House in Minamimachi 03 : By Suppose Design Office

Hiroshima, Japan
Suppose Design Office
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Photo © Courtesy of Suppose Design Office--street view

Japanese architecture firm suppose design office has recently completed a three-storey house in hiroshima, japan. typical of modern japanese practice, 'house in minamimachi 03' stands snugly in between two other residential plots, an unassuming structure made entirely out of reinforced concrete.

Muston Street House : By Fox Johnston Architects

Mosman neighborhood of Sydney, Australia
Fox Johnston Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Brett Boardman

With a view over national parkland and across the ocean to the horizon, this house is designed for easy living and to please the senses. Yet it is also practical – built with solid, durable, tactile materials. Bluestone, Anthra-Zinc, glass and wood are combined externally and internally in an environmentally responsive manner.

Wrap House : By Marc Boutin

Alberta, Canada
Marc Boutin
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Photo © Courtesy of Bruce Edwards

Located in the inner-City, issues of privacy, occupation, served/servant spaces, affordability and available sunlight defined the context for design. Competing goals of maximizing square footage versus creating exterior amenity spaces, under the legislative constraints imposed by by-laws, created an opportunity for a kind of case study.

Quezada Residence : By Quezada Architecture

Mill Valley, California, United States
Quezada Architecture
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Owned and designed by architects Ana Cecilia and Alfred Quezada, this home in the Middle Ridge neighborhood of Mill Valley, California, has recently been listed for sale at $4.175 million.

Hill House : By Johnston Marklee & Associates

Pacific Palisades, California, United States
Johnston Marklee & Associates
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Photo © Courtesy of Eric Staudenmaier

Completed in October 2004, the Hill House was designed under challenging conditions generated by modern problems of building on a hillside. Located in Pacific Palisades, California, while the site for the house offers panoramic views from Rustic and Sullivan Canyons to Santa Monica Bay, the irregularly shaped lot is situated on an uneven, downhill slope. With the canonical Eames House nearby, the 3300 square foot Hill House provocatively continues the Case Study House tradition of experimentation and reinvention of Los Angeles lifestyles.

Farquar Lake Residence : By ALTUS Architecture + Design

Apple Valley, MN, United States
ALTUS Architecture + Design
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Photo © Courtesy of Paul Crosby & ALTUS Architecture + Design

The open, permeable design of this house results from the client’s active lifestyle and desire for connectivity to the site from all spaces. Designed for a narrow, wooded, pie-shaped lakefront site, this young family sought to develop outdoor play and garden spaces while celebrating views of the lake.

Vultureni House : By TECON Architects

Bucharest, Romania
TECON Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Cosmin Dragomir

Located on a relatively long and narrow lot in a visual hostile context the building suggests a division of private property in the public space of the courtyard from the street and the private inner space of the rear yard.

RM House : By Andrés Remy Arquitectos

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Andrés Remy Arquitectos
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Photo © Courtesy of Andrés Remy Arquitectos

The home is located on the outskirts or Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was designed for a young couple and their two kids.

House in Galicia : By A-cero

Galicia, Spain
A-cero
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Photo © Courtesy of A-cero

The house is located on a 2.000m2 plot presenting a strong slope. The site is delimited by the access road on the East, North and Northwest sides, and by a cliff on the West border, a natural balcony with great views over A Corunna’s coast.

Yas Hotel Interiors : By Jestico + Whiles

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirate
Jestico + Whiles
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Photo © Courtesy of Jestico + Whiles

We’ve previously featured the exterior of the new Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi – here, but now we can also feature the interiors thanks to Jestico + Whiles, the hotel’s interior designers.

Circus Bar & Restaurant Interior : By Tom Dixon

central London, England
Tom Dixon
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Photo © Courtesy of Tom Dixon

British designer Tom Dixon has completed the interior for an innovative bar, restaurant and entertainment experience in central London. Circus is a venue hosting entertaining acts within a bar and restaurant setting, where diners can ultimately join in to become part of the entertainment.

