Australian architects Tony Owen Partners designed Moebius House in Dover Heights, Sydney. Right from its very beginnings, this ultra-modern home design is the future of innovation and technology. According to Tony Owen Partners, the house is “an example of ‘liquid architecture’ whereby projects are designed parametrically using 3-D digital software to respond to environmental issues.” Maximizing natural ventilation, the views and the home’s efficiency, while minimizing its impact on the neighbors are the key criteria of the method. An innovative ... Continue >
This unique home design was created by architect Veronica Arcos as a wood clad house in Santiago, Chile with mountain views. This unusual home features four volumes framed in metal and finished in wood, three of which cantilever over a ground-level terrace below, and sandwich sheltered outdoor entertaining areas between them, ideal for napping in a lounger under a parasol. Another unique feature of this wood and steel house is that there are no windows facing the street, providing privacy ... Continue >
We love Japanese small home design ideas and at just 624 sq. ft., this contemporary compact cottage by architect Toyo Ito packs a lot of character into a small space. This very interesting modern design idea uses a stark contrast between cold and warmth; a cool metal facade and its welcoming, woody interior. From the outside, the steel house features metal panels cladding its walls and roof, with wide expanses of sliding glass blur the boundary between indoors and out. ... Continue >
Architect Rick Joy put some juice in Sonoran Desert with this amazing desert house design. The prominent rough red roof of this Arizona house draws attention from miles around, but it is the home’s livable, relaxing characteristics that invite you to stay. The steel house's humble exterior makes way for modern interiors, with stainless steel, maple and glass against a white palette. At the heart of the design, the courtyard brings fresh greenery to the hillside home’s minimalist interiors. Built ... Continue >
Designed by architects Manuel Bailo Esteve and Rosa Rull Bertran of ADD+ Arquitectura, this rooftop garden house takes the concept of a "green roof” to new heights with this amazing and unusual house plan, topped by a mini-golf course! This playful and contemporary style house is located on a high point in Igualada, Spain. The modern slope house plan cantilevers out over the grassy landscape rolling out beneath the stilt home. The house itself was designed as a promenade to ... Continue >
Designed by Finish architect Sami Rintala as part of the Home Design for Anyang Public Art Project, this modern wood and steel house design graces a treed hilltop in Seoul, Korea. With a large main volume of weathered steel, a concrete cellar below, and four smaller adjoining wooden volumes overhanging above, the house is certainly an amazing, contemporary example among its natural surroundings in a river valley. But this home’s connection to nature is clear. According to modern Norwegian architecture ... Continue >
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