Stretched and Balanced in Terraces of the Rural Landscape | Sambade House

When some people think of canopy beds, they envision pampered little girls’ rooms or the outdated, stuffy beds of wealthy royalty. These are not unreasonable images to conjure up; after all, that used to be the standard for this particular bed design. Additionally, the beauty of the intricate carvings in many of these beds was […]

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When it comes to organizing our home and making it much more efficient, the garage is one of the last places that you think about instantly. It is generally a space that is left to accumulate stuff and over the years, everything that you do not need ‘immediately’ is just tucked away into the garage […]

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The Caribbean sunshine lights up the poolside terrace at this wide open estate in the gated Sugar Hills. Improve your game at the only private tennis court in the community, then spread out in the gazebo, cottage, or poolside pavilion with a wet bar a barbecue. Treetop views, a grand piano, and a spiral staircase are beach chic, and the community’s restaurant and fitness center are steps away.

von Weise Associates salvages an abandoned farm for a creative Chicago couple.

Casa Altanera is located in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, México. The lot has an area of ​​2,500m2, with minimum slope. It was established as a natural and essential order of the project to follow up on the reforestation process of the area, contributing to the regenerative process that we find in our context. A single-family housing scheme was developed, contained in three separate operating modules, distributed among social areas and two pieces that interact independently, solving a program of areas for a master bedroom for two people and four secondary rooms for eight people, including your individual and shared service areas. The interaction with the exterior was proposed through the areas that develop in the palapa. The dining room, the kitchen, the living room, the deck, and the pool, are linked together in a common space, while each unfolds from its movable facade of wooden doors, resolving climate relationships independently and sustainably. The most intimate and contemplative connection happens in the pieces of concrete and wood that contain the rooms, suggesting a protected, safe place, in which, each inhabitant would individually define the type of link with its immediate exterior, from its reading of the place.