…and extends to include the ‘Nitor’ snack top zone in white gloss lacquered glass. The tall storage units echo the scheme of the island with black aluminium construction and white glass doors. This ultra modern curved kitchen designs tops are available in a breathtaking range of steel, laminated, listered, granite, marble, quartz and corian alternatives. Finishing options range from wood to glass to microline in a rainbow of colours. For the final…

Standard, an L.A.-based architecture firm has projected this modern eco friendly tree house, a 167 m2 concrete and wood passive solar house located on the top of a hillside in Los Angeles. This house responds to its site and the city through its transparent southern exposure. A large ash tree literally envelopes the house, creating a microclimate to which the project responds. The house employs passive solar design and other low tech methods of …

Liberty Street Residence, San Francisco, CA [ 2006 ] The project of Cary Bernstein Architect for Liberty Street Residence, San Francisco, CA (2006) has transformed the residence character style from dark 1950’s ranch house style into a modern minimalist home. The residence has 4160 squarefeet area and interior design works by Kelly Lasser & Shelter. Architectural language is shown thru the custom interior lighting. The lower level of t…

Located in rural Victoria, Australia. Designed by a multi-disciplinary team established in 1998 from the architect/artist partnership of Michael Bellemo and Cat Macleod. This compact low budget Elphinstone Residence for weekend sits in its paddock and silently watches the weather roll over the distant hills. It’s a house with various allusions both local (Ned Kelly) and international (burka, woolen tents of nomadic Arabic). The client as a…

Architect Adrian James has designed a new detached house ‘Curved Roof House Plan’ designed to match its neighbours in its use of stone and tiles, but not in its form located in Piddington, Oxfordshire of the UK. The distinctive curved roof maximises the internal space, and the wall of glass to the open plan living room capitalises on the splendid views to the south. The house is innovative structurally and environmentally: prefabrica…

Designed by Johnsen Schmaling Architects, This private residence “Camouflage House” is located on a steep lake bluff, its narrow, linear volume nestled into the hillside in Green Lake, Wisconsin. Approaching the house from the rugged access road weaving through the site’s heavily wooded plateau, the building’s faint, low-slung silhouette virtually disappears in the surrounding vegetation. With its simple plan, restraint use of materi…