Home Design Archive for Building Types and Style Category

Apartment City House Residential Design

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 18:03 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcome

Located on Bern, Switzerland, these contemporary city apartments will be connected from the Breitenrainstrasse via a patio area resembling a front garden. The somewhat narrow living and eating area on the ground floor will be given the generosity of an attic apartment thanks to its room height of over three metres. All private rooms are [...]

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Shingle Style Manor House Luxury Ideas

Sunday, November 16, 2008 19:05 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcome

Built on lake side and mountain terrain site, this luxurious residence was designed to blend in with its surroundings. By building on only a small portion of the forested acreage, the vassel majority of the land is preserved in its natural state and unaffected by development.
Substantial in size and scale as befitting its 70+ acre [...]

Roofdeck Penthouse Apartment Design

Saturday, November 15, 2008 19:13 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcome

This penthouse spaces are organized in the donut shaped apartment around building’s core in a clockwise manner from apartment entry to public rooms to private rooms. Continuing in the same direction a new floating stair takes you up to the roof terrace for unobstructed views of the skyline. Architects opened the buildings envelope to transform [...]

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Contemporary Green Apartment Design at Historic Structure

Friday, November 14, 2008 19:26 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcome

Rising above two existing art-deco buildings, this apartment is a new tower located at the heart of Vancouver’s heritage district. The scheme continues the practice’s investigation into contemporary interventions within historic structures, explored previously in a high-rise context with the Hearst Tower in New York. The project is also an example of a building that [...]

ECEC Two-Story Building School Design

Thursday, November 13, 2008 19:54 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcome

Nice school building design. Delightful “playing” area for children. This building designed with “fresh-air school” approach principle, where children spend much of their day outdoors. The building design earned a LEED® silver certification through specific environmentally sound design principles and materials. Indoor and outdoor activity areas were designed to match the intellectual, physical and socialization [...]

Float Sculptural Roof of House Design Ideas

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 16:22 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcome

The house form defined by a sculptural roof that floats above an expansive living room and several bedrooms. This area called as Pavilion. There are three components of this house: a Pavilion, a Parterre, and a Box, all of which heighten one’s awareness of the terrain through their spatial arrangement on the site. Movement is [...]

Nokia Club House Design

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 20:08 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcome

What a contemporary and dynamic club design. The design seems unify and becomes “part of the show”. This Club Nokia at L.A. Live! will be a 2,000-seat music hall located in downtown Los Angeles, California.
The music hall will occupy the three upper floors in a five-story, mixed-use building. In addition to a dance floor, accommodating [...]

Luxurious French Manor Home Design

Monday, November 10, 2008 19:43 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcome

With U-shape plan concept, and inspiration from manor house at France, this home really luxurious. Sniff the ambience, you’ll feel like noble in the past. U-shape home plans token to take advantage of the 360 degree views of the mountains and the LA Basin. It’s on a 5 acre site in the foothills of the [...]

Regionalized Modern Home Design

Sunday, November 9, 2008 18:04 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcome

This modern house regionalized to fit and accent the site’s dramatic beauty. Responsive to the site and preserve some of the characteristics of the mesa and be an organic part of it. It’s sense of expansive shelter indoor, warmth, comfort and protection, with a commingling of interior and exterior worlds.
Two L-plan shaped stone walls define [...]

Ranch Guest House Design

Saturday, November 8, 2008 20:16 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcome

This guest house design contains two modules for living and sleeping. The modules made from glasses and woods. Those modules unify with steel frame. Fire-rated steel and concrete frame used. This guest house sheltered with those materials with roll-down steel doors at its perimeter. Located high in the hills above Malibu California, this contemporary house [...]

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