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Harborview Hills is a coastal view house designed by Laidlaw Schultz Architects in Corona del Mar, a neighborhood in the affluent city of Newport Beach, California, USA: With a passion for modern architecture and an international understanding of style, the homeowners approached Laidlaw Schultz Architects seeking something unique and suitable for their growing family. The [...]

Wind-dyed House was a residential building located halfway up a cliff, overlooking the ocean in Yokosuka Kanagawa, Japan. The acaa forms this house as low-lying as possible, while also allowing the architecture to become embedded in the surrounding landscape according to the contours of the terrain. The design of the walls plays an important role [...]

This project is a result of renovation and expansion made to a house at 2711 First on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill which designed by Paul Hayden Kirk. It was a bold compact composition with shingled walls that wrap over to become the roof. The idea was reinforced inside with cedar clad walls and ceilings. Incoming [...]

The Blurred House is a major renovation and extension by BiLD architecture to an original 1930’s Californian bungalow in Melbourne’s inner-north. The design is adapting vernacular Australian suburban typologies with a jarring juxtaposition of existing ‘old’ and introduced ‘new’ architectural elements, transitioning from the vernacular to the contemporary architectural, producing a unique formal and visual [...]

The Haifa House is one of residence designed by Pitsou Kedem Architects. It set in a historic avenue of Haifa’s French Carmel neighborhood. The project emphasizes and sharpens the differences between apparently similar design styles of contemporary minimalism influenced by Japan and the austere moderation of the modernism that characterized the end of the 1950’s. [...]