House P in klosterneuburg, Austria by Caramel Architekten. Castlecrag Residence by CplusC Architectural Workshop. Australian studio CplusC Architectural Workshop has extended a house in a Sydney suburb so that it looks like a doll's house with the back wall taken off (+ slideshow). A new black-stained timber canopy creates a roof and side walls around rooms and terraces on the ground and first floor, while glass walls slide open to connect the living room and kitchen to the garden.
The discarded timber beams of the house's original roof have been reused to construct the new family dining table, which overlooks an outdoor swimming pool. Reclaimed brick walls are exposed in the kitchen, where a cluster of pendant lights are suspended over a central breakfast counter. Bedrooms occupy the first floor and are shaded by the overhanging roof.
See more Australian houses on Dezeen » Photography is by Murray Fredericks. Here's some more text from CplusC Architectural Workshop: Plywood provides a neutral backdrop that allows the cedar cladding, doors and windows to be the focus of the home. The Orangery house extension by Liddicoat & Goldhill. London architects Liddicoat & Goldhill added an extension to a south London home with an oak-screened staircase and double-height windows. The 1930s house was originally built on sloping ground, which left the living spaces at the back hanging one storey over the garden. The architects came up with an extension in the style of an orangery, with double-height windows to draw light into the lower levels. An oak staircase is bordered by a screen of vertical strips of oak which mirror the steel frames of the glazing.
A glass balustrade has been positioned on the other side of the stairs, allowing light to reach into the rooms behind. An unusual double-height white door leads out to the back garden. Projects by Liddicoat & Goldhill we've previously featured include another glazed extension to a period house in London as well as the architects' own home which makes use of black bricks and white marble. See all our stories about residential extensions » Photographs are by Keith Collie.
Triangular house in Toyota Aichi by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates. A tall and narrow entrance slopes down to a low and wide living space at this triangular house in Japan by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates. Located in Toyota in Aichi Prefecture, the black wooden house is arranged between two frames at either end, one vertical and the other horizontal. The frames create a sloping roof and walls between them as the two-storey entrance diminishes to a single storey at the rear.
A series of wooden frames have been arranged throughout the interior as freestanding doorways. At the lower end of the house is the main living area with full-length sliding windows looking out onto a train track. The upper floor contains two bedrooms and loft space for another bed, as well as a terrace overlooking the entrance.
Other projects by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates we've featured on Dezeen include a house with sliding doors between each room and a house with a triangular facade. See more stories about Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates » Here's some more text from the architects: Writer's Studio by Cooper Joseph Studio. Budding novelists will lust after this writer's hideaway in upstate New York designed by New York City architects Cooper Joseph Studio (+ slideshow). The exterior is clad in black stained cedar to absorb sunlight during the cold winters, and a built-in ladder leads up to the roof.
The interior is sparsely furnished with custom-made pieces made from walnut, including a desk, a magazine table and even the sink in the bathroom. See more dreamy places to work on Dezeen » Photographs are by Elliott Kaufman. Here's some more information about the project: Writer’s Studio Ghent, New York The writer’s studio is a place for one person to work, read and listen to music. Design solution Minimalist detailing, open glazed corners and transparency running the length of the structure challenge the simplicity of the “box”. The studio volume is a small, rectilinear and restrained single-room space in the woods. Energy and sustainability Interior finishes: Bathroom: Furniture:
Timeline Machiya by Q-Architecture Laboratory. Rather than erasing all trace of this Kyoto townhouse's previous owners, Japanese architects Q-Architecture Laboratory preserved the earlier haphazard extensions as a timeline of the building's history. Timeline Machiya is a traditional Kyoto townhouse, called a Kyo-machiya. Originally built in around 1935, it had been empty for the past decade. An L-shaped extension was added to the house in between 1965 and 1980, but rather than remove this later addition, the architects chose to rehabilitate it for modern use. On the ground floor, rooms are now arranged around the raised wood-panelled tatami room, which is traditionally used for tea ceremonies.