Glasses Shop in Beja : By Jorge Sousa Santos

Beja, Portugal
Jorge Sousa Santos
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Photo © Courtesy of FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

The store develops itself in three levels. These levels increase the notion of privacy. In the entrance level coexist me main exhibition and selling area and the workshop. In the second level there are more exhibition areas but related to the optometrical offices. The third level is used only by the staff.

Saffire Freycinet Resort in Tasmania : By Chada Siembieda

Tasmania, Australia
Chada Siembieda
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Photo © Courtesy of Chada Siembieda

Tasmanian architects Morris Nunn and Associates, together with interior designers from Chada Siembieda, were asked to design an iconic development that captures the essence of the region and connects with its environment. The buildings are conceptually organic, evoking a connection to the sea, through references of waves, sand dunes and a flowing, organic form.

Via Venetto Store Interior : By Buensalido+Architects

Makati City, Philippines
Buensalido+Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Buensalido+Architects

For the first store we designed for Via Venetto, a 30-year old shoe retail store, the brief was to give it a new contemporary image to recapture its market. The dilemna that was initially faced was that it has long established a great reputation in the retail scene, and so veering to far from its original look could alter the market’s perception of it for the worst. We therefore tried to find a balance between maintaining some of its characteristics and infusing them with newer, more contemporary forms.

Baker Street House : By Marcus O’Reilly Architects

Melbourne suburb of St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Marcus O’Reilly Architects
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Description by Marcus O’Reilly Architects 
Located on a highly desirable street two blocks from the beach in the Melbourne suburb of St. Kilda, this extension grafts on to an Edwardian home in a dramatic yet sensitive fashion. Due to the fact that the surrounding neighbourhood has various heritage requirements to keep the Edwardian street frontage intact Marcus O’Reilly Architects had to carefully insert this modern extension without negatively affecting the streetscape. While, the flat seam zincalume metal cladding applied to the rear is a distinctive and modern transition material from the timber siding of the original house, it also ties new and old together in relating to the corrugated roof of the original structure. Low key durable interior and exterior finishes were chosen throughout and creatively applied to the project to allow for a high end final result which not only will age well but met a strict budget.

Adams Fleming House : By Levitt Goodman Architects

80 Ritchie Avenue, Toronto, Canada
Levitt Goodman Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Ben Rahn / A-Frame

On a street of historic, working-class cottages in Toronto’s west end, adjacent to a railway line and a supermarket parking lot, a vacant auto-body shop may have seemed like an unlikely impetus for a residence with a domestic character. The clients—Debbie Adams, a graphic designer, and Peter Fleming, a furniture designer/craftsman—had a limited budget but considerable talent and resources. Working with Levitt Goodman Architects, the project became a laboratory for artistic collaboration and experimentation. Over several years they have transformed the industrial site into an artful urban oasis.

Lim Geo Dang House : By IROJE KHM Architects

JangHangDong, IlSan, GoYang, South Korea
IROJE KHM Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of YongKwan Kim

Site & City

The residential complex in Ilsan new town contains the context of urban design that wishes to be my house/neighborhood and be our village as a concept of village where live together. A house becoming to the city, so it gain a life by taking root the architecture in the city. By opening the architecture towards the city, it forms a village that owned in common each other, but on the contrary, it should satisfy the function as a private space of oneself. It is hard to secure enough outside space in the site area of 70pyeong with the general program of house. In this case, the outer wall of first floor and the road come into close contact. That

Joint Houses In Barcelona : By Q d’ARQUITECTURA

Matadepera, Barcelona, Spain
Q d’ARQUITECTURA
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Photo © Courtesy of Jordi Grané Aran

The housing should occupy a portion of land resulting from segregation of a plot already built. The existing house –belonging to the parents-, and the new one –belonging to their sons-, must maintain a reasonable level of privacy, despite sharing the joint use of the courtyard, and without establishing a physical boundary between the two parcels.

Colman Triplex : By Workshop for Architecture | Design

the Colman Triplex in Seattle, Washington, United States 
Workshop for Architecture | Design
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SITE
A 40’ X 100’ inner-city lot that slopes eight feet from west to east. The property has views of downtown Seattle across a park that lies both to the east and north. To allow each dwelling to inhabit a specific portion of the site, the sloping topography was reshaped into two distinct levels.

