Fernandez Mas (K+A Diseño)
Location: Cuernavacas, Morelos, Mexico
Project year: 2005
Construction year: 2006
Collaborators: Edurne Turcott Unzueta, David Alba
Landscape: Mario de la Garza & Daniel Aguilar
Woodwork: Fernando Acevedo
Structural Engineer: Enrique Garcia
Constructed Area: 490 sqm
Photographs: Fernando Cordero
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Modern in Suffolk

Modern in Suffolk, originally uploaded by Fray Bentos.
A large family home of ...what would it be? the 1960s or 70s I should think... at Sudbury, Suffolk. It looks to me like a merger of two houses. The dynamic, angular lineaments of the roof, the black facing material and the glazing over on the far left ...which somehow gives one an inkling of the community centre or comprehensive school... seem to have been grafted onto a fairly conventional brick, gable-ended house. It's alright in its way I suppose, but to me it seems to belong in Tromso, or the suburbs of Calgary, rather than to rural southern England.
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Menlo Park — modern house design

Menlo Park — house design, is Cheng’s sixth custom home, which he redesigned and constructed from top-tobottom.

the importance of this project goes even deeper — it represents a major career milestone thanks to the unique and innovative use of concrete, as this residence is one of Cheng’s first-ever ‘hybrid’ structures, constructed as a combination of wood and concrete.

Both architecturally and aesthetically, the project is one of both innovative function and beauty in the application of concrete within a residential structure.

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New house?

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OH Oxford — House

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Modern abstract house in Oxford, Ohio.
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Residential Design of Lanserhofwiese Project by Wimmer Zaic Architects

Dubbed as Lanserhofwiese’ project, the residential colony by the Austrian architects Wimmer Zaic Architects covers an area of 74 000 sqm. Various buildings maintain a respectable distance marked by free spaces of ways. The buildings follow a distinctive pattern wherein after every three stories, the next seems to do some trickery in extending out of the normal order.
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Modern Tree House

Modern Tree House Designed by Frank Harmon Architect, located in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Set on a steep escarpment and surrounded by 150-year-old birch and oak trees. Home sits high above ground on wood trusses and concrete piers, allowing water to run freely beneath it and appearing as though it’s ready to take flight.
The home’s glass-and-steel facade draws a fine line between the raw outdoors and a modern interior, which is finished with glossy cherry-wood floors, exposed wood columns and beams, and a staircase constructed of salvaged steel.
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Modern Songzhuang Artist Residence in Beijing by DnA Architects

Songzhuang Residence is the most famous artist community in the People’s Republic of China. This residence located in Tong Zhou District, Beijing. Designed by DnA Architects this residence is in demand of living spaces for its creative minds.
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The first artists moved here including Yue Minjun and Fang Lijun,in the early 1990’s, having been driven out of another community near the Old Summer Palace in Beijing’s north-west. For more than 10 years these artists were virtual outcasts with much of their work politically inspired, lived and worked under the watchful eye of communist authorities. With the booming of Chinese art market, Songzhuang is undergoing a dramatic expansion of artist population which has reached to 4000 in year 2008.
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Traditional Cottage with a Modern Addition — home design

The Ten Broeck Cottage by Messana O’Rorke Architects is a modern way to appreciate classical 18th century architecture. Located in Columbia County, New York, this farmhouse beautifully blends the old and the new. Built in the mid-1700s, the original wing of the Ten Broeck Cottage houses a main-floor living room and dining room divided by a fireplace, and two bedrooms and a bath on the upper level. Interiors are an artful juxtaposition of old and new — plaster walls butting up against limestone floors, and richly oiled woods exposed against cool stainless steel.

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Villa in the Dunes — luxury house design

Villa in the Dunes is a house designed by architects Zandbelt&vandenBerg, located at the edge of the dunes in the Hook of Holland, the Netherlands.
A villa for an art-loving couple has been completed at the edge of the dunes of Hook of Holland. The entrance level is situated in the dunes as a bunker and consists of a guesthouse, besides the entrance functions.
The living on the front gives access to a dunegarden through a terrace. On the other side the kitchen hovers above the ground. On top of this all, the master bedroom. An exterior staircase leads to a roof terrace and provides a panorama on the surrounding dune landscape and its bunkers. The sea lures at the horizon.
Architect : Zandbelt&vandenBerg Rotterdam, NL
Team : Daan Zandbelt and Rogier van den Berg with Tom Bokkers, David Luque
Client : Pieter & Diana van Toor
Photographs : Christian Richters
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Capitol Residence — house design

Capitol Residence designed by Pb Elemental Architect, located in Seattle, Washington, US.
The project includes 1688 sf of living space, one car garage, driveway, and green space on a small lot centered in Seattle’s Capitol Hill urban community. Exterior elements distinguish the homes different areas; extra rooms and stairwell clad in black aluminum panel, while the main areas; common level and master suite, are outlined with white aluminum panel, cedar rain screen and glass. Extensive store-front windows facing the street add a voyeuristic element to the home, giving away intimate views of the master suite and living room floors.
Architects: Pb Elemental Architecture
Location: Seattle, Washington, US
Contractor: Lead Construction
Landscape: Volz Landscaping
Interior Design: Modern Dwelling, LLC
Constructed Area: 1.688 sqft (156.8 sqm)
Design Period: 60 days
Construction year: 2008
Photographs: Pb Elemental Architecture
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House RR — luxury home

This roof measuring six metres high, with a surface of eighteen by eight metres, was built using a prefabricated timber structure with galvanized steel joints. In the two large facades of the house, generously open to the scenery, panels of glass fiber mosquito screens with PVC coating were installed, pivoting or sliding, with the intention of creating an external membrane, capable of keeping the insects out, without creating an obstacle for the ocean view and wind. View House RR detail [via] modern house design.
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Art Deco — House Design

Art Deco — House Design
Yet another art deco design on Logan Avenue in the Marewa neighbourhood of Napier. Very angular compared with some of the others, but again still looking pretty much as it did when first built.
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