Vader House by Andrew Maynard Architects
Maynard Architects, a Sydney based firm, transformed this traditional brick home and courtyard into a stunning modern home that builds upon the past while making creative use of all the available space. Located in Melbourne, the Vader House’s main attraction is the center courtyard bordered on one side by the old house, and on the other side by the new extension and living space. Glass walls bring light into the kitchen and living areas while opening them up to the center courtyard. In the courtyard, a movable deck slides across a pool to reveal a patch of lawn. This doubles the available space for lounging in the sun. Movable walls can be found throughout the new home – the bathroom, windows, exterior doors, cabinets, all of which make good use of space.
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Digital Bathroom Design from Ideal Standard
Ideal Standard gives us a look at what the bathroom of the future might look like. This restroom interior is complete with built in televisions on the mirror, theater system, iPhone controls, and more. We especially like the bathtub and the sink fixtures. Although it looks more like a high-tech gamer’s bathroom, the luxurious design, will sure enough please the high-end customer.
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Relief Chair by Ben K. Mickus
From Mickus Projects: The Relief Chair’s contours invite the user to sit back and relax. The body of the chair is a layered assembly of medium-density wool felt sheets, adhered to each other and sleeved over an internal steel frame. The felt body and frame rest on break-formed stainless steel legs, with a satin finish. The composition juxtaposes weight and weightlessness with an intrepid stance. The chair makes a statement in any room or lounge.
The scraps of felt generated during fabrication are reused in other Mickus Projects pieces, such as the Refill Pillow.
Point Place Residence by McClean Design
McClean Design collaborated with John Harwood and created this gorgeous contemporary ocean house located in Point Place, Laguna Beach. The curve design of the house allows you to take full advantage of the amazing views. The body of the house is almost completely glass with structural element exposed and various floor levels reflects the architect’s desire to achieve more generous heights since the structure was limited to the height of the previous home.
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Kuhlhaus 02 by Lean Arch
Kulhaus Development and Lean Arch teamed up to build a series of homes with responsible development in mind. Located in the Gaslight District of Manhattan beach, this single family residence is a solar powered living space that features 4 bedrooms with 4 bathrooms, powder room, kitchen by Valcucine, open living and dining areas, family room, recreation room with a wet bar, walk-in wine cellar, and laundry room. There’s a continuous space that blends the interior to the exterior, which gives a really comfortable aesthetic and environment to the home. Other features also include perforated metal stairs, metal panel siding, and solar panel roofs.
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Casa NovaLima by Danilo Matoso
Architect Danilo Matoso’s design, Casa Nova Lima, is located in the valleys of Minas Gerias, Brazil. Matoso intertwined the beautiful landscape within the design by creating stunning views throughout and a fluid distribution of the interior space. A true modern oasis surrounded by rolling hills and lush greenery. More images of the house after the jump.
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Brighton House by Nic Bochsler
Architect Nic Bochsler designed this house in the Brighton neighborhood of Melbourne, Australia. This gorgeous 4 bedroom, 5 bathroom home has amazing views of both the bay and the city, and a very clever design that maximizes natural lighting. From the time you enter the building, Bochsler’s design is evident-from the trade-mark use of voids and changing volumes to the expansive use of glass and water features. Every detail has been carefully designed to maximize the space and to capture the beauty of its design and surroundings.
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Zagato Perana Z-One
The Italian design house, Zagato, has teamed up with South Africa’s Perana Performance Group to build the Perana Z-One. Only 999 units of this masterpiece will be produced worldwide. The Perana Z-One will be powered by a 6.2L LS3 V8 from General Motors producing at least 440 horsepower and a 0-62 mph time for the car of less than four seconds. That icon of American mechanical engineering will be shrouded in a sexy coupe body style that blends a bit of Ferrari’s Italian flare with some sinister Shelby Cobra styling cues, then pours an Aston Martin aesthetic over the whole thing. The price for this beauty has not yet been released.
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‘OK house’ by Baqueratta
Yoshiyuki Moriyama’s Tokyo based architecture practice, Baqueratta, specializes in residential architecture, creating experimental homes for japan’s tiny lot sizes. One of the firm’s buildings in Tokyo is the ‘OK house.’ Unlike the firm’s other works, this home is dark and heavy looking from the outside. A large black volume balances atop a smaller one. No door is in sight, just a set of stairs which can be lowered or raised to close off the home completely. The inside of the home is a light and primarily white space. The main living area features a full wall of glass doors, which opens up onto a small garden space. And the bedroom sits below it which also opens up onto its own garden.
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Portas Novas by Victor Cañas Architects
Portas novas House by Victor Canas architects is situated in Guanacaste, a dry tropical province of Costa Rica. Portas Novas, which means New Gates, is a stunning piece of architecture made by concrete, steel and lots of glass. To the west, Portas Novas reveals a clear, beautiful, near 180° panorama of the ocean, and to the east there is not so vast, but still great view to the mountainside. This means that the house has two very different view: the openness of the horizon with the sunset to the west and the more intimate but still very wide view of mountainside and isolated neighbors to the east. The ground-level water mirror on the western side seems to merge into the ocean, creating even more spectacular scene. The neat, clean-cut interior with only basic furniture, corresponds perfectly to the house’s exterior. The outdoor feel is transferred indoors with the use of wood, stone, glass and concrete. Warm natural light flows from everywhere thanks to the huge windows and creates a great balance with the cold stone floors and concrete walls.
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