Church Point House : By Utz-Sanby Architects

suburb of Sydney, Australia
Utz-Sanby Architects
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From Utz-Sanby Architects:

This new house is on a steep sloping block, facing due East toward Pittwater. The decision to locate the house at the top of the slope toward the rear of the block was made with the clients, early in the design phase, to ensure that the house took best advantage of the views, privacy and natural vegetation on the site.

Villa Nyberg : By Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture

Borlänge, Sweden
Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of  Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture

Passive houses as type houses
Kjellgren Kaminsky has produced Swedens first series of passive houses sold as type houses in collaboration with Emrahus, our goal is to make this environmentally friendly building technique available for all. Villa Nyberg is the first one to get built. The villa has been customized for the Nyberg family and is situated in Borlänge, central Sweden.

Villa Berkel : By Paul de Ruiter

Veenendaal, Netherlands
Paul de Ruiter
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Photo © Courtesy of  Pieter Kers

Villa Berkel in Veenendaal (Netherlands) is built on a site formerly occupied by a bungalow dating from the nineteen seventies. The owners wanted to remodel the bungalow, but decided on the advice of Paul de Ruiter to demolish the bungalow and make room for a completely new design.

Tree House : By KAA Design Group

Manhattan Beach, United States
KAA Design Group
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Photo © Courtesy of Erhard Pfeiffer

Located in the desirable “tree section” of Manhattan Beach, this home reinforces the viability of indoor/outdoor living along the Southern California coast. Locally sourced sustainable materials are, whenever possible and relevant to the design concept, left exposed to reveal their natural finishes.

Epiphany School : By Miller Hull Partnership

Seattle, Washington, United States
Miller Hull Partnership
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Photo © Courtesy of Benjamin Benschneider

The Epiphany School is a recently opened expansion of a Pre-K-5 school in the Madrona neighborhood of Seattle. The project includes a new classroom building and a public art space, and in order to make way for the new building, four houses were removed from the site, with two of them relocated to other parts of the city. The architectural character of the project mimics the scale of the neighborhood and consists of individual roof forms.

Grand Canal Square Theatre and Commercial Development : By Daniel Libeskind

Dublin Docklands, Republic of Ireland 
Daniel Libeskind

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Photo © Courtesy of Ros Kavanagh

Architect Daniel Libeskind recently has completed the Grand Canal Square Theatre and Commercial Development. It comprises two extensive office buildings and a stunning theatre with the dynamic formal expression. The project aims to enhance the new urban structure of Grand Canal Harbor in Dublin, serving as a focus point for its context.

"The architectural concept of the Theatre is based on stages: the stage of the Theatre itself, the stage of the piazza, and the stage of the multiple level Theatre lobby above the piazza."

Architekt Daniel Libeskind AG

Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health : By Frank Gehry

Las Vegas, United States
Frank Gehry
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Photo © Courtesy of  Matthew Carbone, Photographer

The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas. The center is supported by Keep Memory Alive, and it is planned to become a national resource for the most current research and scientific information for the treatment of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington ‘s Diseases, and ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) as well as focusing on prevention, early detection and education.

MAXXI/National Museum of XXI Century Arts : By Zaha Hadid Architects

Rome, Italy
Zaha Hadid Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Iwan Baan

MAXXI: Zaha Hadid Taps into Rome’s past while creating its most contemporary building in decades. 
In Rome, history flows through every urban artery, providing a strong pulse to obscure outposts and tourist destinations alike. For architects, the Eternal City presents history as inspiration, obstacle, and challenge. With the National Museum of XXI Century Arts (MAXXI), which opened in May in the Flaminio district just outside the city’s historic core, Zaha Hadid treats it as a river — a fluid construct comprising a series of streams — converging, overlapping, then changing course. In the process, she taps into powerful flows of the Roman past and delivers her most convincing building to date — a sensual piece of construction that works both urbanistically and as a place to view art.

s.Oliver Headquarters : By KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten

Rottendorf, Würzburg, Germany
KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten
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Photo © Courtesy of Jean-Luc Valentin

s.Oliver Headquarters by German firm KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten is a winning project in 2006 and built in 2008. The design aims to give the new building an identity and reflect the s.Oliver Group’s dynamism and zeitgeist.

