The Spa House, beautiful mountainside home in Hount Bay that integrated with powerful natural surroundings. Designed by Metropolis, this house set on the mountainside on the urban edge of Hout Bay, overlooking the bay and harbour, surrounded by weathered sandstone formative. The primary design intention was to integrate the building with the powerful landscape and [...]

This house built as a weekend getaway in Northern California, designed by Todd Verwers Architects. The design embodies a Nordic sensibility to light, material, and lifestyle, while respecting the architectural forms and rustic materiality characteristic of the famed Sea Ranch design tradition. The primary living areas of the house are oriented toward the coast, and [...]

The house sets into the slope making its topography inhabitable and this is how the project upholds in four levels. The first one for the automobiles, the next one for social areas (kitchen, living and dinning rooms), third one for main bedroom next to family room, and last, a fourth one destined for boy and [...]

The Bridge House situated in wooded grasslands with a ravine running through in Marin, California. The house is a continuous 22′ wide two-story bar. A stair leads up to the entry court. The living areas are the upper level and have continuous glass walls which look north to the hill. The bedrooms below have continuous [...]

This impressive Mountain House sited on a steep sloping site on the foot of Table Mountain bordering Table Mountain National Park, Cape Town – South Africa. Glass is used to enclose these platforms to create habitable spaces within the indigenous natural surroundings. In order to achieve the least impact on the site, the house is [...]

Designed by Chen + Suchart Studio, the project proposes an architecture that responds to the inherent qualities of the site, privileged views, and the larger context of the Sonoran Desert. The language of the house draws upon these inherencies and allows for a greater understanding of the project’s circumstances. A series of parallel sandblasted concrete [...]