MODERN HOUSE DESIGNS

This luxury beach home by Villa+Villa Architects in Macmasters Beach, New South Wales, Australia is anything but a sandy shack. Its thoughtfully designed home plan is relaxed, yet elegant – everything a contemporary beach house design overlooking the ocean should be! This oceanfront home boasts lots of windows and outdoor living rooms from which to take in the amazing view of sun, sand and surf. Modern minimalist interiors create a sense of serenity inside this open concept house plan. Outdoors, ... Continue >

A luxury design by architect Richard Meier and his partner Michael Palladino, this cool Southern California beach house is the epitome of cool. Fronting the Pacific Ocean to the south, a courtyard to the west and the Pacific Coast Highway to the north, this 4,280-sq.-ft. beach house follows in the tradition of SoCal’s courtyard houses that open to the outdoors. This light and airy design welcomes residents and guests into a two-storey glass-enclosed entry, leading into the garden, main oceanfront ... Continue >

It may be a small beach house, but this design by Javier Artadi Arquitecto packs quite the contemporary punch into a modest, 2,300 sq. ft. frame. Located in Las Arenas, just south of Lima in Peru, this cool holiday house was designed as a beach-front getaway, and reflects that relaxed sentiment both indoors and out. By blurring the boundary between in and out, the architect afforded this modern beach house its cool and calm appeal. From a simple cube shape, ... Continue >

Guaruja House by Brazil’s Bernardes Jacobsen architecture firm is your modern beachfront paradise. Set high on a lush hill overlooking the ocean coast, this amazing luxury beach house was designed for a vacationing family and their lucky invited guests. A large, flat platform was constructed on the sloping land, supported by five pillars, preserving the natural vegetation that surrounds this pavilion-style house. Atop the deck, an outdoor entertaining area offers fabulous views in all directions and surrounded by treetops reaching ... Continue >

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