Turf House – Sky
Kendram, Isle of Skye Scotland – The Rural Design Company Built area: 90m2 (972 sq. ft.) Year built: 2012 Builder: Donald Lamont Photography: Nigel Rigden Awards: The RIAS 2013 Award for Architecture Bleak, cold and barren, Scotland’s Isle of Skye remains one of the UK’s most […]
Castle Rock House
New Zealand – Herbst Architects Photography: Patrick Reynolds Click on any image to start lightbox display. Use your Esc key to close the lightbox. You can also view the images as a slideshow if you prefer If you liked this project, you will also like viewing …
Mona Vale House
Mona Vale, NSW – Choi Ropiha Photography: Brett Boardman Built area: 265 sqm Project Year: 2005 – 2008 Click on any image to start lightbox display. Use your Esc key to close the lightbox. You can also view the images as a slideshow if you prefer 8-) If you liked this, you will also […]
Sustainable Homes
Click on any image to start lightbox display. Use your Esc key to close the lightbox. You can also view the images as a slideshow if you prefer 8-) You’ll find the full details to these sustainable home designs here: Allies Farmhouse – from WWII military base to a sustainable, family home – The […]
The Ryan Residence
King Scrub (near Brisbane) Australia WD architects Cooran Queensland In the words of architect, Andrew Webb: The Ryan residence pushes the boundaries of sustainable design while being an inspiring, comfortable and innately functional place to for the family to live together and grow. The house is highly energy-efficient and employs a range of innovative sustainable materials, […]
Menlo Passive
San Mateo County Menlo Park, California – Clarum Homes Year built: 2011 Passive Home (PassivHaus) is a design and build exercise that delivers an extremely comfortable, healthy, economical and sustainable home. Passive homes offer numerous benefits over conventional building including up to a 90% reduction in energy consumption at very little additional cost,.And while some […]
Crossway Passivhaus
Kent, England – Richard Hawkes Built area: 278 m2 (3,000 sq. ft.) Year built: 2009 With it’s 20 metre, arched, grass covered roof, newspaper, car tires and crushed bottles mixed into the lime mortar used to finish the interior and bricks kilned just four miles from the building site, this home was designed to embody the […]
