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Butterfly Loft Apartment by Tigg and Coll Architects Location: London, England Year: 2011 Photo courtesy: Tigg and Coll Architects Description: High specification contemporary refurbishment of a three-storey home in central London. The brief was to create an exceptional contemporary home including a new elegant cantilevered staircase and...

Hillcrest House by Victoria Design Group Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Photo courtesy: Vince Klassen Thank you for reading...

Robinson Road Residence by Steve Domoney Architecture Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Year: 2010 Photo courtesy: Derek Swalwell Description: Two defining notions drove the design for this new home in Hawthorn. Firstly, the recognition that the street is currently in transition with the post war brick bungalow style dwelling...

Vienna Microsoft Headquarters by INNOCAD Architektur Location: Vienna, Austria Year: 2011 Area: 48,500 sqft Cost: 2,8 million Euro Photo courtesy: Paul Ott Description: ARGE KOOP/INNOCAD emerged as winners in the architecture competition for Microsoft’s new headquarters in Vienna, held on the basis of the WPA concept. Working in close collaboration with the...

Nevis Pool and Garden Pavilion by Robert Gurney Architect Location: Washington DC, USA Year: 2011 Photo courtesy: Maxwell MacKenzie Description: Located in a neighborhood bordering Washington, DC, this suburban site has the advantage of being located adjacent to woodlands. A contemporary house surrounded by mature trees and...

Silversea Residence by Robert Bailey Location: False Creek, Vancouver, Canada Area: 1,800 sqft Photo courtesy: Josh Dunford Description: This waterfront suite needed to blend contemporary design with the functionality of a family-friendly home. This 1,800 square foot (165 square metre) home located in False Creek in downtown Vancouver...

Weekend House by Marketa Cajthamlova Location: Bus, Czech Republic Year: 2011 Area: 8,600 sqft Photo courtesy: Ester Havlova Description: The house was designed as a weekend house but eventually in the future will become a permanent place for two people. The house is situated on the edge of a...

The Leblanc-Cox Residence by Charles Todd Helton Architects: Charles Todd Helton Location: Houston, Texas, USA Year: 2011 Photo courtesy: Jerry B. Smith Photography Description: Included on the 2011 Houston Modern Home Tour. The outline was propelled by the home highlighted in the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock thriller, North by Northwest....

Open Plan Contemporary Home in Beverly Hills Location: Beverly Hills, California, USA Year: 2009 Area: 20,420 sqft Price: $7 million Photo courtesy: The Agency Description: Roosted over a calm tree-loaded road in prime Beverly Hills rests a shocking Architectural toward the end of a long and secretly gated...

Studio SC by Studio MK27 Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Year: 2011 Area: 12,486 sqft Photo courtesy: Nelson Kon Description: The architectural project of this photography studio, specialized in food photos, emerged from an internal competition held at StudioMK27. The team was divided into 3 groups that worked on...