The Various Views of the Streamhouse
Name: Streamhouse Size: 2,100 square feet Location: Nichols Canyon, Hollywood Hills There's a plenty to admire and be inspired by within the walls of this Hollywood Hills home's tasteful interior: ...
Name: Streamhouse Size: 2,100 square feet Location: Nichols Canyon, Hollywood Hills There's a plenty to admire and be inspired by within the walls of this Hollywood Hills home's tasteful interior: ...
Name: Wolff House by John Lautner Location: Hollywood Hills Size: 3 bedroom How do you decorate a museum-quality "homage to modernism"? The Wolff House was built by John Lautner in 1961 in typical ...
Who doesn't love good-looking, smart, and modern furniture? Combine gorgeous aesthetics with clever design and a sustainable attitude, and you get this local Austin furniture maker......
As we head towards the weekend, all we can think about is how much we would love our own weekend house. We stumbled across Wombat Towers, built on 40-hectares in the Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales a...
With a footprint of only 3 square meters [that’s just over 30 square feet] this 2 storey copper clad building is set in the middle of sheep station in central NSW. Brilliantly, the cladding of the b...
From afar, this storage barn which houses a selection of lumber, stones and other building materials looks like a modernist home. But upon closer inspection, the mosaic of colour and texture reveals...
Name: Sharp Cone House by Suppose Design Office Location: Higashihiroshima, Japan Size: 115.51m2 Upon first glance, the monolithic ebony pyramid shaped residence nicknamed the “sharp cone” by a...
click for more picsTwo things we cover with passion here are small space living and prefab solutions, two lifestyle/design solutions we think will pick up steam in a slowing economy (at least we hope ...
click for more pics About a year ago the team over at AT San Francisco mentioned the stylish prefab dwellings from Method Homes (no relation to the household cleaner brand) and we noticed they've upda...
click for more picsAfter a filling lunch at Rosario's near downtown San Antonio, Emily and I decided to burn off some of calories yesterday with a self-guided walking tour down the tree-shaded sidewal...
Recent graduate of the USC School of Architecture Christopher Megowan sent us several images and a detailed description of an architectural project that juxtaposes a modern addition with a hundred yea...
What does the Sydney Opera House and Alvar Aalto have in common? See after the jump… ...
So this is a house that's a bit larger than most of us live in. But, just look at this carefully planned exterior boasting traditional and modern elements. The lessons contained in this home's walls ...
We'll give credit to LPA, Inc Architecture for exploring a wide variety of green solutions for what could have been just another expensive, stylish (and huge) coastal home. The Chestnut House located ...
Who at one time or another hasn't wanted a huge slide to enter or exit a home with? The architectural firm of EM2N incorporated a long yellow slide that allows visitors and owners alike to enter the H...
If you've managed to find that modern home of your dreams, chances are you are a connoisseur of clean lines and smart details. You may have even invested in a good-looking modern fence for your prope...
If the Jetsons moved to Sydney, they’d probably want to live in this new development designed by Ronald Cecil Sportes. 42-44 Carnarvon St comprises of 10 eco-friendly luxury townhouses which feature...
As someone who is horribly afraid of heights, this house makes us nervous! Forgetting our own fears of anything higher than a stepladder, this looks fantastic from all angles. Built just down the road...
[ Photo by Lil [Kristen Elsby]] Whilst cruising Flickr we came across this fascinating apartment block. From what we’ve gathered the block is known as the Sirius Apartments located on Cumberland...
It’s amazing how evolved the designs of room dividers has become in the last few years. Aside from the color, texture, material and genre, you can even choose between a flexible style versus a more ...
I always laugh when I see dogs that look like their owners. Chihuahuas and models. Pitbulls and bikers. Poodles and rich old women. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, but sometimes, the...
The feature we most enjoyed while attending the recent Dwell on Design show was getting up close and personal with many of the prefab homes we've ogled both online and in print. One of the most ogle-w...
Inspired by our weekend adventure, we've been dreaming of having a home office in a tree house. We found some downloadable plans (even one for novices) so now all we need is a backyard and a big ol' ...
Want a house with lots of windows and a good view? So did Seifert Stoeckmann, whose Living Room House in the historic district of Gelnhausen, Germany sports 52 windows in a checkerboard pattern and al...
We've got an unusual architectural-art destination on our list of local places to visit/things to do. This one is down over at the Los Angeles Arboretum, where environmental artist Patrick Dougherty h...