Category: Architecture

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Architecture

This Faceted Cabin Was Designed as a Response to Fire and Landscape

Photography by Adria Goula Forestone Cabin is a small wooden dwelling built by the 2025 cohort of IAAC’s Master in Ecological Architecture and Advanced Construction. Located in the Pyrenees at MónNatura Sort, it provides temporary accommodation for two people with a sleeping area, workspace, and bathroom. The cabin demonstrates how

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Architecture

Inside a Florida Keys Home Built to Withstand a Changing Coastline

Photography by Ryan Lester, Architecture Sarasota Along a relatively untouched stretch of the Upper Florida Keys, a coastal home has been carefully designed to meet the realities of its environment. Elevated, resilient, and deeply connected to its site, the Van der Vlugt Residence sets out to prove that climate adaptation

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Architecture

The Angular Toronto Home Where Sharp Lines and Soft Light Collide

In Toronto’s western lakeside streetcar suburb, a modern home quietly challenges convention. Known as Tesseract House, the single-family residence was designed and completed by designer and homeowner Jeff Geldart together with PHAEDRUS Studio. Its name comes from the sharply folded angles that shape both the facade and rear of the

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Architecture

Inside the Tiny Backyard Studio Built for a Composer on a Budget

JCPCDR ARCHITECTURE designed a compact backyard studio for a music composer who recently moved into a family house in the countryside. Set apart from the main home, the project focuses on creating a dedicated place for work and rest within a modest footprint. The brief was to transform an existing

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Architecture

Instead of Moving the Rock, They Built the Addition to Fit It

The project did not begin with drawings or dimensions. It began with a rock. Behind a home in Victoria, Canada, a massive bedrock outcrop shaped how rain sounded, how children played, and how the family experienced their backyard. When the couple approached Greenway Studio Architecture about a sunroom and home

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Architecture

Inside the Home Renovation that Embraces Timber and Black Accents

This modern renovation by Splinter Society transforms an Australian home through restraint rather than spectacle. Dark timber and black accents shape the interior, balancing restraint with quiet drama. The project respects the home’s Californian Bungalow origins. Instead of reworking the layout entirely, the renovation builds on the existing structure, keeping

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Architecture

An Amoeba-Shaped Glass Home Perched Above the Chilean Coast

Photography by Aryeh Kornfeld Set on a steep stretch of the Chilean coast, this house designed by Gubbins Polidura Arquitectos together with MasArquitectos, solves a difficult site with shape, restraint, and clarity. The design turns a rocky slope into a horizontal place to live, framing the sea and sunset without

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Architecture

An Elevated Home Built to Sit Lightly on the Land

Architectural firm Archterra has designed the Wilderness House, a partially elevated home in Margaret River, Australia, that sits among native marri, jarrah and banksia trees. Surrounded by bushland, the home was created to give its owners views of the sunrise and the trees below while blending seamlessly with the natural

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Architecture

The Compact Circular Beach House Designed for Slow Living by the Sea

On Australia’s Mornington Peninsula, a holiday house quietly challenges the idea that bigger is better. Designed by Austin Maynard Architects, St Andrews Beach House is a two storey circular home built for slow living, simplicity and time away from the noise of everyday life. Less than five metres in radius,

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