Arkiboat Houseboats
Sydney Australia – Drew Heath Architects While the design and build may take place in Sydney, there is no doubt these are very mobile homes! Apparently frustrated by the lack of design thought invested in available houseboats, architect Drew Heath went from saying ‘Somebody should design a better houseboat’ to actually doing it. There are […]
Dani Ridge House
Big Sur California USA – Carver + Schicketanz Year built: 2011 Lot size: 30 acres (12 hectares) Built area: 2,000 sq. ft. (185 m2) Cor-ten steel, reclaimed timbers, rock walls, limestone floors, laminated beams and a green roof ensure that this ocean-side vacation home will always be minimum maintenance. […]
Seasonal Ontario Cabin – Altius Architecture
Balancing Barn Vacation Home
Thorington, Suffolk, UK – MVRDV Year Built: 2007 – 2010 Built Area: 210 m2 (2,268 sq. ft.) Photography: Edmund Sumner Awards: Red Dot Award 2011, Cologne, DE; RIBA Regional Award 2011; Nominated for Brit Insurance Awards 2011, London, UK; Winner public vote 2011, RIBA Manser Medal, London, UK A few miles inland […]
A House Among and Within the Loblolly Pines
Loblolly House – Kieran Timberlake Location: Taylors Island, Maryland, USA Built area: 2,200 sq ft (204 m2) Named after the tall pines that characterize its site on the Chesapeake Bay, this home “seeks to deeply fuse the natural elements of this barrier island to architectural form.” Positioned between a dense grove of loblolly pines […]
Bowen Mountain House – a lifetime away from Sydney
Bowen Mountain NSW Australia – CplusC Architecture We probably all have a different image of what a mountain home looks like. Of course, by world standards, Australian mountains are nothing more than big hills, but a weekend retreat just 80 kilometres (50 miles) from Sydney would be on many Sydneysider’s wish list. The air is cool and […]
Two Families – One Patagonian Holiday Home
Rio Negro, Argentinean Patagonia – G2 estudio Built Area: 396 m2 (4,277 sq. ft.) Year Built: 2010 Materials: Concrete, steel, local stone and timbers Photography: Laila Sartoni Aptly named Ribbon House folds and bends to create a home as dramatically stimulating as the landscape within which it sits. The design explores another […]
Shell House
Kitasaku, Nagano, Japan – ARTechnic architects Site Area: 1,711 m2 (18,417 sq. ft.) Built Area: 329 m2 (3,541 sq. ft.) Year Built: 2008 Photography: Nacasa & Partners Inc. This innovative vacation home sits in the woods of Karuizawa, Japan. Designed by architect, Kotaro Ide, of ARTechnic, the house was designed […]
Hanare – Schemata Architects
Holiday Home on a Budget
Stavanger, Norway – Tommie Wilhelmsen Built area: 24m2 (260 sq. ft.) Casa Kolonihagen is a small summer holiday residence comprising a sleeping nook and living space. The home reflects the modern Scandinavian way of life – not too flashy, nor too common with balance being a major factor of the design. The two rooms are contained in two […]
