Tag Holiday Houses

04-05-2020

GAP Studio, a loft in a castle in the Langhe

The architects from GAP Studio based in Asti, Italy, have completed their visually arresting makeover of a castle in the Langhe. A project that fits in well the beauty of a one-of-a-kind landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2014.

30-04-2020

Blee Halligan Architects from barn to B&B: Five Acre barn in Suffolk

Blee Halligan Architects designed a home with a B&B in a five-acre wood near Aldeburgh, in Suffolk on the east coast of England, transforming an existing structure and built a new B&B with five bedrooms overlooking a landscaped garden. The new construction has an unusual undulating roof that adds dynamism to the interiors of the rooms. The project has won a number of important RIBA awards.

24-04-2020

Wittman Estes designs Mercer Modern, the revamp of a modernist house

Mercer Modern is a mid-century house nestled into a hillside on Mercer Island, United States, overlooking Lake Washington. Wittman Estes Architecture and Landscape worked closely with the owner, fashion designer Melanie Owen to craft a stylish interior that fits the context.

16-04-2020

Camp O House by Maria Milans Studio, living and working in nature

Camp O is a combined house and studio in the Catskills, part of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. Here, the Spanish architect, Maria Milans del Bosch from Maria Milans Studio, designed a building with sleek shapes, reinterpreting the local vernacular architecture to seamlessly blend into the surrounding woods.

02-04-2020

Nature and art, a project by Heliotrope Architects

Heliotrope Architects has completed a new home-retreat for an art collector and gallery owner on Orcas Island, the largest of the San Juan Islands in Washington State. The building acts as a stylish frame for the stunning nature, the real artwork in this wild setting.

25-03-2020

Weekend House by Pavel Míček Architects in the Beskydy Mountains

The Czech studio Pavel Míček Architects has designed a small weekend retreat in Beskydy. The architects designed the cottage to blend in with the idyllic nature of this mountainous zone and first thought about the building materials as the basis for their concept.

24-02-2020

Cabin A, architecture to love, by Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects

Cabin A by Canadian studio Bourgeois / Lechasseur is a mountain retreat in the Charlevoix region, one of Quebec's most picturesque areas. The cabin is made from basic materials inspired by the International Code of Signals (ICS) - long used in communications between vessels at sea - to craft simple but warm spaces.

21-02-2020

The Kinii, "The falcon’s nest" by the Italian architects of Obicua

Italian architectural studio Obicua recently presented its first project The Kinii, built three thousand metres above sea level at Powder Mountain, near Salt Lake City, a private luxury ski lodge at the biggest ski resort in the United States, measuring about 3500 hectares. The most important feature of Obicua’s project is the focus on reducing the lodge’s environmental footprint by using the strictest LEED sustainable building protocols.