Discover the House of Stone Screen in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, a modern masterpiece by Studio APL. This unique four-story house merges traditional East Asian screens with contemporary design, creating private and communal spaces bathed in natural light.
Embracing Feng Shui principles, the residence features a distinctive stone screen, enhancing the harmony between indoor and outdoor areas. Here, every room is a blend of serenity and modernity, offering a tranquil urban retreat.
Explore Casa Mango, a 2018 architectural jewel in Mérida, Mexico, designed by Marcos Torres Cocom. This house skillfully combines concrete and stone, reimagining a historic plot into a serene urban retreat. Its design prioritizes natural light and outdoor connections with large windows and a unique layout, while interior finishes and vibrant yellow metal accents beautifully showcase an art collection.
Casa Mango is a testament to innovative and elegant urban living.
Step into the PGR House in Vancouver, Canada, a stunning example of modern architecture by Evoke International Design.
This 3,180 square foot residence, once a 1973 family home, now boasts a fusion of concrete and Douglas Fir. It masterfully connects the indoors with the outdoors, offering panoramic views of the Salish Sea and mountains. The design, focused on retaining the original site’s charm, features a unique blend of materials, creating a warm, inviting ambiance that celebrates both urban living and natural beauty.
Gottlieb House in Melbourne, a creation of Wood Marsh Architecture, merges the realms of art and architecture. Inspired by Donald Judd and Richard Serra, this concrete and steel home transcends traditional residential design, embracing the intersection of space, materiality, light, and form. Here, artistry and functionality coexist, creating a living sculpture that redefines suburban living.
In Santiago’s Andean foothills, FLD House by 57STUDIO combines concrete and wood in a unique single-story design. Located in Las Condes, Chile, the 2016-built house features intersecting wings that adapt to the slope, creating sun-protected patios and light-filled rooms. This architectural blend harmoniously balances the robustness of concrete with the lightness of radiata pine wood.
House Acute, a striking family weekender designed by MCK Architecture + Interiors, stands proudly in Peats Ridge, Australia. Built in 2015 for a family of six, this unique wedge-shaped home on a small, challenging parcel of land near the NSW coastline, masterfully confronts the harsh ocean elements and bush-fire prone area.
Featuring two overlapping concrete pavilions, the house merges robust construction with playful geometry, offering both privacy and panoramic views. Its design cleverly integrates the surrounding angophora trees, blurring the lines between the built and natural environments.
Casa Taller, designed by Tectum Arquitectura in La Paisanita, Argentina, is a stunning expression of concrete brutalist architecture, completed in 2021.
Perched on a challenging 45-degree slope, this house merges with the sounds of the river and the panoramic views of mountains and treetops, offering a sanctuary for work, life, and philosophical thought. Its design embodies complementary opposites: a sturdy base and a light upper structure that opens to the environment or closes for reflection. The house embraces the rugged terrain with minimal disruption, inviting residents on a contemplative journey through its unique spatial geometry and the natural elements that flow beneath.
In Matsudo, Japan, Imai Hiroyasu has transformed a modest apartment into a sublime sanctuary for a couple and their two cats. Dubbed the Boko House, this 2022 concrete-style redesign seamlessly merges sleek human living spaces with cat-friendly features within a 65-square-meter (700-square-foot) area.
It’s a masterful example of dual-species design, where every shelf and beam becomes part of a larger, inter-species conversation, balancing aesthetics with the practicalities of a shared habitat. This apartment isn’t just a living space; it’s a thoughtfully curated environment where humans and pets coexist in harmony and comfort.
