Now that spring is here, you might be thinking about starting a big spring clean at your home. If you want to take things a step further, though, now is also a great time to consider doing some refresh work on your property.
Located in Esposende, Portugal, House on Rua Rocha Gonçalves is a two-story residence designed in 2021 by Traço Alternativo.
This contemporary house takes advantage of the view over Cávado´s river and its large glass doors that allow the light to invade the spaces, intentionally highlighting the contrasts created by the materials’ colors and textures. With its garden, swimming pool and wooden staircase, this house evokes an open space concept and inspires emotions.
Welcome to House in Baião, a contemporary vacation house located in Portugal. Built upon ancient ruins, Traço Alternativo designed this house to blend in with the bucolic green setting while preserving the memory of the preexisting house.
Natural wood was used as the privileged material for both structure and coverings, inside and out, creating its own language and innovating with its simple, raw beauty. With its wood details, contrasts between wood and concrete and the feeling of comfort and order that the wooden ceilings create, House in Baião is the perfect wooden refuge.
Tucked away in Seattle’s Phinney Ridge neighborhood, surrounded by old-growth trees, is the reimagined two-story home of a young family of four. Dubbed Phinney Mini for its compact footprint and idyllic location, the 1,665 square-foot (155 m2) house was designed by Best Practice Architecture to be a functional, modern and exquisitely detailed living space that celebrates the family’s heritage.
The Best Practice team achieved this by removing the interior walls of the main level and introducing two organizing elements, an entry box and an oak box, that house necessary domestic functions in an elegant and bespoke fashion. In addition, they designed a generous family room, a detached work-from-home office and a pocket door leading to a bathroom with a traditional Japanese soaking tub. Thanks to Best Practice’s expertise, Phinney Mini is now a charming and luxurious home that will be cherished for years to come.
Nestled in the heart of the blue zone community of Nosara, Costa Rica, Casa Azúcar by Studio Saxe offers an oasis that blends indoors and outdoors for the perfect getaway.
Designed in 2022, the contemporary tropical house is the perfect combination of respecting the existing trees and a natural creek, providing warmth and comfort within nature. The house is designed like a habitable garden pavilion, carefully choreographed to enter the back of the house towards the creek and the wildlife that spawns from there. The interior design is light and soft, creating a modern beach-like feel, and bioclimatic passive design is used for sustainability.
Monitor’s Rest, an 18,000 square-foot (1,672 square meter) single-story mountain residence designed by CLB Architects in 2022, stands out from the craggy slopes of Park City, Utah.
Situated within the award-winning development The Colony at White Pine Canyon, this elegant outcropping embraces rugged outdoor lifestyles into its bespoke interior spaces. Constructed as a series of rectilinear volumes, Monitor’s Rest invites occupants to circulation across the steep slope and experience the alpine wilderness and high-end residential amenities.
This Delikai’t Flat, designed by Célia Antunez and located in Barcelona, Spain, is a stunning example of contemporary real estate.
Situated on one of the most active and most promenaded streets, this luxurious apartment is the perfect mix of elegance and surfing, with the sea, the beach and the summer at its heart. The materials, colors and shapes provide the perfect blend to live with an insayn style every day. This home was designed to represent the power of waves, while giving off a delicate and sophisticated touch.
Casa Baglioni, a newly opened hotel on the corner of Via dei Giardini and Via Fatebenefratelli, is a symbol of Milanese hospitality of excellence, intimate, discreet but at the same time warm. Designed by Spagnulo & Partners in 2023, the luxurious spaces of Casa Baglioni draw inspiration from the art and design of 1960s Milan.
Member of the prestigious network The Leading Hotels of the World, the hotel consists of 30 bright and spacious rooms and suites and four top suites celebrating the Milan of Giò Ponti and other great artists, architects and designers of the time.
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