Pavilion Perfection
Daisen, Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture – Keisuke Kawaguchi + K2-Design Date of Completion: October 2011 Photography: Koji Fujii (Nacasa＆Partners Inc) Designed as a forest retreat, the paramount concern was to retain the sites’ cherry and pine trees and to minimise the impact on the environment. The result is a home of many pavilions weaving its way […]
The Fab Lab House
Catalonia, Spain – Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Built area: Â Â 75 m2 (810 sq. ft.) Year built:Â Â Â 2010 Photography:Â Â Â AdriĂ Goula Designed and built as an entry in the 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe, this home definitely deserves a guernsey in our sustainable homes collection. Â The objective of the competition is […]
Stamp House – designed for the worst…
Daintree / Cape Tribulation QLD Australia –  Charles Wright Architects Lot size:   30 hectares  (75 acres) Year built:   2011/2012 There is only one place in the world where two World Heritage sites meet – Cape Tribulation. Here, the Daintree Rainforest meets the Great Barrier Reef. It’s wild, beautiful, primitive, sparsely populated […]
Beached yet anchored!
Western Port Vic Australia – BKK Architects Year built: Â Â 2009 Built area:Â Â Â 349m2+ Â (3,770 sf) Photography:Â Â Â Peter Bennetts Sitting on a coastal plain with strong exposure to both wind and sun, this home was awarded as the 2011 AIA Residential winner in the over 200m2 category. Deliberately designed to appear […]
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 […]
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 […]