The Mosman House was built in 588 sqm site area in Sidney, sited on a battle axe block was designed to take maximum advantage of outstanding water views and maintain absolute privacy to the adjacent neighbours. This house replaced a small older style single level house and had to be skilfully designed to adhere to local approving authority’s view sharing policy and ensure minimal view loss to the neighbours behind.

The three storey house is concealed behind a timber battened garage door and entry gate to the street but then reveals …

This modern single family residence situated on the active slope, on the border between private residential development and botanical garden in Kharkov Ukraine. The layout strategy proposes maximum contact with the park by exploiting the view from all internal spaces. It was essential to highlight the active terrain by means of landscape elements and volumes. The main volume is moved to the back of the site, its closed parts being as close to the neighbours as possible. As a result, the house enjoys a lot of free space to admire …

The Curtin Avenue Residence situated at the southern end of the beach side suburb of Cottesloe this new residence is sited on a long thin lot running east-west between two converging streets. This wonderful contemporary home has a very interesting wall and roof connecting feature. It’s white exterior and very streamlined interior designs make this a very desirable home. The eastern elevation is modest and reserved in nature, its roof form curved at both the northern and southern sides to reduce its mass in relation to its two single story …

The 45 Faber Park concept was to create a living space open to the outdoors in a clean contemporary aesthetic for a couple with three young children. The building would need to allow fluid movement between each space within and perform as a sustainable mechanism. In order to maximize space, the idea of pushing the mass of the building into the corner of the plot was developed. The concept of defining the bedroom areas and activity spaces as separate elements allowed for the final scheme to be reached. From the …

This modern beach house situated in resort community of the Pines on Fire Island New York, designed by Studio27 Architecture. This project inserts some of the “spirit of the shore” into this “Yankee thriftiness” residential typology. Common detail and material remain, but the volume of the house is expressed as a skin, rather than as a box-like container. The skin keeps the heat in. Over time, the skin of woven cedar boards will assume the same patina as neighboring houses. Large windows are introduced to reveal a luxurious light …

Nikos Koukourakis presents beautiful house with modern concept design in Dionysos, a residential suburb in northeastern Attica of Greece. This enables the natural light to travel through every space of the house, reducing the amount of energy needed to illuminate the house. The building dominates with its clean-cut lines, while its volume is split, without being dissolved, from the rich perimetric openings giving to it an airy sense via to their exposure to natural light. The big glass surfaces leave a permanently open dialogue with outside, without creating the least …