MODERN HOUSE DESIGNS

Echoing the long, flat landscape, Damilano Studio designed this Italian countryside house to reflect the clean horizon. Fittingly dubbed the Horizontal House, this contemporary style house in Cuneo, Italy is a cool, white slab that’s understated, yet thrilling to an architectural eye. This horizontal house boasts walls of windows that open to the seemingly endless scene outside. This modern, minimalist house is a veritable playground for modernists, with a white palette that matches the facade. Interesting architectural details, ultra-modern furnishings ... Continue >

Designed by Australian architects Robert Mills, the Ross Street house in Melbourne is one Australia home design that really stands out. The contemporary concrete house is accented with timber and glass detail and strong horizontal zinc awnings that bring a modernist flavor to the architecture. Interiors of this contemporary style house are bright and airy, illuminated by expansive windows overlooking outdoor entertaining areas and a pool. Cool stainless steel, crisp lines and a white palette make these minimalist interiors by ... Continue >

Award-winning architecture firm Swiss Fine Line created this stunning coastal house design to frame the spectacular views. Set along a shoreline, this glass wall house features a glazed and stone facade, with windows lining the entire main floor and the majority of the second. But once you take in the surroundings, you’ll understand why glass is such a dominant material of choice – visions of water and shorelines are yours from virtually any point in the home, which is largely ... Continue >

This Spanish house design in Granada, Spain by architect Francisco J. del Corral del Campo is an interesting mix of minimalism and modernity. This contemporary style house features a facade of white with natural wood volumes at each end, supported by “legs.” This stilt house incorporates outdoor entertaining areas as part of its plan, inviting the warm Spanish sun and sea breeze inside. Like the exterior, minimalist interiors feature a contemporary palette of while with warm wood finishing floors and ... Continue >

Topped by a Z-shaped roof, this stunning example of concrete and wood architecture aptly named Z House, was designed by architecture firm Hohyun Park + Hyunjoo Kim. This contemporary style house has lots of quirks that make it a truly unique and unusual home design. Located in Gwangju Si, Gyeonggi-Do in South Korea, between a steep hill and forest, this concrete and wood house boasts many layers of design and living. A facade of black zinc, basalt, red cedar and ... Continue >

Modern Japanese home architecture never ceases to amaze us – this contemporary style house located in Nagoya, Japan was designed by Suppose Design Office. A minimalist exterior is a simple, white box, with few details and glazing gracing only the ground-floor facade. That is, until you make your way around the other side, where you’ll be surprised to find a tri-level balcony that open each floor to the outdoors. As a result, the interior of this Japanese house is flooded ... Continue >

Casa XS is a modern vacation house design by architects Maria Victoria Besonias, Guillermo de Almeida and Luciano Kruk of BAK Arquitectos. Located in the seaside resort city of Mar Azul, just outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina, this contemporary yet rustic concrete cottage is surrounded by lush forest, beach and dunes. In designing this house, the architects aimed to seek out building materials with minimal maintenance, minimal environmental impact, and maximum visual effect. The result blends seamlessly with its spectacular ... Continue >

This contemporary seaside home design by Portuguese architect Paulo David is also referred to as “black and white house,” named for its opposing color palettes of black of the exterior and white interiors. You could say this home is minimalist living at its most. Views from this seaside home are always at hand here in Funchal of Madeira, Portugal. On the outside, this cool design boasts a simple, squared shape and a minimal black facade punctuated by large windows. This ... Continue >

The modern copper, concrete and glass Clip House in Madrid, Spain was designed by the architects at Bernalte-León y Asociados. The cool, contemporary style home’s striking sculptural design takes shape from copper plates, which are enclosed in vertical panels forming expansive glass walls, and cantilevered from a bold, vertical concrete backing. The architectural copper artfully wraps around the home’s living areas, providing a fabulous view from the inside out, while offering an interesting aesthetic from the outside as well. Atop ... Continue >

We love Japanese architecture! From the outside in, this unusual modern Japanese house design in Saijo, Hiroshima, is weird, wacky and wonderful, through and through. Designed by Suppose Design Office this cool house stands apart from its neighbors for its tall shape and a sleek, black facade. The whole structure stands on glass-enclosed main floor, giving it the appearance of a floating pyramid. The home is set in a pit, surrounded by a grassy hill that provides privacy to the ... Continue >

The modern material sets the tone beautifully for this contemporary style concrete and glass house designed by Spain based architecture firm, A-cero. Its hard, edgy look mingles with a minimalist aesthetic for an ultra-modern appeal. Almost made entirely of concrete, this sprawling, 2,204m2 home is an urban beacon among the rolling hills and valleys that surround it. The home’s sharp shape seems to break through the natural landscape, overlooking a river and the distant mountains on the horizon. Both inside ... Continue >

“House with Crest” will have lovers of contemporary style homes on a new high – this unusual concrete architecture in Kyoto, Japan definitely warrants a tour. This 2,796-sq.-ft., two-storey house / studio features reinforced concrete construction, which affords it such a distinctive, contemporary style. Of course, the creative thinking of Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno (from architecture firm Eastern Design Office) doesn’t hurt either. A bold, solid exterior features circular, porthole-type windows lining the home’s facade, with a striking natural-wood ... Continue >

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