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Shipping Container Housing for Cairo

Hope these get built. --------------------------------------------- UAE based architects Mouaz Abouzaid, Bassel Omara and Ahmed Hammad have designed a shipping container housing project for Cairo, Egypt. Dubbed ‘Sheltainer’, the project aims to address a need for low-income, student and refugee housing. The design focuses on Egyptian life around a...

Cornerstone House

Very unique use of materials in this one! --------------------------------------- Located in the north-side suburb of Northcote, the Cornerstone House emerges as an ode to the rugged beauty inspired by the project site itself, referencing the quarries that once typified the area. A stone quarry is an awe-inspiring...

Phoenix House / Sebastian Mariscal Studio

More glass, concrete and green for your enjoyment. ----------------------- The design process started as an emotional path of discovery, where the house starts to exist, as your walk builds the walls and your breathing lets the space contract and expand. Like music, the emotion of the unknown...

Eight Beams House

Amazing what you can do with 8 large beams. ---------------- Practicality, austerity, and flexibility are the core components of a house in Northern Mexico whose architectural strategy responds to the industrial and frugal character of the city of Monterrey.  All spatial requirements are determined by the structure...

1850s barn in Italy becomes a modern, sustainable family home

Beautiful reuse project! ----------------------- Located at the foot of UNESCO World Heritage site Alpe di Siusi in the Italian province of South Tyrol, Messner House represents adaptive reuse at its finest. The project was organized by Italian architecture firm noa* (Network of Architecture), who was adamant about respecting the...

Amagansett Modular House

Modular cargo container house does not look to bad. ---------------------------------- Our clients, a couple with 3 children, had purchased a triangular, wooded, corner lot on high ground in Amagansett, NY and contacted us to explore means of building a house for their summer and year-round-weekend use. The site...

Escobar House

Simple concrete and glass structure. ------------------------- Escobar House is located in Haras Santa María de Escobar, a gated community on the North corridor, 54 km away from the center of Buenos Aires city. The ample neighborhood’s lots are organized around a golf court. The one on which...

Herra2 House / Landa Suberville

Love the length of the cantilever on this one. ---------------------------------- This house is developed on an ascending lot, west of Monterrey in the foothills of Sierra Madre. The service areas are on the access floor, the garden and the social area that integrates with the #terracetequilera® are on...

House in the Trees / Luciano Kruk

Tree house, Why not! Minimal ground damage and contact while being up in the trees. ------------------------------------------- House in the Trees was designed to be built in Barrio Marítimo II, a neighborhood in Costa Esmeralda, located thirteen kilometers north of the city of Pinamar and four hours away...