Located on a sheep ranch in Australia, Shady Creek Farm House is a collaborative project involving MRTN Architects. The designers conceived the home to reflect its agricultural surroundings, leaning into retro aesthetics while featuring chic modern touches.
The farmhouse evokes a connection to agricultural life, including elements such as a corrugated facade and expansive windows welcoming natural light. Its thoughtful, lively interior fuses rustic warmth, sophistication, and chic modernity.
Situated at the southern end of stunning Lake Hawea in New Zealand’s South Island, The View House features design by Mark John Warren. Built around an internal courtyard with a retractable louvre roof, this house is a multi-generational holiday home designed to celebrate the amazing views, with materials and detailing creating a calm and serene environment for soaking in the breathtaking surroundings.
Danish design brand Vipp travels to the Southern Hemisphere for the brand’s newest guesthouse. Cantilevered over a sloping hill on Tasmania’s Bruny Island, the architecturally daring and sustainably designed Vipp Tunnel by Hobart-based studio, Room11 Architects, balances beauty and brutalism. This ground up property becomes a unique refuge that marries art, design, and nature, featuring a series of outdoor sculptures by renowned Danish artist Lin Utzon.
Situated in Saint-Ouen, France, the Quinet apartment illustrates a breathtaking renovation executed by Studio Baha. An endeavor of Ariane Bromberger in 2022, this 50 m² penthouse dwells encapsulates the essence of contemporary lifestyle.
Nestled in Berlin, Germany, the Wooden House by the Lake is a house designed by Transstruktura – Architektur Stadt Objekt in 2024. This compact property features a geometric form accented by a structured wooden facade, and generous windows that frame views of the lake and surrounding trees, connecting indoor spaces with nature and providing passive solar heating in winter and external shade in summer.
Villa Icaria, a 2024 house in Guadalajara, Spain, was designed by Arquitectura Al Descubierto as a utopian proposal. The project’s volumes intertwine with nature, using local materials and engaging a rural organicism.
The Longwood ADU exemplifies innovative residential design, merging functionality with aesthetic allure. Designed by Patrick TIGHE Architecture, the dwelling reimagines urban living in Los Angeles, CA, with a distinctive open plan, soaring cedar-clad ceilings, and seamless indoor-outdoor transitions. The 1,200 sq ft space features polished concrete floors and a sliding glass wall, creating a harmonious link to the surrounding environment and offering a tranquil retreat from city life.
A wide central corridor pairs with nature-inspired artworks made with grating illumination technology in this Taipei apartment, creating two traffic flows that assemble art of illumination. Designed by Chains Interior, Light in the Wilderness was conceived for a vast space occupied by a couple and their four children, so privacy and entertainment were both prioritised within the area’s structure.
