Introducing New Colections Home Interior Design

El Secreto is a small housing estate amongst a grove of local timbers where Mexican architects GLR has designed 3 modern residences with distinct, yet harmonious facades. The residences all under 400m² display a contemporary marriage of natural and man-made materials.

This is a modern three story Residence in Filothei, Athens, by Gem Architects. The carved volume of the house creates covered terraces and shades to the windows. Constructed of black lava stone and thin wooden louvers the details offer protection to the open and naturally ventilated interiors.

The 25th street residence is a 260m² home in Santa Monica, California by architects Shimizu + Coggeshall. The modern addition was meant to simultaneously contrast and complement the original 1920’s suburban residence. The small unused spaces were reconfigured to handle a variety of programme and improve the relationship with the outdoors.

Built around an existing three bedroom house on a 400m² steeply sloping site built by the client in the early eighties, the stacked house is a three bedroom addition designed by Architecture Paradigm for his son’s family. The design examines three generations co-existing on the same property while retaining their personal identities. The house establishes a strong relationship with the outdoor spaces to maximize the already tight urban conditions.

The near 450m2 Summer House in Menorca, Spain designed by Pablo Serrano Elorduy of Dom Arquitectura seeks to engage the surroundings and views to marry the internal and external spaces. Inspired by the tanca - stone walls typical to Menorca, the site is organized orthogonally combining floors, water, trees, plants, decks and of course walls constructed of local stone.

Located on an ironshore bluff on the Caribbean coast of Grand Cayman, the house is formed as a response to the nature of the site. The house, designed by architects YAR+D, is set on the highest point on a narrow plot, is oriented to receive the tradewinds via a clerestory of fixed louvres. The material palette of flat white paint and glistening dark plaster grounds the house to its environs and within the evolving idiom of Caribbean modernism.

4-storey single family House R designed by architects Christ and Christ is located in the Stadtgarten of Karlsruhe, Germany. The 455m² house functions without air conditioning instead utilises automatically controlled louver windows to provide cross-ventilation, exterior sun protection and privacy from the nieghbours.

The concept for the Queens Park House was a room in the garden, the result created a house designed around openness where spaces would flow and extend from one to the other allowing for seamless interaction. Designed by MCK (Marsh Cashman Koolloos Architects) the facade responds to the context of modest suburban bungalows common in Sydney, Australia.

Continued effort to fill the gaps in the House of the Week list

This is the second retrospective of the House of Week category. It is sadly a little late in coming, the first covering numbers 1-49, this retrospective attempts to cover the balance to 100. There are some obvious exceptions which I intend to fill shortly. Enjoy

050 The Cube (Lac Superieur), Quebec, Canada
051 Casa Santa Margarita, Spain
052 Uccle 2003, Belgium
053 House K, Croatia
054 House Saramago, South Africa
055 Talo Kekkapaa, Northern Finland
056 Studio-House in Acorán, Spain
057 House in Lubienica, Poland
058 East Windsor Residence, Texas
059 Villa Pinia, Sweden
060 Les Aventuriers, Japan
061 Slice House, London, England
062 Great Bamboo Wall, China
063 Shodan House, Northern India
064 House on Takapuna Clifftop, New Zealand
065 Bar House, Colorado
066 San Remo Drive, Southern California
067 Szirtes House
068 Krater, Greece
069 Concrete Studio, Texas
070 Bamboo House, Costa Rica
071 Norman Fisher House, Pennsylvania
072 Lifeguard Tower, California
073 Queens Park House, Australia
074 Origami House, Singapore
075 Vacation home in Pyranèes, Spain
076 House on Cluny Hill
077 Lago Vista, California
078 Ranu House, Australia
079 Artreehouse, Connecticut
080 Sugarbowl, California
081 Woodstock Farm, Vermont
082 House in the Woods, Italy
083 Lee House, California
084 Leavitt Residence, Chicago
085 Yard House, Sweden
086 Sagaponac House, New York
087 Ijburg House, the Netherlands
088 Mill house, Sweden
089 Hill residence, Texas
090 Oxlade House, Australia
091 House at Berrima, Singapore
092 Barnes House, Canada
093 Casa Cubo,
094 Lembah Kemang townhouses, Indonesia
095 House for a Photographer, Spain
096 Rodríguez Harvey House, Chile
097
098 Deep Eddy Residence, Texas
099 Casa Tropical, Brazil
100 Bequia House, the Grenadines


We are still seeking suggestions for the next 50 especially from cities & countries not listed.

Architects Lake Flato completed the Brown residence a modest home located on a golf community, in Scottsdale, Arizona. The considerate design celebrates views to the desert and the mountains in the distance whilst shunning neighbouring residences. Though fairly inconspicuous in scale to the exterior, the design makes use of the sloping site allowing generous the spaces inside. The architects oeuvre of articulated details are manifested in swivel doors and windows welcoming the light and air of the environment into the home.

A single family house in Houston, Texas designed by architects StudioMET. Internally the home is designed around a open communal area containing the kitchen, dinning and living room, whilst the exterior balances a palette of low maintenance materials.

Designed by Guadalajara based architect Ricardo Agraz for a family of six in Zapopan, Mexico the 434m² house is spread onto three levels with an open floor plan in the middle containing the family living and entertaining areas. The dialogue of the massing, of screens and volumes, was sought to create harmonious shading throughout the day especially for the master bedroom which has the prime orientation in the house.