Tagged Residential

If you’re interested in turning your construction experience into your own residential construction business, carefully consider and plan how you’ll be a success.  Here are 6 necessary steps for starting ...

The swelling ocean waters of nearby Bondi beach informed the design of this family home in Sydney, designed by local practice Luigi Roselli Architects. Bondi ‘Bombora’ house takes is name from an indigenou...

Saota’s Hillside home in Los Angeles is located immediately above Sunset Boulevard on a promontory just one over from Pierre Koenig’s landmark Stahl House. The site is a 20.000-square-foot estate, featuri...

Concrete pre-cast panels are deployed to be both the finishing material and the building structure of this family home in Perth, Australia, designed by architects Nic Brunsdon. Located on a small block, the des...

Brazilian studio Debaixo do Bloco Arquitetura has refurbished this apartment in Brasília built in the 1960s to meet a family’s contemporary requirements. The studio reconfigured the apartment's standard lay...

New York practice Desai Chia Architecture drew inspiration from rural architecture to create this house located on top of a rocky ledge overlooking the hilly landscape in Connecticut. The clients approached t...

Bringing nature back to the city although not a new idea it is a growing imperative especially for cities like Nicosia which has failed to make greenery and communal public areas a priority in its urban planni...

Dubai-based practice VSHD Design has recently completed its first U.S. residential project, a 22,000 sq. ft. luxurious residential design within the Four Seasons Orlando Resort in Florida. "From the onset, we ...

If done right, a kitchen extension can become one of the most significant investments you’ll ever make for your home. Aside from transforming the look of your living space, this project can also increase the ...

Wutopia Lab has recently completed a house in Shanghai with a black courtyard called the hiding house. The residence, which took six years in making, comprises two volumes connected via an open wooden deck, wh...

Zaha Hadid Architects with AKT II and Hilson Moran have developed a digital architectural platform to create homes for Roatán Próspera, a project located in Honduras’ Roatán islands. The residential design...

You've probably heard of the recent "she-shed" craze. These are often temporary buildings built for hobbies or extra sitting room. If you're looking for something that's a step-up from a she-shed, a granny flat...

New York-based architect Vincent Appel has designed Sheffield House in Massachusetts to replace the resident's childhood home with cedar walls as the "picture frame of the spaces of memory". Appel, the founder...

Architect Francesca Perani has transformed the porch of an Italian villa, once used as a storage area, into a 25-square-meter apartment. Designed for a local couple, Urban Cabin replaces the porch of a house i...

Italian practice Luca Curci Architects presents The Link, a conscious oriented vertical city for 200,000 people. The project aims to rise above the challenge of population density by successfully combining ver...

Inspired by the classical proportions of the nearby Fitzroy Town Hall, Freadman White and Marcello Donati of Anon Studio have designed Whitlam Place, a residential building that offers a new way of living in M...

The new Cheetah Plains game lodge by architecture and interiors studio ARRCC in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, reinvents traditional safari‐style architecture to create ...

Modeled on the shape of a treee, the mixed-use L'Arbre Blanc tower, which Sou Fujimoto has completed in Montpellier with Nicolas Laisné, Dimitri Roussel and OXO Architectes, comprises 113 apartments with canti...

The Lakeside Plugin Tower by Beijing-based People’s Architecture Office (PAO) is 480 square meters of live/work housing. The project is developed in partnership with the Shenzhen Institute of Building Researc...

Lisbon-based architecture firm Plano Humano Arquitectos has recently converted an old service edifice in Lisbon, Portugal, into a new housing building that features a dynamic facade with automated wooden shutte...

UNIC, MAD Architects’ first built project in Europe, is nearing completion. Led by Ma Yansong, MAD was awarded the project in 2012 through an international design competition in collaboration with local Frenc...