A new kitchen has been installed along the corridor linking the hall to the family area. The ground floor bathroom has been extended and panelled in wood. Stairs lead up from the hall to a desk area, children's bedroom and master bedroom. A ladder reaches up into the attic, where the original roof beams are exposed and a rooflight has been added. Villa SK by Atelier Thomas Pucher. Austrian architects Atelier Thomas Pucher built a glass box and courtyard onto this house in Graz to bring the family's living space outdoors (+ slideshow). Two steel beams mark out the concrete roof structure, which can be accessed from the first floor of the house and used as a terrace. The glass box provides a new living area, which is screened on one side by an internal brick wall. Outside, a concrete floor wraps around the glass box and leads to the square courtyard, which wraps around a walnut tree.
At the far end, a rough stone wall provides shelter to the courtyard. See all our stories about residential extensions » Photographs are by Lukas Schaller. Here's some more information from the architects: The initial assignment for the Villa SK was to rebuild with a rather limited budget an existing single family house and adjust it to the needs of its future inhabitants. The extension volume consists of three materials — large glass panes, rough brick and red coloured concrete. Villa van Lipzig by Loxodrome. Rough grey slate and red-stained wood panels infill a zig-zagging stone frame on the exterior of a house in Venlo, the Netherlands. Designed by Dutch architects Loxodrome, the house has four staggered storeys that align with the sloping landscape. Angled recesses in the facade createsheltered balconies outside the upper-ground-floor living room and the first-floor master bedroom. Two smaller bedrooms are also located on the first floor, while kitchen and dining rooms are at ground level and a garage slots into the basement.
On the top floor of the house is a television room, which leads out to a roof terrace and hot tub. We've published lots of interesting Dutch houses on Dezeen in recent months, including a townhouse covered in tacked-on fabric and a family home with three faceted skylights - see all our stories about Dutch houses here. Here's a few more words from Loxodrome: Villa van Lipzig The lowest two floors consist of the garage and basement facilities. Beached House by BKK Architects. Residents at this remote Australian lodge can step straight out of bed to the side of a long narrow outdoor pool. Rooms inside the single-storey holiday house by Melbourne architects BKK branch away from a concrete masonry wall that acts as a spine.
The timber-framed house, named Beached House, is externally clad in vertical ash panels and diagonally arranged zinc sheets. Small, decked terraces nestle into corners around the building's perimeter, providing shelter from the wind and sun at different times of the day. Recycled timber provides a floor surface inside the house, where an open-plan living room leads to a master bedroom on the east side of the house and four additional en suite rooms to the west. The house follows many other Australian residences featured recently on Dezeen, including a steel-plated Melbourne bunker - see all our stories about houses in Australia here. Photography is by Peter Bennetts. Here are some more details from BKK Architects: Beached House Cost Effectiveness. HANS-house by M O D O. The top of this Australian house by architect Michael Ong of M O D O is a timber box that sits at an angle on top of the ground floor walls. The timber-clad first and second storeys project towards the street in front and across the garden at the back, where they create a canopy over the terrace.
Bare masonry blocks create stark walls both inside and out at ground level, and also provide the structure for worktops in the kitchen. Located in Victoria, the house provides a home for a couple and their children. Other popular residences we've featured in Australia include a steel-plated bunker and a house with marble brise-soleils. See all our stories about Australian houses » Photography is by Ricky Fung. Here's some more text from Michael Ong: The client’s brief was to design a home which played an active role in their everyday life, rather than a static shell. In HANS-house, instead of standing next to the backyard, the form cradles and pulls the landscape in and to the centre of the house. Queen Street House with suspended staircase by Edwards Moore. Steps built into the kitchen counter lead up to a suspended staircase in this Melbourne house by Australian architects Edwards Moore.
The open-plan living area on the ground floor is dominated by the angular red kitchen island. Five steps in one side of it link up with the staircase, which hangs down from the first floor and is encased in yellow walls. Upstairs, extensive storage is provided by a corridor of wooden wardrobes painted yellow and black.
The master bedroom and ensuite bathroom can be screened off with a sliding door. A bath made from eucalyptus wood provides an unusual focal point in the bedroom. A sink and shower room are concealed in the area behind the bath. Other Melbourne projects by Edwards Moore we've featured on Dezeen include an art studio in a car park and an apartment fitted with chipboard furniture. See all our stories about Edwards Moore »See all our stories about Australian houses »See our new Pinterest board of staircases » Photographs are by Fraser Marsden.
