MODERN HOUSE DESIGNS

Described by Australian architect Dane Richardson as “sophistication and elegance on the beach,” this modern waterfront home is making some waves in Dunsborough, Western Australia. Refining traditional beach-hut architecture, this stunning timber home is framed and clad in wood with extensive glazing which connects it to nature while giving it a cool, contemporary edge. The home’s northern facade is a full glass wall, which floods interiors with natural light and creates a direct connection to the waterfront. Even within the ... Continue >

Charged with bringing new life to an older 1950s ranch style house, m.o. daby design worked their magic on the Burke Residence, located in Portland, OR. Clad in wood from the outside in, this ranch house was in need of a complementary receiving area so an entrance foyer was added to its existing footprint. Continuing through to the main living areas, a family room, kitchen and dining room were given the open concept treatment for a space suited to socializing ... Continue >

Based in Boston, architecture and energy consulting firm ZeroEnergy Design stayed true to its name in this modern eco sustainable home, which treads lightly on the land and is a vision of self-sufficiency and Earth-friendly living. Located in Orleans, Massachusetts, the 2,300-sq.-ft. sustainable house is bright orange on the outside, but it’s green everywhere else. The eco house design features eco friendly elements like a grid-tied solar electric system, solar hot water system, radiant floors, a hydro air system, an ... Continue >

This rooftop garden home design is a sustainable gem in a central downtown Toronto, Canada neighborhood, bringing a bit of nature into the urban core. “Compact, ecologically smart, affordable and successfully integrated within a diverse streetscape, the Euclid Avenue Home is a useful prototype for new urban housing. The project’s design restraint, responsive plan, its unity of architecture and nature establish an array of alternatives to the shortcomings of Toronto’s housing typologies,” according to Canadian architecture firm Levitt Goodman Architects. ... Continue >

Architects Lauren and Eric Wendlandt with Kansas City based Framework Design architecture firm are the brains behind this 6,500-sq.-ft. sustainable home that encompasses residential, commercial and workshop space in one. This Kansas City urban architecture has character, inside and out. The wood clad house combines a natural appeal with industrial-chic elements, artfully blending a home atmosphere with an inspired and equally inspiring workspace. The warm wood that gives this urban house its rustic style was salvaged from local barns and ... Continue >

Australian architects lead by Marcus O’Reilly are behind one of the most unusual modern Australian beachfront houses here in Sorrento, on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula in Australia. With its innovative mix of materials, this beach home's facade is eclectic and relaxed, featuring a "low maintenance material palette which was not only intended to stand up to the tests of sandy boogie boards, wet towels and teenage parties but also improve with age," according the the architects. In keeping with a longstanding ... Continue >

Deep in the desert of Pioneertown, California, this simple sustainable house was designed by architect Lloyd Russell as the “ultimate desert structure.” A striking steel canopy makes up the home’s main shelter, under which the eco house design takes shape. The house is made of recycled materials, making the old new again, and beautiful too. An essential in the sandy hotspot, the innovative canopy house was designed to passively regulate the home’s temperature threefold – first, to reflect the sun’s ... Continue >

Sustainable architecture is the future of home design. This California house designed by a sustainable architecture firm, John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects, encapsulates cool, contemporary living in its modern design with attention equally doles out to aesthetics and environmental sustainability. In fact, according to the firm, this eco friendly home “suggests that attentiveness to sustainability can inspire and elicit beauty where it might not be otherwise.” This 3,900-sq.-ft. Santa Monica-area eco house design boasts a simple, modern white facade punctuated ... Continue >

The design/built team at Dwell Development designed this eco urban home in the Beacon Hill ‘hood of Seattle, Washington. As one of four freestanding single-family homes here, this gorgeous urban house plan boasts a contemporary layout brimming with high-end features and luxurious finishes. A striking, modern exterior design is complemented by urban-chic interiors with stylish Australian Cypress flooring, designer tiles by Ann Sacks featuring 30 per cent recycled content and sleek glass-front kitchen appliances. Add to this a high level ... Continue >

MercuryHouseOne is the modern brainchild of architecture firm Architecture and Vision, which was established by a Swiss and an Italian architect, based in Italy. This futuristic, eco home design takes a distinctly European approach to architecture by incorporating the most important aspects of living – function, aesthetics, entertainment and the environment – and doing so in style! Featuring an organic water-drop shape, this home boasts an exterior shell of Carrara marble which is back-lit by night, emitting a haunting and ... Continue >

The dark facade of Somers House with courtyard in the middle was designed to blend into the shadowy background of the Australian outback. Melbourne-based Rowan Opat Architects designed this house with a low, inconspicuous profile, a flat roof and clad it with dark wood and windows, bringing it into its surroundings with subtlety. Inside, this modern house is anything but subtle, understated or humble. Rich wood ceilings and floors finished in radial-sawed timber give interiors a rustic-chic style which is ... Continue >

Architect Robert M. Cain has wearing his Green thinking cap when he came up with this fabulous, sustainable residential architecture design in Decatur, Georgia. The modern two-storey, 2,800-sq.-ft. RainShine House was named for its innovative design feature, a “butterfly” roof suspended over continuous clerestories that allow for sun-drenched interiors. This unique feature’s inverted winged shape collects rainwater for recycling, while also positioning roof-mounted photovoltaic cells southward to take full advantage of the sustainable solar energy. Beneath the eco-friendly roof, this ... Continue >

Its name may seem a little redundant, but Shelter House by Franklin Azzi Architecture boasts a really unique eco house design that offers sustainable shelter and style to boot. Located in Yport, atop the cliffs in Normandy, France, the eco house boasts two expansions which protrude on opposite sides of the house, resembling wings with a couple of sheltered patios at ground level, and rooftop terraces above. This modern, sustainable home is constructed mainly of wood with a rustic masonry ... Continue >

This contemporary, sustainable home idea was conceived by Studio 804 – a design/build program at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Schooling the public in the art of eco friendly architecture, Studio 804 went off the grid in their design for this single-family home project in the Rosedale neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas. After demolishing an old magazine building from the Sunflower Ammunition Plant, the designers recycled and reused the lumber, giving the house its distinctive ... Continue >

The Beach Valley glass roof house presents a balance between nature and architecture. This underground home design, created by Japan’s Sambuichi Architects, plays up natural aesthetics, modern minimalist interiors and sustainable technologies that usher this simple hill house straight into the future. “A close examination on how changing wind directions and intensities in daylight influences the site, enables me to understand what kind of architecture is really needed on each location,” according to Sambuichi. Set adjacent to a vast river ... Continue >

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