The proportions of this house have been dictated by the restraints of the site. A flood level two meters above natural ground and the 405m2 area of the site meant that this home had to be developed across three levels. Living occurs on the mid level and opens to both a rear deck and central courtyard deck to provide a connection to the outdoors where close proximity to the landscaped yard was not possible.

Singapore based architect, Wallflower Architecture + Design has created innovative architectural spaces amidst urban density for a homeowner in Singapore East Coast area.

The owners wanted a spacious, contemporary house that would be as open as possible but without compromising security and privacy at the same time.

Surrounded by neighbours on four sides, the solution was a fully fenced compound with a spatial programme that internalised spaces such as pools and gardens, which are normally regarded as external to the envelope of the house. By zoning spaces such as the bedrooms and servants’ quarters on alternative levels, i.e. 2nd storey and basement levels, the ground plane was freed from walls that would have been required if public and private programmes were interlaced on the same plane.

Photographer: Albert Lim

31 Blair Road is a contemporary renovation of an Art Deco style terrace house, results in an charming neutral living space. The continuity of spaces eliminates the boundary between inside and outside, in order to create multiple relationships between diverse activities that occur in a residential realm. Simple and minimalistic with a constant analogy to industrial spaces.


The final result is an innovative response to the constraints of a conservation building. A traditional façade embraces a contemporary way of living, that has meticulously achieved a delicate balance between the old and the new. This has created a unique and effective house design, the exterior and the modern approach to the interior has been designed in context with the surroundings.


Photographs: Tim Nolan

Australian based Architects, Bark Design, produced this attractive modern house, built within a breathtaking site, located in Tinbeerwah, a suburb of Noosa in Australia.

Photographs by Christopher Frederick Jones

The project consists of a summerhouse located in the beautiful Spanish Island of Menorca. For Dom Arquitectura, whose versatile aproach expands beyond architecture into interior design and landscape, the main idea was to strike the right balance between the interior and exterior spaces, studying the relationship between the two entities, they expanded the interior spaces  into the outside world, permeating into their physical and visual surroundings.

House Capece_Venanzi is a suburban house designed for a young couple. It’s situated in the diffuse sprawl of the Italian Adriatic coast, in one of the possible areas of this diffuse city in the segment between Ascoli Piceno and Pescara. An “intermediate" area, apparently "without quality", a piece of earth left without constructions, highlighting where the plain and the hill meet.

The site is tightened between the urban texture of two levels houses for single families and the hill, completely covered with "spontaneous" vegetation.

On a narrow street of Victorian, working-class cottages in Toronto’s Yorkville neighbourhood, Bishop Street Residence is the renovation of a post-industrial building from a graphic design firm to a bachelor’s residence  by Taylor_Smyth architects. The design negotiates the tightness and public nature of its urban site, while playing out desirable scenarios of a contemporary, urban retreat.


Only inches from the sidewalk, the two-storey façade mysteriously presents itself bound by vertical and horizontal ribbons of black zinc, hovering over a base of grey concrete block, fissured by slot windows of anodized aluminum. The exterior evokes the owner’s desire for privacy while also imparting a provocative face to the otherwise decorous neighborhood. A recess, warmed by the view of an ipe wood gate, provides access to both the interior and the outdoor courtyard, the house’s inner sanctum.

Sited on a sloping waterfront property, the main contextual focal points for the design of this ultramodern home are views, access to the water, privacy and no view obstruction to uphill properties.

The long-span concrete thin shell structure allows sharp exterior edges and opens the living spaces to the view. The highly detailed wood interior is flooded in conditioned daylight.