House T by Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects. There are huge rectangular holes in the walls and floors of this Tokyo house by Japanese studio Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects. Wooden ladders connect each of the four split-level storeys and a staircase with built-in storage leads up from the ground floor studio to the dining room and kitchen on the staggered floor above. One ladder travels up from the dining room to the living room, which then steps down to the bedroom through the wide hole in the wall. Another ladder connects the living room with the skeletal top level, where four holes in the floor give the room a cross-shaped layout. A small study area is sunken into one of these holes and residents use the floor above it as a desk. Lamps of different lengths also hang through the holes and a final ladder leads up to a terrace on the roof. Similar Japanese houses we've featured include a split-level residence with a narrow lightwell and another house with holes in the walls.
See all our stories about Japanese houses » Client: A couple. Butterfly Loft Apartment by Tigg Coll Architects. The staircase in this west London house by Tigg Coll Architects has a glass balustrade and open treads to allow light to flood through from above (+ slideshow). The three-storey maisonette in Kensington was completely overhauled by the architects, with the original staircase, floors and internal partitions removed. The oak treads of the new staircase cantilever off an exposed brick wall. A skylight is fitted above the stairwell in the sloping roof. A double-sided wine rack is built into the wall between the kitchen and staircase. We recently featured another London townhouse with a striking staircase – see it here. See all our stories about staircases » Photographs are by Andy Matthews. Here's some more information from Tigg Coll Architects: Designed for a young client who wanted to convert his standard maisonette in Kensington, London, into a contemporary loft apartment for entertaining.
The new rooflight nestles in the roof pitch of the resultant space over the staircase. Villa Topoject by AND. A cedar-clad house near Seoul by Korean architects AND spirals up from beneath the ground. The black-stained cedar panels encase the top floor of the two-storey Villa Topoject, projecting ahead of the glazed west face to provide a sheltered balcony. Below this balcony, a decked terrace at ground floor level overlooks a shallow pool of water in the garden.
A grass lawn surrounding the house slopes onto the building to cover the roof, where a concealed, walled garden is located. A living room, bedroom, study and greenhouse occupy the first floor, while a guest suite and storage area are buried into the landscape below. Other submerged buildings we've featured in recent months include a dreamy holiday bunker in Portugal and a house in Spain with wedged concrete wings. Green roofs cover a handful of buildings on Dezeen - see our stories about a house with tiered gardens on the roof and a house in an earth and plant-covered hump. Photography is by Byun, Jong Seok. Villa Topoject. Widlund House by Claesson Koivisto Rune. Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune have completed a house on the coast of a Baltic island with slanted roofs and walls that make the building narrower in the middle. This 'waist' separates the two storeys of bedrooms at the back from a double-height communal space overlooking the water at the front.
Villa Widlund on the island of Öland was prefabricated from white concrete and grey lines of sealant draw graphic lines across the facade. See all our stories about Claesson Koivisto Rune » Here's some more information from the architects: Villa Widlund vacation house Öland, Sweden This house is like a funnel of light, space and sea views. The white concrete box is "corsetted" in the middle, creating slightly sheared wall and roof angles. This gives the house both its direction and character, while also marking the difference between the rear private two-storey bedroom part and the communal double ceiling-height front part. Architect Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects, Stockholm Designed 2008. House for two artists by M + N Arquitectos. A glass bridge connects a concrete house with wonky windows to an artist’s studio in Puebla, Mexico. Two artists reside and work in the house, which was completed by Mexican studio M + N Arquitectos in 2010.
Walls of barefaced concrete surround both the inside and outside of the only bedroom, where a narrow window is cut away from one corner. Concrete-framed windows elsewhere in the house are angled towards specific views of the surrounding landscape and sky. If artist's studios interest you, you may want to check out our recent special feature all about them. Photography is by Luis Gordoa. The following text is from the architects: House For Two Artists The proposal began with a generally undefined idea which allowed for the possibility of change and the introduction of new ideas along the way in relation to the spatial and architectural plans in general. The property is surrounded by beautiful views of the city and surrounding landscape. Location: San Andres Cholula, Puebla, México.
Chers Voisins by Maison Martin Margiela. 3M House / destilat. Pictures - House of Pavilions.