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 […]
Bowen Mountain House – a lifetime away from Sydney
Bowen Mountain NSW Australia – CplusC Architecture We probably all have a different image of what a mountain home looks like. Of course, by world standards, Australian mountains are nothing more than big hills, but a weekend retreat just 80 kilometres (50 miles) from Sydney would be on many Sydneysider’s wish list. The air is cool and […]
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 […]
Seasonal Ontario Cabin – Altius Architecture
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. […]
Minimum Maintenance Norwegian Retreat…
Skåtøy, Kragerø – Filter Arkiteketer Built area: 100 m2 (1,080 sq. ft.) Built: 2009 Photography: Elisabeth Hudson Anyone who’s owned a vacation home will attest to the reality that annual maintenance requirements can mean the death of a pleasant holiday. In this home, dry-stacked stone walls, raw concrete, untreated timbers and a […]
The Drew House
The Town of 1770 Central Queensland Australia – Simon Laws/ Anthill Constructions As the saying goes “a picture tells a thousand words” and it certainly holds true with this very unique home near the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. The house aims to create a kind of luxury campsite nestled amongst the Bloodwoods and ancient Palms […]
Chicken Point Cabin
Northern Idaho USA – Olson Kundig Architects Photography: Benjamin Benschneider Built: 2002 We find something very appealing about this cabin. One the one hand, it offers all the comforts of home. On the other, it ‘feels’ like a cabin should – a refuge a hundred kilometres from our work-a-day lives. It somehow blends a […]
The Trunk House
Nature recreated – Paul Morgan Architects Regional Victoria Australia We present hundreds of homes every year, so it’s hard to nominate a favourite – but this is definitely ‘right up there’. Set on a forested site in Victoria’s Central Highlands, the ‘Trunk House’ connects the occupants with their natural environment. This compact timber retreat contains […]