Tramonto Residence, Pacific Palisades / ShubinDonaldson
Nestled in the Pacific Palisades foothills, the Tramonto Residence is a contemporary single-family home which integrates the natural beauty of an adjacent state park.
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Peninsula Weekend House / Bernardes Arquitetura
Peninsula Weekend House, a home in a coastal city, explores an intriguing relationship between the privacy and domesticity of its residential program and natural setting.
House for a Buddhist / Pereira Miguel Arquitectos
In the hills of Monchique, between ups and downs, taking advantage of an extraordinary situation is this single-storey house. Set in a southern slope, with access by small and winding tar road, lies over one of several existing terraces that tear the steep slope into small cultivable levels.
FL House, Brazil / Jacobsen Arquitetura
Based on a study of the terrain, we identified two striking visuals: the rear of the property, with a beautiful forest landscape; and the front of the lot, which offers an ample view of the setting sun with a field of orange trees in the background.
Casa Tojal / Contaminar Arquitectos
Casa Tojal is shy and bucolic, from a steep terrain surrounded by olive trees. In a torn gesture, it is born as an integral part of its landscape and it leans over the valley towards the garden that surrounds it.
RL House / Jacobsen Arquitetura
The office already was well informed about this terrain: neighboring the FL House, we knew that we needed to exploit the front of the lot overlooking the orange tree grove; and the back, with the dense native Atlantic Forest reserve landscape.
Coastal Style Weekend House in Guarujá, Brazil / Jacobsen Arquitetura
This is requested to be a coastal style weekend house for a young couple form São Paulo and their infant kids. It is set in a L shape, blocking the street since it’s located in a corner of two access roads to the beach.
Ressano Garcia Duplex / João Tiago Aguiar Arquitectos
Located in Bairro Azul in Lisbon, inside a classified art-deco architectural whole. Although this was a deep intervention that consisted in the total refurbishment of two apartments into one duplex …