Giant Interactive Group : By Morphosis

Shanghai, China
Morphosis
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Photo © Courtesy of Iwan Baan--The executive portion of the office wing cantilevers 115 feet and extends above a lake.

Morphosis engages landform with architecture to create a new kind of workplace for Chinese capitalism. 
Corporate office buildings used to offer architects the chance to tap into fat construction budgets and make serious design statements. Think Mies van der Rohe and Seagram or Eero Saarinen and General Motors. Today, only a few U.S. corporations are investing in significant architecture, and some (such as the New York Times) have been criticized for spending too much on it, while others (such as Bank of America) have kept quiet about their new buildings for fear of being criticized. Corporate China, though, is starting to flex its muscle and sees architecture as a fine way of showing off its bulging profits. Many of the new office buildings rising in both urban and suburban China scream wildly for attention, but a few are taking more sophisticated — if no less bold — approaches to shaping the workplace and expressing the role of capitalism in a nominally communist society.

Walking House : By n55

n55
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Photo © Courtesy of n55

Walking house is a mobile and modular dwelling system created by the danish architecture studio n55. the concept is a small home which slowly walks allowing its inhabitants to live a slow nomadic life.

Peninsula Residence : By Bercy Chen Studio

Lake Austin in Austin, Texas, United States
Bercy Chen Studio
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Photo © Courtesy of Bercy Chen Studio

From the architects:

Through the use of glass, steel, detailing and lighting, the project saught to update the home’s interior while redefining it’s relationship with the lake beyond.

EggO House : By A 69 Architects

Prague, Czech Republic
A 69 Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of A 69 Architects

The purpose of the project was the construction of a self-contained dwelling unit in the garden of the recently reconstructed house. It was necessary to deal with the dominance of the opposite panel house facade, avoid confrontation with the architecture of the original house and find out a solution that would not parasite on the garden area.

Villa Storingavika : By Saunders Architecture

Bergen, Norway
Saunders Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of Saunders Architecture

This family dwelling is located on one of Bergen’s most attractive sites, overlooking the southern fjords and the West coast archipelago. The site comprises a rocky outcrop together with some garden space, and as this is a very small site, the intention of the design was to have just as much outside space left at the end as when we started. To achieve this we constructed a 10 cm contour map of the site, allowing us to create a perfect fit between the terrain and the proposed structure.

House With Midair Living : By StudioGreenBlue

Koga, Ibaraki, Japan
StudioGreenBlue
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Photo © Courtesy of StudioGreenBlue

The site is a residential section in the suburb. The distance between houses is expansive and the site is surrounded the rice fields, It is relative rural area.

Casa Familia : By Kevin deFreitas

San Diego, California, United States
Kevin deFreitas
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Photo © Courtesy of Kevin deFreitas

A reinterpretation of quintessential Southern Californian courtyard houses; this is a modestly sized home that lives much bigger than it really is by thoughtfully opening up to, and engaging the landscape and wonderfully temperate coastal climate.

Y House : By Jorge Sousa Santos

Arelho, Óbidos, Portugal
Jorge Sousa Santos

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Photo © Courtesy of  FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

This house is a vision device. A system that rules the way the inhabitant sees the outside world and simultaneously frames the way the outside sees the dwellers. The design of this object was focused on this theme. The big curved window is this statement vortex, it creates a visual path that, like a camera traveling, reveal the image of the landscape.

Cabel Industry : By Massimo Mariani Architects

Empoli, Italy
Massimo Mariani Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Alessandro Ciampi

Just out the edge of the town of Empoli, the building is the Cabel headquarters (a company dealing in computer systems for banks), it covers an area of approximately 4.500 square metres and it is incorporated on the local industrial estate.

