Invisible House

Invisible House Peter Stutchbury Architecture

Blue Mountains  NSW  Australia  –  Peter Stutchbury Architecture Australia is the oldest and driest continent. It’s a land of contrasts with awesome deserts, verdant rainforests and the iconic Blue Mountains. The latter are a series of impassable valleys and peaks edged with magnificent sandstone cliffs. It took the early white settlers more than 30 years to […]

Cottage Point House

 Sydney  Australia  –  Richard Cole Architecture Year Built:     2013 Photography:   Simon Wood Sydney sits on a massive sandstone basin. It surfaces in may places but nowhere as spectacularly as along the Hawkesbury River, an hour north of the city. The tiny settlement of Coal and Candle Creek pre-dates the declaration of the entire […]

City living on a 46 m2 lot!

Small House by Domenic Alvaro Architect

Sydney  Australia  –  Domenic Alvaro Architect Lot size:     46 m2 (497 sq. ft.) Built Area:      200 sqm Year built:    2011 Photography:   Trevor Mein Let’s just start by getting this into perspective… think of a double garage. Got it pictured? That’s probably 36 m2 internally! Now add an area 5 […]

Living on the ridge

Massachusetts, U.S.A. – Marcus Gleysteen Architects Contractor: Bensley Construction, Inc. Size: 4,368 sq ft Year: 2006 Photography: Marcus Gleysteen, Eric Roth   Click on any image to start lightbox display. Use your Esc key to close the lightbox.

Massachusetts modern

Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – Marcus Gleysteen Architects Size: 3,403 sq ft Contractor: Brookes and Hill Custom Builders Photography: Marcus Gleysteen, Eric Roth, Matt Kalinowski   Click on any image to start lightbox display. Use your Esc key to close the lightbox.

Maleny Modern

Maleny, Queensland, Australia – Bark Design Architects Photography: Christopher Frederick Jones     Click on any image to start lightbox display. Use your Esc key to close the lightbox.

Tula House Sits Lightly

Quadra Island, British Columbia – Patkau Architects Photography: James Dow and Patkau architects You’ll find this home set on a remote clifftop on Quadra Island, some six hours drive to the north of Vancouver. A home for two and the unofficial headquarters of the Tula Foundation, the home replaced an old, dilapidated cottage on the […]

Nannup House

 Nannup, Western Australia, Australia – Iredale Pedersen Hook Photography by Peter Bennets With a population of just 600 people, the town of Nannup lies 280 kilometres (175 miles) south of Perth. It’s accessed via a narrow, winding road which has been reflected in the zig-zag design of this vacation home. The site is also home […]

Casa Camino a Farellones

Santiago  Chile –  Bernado Valdes Site area:     7,000 m2  (75,600 sq. ft.) Built area:     230 m2  (2,484 sq. ft.) Year built:     2006 Located on the north side of the River Mapocho Valley foothills, this home focuses on the outlook and the client’s need to get away from city stressors and […]

Wall House

Wall House in twilight relief

Shizuoka, Japan – Keiji Ashizawa Design and Rachel Hudson Project duration: 2007 – 2009 Photography: Michael Nicholson Look at this house from the street, it’s difficult to imagine that a very different and beautiful landscape awaits inside. This visually dramatic home is a perfect fusion between east and west… Japanese and Australian design. The Wall House is called […]