BKK Holiday House

Mornington Peninsula Vic, Australia – BKK Architects Completion Date: 2012 Photography: Peter Bennetts     Click on any image to start lightbox display. Use your Esc key to close the lightbox.

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. […]

Villa Valtanen

Lappland, Finland – Arkkitehtitoimisto Louekari Built area: 55.5 sqm Year built: 2012 Photography: Lauri Louekari and Kaisa Siren Those wanting to disappear from the world temporarily might find this award winning log house interesting. Surrounded by forest trees and remnants of old fires, this hideaway resembling tarred timber blends in well with the wilderness. Its […]

Housing Boreraig

Glendale, Scotland – Dualchas Architects Year: 2011 Photography: Andrew Lee, James Benedict Brown, Courtesy of Dualchas Architects Low walls of stones as barrier and its light charcoal exterior demonstrate that this house is an adaptation of the blackhouse. Indeed, it does not seem to be out of place in that Scottish farm.   The client […]

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 […]

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 […]

Summer House in Lithuania

BIRŠTONAS Lithuania – Architektu Biuras Land Area:     1,001 m2   (10,811 sq. ft.) Built Area:      286 m2  (3,089 sq. ft.) Year Built:      2011 The description of ‘A Summer House’ conjures up images of relaxing times in comfy clothes but somehow we can’t see that here.  It strikes us as more a ‘suit […]

House at the Mountain

Nagano Japan –  Miurashin Architect + Associates Year:     2008 Photography:     Daichi Ano Built using traditional charred cedar cladding and simple timber panelling internally, this contemporary home is pure Japanese in feel.  The design is simple and uncluttered.  The home communes with it’s environment and the view.  Here are the architect’s notes: “The site is located in […]