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This 1,500 sq. ft. vacation home sits on a half an acre lot in New York. The house is cladded inside and out in 12” wide cypress boards, which give it a straightforward box-like simplicity.
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Pryor is a 3,200 sq. ft. prefabricated family vacation home on a hillside in Montauk, NY. The house was designed so the owners, a couple with two young boys, could interact with the surrounding environment.
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John Pardey Architects created a new extension to an original 1950’s split-level home. Complementing the existing house design, the addition is an iroko-cladd box-like structure with a metal-clad, floating butterfly roof.
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Located on Fire Island, NY, this 1,440 sq. ft. compact home from Bates Masi Architects, is a two level ‘tree house’, as the owner likes to call it, situated in a beautiful dense grove of pines and hollies with large glass openings overlooking the bay from the second level.
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Situated on an old Japanese cherry-farm in Sanjhih, Taiwan, this wooden house is designed to become a part of nature and in some way give itself over to demanding wind, flooding, frequent typhoons and earthquakes in the area.
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Designed by Vietnamese Vo Trong Nghia Co., the wind and water bar (wNw) has been proposed as a temporary, low-cost, high speed construction prefab model for flood-stricken areas in Vietnam.
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Nestled in an abandoned farm overlooking lake Mjøsa in Norway, this small structure is a modern home for two historians and their children. After tearing down the existing barn on the farm (due to rotten main structure), its 100 years old cladding have been reused as exterior cladding and terraces for the new house.
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Inspired by the traditional ‘zori’ Japanese slippers, Havaianas sandals are not just rubber flip-flops but a stylish fashion icon and this is their first store in Brazil. With a total space of 300 sq. meters, the store is located at one of the world’s most expensive addresses, Rua Oscar Freire in São Paulo, where it captures the brand’s freshness, casualness, comfort, well-being and Brazilianness.
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This is by far one of the most breathtaking holiday homes I have ever seen. Designed by Melbourne-based architecture company McBride Charles Ryan, this structure won the House category at the ‘World Architecture Festival’ in Barcelona 2009 and it is truly stunning.
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Designed by Dan Brill Architects, a terraced family home was extended into the back garden in order to provide extra space for a new kitchen/diner on the ground floor as well as a spacious bathroom on the second floor.
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Located on a small hill where the tree line meets the mountains in Ramundberget, Sweden, the award winning Tusen restaurant offers uninterrupted views of well-known mountains in Sweden as Helags and Skars.
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This beautiful home is a semi-detached, grade 2 listed period house in London. The extension project includes a narrow, light-filled double-height kitchen and two bathrooms.
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Austin-based architecture firm Bercy Chen Studio reused natural and man-made resources in order to reconnect an original house with its site while preserving the characteristic of the site as much as possible – a recycled renovation, if you will.
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An exploration of traditional Japanese architecture in a modern context led to the design of this beautiful residential home in Kawana, Japan. The result is a fusion of two traditions: the Japanese love of harmony and respect for nature and the Western refinement of a dematerialized architecture of steel and glass.
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