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Foster + Partners Gains Approval for Timber Residential Project in Switzerland

Antonia Piñeiro — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:30:00 +0000

Foster + Partners has received planning permission for a new timber residential building in Gstaad, Switzerland. Designed as a house in the Alpine resort town, the project combines residential use with exhibition, storage, and social spaces. According to the architects, it will be the first purpose-built facility in Gstaad to accommodate the specialised requirements of fine art, cars, fashion, and antique collections.

Discovering Remote Retreats: 20 Projects Showcasing the Appeal of Nature-Set Accommodations

Paula Pintos — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 07:30:00 +0000

Today's population lives in large, vibrant, and sometimes chaotic cities. That’s why the most popular options involve escaping to natural settings such as remote forests, tropical jungles, or pristine beaches when choosing places to take a break from daily responsibilities and routines. For those seeking to disconnect completely from city life while staying closely connected to nature, small-scale hotels, cabins, and lodges are excellent options. Whether it’s a private vacation home or a cabin hotel, these accommodations are designed to make their natural surroundings their most important asset, allowing the buildings to blend seamlessly into the landscape.

What Primitive Huts Teach Us About Architecture

Michael J. Crosbie — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 03:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

Colombian Houses: Examples of Floor Plans, Design, and Materials

Santiago Baraya — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 04:00:00 +0000

For much of the world, this past year was spent within the confines of our homes, undoubtedly blurring the lines between our public, professional, and private lives and transforming our living spaces into places of work and productivity. This transformation of spaces and how they are used is nothing new in the world of architecture as countless spaces take on various roles beyond what they were originally designed for--a fact reflected in their layout, design, and the materials used within them.

How the Wood-Frame House Became America’s Most Familiar Building

Philip Langdon — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 03:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published on Common Edge

RN Residence / Jacobsen Arquitetura

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 17:00:00 +0000

The RN residence was designed for a couple, for their children and grandchildren to spend their weekends and vacations on the edge of a large dam, in a pleasant place where the possibilities of integration between architecture and nature stand out.

Half House / Projekt V Arhitektura

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Situated in an ordinary unplanned neighbourhood in Sarajevo, the Half House is a new studio extension and refurbishment of the ground floor of a typical Bosnian ‘family house’. The Half House has been designed for a wheelchair user and his wife by Projekt V Arhitektura. The studio extension is a new typology for the area: it is in between a detached studio house, a family gathering space, and a ‘weekend’ countryside house common to the region.

Tree House / RA+TR arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:00:00 +0000

The objective was to build a tree house that affords a view of the sea. A house made of wood. However, it became clear on our visit to the site that the existing trees were not large enough to build the house as desired: with an open plan living and kitchen space, a bathroom and a space for sleeping.

Q04L63 House / mf+arquitetos

Valeria Silva — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:00:00 +0000

The design of the Q04L63 House begins with the proposal of a summer house. The Family, which includes the couple and three children of different ages, attends the residence during the weekends for their leisure time, in addition to receiving friends and family as guests.

Itauba House / Rocco Arquitetos

Valeria Silva — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 19:00:00 +0000

The main concept of spatial organization of this country house was the maximum integration between interior and exterior and also between the social areas. As a result, in a large continuous plan are: the living and dining areas, kitchen, terrace, swimming pool and the garden. The sliding doors in the main room open completely and are essential to allow this integration.

Ibiuna VF House / DT Estúdio

Andreas Luco — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:00:00 +0000

With the arrival of the grandkids came the desire to completely remodel the country house in Ibiuna, Sao Paulo. The idea was not only to update the existing house but also to create an annex where the clients could have guest without compromising their privacy. One of the main requests was to integrate the space with the surroundings.

Open Frontier: Oregon’s Timber and Glass Homes

Eric Baldwin — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 04:00:00 +0000

Oregon holds some the most varied geography and private developments in the United States. Home to diverse landscapes and architecture, the state is defined by the Cascade mountain range, windswept coastlines, dense forests, and a high desert environment to the east. These varied geographies have shaped the state’s construction techniques and residential design. At the heart of these building efforts are timber and glass homes found throughout the state.

AT Residence / Zani Arquitetura

Valeria Silva — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Located on a small farm, the AT House was designed in search of the best implantation and spatial organization based on the site’s natural profile: The ground floor’s block touches the land on the highest portion holding the social access of the house through the concrete porches. On the opposite side, the suspended block houses the garage and the service rooms on the lower floor.

Golgota House / Floret

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 02:00:00 +0000

The “Caminhos do Romântico” territory in the city of Porto (Portugal) has unique characteristics, mixing bourgeois houses with popular housing, interspersing gardens full of camel trees, and other exotic species and with backyards but also several examples of industrial archeology. An important part of these routes is made through paths that have markedly rural characteristics, with high walls of the old farms and by the fountains and old community washing tanks. Our intervention is located in one of these routes, more specifically in the route that goes from Golgota to Massarelos, comprising points such as the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, the «Casa da Agustina Bessa-Luís» and other bourgeois houses and workers houses. The whole set is surrounded by a dense patch of green and the Douro River, in the background, is an omnipresent element.

Casa da Mata / DA | Departamento de Arquitetura

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:00:00 +0000

The design of this single-family residence is linear in the longitudinal direction of the lot. The intention is to integrate the house with the surrounding nature. Projecting it with sensitivity as another element in the natural landscape.

Dos Aguas House / Cinco Sólidos

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:00:00 +0000

After a trip to Japan, the owner came back determined to recreate a space that felt completely tranquil, and wanted to inhabit the house more like a sanctuary rather than a home.

Raw Materials: 8 Wooden Houses from Spain

Fabian Dejtiar — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Is wood the future of construction?