House Design by Architects

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House from a factory in London by Dow Jones Architects

2010-01-30T15:54:00.005Z

This house for a film maker occupies the top two floors of a victorian clog making factory in South London. The architects have created a modern domestic space with timber, brick and in-situ cast concrete. The bathroom is designed simply as a piece of furniture occupying the main volume of the house, reinforcing the spacious feel of the home. An extension into the existing roof of the building creates a new floor with terraces overlooking the city.

London House extension by Platform 5 Architects

2010-01-04T20:44:00.005Z

In this carefully designed extension to a property in Hackney, the kitchen and garden area are connected by a seamless concrete floor, giving the internal space an external character. A modern structural glass window projects into the garden - the expansive use of glass throughout the project allows light to flood into the previously dark interior space of the Victorian house.

Timber house extension in Belgium

2009-12-20T13:38:00.002Z

This extension to a rural house in Belgium extends over an existing garden lake. The designers, Wim Goes Architectuur have created a space that provides shelter and a sense of enclosure, yet retains a strong relationship with the garden. Its structural timber strip facade allows a constant garden view and is permeable to the elements. The timber will age to a natural silver colour over time, relating to the hues of the existing house.

Anish Kapoor's London House

2009-11-29T15:59:00.003Z

This house for Anish Kapoor by Tony Fretton Architects was carefully designed to suit the artist's requirements. A large central space was created which could be opened up to the rest of the house. The spaces were intended to be flowing, without the compartmentalised feel of traditional homes. The house has large glazed lightwells to provide natural light on the tight 8m wide site, and structural gymnastics are provided by cantilevered staircases. The building takes on the feel of an austere gallery, seemingly appropriate for spaces that will be filled with the owner's creations.

Architect designed house in Holland Park, London

2009-10-20T22:44:00.005+01:00

This eco-friendly house in Holland Park, London was designed with simplicity and relaxation in mind. The architect’s clean and white modern design is complemented by a number of high tech environmental features, including aquacycle water filtration, photovoltaic cells and a geo-thermal energy system.

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House in Boukyo

2009-10-08T08:41:00.010+01:00

This new house in the north of Japan is built on a hill top site over looking the city of Sapporo. The core-ten clad facades of the home have rapidly taken on rust patterning from precipitation, suggesting solidarity and a long previous existence. The passing of time engraved in the public facades is contrasted with the crisp, modern lines of the minimal interior of the house. The architect has pushed the most private spaces such as the meditation room to the interior of the property, creating a gradual transition between public and most private. The details and material were decided whilst the building was on site, resulting in a very particular and creative feel to the interior spaces.
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Family house in London by Keith Williams architects

2009-09-20T20:47:00.009+01:00

This house in St John's Wood, London replaces two previous homes on a triangular plot. The 49m long low build property has four bedrooms, a basement swimming pool and open plan living / dining spaces that overlook a carefully manicured garden. Externally, it is finished in zinc, render, glass and English bond stock brickwork. The architect has designed a contemporary, unobtrusive facade to the adjacent mews street that provides internal privacy.

New York design by West Chin Architect

2009-09-10T07:57:00.006+01:00

This apartment in Manhattan features a clean and spacious design that employs a restrained, industrial colour palette. The bespoke fish tank adds an interesting focal point to the kitchen. The architect has designed the full height cupboards to be viewed as integral part of the home rather than simply being a 'bolt-on' storage afterthought.

House in Japan

2009-08-25T22:20:00.009+01:00

This house in Tokyo, designed by Yasuhiro Yamashita is an elegant expression of modern urban house design. The architect has created formally inventive spaces with bespoke furniture that becomes part of the home rather than a distinct entity. The polished floor of the living space provides strong reflected light from a relatively small first floor window, whilst a minimal colour palatte in the top floor bathroom creates a calming space for relaxation.

The Tall House, London

2009-08-11T11:24:00.010+01:00

This house by architect Terry Pawson is situated on a quiet road in West London. Black slate, mild steel oak and concrete are used in the building, which received a RIBA award in 2002. The roof terrace with its distant countryside views is experienced as an integrated deck, parapet wall and seating voids clad in timber.

Eldridge Smerin: London Houses and Extensions

2009-07-19T18:16:00.009+01:00

This images illustrate a series of residential projects in London by architects Eldridge Smerin. The finishes and spaces of these buildings create serene environments with meditative qualites.

YTL Architect designed house in Kuala Lumpur

2009-07-09T09:58:00.007+01:00

This incredible house in Malaysia by architect Jouin Manku was created for a prominent entrepreneurial family and completed in 2008. The building has nine bedrooms and a swimming pool, linked by an undulating glazed circulation route. Its richness of materials and qualities of natural light create an abundance of stimulating spaces.

Home for a Historian, New York

2009-06-26T16:04:00.009+01:00

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This small (see first floor plan drawing below) house for a historian is a sanctuary for the owner's prized book collection. Its exterior is clad in copper and core-ten steel: these earthy colours and a cantilevered first floor suggest a mass that has been sculpted from solid bedrock, whilst having been wedged in-between trees in the surrounding wood. The house has an intimate interior with douglas fir details and weaved furniture, and the dramatic lighting in the living space are the result of an effectively designed narrow roof light. The architecture was intended as a "mutable presence in the landscape,” according to the architect Andrew Berman.