Casa no Geres, Portugal by Correia & Ragazzi Architectos

Graça Correia and Roberto Ragazzi architects have created a stunning minimalist box house with sustainable material. The house called “Casa no Geres,” is based in the middle of a National Park in Portugal.

Correia and Ragazzi were given a qualified carte blanche: they were allowed to do anything, providing they didn’t cut down any of the trees on site and managed the tricky balancing act of building the house in concrete while not isolating its inhabitants from their surroundings. The structure also had to house the couple and their grown-up child, although the planning permission allowed for a maximum size of just 60 sq m.
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Maison NW by Nathalie Wolberg

Maison NW located in Saint-Ouen, near Paris is a work studio but also a private colorful home. The huge workshop spreads over an area of 1,937 square feet and has three levels.

Architect Nathalie Wolberg is the owner of this place which is said to carry “her own personality, own desires, passions. The project is based on three scales designed to match needs for intimacy, autonomy and/or sharing. Through similar actions, it will be possible to adopt behaviors, attitudes, various postures and to initiate numerous relationships.
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Fibrous Tower, by Kokkugia

This fibrous concrete shell was erected as an exoskeleton construction with a load-bearing shell and thin floor plate and column free. The shell is based on structural and tectonic hierarchies and a contemporary design, its articulation as a single self-organized structure responds to common conflicting design criteria. Pretty funky I think.

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Vitrahaus, by Herzog and de Meuron

The newly completed Vitrahaus by Herzog & de Meuron on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany – just outside of Basel, Switzerland.The concept of the VitraHaus connects two themes that appear repeatedly in the oeuvre of Herzog & de Meuron: the theme of the archetypal house and the theme of stacked volumes.

Due to the proportions and dimensions of the interior spaces – the architects use the term “domestic scale” – the showrooms are reminiscent of familiar residential settings. The individual “houses”, which have the general characteristics of a display space, are conceived as abstract elements. With just a few exceptions, only the gable ends are glazed, and the structural volumes seem to have been shaped with an extrusion press.
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Archipod, Energy efficient, Eco-Friendly Garden Office

The Archipod can be just a complement about any home landscape, and the modern interior office design is a great place to get some work done in peace. With a diameter of 3m, the Garden Pod is specifically targeted at the garden office market.
The Garden Pod features a pleasing roof dome that lets in natural light to conserve the energy required for artificial lighting. The pod cedar shingle exterior blends into any natural environment and its interior plastered walls ensure that the pod remains bright and comfortable.
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Conch Shell House, Isla Mujeres, Mexico

This conch shell house sits on the southern point of Isla Mujeres, an Island 20 minute boat ride from Cancun in the Caribbean Sea.

When you enter the house you would be surrounded by a wonderful shell themed interior. The main room has no corners – it is round. The upstairs bathroom sink is made out of the base of a conch shell, the faucets are made out of coral, the towel racks are made from conch shells and other seashells and items found on the local beach.
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Bierings House by Rocha Tombal Architecten

Bierings House was designed by Rocha Tombal Architecten, Located in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The form and orientation of the building avoid visual contact with the adjacent houses: at the ground floor the angled ceiling of the kitchen accentuates the intensive contact with the garden. On the first floor, the different shaped openings in the roof and façade offer, like “fingers of light”, varied daylight experiences.

The routing through the house starts in the hall, a section of the ground floor volume. After experiencing the entrance area and passing the gigantic pivoted door, the visitor arrives at the “heart of the house”, the kitchen. Here he looks through the big glass wall straight into the garden, which suggests being outside again. Behind him, the stair cuts a wooden wall inviting to follow the route towards the first floor.
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Niketown Flagship Stores by Wonderwall

Niketown Flagship Stores is located in the Harajuku section of Tokyo, an influential epicentre where style and culture blend .The store is designed by the renowned interior design firm, Wonderwall. The spacious interiors are sparsely merchandised to showcase the detailed architectural finishes and multimedia elements that tell of the history and technological innovations of Nike.
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Anansi, Playground Building, Utrecht by Mulders vandenBerk Architecten

Mulders vandenBerk Architecten of Amsterdam have completed a playground building in a park in Utrecht, Netherlands. The façade is made of Corian engraved with images of fairytales from around the world. The graphic design has been placed on the façade to stimulate the senses and the imagination.

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The Blob VB3 By dvmA Architects

The Belgian architectural firm dmvA designed the blob VB3, a smooth white structure that resembles a hard boiled egg.

The mobile office contains a bathroom, a kitchen, interior lighting, a bed and several niches for storage. The nose can be opened automatically and functions as a kind of porch. It is easily transportable and can also be used as an office, guest room or garden house.

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Enclosed Open House by Wallflower Architecture

Singapore based architect, Wallflower Architecture has created innovative architectural spaces amidst urban density for a homeowner in Singapore East Coast area.

The owners wanted a spacious, contemporary house that would be as open as possible but without compromising security and privacy at the same time. Surrounded by neighbours on four sides, the solution was a fully fenced compound with a spatial programme that internalised spaces such as pools and gardens, which are normally regarded as external to the envelope of the house.
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Tafoni Floating Home by Joanna Borek Clement

Designer Joanna Borek clement has developed the ‘Tafoni Floating Home.’ It has been specifically designed for the houseboat district of Sausalito, California. Her aim for the project was to change people’s attitudes of living on a houseboat.

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Takasugi-an, Teahouse in Japan by Terunobu Fujimori

Created by architect Terunobu Fujimori, sits atop two chestnut trees, gently swaying in the breeze. He has observed that a teahouse is “the ultimate personal architecture.” Its extreme compactness, which would at most accommodate four and a half tatami mats (2.7 square metres) or even just two tatami mats (1.8 square metres) of floor space, makes it feel as though it were an extension of one’s body, “like a piece of clothing.”
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Dubai has Inaugurated the World’s Tallest Tower “Burj Dubai”

Dubai on Monday officially inaugurated the centerpiece of its decade-long construction boom, with the surprise revelation that the world-beating 168-story skyscraper. Seen by some as a symbol of the city’s economic excess, was even bigger than previously thought.
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Courtyard House on a Steep Site by Hutchison & Maul Architecture

The architects were asked to design two conflicting elements, guest/retreat space and family/active space, as close to the lake as code would allow. There was also a desire for lake access from the main residence located up the hillside, and to integrate water-sports storage and a changing/bathing room as part of the family/active space. Finally, it was important that the guest/retreat spaces feel private even when people occupy the family/active space, and of course taking advantage of the view wherever possible was an obvious choice.

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ECO Building by Igor Davydov

Eco-minded designer Igor Davydov has designed a mixed-use environmentally friendly building that will cover a land area of just 10-square-feet. This space saver and eco-friendly building can be an exhibition area for companies that are engaged in high technology in construction, medicine and healthy lifestyle. In addition, the eco-building also carries an eye-catching outer appearance making this building to be one of the tourist attractions in the future.
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IRO Prefab by Mira Yung

IRO Prefab is the work of industrial designer Mira Yung, which has been designed considering the need for low impact sustainable homes. The IRO can be fabricated locally or can be shipped to the site via a single standard 20 feet shipping container.

The IRO features a hexagonal shape that allows the occupants to add more IRO modules to form a community that can share resources. The unique design of the modules facilitates easy customization and the addition of photovoltaic panels and rainwater harvesting systems for energy and water.

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itHouse by Taalman Koch

The itHouse is a design system developed by Taalman Koch that utilizes a series of components prefabricated off-site in order to better control the construction waste, labor, and quality of the finished product.

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