The Israel Museum : By James Carpenter Design Associates

Jerusalem, Israel
James Carpenter Design Associates
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Photo © Courtesy of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem/Timothy Hursley

A modernist museum in Jerusalem is sensitively updated by James Carpenter Design Associates and Efrat-Kowalsky Architects.
In the late 1950s, when Teddy Kollek, the future mayor of Jerusalem, first suggested founding a national encyclopedic museum little more than a decade after Israel won its independence, many thought the idea pure folly. The young country was still struggling for its economic and political survival. But Vienna-born Kollek believed culture was “as vital a form of sustenance as the roof over one’s head and the food on one’s plate.”

The Israel Museum : By James Carpenter Design Associates

Jerusalem, Israel
James Carpenter Design Associates
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Photo © Courtesy of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem/Timothy Hursley

A modernist museum in Jerusalem is sensitively updated by James Carpenter Design Associates and Efrat-Kowalsky Architects.
In the late 1950s, when Teddy Kollek, the future mayor of Jerusalem, first suggested founding a national encyclopedic museum little more than a decade after Israel won its independence, many thought the idea pure folly. The young country was still struggling for its economic and political survival. But Vienna-born Kollek believed culture was “as vital a form of sustenance as the roof over one’s head and the food on one’s plate.”

Cambridge Public Library : By William Rawn Associates

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
William Rawn Associates
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Photo © Courtesy of Robert Benson Photography--Especially at night, a circulation zone defined by vibrant color is visible from the 4-acre park surrounding the library.

Legible and Luminous: William Rawn’s pristine glass box for the Cambridge Public Library quadruples the size of the original historic building. 
Anyone who doubts the relevance of libraries in the age of e-readers, amazon.com, and the iPad should visit the new central branch of the Cambridge Public Library (CPL), in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They will find patrons borrowing the latest James Patterson thriller, parents reading to small children, people taking advantage of the free Wi-Fi, and community groups using the building’s meeting spaces. 

North Carolina Museum of Art : By Thomas Phifer and Partners

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States 
Thomas Phifer and Partners
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Photo © Courtesy of Scott Frances--The sculptures in the Rodin Garden are set among gravel, water, and bamboo plants. The garden extends the western end of the building spine, which features smaller works by the artist, into the landscape.

Shedding Light: Thomas Phifer and Partners turns a simple structure into a stunning expansion of the North Carolina Museum of Art. 
Tom Phifer said that he wants his new building for the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA), in Raleigh, to disappear into the landscape. By saying so, he is daring you to take a closer look, knowing full well that his first museum, like the art that hangs on its walls, will stand up to the scrutiny. 

Apartment in Reykjavik : By Gudmundur Jonsson Architect

Reykjavik, Iceland
Gudmundur Jonsson Architect
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Photo © Courtesy of Gudmundur Jonsson Architect

The Oslo, Norway based architect Gudmundur Jonsson, has shared some photos with of an apartment interior he designed for himself in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Juliet Supperclub : By bluarch architecture

New York, NY, United States
bluarch architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of bluarch architecture

bluarch architecture + interiors have designed the Juliet Supperclub, celebrity chef Todd English’s most recent venture with nightclub owner, Jon B.

French Perfume House Diptyque : By Special Projekt

London, England
Special Projekt
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Photo © Courtesy of Special Projekt

London Design Studio Special Projekt has created a unique retail space for luxury French Perfume House Diptyque in London’s foremost department store Liberty of London.

Café Foam : By Note Design Studio

Stockholm, Sweden
Note Design Studio
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Photo © Courtesy of Stefano Barozzi

“We want you to create an interior design that people either love or hate and that nobody is indifferent to!” was the conditions given to us by the owner Michael Toutoungi when we started working with Café Foam.

Planit Prefab House : By Pircher and Bestetti Associates

Italy
Pircher and Bestetti Associates
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Photo © Courtesy of Pircher and Bestetti Associates

Planit is a line of modular prefab homes from Pircher, a European wood products manufacturer, with architectural design by Bestetti Associates.

XS House : By UNI

Cambridge, MA, United States
UNI
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Photo © Courtesy of UNI

The final piece to the residential compound, XSmall, what the hell is this is, three rotated 16-by-22-foot boxes with four-corner-skylights, giving rooms natural light with minimum windows and maximum privacy, something that is all too important when there are four houses on just two lots, especially when the designs draw as much attention as they do.