Casa Xixim is a project designed by Specht Novak, located on pristine Soliman Bay in Tulum, Mexico, offers a respite that reflects a deep commitment to eco-friendly practices and high-end comfort. Every design choice in this holiday home was sourced locally. One of the highlights is the tile wall –beautiful pasta tiles, made in Merida, Yucatan. They are floor tile but, on this statement wall, its perfect. Photography by Taggart Sorensen.
Nestled in the picturesque countryside of Strath Creek, a red brick bungalow from the 1960s stood out as an unexpected and incongruous sight. With a layout more suited to suburban living, the value of retaining the existing structure appeared limited at first glance. However, the challenge of recycling and transforming the bungalow into a modern, sustainable, and leasable holiday home proved to be a fulfilling undertaking for Borland Architecture. Photography by Porter Digital.
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Longbranch House is a project designed by mwworks. Over decades, the once-forested rural slice of land had its center carved out and its length severed by a series of retaining walls straining to hold back the sloping earth. An aging suburban home sat uncomfortably at the promontory. Photography by Andrew Pogue.
The Gindi TLV towers have long since become a Tel Aviv icon that changed the city’s skyline. On the 45th floor of one of them lies the spacious apartment of a former kibbutz couple and their teenage daughter, where every detail is extraordinary: from a dramatic and powerful wall that creates a total separation between public and private spaces, through a pair of mature olive trees planted in the center of the living room, to fantastic artworks hung on the walls. Interior designer Oron Milshteain shares the work process and unconventional choices. Photography by Elad Gonen.
Looking eastwards towards the Dubai skyline from the G Frond of the iconic Palm Jumeirah, this villa, conceived by SAOTA for developer Alpago Properties, in collaboration with Executive Architects CK Architecture Interiors (also the project’s interior designers and contractors) exudes sophisticated understatement in its unassuming silhouette. Photography by Chris Goldstraw.
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The house designed by Inon Ben-David is located in an expansion area in the Lower Galilee in Israel. The plot area is about half a dunam (approximately 0.12 acres), and the built-up area is about 250 square meters (2,690 square feet) spread over two floors. On the entrance level, the shared functions were planned: living room, kitchen, dining area, safe room (Mamad), guest bathroom, and a family work area situated under the staircase. On the upper residential floor, the master bedroom, three children’s rooms, and a general bathroom serving the family’s four children were designed. Photography by Nimrod Levy.
This is the new home designed by Boaz Snir of a couple in their 40s with three children, located in one of the Sharon region cities in Israel. The family returned to Israel after years of living in London, the capital of Britain. Architect Boaz Snir, whose office was responsible for the impressive architectural planning and interior design, shares the construction process that transformed the old house into a living environment heavily influenced by English design, adapted to the Mediterranean climate and environment, and precisely tailored to the family’s lifestyle. Photography by Ran Erde.
CAMPout is a project designed by Faulkner Architects with interior design by NICOLEHOLLIS. A San Francisco family asked us to help them expand an existing property near Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The site sits on a north facing slope and looks down to the Martis Valley and up to Lookout Mountain through a natural screen of 100-year-old Jeffrey pine trees. In our world today, much of the built work is driven by visual appearance. Photography by Joe Fletcher.
Water’s Edge is a project designed by A Parallel Architecture. The genesis of this design lay in establishing logic and order on the flat site through architectural definition of use-patterns that provide sanctuary and scale for its inhabitants. The result is a regularized cartesian framework with porous and flexible infill walls. These walls can transform hourly and seasonally as needed to take advantage of the lakeside setting and respond to environmental factors. Deep-covered patios, decks, and a balcony promenade further engage this framework and provide sheltered exterior circulation. Photography by Chase Daniel, Eric Barth.
Pocket Passiv by Anderson Architecture is a small infill residential studio occupying the unused space of a spatially constrained inner-city terrace house corner block. The project achieves ambitious levels of amenity for its residents all whilst occupying the ‘pocket-sized’ footprint of 27sqm. Located in Glebe, a thriving inner-city suburb originally inhabited by the Gadigal people, Pocket Passiv sits within a relic of Sydney’s 19th century Victorian terrace house boom. Photography by Tom Ferguson Photography.
