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Entryway by Ellen Honigstock

Live in an apartment or house without a separate entry space? We love this solution in a West Village townhouse by Ellen Honigstock......

Modern Industrial Family Home
ArchDaily

This home in Warsaw, Poland by the firm Marek Rytych Architekt marries very industrial elements — concrete, sheet metal, wood, and brick — and creates a modern living space that uses the...

Modern Home for a Motorcycle Enthusiast
ArchDaily

This modern home in Dublin, Ireland was designed by ODOS architects. It was named Best House in the 2009 Irish Architecture Awards. Designed for a motorcycle enthusiast, the main level features a bi...

Roger Black's Ranch: A New Yorker's Texas Escape
The New York Times

Former Rolling Stone Art Director and current publishing consultant Roger Black lives in a Gramercy Park apartment in New York City. About once a month, he makes the 9-hour journey to his 3,000 acre ...

Alternative MoMA Tower Concept by Axis Mundi
Dezeen

This is kind of exciting! While Jean Nouvel's plans for a 73-story MoMA tower are being reviewed by New York City's Urban Land Use Review Process, architecture firm Axis Mundi has proposed a new con...

Greenwich Village Townhouse Renovation

This townhouse renovation by Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects takes full advantage of natural light and the home's coveted outdoor space — check out the multi-levels of outdoor relaxation ...

Modern Spanish Home
ClicarQ

This single family home by architecture firm Rosales + Crecente is a modern retreat in northwestern Spain! A large portion of the home's design is outdoor space and includes decks and an internal co...

Swiss Box: Modern Home in the Mountains
ArchDaily

I love how this boxy home looks like it was tossed to the ground in the middle of the Swiss Alps! Designed by Nunatak Sàrl Architectes, the home is covered in a slate exterior — a beautiful u...

Modern American Vacation Homes by Andrea Salvini

New York architect Andrea Salvini takes a new look at the role of the American cabin and beachfront vacation homes and gives them both a modern update while embracing the concepts of their tradition...

Eco-Friendly Renovation: Shelter House by Franklin Azzi

This vacation house in Normandy was built from a small cottage that was renovated for seasonal use — the shape of the original small home was extended out with wooden platforms/decks that can ...

Modern & Green: A Country House in France
ArchDaily

Check out this modern home in south western France by Meld Architecture — the timber and limestone exterior responds directly to the local terrain where it was sourced and the home has many gr...

Sleek & Minimal Copenhagen Penthouse
Contemporist

This penthouse apartment's gleaming white interior is the result of a gut-rehab envisioned by NORM Architects. The design involved pouring a white resin floor, creating full height doors, integrati...

Modern Adirondacks Escape
Metropolitan Home

Here's another upstate escape from the July/August issue of Metropolitan Home — the Scheidt weekend residence is a new 2,400 square foot home by architects Robert Luntz and Joe Tanney of Reso...

Knotty Pine Norwegian Cabin
ArchDaily

This Norwegian cabin in the woods was designed by Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL and is primarily used in the winter as a base for cross-country skiing. Beatiful and bright — as long as th...

Scandinavian Style in Upstate New York
Metropolitan Home

The newest issue of Metropolitan Home features the upstate New York home of architect Douglas Larson and his wife, Torrie. Douglas renovated the mid-19th-century farmhouse to take advantage of its b...

URBIA Furniture System from OBRA Architects

The URBIA Furniture System from New York Architecture firm OBRA Architects is a modular, interior system that can be customized to include furniture, room dividers, shelving, storage and even stairs...

Landscape Room: A Modern Indoor / Outdoor Addition

This modern addition by Ireland's LID Architecture opens up an Irish limestone cottage to light, air and views of the surrounding mountains of County Sligo in Northwest Ireland. Named the Landscape ...

"Prefab" Homes by Daniel Libeskind

Starchitect Daniel Libeskind is trying his hand at a design for prefabricated homes — and the results are more daring than most. Named The Villa, the 5,500-foot-homes are sized and priced for ...

Cottage Plans by Ronald F. DiMauro

These little country cottage drawings by architect Ronald F. DiMauro might offer some small space suggestions for us city mice. Take the 775 square feet Cohassett Cottage, for instance......

Gap House by Pitman Tozer Architects

This London home by Pitman Tozer Architects was designed for architect Luke Tozer and his family. At the front, the house is only eight feet wide. Even so, the home manages to feel open and airy. It...

Genetic Stairs by Caliper Studio

New York based architecture studio Caliper Studio also has a fabrication shop where they can develop many of their designs — especially those for custom "doors, windows, railings, stairs, faca...

Small Family Home in the East Village
Dwell

The current issue of Dwell shows us how Manhattan residents Michael Finger and Joanne Kennedy maximized the 650 square feet of an apartment for their family of four. With the help of Scott Oliver an...

Underground Home Addition
Switzerland

This is an intriguing renovation / addition project featured on ArchDaily — a 1960's home in Greifensee, Switzerland is part of a neighborhood with strict building regulations BUT underground ...

East 25th Street Loft by Atema Architecture

This tech-y looking loft has an egg crate shelving and ceiling design that's a sort of running theme through the entire home. Here we see it in a wall of storage with green-painted backs and in the ...

Skateboarders' Ramp House by Archivirus Architects

click thumbnails for larger pics Though it may not be practical, this Ramp House in Athens is definitely cool. Designed by the architecture firm Archivirus, Ramp House melds the ideas of living and s...

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