A blend of features were carefully balanced to develop a final design that has an efficient footprint, meets the Passive House Standard (PHIUS+ Certified), and takes the form of a traditional farmhouse with some modern twists both inside and out.
Some sites seem impossible when you first look at them but this one took unbuildable to a whole new level. A triangular postage stamp abutting a mountain with a killer view, our greatest challenge was to put the 8000 SF home our clients wanted onto the site in such a way as to maximize the
Architect: Architecture Architecture Project: Hip and Gable House Location: Kew East, Victoria, Australia Completed 2015 Photographs: Peter Bennetts Hip and Gable House is a bungalow-style house designed by Melbourne-based Architecture Architecture Studio. Once was a time when a roof was a roof. Mostly it just sat up there to keep the rain off, but more importantly, it looked
NicholsBooth Architects have transformed a historic bank building into a office space for Bently Enterprises, in Minden, Nevada, USA. Transforming a historic bank building into a modern office space is easy–if you want to get rid of what made the space interesting to begin with. We took the high (and harder) road with Farmers Bank,
Designed by Ernst Giselbrecht + Partner, Stadl Altenbach is a historic “Kellerstöckl” (an agricultural building) transformed into a wellness retreat in southern Styria, Austria.
Project: Kate’s House / single storey extension Architects: Bower Architecture Location: Melbourne, Australia Area: 385,5 sqm Photographs: Shannon McGrath Kate’s House is a single storey extension and renovation to a 1960’s house, entered through a side courtyard sanctuary which separates the retained part of the existing dwelling and the new addition. Description by Bower Architectue:
Liquid Interiors take an old and cramped 400 square foot apartment on Hollywood Road in Central, Hong Kong and turn it into a luxuriously chic haven with a strong focus on eco high tech features ultimately creating a healthier living environment. Photos by Photographolic Studio
Situated on a courtyard in the 20th arrondissement in Paris, this 50m² artist’s workshop (13m longx3.5m wide x 5m high) was transformed into place of life by the office NZI Architectes (Gianluca Gaudenzi and Sandra de Giorgio). Divided on three half-levels, everyone has a proper function. The bedroom, a real “glass-hut”, dominates the rest of
