The Crystal Towers Hotel & Spa sited within context of Century City – Cape Town, designed by VIVID Architects. It has been designed to play an important role in the local community – a fresh new landmark building that would integrate, influence and generate future planning. The development is made up of three buildings comprising a 180 key 5 star hotel, 90 luxury residences, and A-grade commercial office space. The built form has been spread to create the impression of a collection of buildings –with a common idea but distinctive …

Projected by Koko Architecture + Design, this goal to explore the challenge of maintaining the spirit of craftsmanship within a modern domestic landscape. Set on a wooded five-acre site in rural Pennsylvania, the house utilizes a material consciousness to engage the neighboring handcrafted Amish farm buildings. The house consists of three interlocking volumes. While each volume is very simple in its form, the exchange between them allows for a wide variety of spatial experiences. The first impression one has is that the house is two “shadow-boxes” connected by a “bird …

The Uppal’s Business Centre located in Gurgaon in the suburbs of New Delhi, designed by Morphogenesis. The building moves away from the typical office typology, provides an alternative with interweaving open social spaces, and closed workspaces. The design brief specified 50,000 sq ft of pre-fitted, rentable office spaces for a range of clients. The design merges the programmatic requirements of a business centre with the environmental concerns that are of critical importance in today’s context. The design is envisaged with two types of informal spaces- one at the public level …

This Private Residence was designed by Michael Maltzan Architecture in beautiful site at the edge of Angeles forest, 15 miles north of Los Angeles. The site encompasses 6 acres of land originally planned as a hillside subdivision of houses designed by Richard Neutra. Three level pads were created but only one house was built, the 1952 Serulnic Residence. The current owners have over the years developed an extensive desert garden and outdoor pavilion on one of the unbuilt pads. The new residence, to be constructed on the last level area, …

Cory Buckner Architect, specializes in contemporary residential design and mid-century remodel and restoration was succesfully remodel “Korman Residence” in Brentwood, California. The program for the project included a second story addition to house a master suite, a home office for Dr. Korman, a surgeon, and a painting studio for Ann. Situated at the bottom of a canyon, the entrance to the original house was 66 steps from the street to the front door. The new design incorporated a bridge to an entrance at the second floor addition reducing the …

This building was designed for Rotho Blaas Limited in 4800 m2 site Area in Kurtatsch Italy. Designed by monovolume architecture + design, the aim of the project was to create a compact building with a high level of recognition. The building as corporate identity of the enterprise; contemporary and representative of the company. The main materials used in this projects are wood for the structure and glass for the façade. Warehouse and commissioning are situated on the ground floor whereas administration, a meeting room and a showroom can be found …

Australian Architecture Firm Bark Architects presents beautiful beach house in Marcus Beach Melbourne. This house celebrates a natural, coastal setting providing its occupants with an inextricable relationship to the landscape and sensitive surrounding environment. The dwelling explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdoor spaces within dynamic patterns of light and shadow, being a simple frame to enable a contemporary sustainable lifestyle to unfold. The house is open and light and possesses simple sustainable design principles to passively defend the occupants from the elements. Windows …

Located on the prominent corner of Commercial Road and Ann Street, the design of the new 6-storey commercial building is concentrated on modernity whilst retaining the classic design elements of the refurbished art deco Waterloo Hotel. Cottee Parker Architects achieved this through the subtle inclusion of ceramic tile motifs and an interpretation of the original hotel’s window etchings that animates the new building’s facade. This design paradigm provides a contemporary backdrop to the historical context of the site. The fusion of the commercial and social uses of the location has …

Mutsue Hayakusa from Japan’s architecture office Cell Space Architects finished a contemporary Villa-K, consists of four parts of floors and four parts of roofs around a central pillar. This villa sited on a hilltop in one of the eminent Karuizawa villa areas. The four floors placed on different levels are connected to the surrounding out space through windows in order to give diverse views for the residents. The inner spaces are divided into four parts and, on the other hand, are connected in a spiral around the central pillar.The four …

Sited on eastern coast of North Bruny Island Tasmania, Hobart’s Sullivans Cove based architects Dock4 Architecture created contemporary timber house. This “white Perrin” house have dramatic views over Storm Bay to Cape Raoul and deep ocean beyond. his prompted the design approach that the building should be anchored to the steep slope while leaning out towards the views. The challenge for the architects is to capture the site stunning views to the east and south-east while creating an energy efficient building gathering solar warmth from the north. Energy efficiency was …