“The Architect’s Villa” is a holiday home overlookingthe sea in the south and Mount Taygetos in the north in the Greek region of Mani. The area is characterized by a barren, brittle landscape and the traditional Mani architecture with stone houses and towers. The villa – together with another house – is part of a […]
Project: Garden Room Extension Architects: Graphite Studio Location: West Lothian, Scotland Photography: Chris Humphreys Garden Room Extension – Bickerton Croft is a contemporary extension and refurbishment designed by Edinburgh-based Graphite Studios in West Lothian, Scotland. This project is for a 60 square metre high quality garden room extension to the rear of a twelve year
Project: Gumus Su Villas Architects: Cirakoglu Architects Location: 48000 Gümüşlük, Turkey Design Team: Alisan Cirakoglu, Ilgin Avci, Deniz Yazici, Asli Ingenc, Digdem Angin Developer: Demirden Design Photographs: Cemal Emden This project was completed by Turkish studio Cirakoglu Architects. Gumus Su Villas consist of 5 villas located over the hills of Gümüslük Village, Bodrum, Turkey, a
WY-TO Architects have recently completed Contemporary Vernacular, a vacation home located in Corsica, France. Description by WY-TO: Contemporary Vernacular is a holiday house in the South-East of Corsica, the largest French island in the Mediterranean Sea. This architectural monolith has been developed in harmony with its immediate context, both in the use of material from
The project is sensitive to its origins and context, the traditional vernacular of the Cottage and Steading echo the footprint, materiality and massing of the original buildings which were on the site, whilst the contemporary timber clad Link is agricultural in form and deliberately subservient to the adjacent buildings.
Calera del Rey House was completed recently by Gualano + Gualano Arquitectos. The house has an area of 144 sqm and is located in Maldonado, Uruguay. Desciption by Gualano+Gualano: Mountains, distant horizons, rustic and soft landscape. 20 hectares of land. The enclave, a set of rocks and a crown (Scutia Buxifolia) that position the piece. A
Compact Karst house was completed in 2014 by the Ljubljana-based Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti. The redefinition of a traditional stony Karst house led to the concept of the proto-house as a compact, stony, pitched roof volume for contemporary countryside living in this region.
Completed in 2015 by Henkin Shavit Studio, the Reflection House is an exquisite example of blending preservation with modernization. Located in the historic city of Safed, Israel, this old stone house exemplifies the harmonious coexistence of the old and the new.
