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House in Krostoszowice: a drop of modernism in an old surrounding Architects: RS+ Location: Krostoszowice, Poland Year: 2016 Area: 3.283 ft²/ 305 m² Photo courtesy: Tomasz Zakrzewski Description: "Krostoszowice is a village in a southern part of Silesia (region in Poland). The Investor owns large parcel with a significant...

Home renovation covered in fiber cement paneling and Shou-Sugi Ban wood for weather resistance, sustainability and its cost-effectiveness Architects: AlexAllen Studio Location: New Paltz, New York, USA Year: 2016 Area: 34.983 ft²/ 3.250 m² Photo courtesy: Alan Tansey Description: "AlexAllen studio’s recent renovation of a house located in New...

St Kilda East Townhouses includes two typical dwellings for three family generations Architects: Jost Architects Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Year: 2015 Area: 4.090 ft²/ 380 m² Photo courtesy: John Gollings Description: "The initial core aim of the St Kilda East Townhouses was as a family development generating two typical...

Weekend Villa located on the hillside of Sadra City Architects: ShaarOffice (Ahmad Ghodsimanesh and Partners) Location: Sadra City, Sadra, Fars Province, Iran Year: 2016 Area: 1.830 ft²/ 170 m² Photo courtesy: Parham Taghioff Description: "Designing of a 2000 m2 Villa is one of the project which was firstly offered...

Five-storey wood-carving home built up by prefab wood elements Architects: MAATworks Location: Amsterdam,The Netherlands Year: 2010 Area: 3.358 ft²/ 312 m² Photo courtesy: Marcel van der Burg Description: "In spite of the prefab wood elements used in this construction, this private house on Steigereiland in IJburg conjures up the...

French villa approach with pyramidal hipped-roof located on a peninsula Architects: BUDIC Location: Culiacán, Sinaloa, México Year: 2015 Area: 13.455 ft²/ 1.250 m² Photo courtesy: Jaime Navarro Description: "The client approached BUDIC with two main requests for their house project, one functional and one aspirational. On the one hand,...

Renovation of a fourplex into a contemporary home with additional unit for rental on the first floor Architects: NatureHumaine Location: Montreal, Québec, Canada Year: 2016 Photo courtesy: Adrien Williams Description: "An athletic young couple wants to transform a fourplex to create their primary residence, while maintaining a rental unit...

Two houses for several generations in Lambare, Paraguay Architects: TDA
 Location: Lambare, Paraguay Year: 2016 Photo courtesy: Federico Cairoli Description: "An elderly mother decides to build two compact houses along with her daughter, upon her own recent state of widowhood, giving up the large-sized house in which the...

Addition to a heritage listed Bowral cottage and maximising the solar-passive performance of the house Architects: Tziallas Omeara Architecture Studio Location: Bowral, New South Wales, Australia Year: 2016 Area: 3.552 ft²/ 330 m² Photo courtesy: Tom Ferguson Description: "The brief for this project was to design a beautiful addition...

Forest Mews: 3 houses arranged around a multi-functional shared outdoor courtyard on an urban brownfield site Architects: Stolon Studio Ltd Location: London, United Kingdom Year: 2014 Area: 4.306 ft²/ 400 m² Photo courtesy: Tim Crocker, Robert Barker Description: "Forest Mews is a redevelopment of an urban brownfield site with...