The White Extension was designed by Urban Architecture that located in Dublin, Ireland, is a house extension for a photographer and his family. When Urban Architecture first met the homeowners of this house they were house hunting for a new home. However, through sketch designs it quickly became apparent that the transformation of this small [...]

The sustainable suburban living, ‘Beacon’ is the sustainable home design that located in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on an elevated, south facing site with expansive views over the City of Glasgow to the south, and the hills to the north. Beacon house was designed by Don McLean of McLean Architects is a new-build house for his [...]

A new urbanistic typology, new forms for living in Vienna, Austria, New Social Housing Heustadelgasse was designed by Pichler & Traupmann Architekten ZT GmbH. Through a series of competitions the municipality of Vienna called a new type of social housing. Social housing must now also available as single family homes and duplex homes. However, the [...]

The Sime Darby Idea House is a sustainable home design for the ‘green consumer’. The green consumer’s environmental, social and economic consciousness is manifest in the green buildings that they buy or rent. In adopting a more sustainable approach to design, developers are not only satisfying their own corporate social responsibilities in the preservation of [...]

This green building called 100K House, a urban infill houses and LEED for Homes Platinum is located in Philadelphia and was designed by ISA, Interface Studio Architects. Interface Studio Architects has conceived four versions of the 100K House thus far. Three of the quartet are intended to fit a typical 16-foot-wide Philadelphia lot, and they [...]

Contemporary Japanese house design, the Column and Slab House was designed by Katsuya Fukushima and Hiroko Tominaga, FT Architects is located in Tokyo, Japan. “Column and slab” is our third residential work. Whilst the context is similar to that of our previous two projects, “e-house” and “s-house”, which were located amidst the densely built-up area [...]

The Wissioming Residence was designed by architect Robert M. Gurney, FAIA located in Glen Echo, Maryland, United States is sited on a heavily wooded lot overlooking the Potomac River. Glen Echo stands as a rare enclave of modern houses in suburban Washington, DC. The house design occupies a pre-existing house’s footprint in an effort to [...]

The Hidden House was designed by architects Standard is located in Mount Washington, Los Angeles, USA, on a serene 7-acre site, in Glassell Park where the paved road ends at an old hand written sign marking the entrance to “Hidden Valley”. The home design, which can only be accessed via a half-mile unpaved road, offers [...]