A single house with spacious garden scheme is sensitive to the context of the village, drawing on traditional and vernacular detailing of East Lothian. Heights that utilizes traditional colors, materials and details by stating Gables, chimneys, wood roof, dormers, stone threshold and lintols, making subtle colors, slate roof and features timber elements. An edge is [...]
February 1st, 2012 - Posted in Exterior Architecture
Unexpected architectural arches are used to both turn away from, and compliment, the irregular space, drawing the eye up to the highest point of the apartments. Large windows to follow the slope of the roof, allowing natural light to pick up the texture in the brick, and bounce from polished wood floors. Smart lampposts transform [...]
January 31st, 2012 - Posted in Home Interior, Interior Architecture
This modern design building family home designed by Agraz Arquitectos. The building not only reflects the landscape, but references the immense challenge this project presented to its architects. Located at Santa Anita Golf Club in Mexico. The exploded four level plan called for a connecting element, so the architects designed a continuous staircase throughout the [...]
January 31st, 2012 - Posted in Architecture Design, Modern Design
The house is built between two narrow streets in the old part of the town of Lemesos, for convenience and privacy, to be within the same plot but to have a separate entrance. Most rooms in the house face the partly covered internal courtyard. This is a traditional way of building in Cyprus helping to [...]
January 30th, 2012 - Posted in contemporary design
A jetty leads through the garden façade, crossing a pebble edged body of still water, between the glass rear entrance and an impressive garden house. A roof terrace extends the exterior living space further, and a brick chimneystack serves indoor and outdoor wood burners to warm the entire area. A neutral palette of white walls, [...]
January 30th, 2012 - Posted in contemporary design
A color white beige works everywhere, complete with oak and travertine stone. The retractable glass doors allow indoor and outdoor spaces to interact and interconnect rooms so extraordinary, diving into the pool after expansion bask in the deck fronted living space, and emerge at the dining room for refresh of the family.
The modern interior has [...]
