Richard Meier designed this modern beach house located along a densely built section of the Pacific Coast Highway, this house fronts the Pacific Ocean to the south, a courtyard to the west, and the highway to the north. The courtyard provides a visual and spatial link between the entry, the highway and the ocean beyond. Like many courtyard building types endemic to Southern California, the open space creates an exterior living room. The succes…

…s time-honored methods and local materials with traditional, manual construction, and uses strong Portuguese colonial architecture influences. Built on three levels, the unique layout allows for a graceful yet functional use of the steeply sloping site. “The place chosen for the house was determined by the generous native landscape in the surroundings,” says architect Ulisses Morato – the man behind this amazing house design. “In this context, s…

Marsh Cashman Koolloos Architects [MCK Architects] has designed an alterations and additions to an existing California Bungalow house ‘The Chatswood House‘ located in a Heritage Conservation area of Willoughby Municipality. The architects philosophy was to address client needs while meeting all constraints imposed by a conservation area context. Central to this approach was a decision to limit visibility of the addition from the stre…

Named with “I am so sorry, Goodbye.” This unusual ultra modern architectural small residential project is a great works by Heather and Ivan Morison. This Balsa wooden tea houses designed with a spot of tea on the side, two geodesic domes take organic shape, clad in Balsa wood and topped with a futuristic, hemispherical skylight that softly and naturally illuminates interiors. Inside this Dome Tea Houses, a minimalist, contemporary st…

Canberra based Townsend + Associates Architects have completed this exterior design of harris hobbs house with the main issue to provide an attractive and welcoming studio entry in the midst of domestic back-of-house and provide dachshund friendly design and with the main ideas are to use of natural light to counter south orientation – introduction of height and volume to provide a visual link between the street and studio, to capture garden vie…

…by capturing beachfront vista and access whilst maintaining a private yet expansive pool and entertaining core. Entry to the residence is via a recycled timber colonnade and gatehouse that grants covered access to both wings of the house. The street front facing wing accommodates guests generously with their own living area, kitchen and bathroom amenities, with a secondary stair linking to the main media, bar and games room below. A wide glazed …