Superkül Inc Architect have been given a 2012 Design Excellence award by the Ontario Association of Architects for their work on the +HOUSE in Mulmur, Ontario, Canada. . Description from the architects: Designed for a client with environmental sensitivities, +HOUSE is a manifestation of a sustainable and healthy approach to building that does not sacrifice [...]

Enrico Iascone Architects designed this home in Sassuolo, Italy. . Description from the architects: The design of the building would enable the construction of two buildings in a single compact volume. It is so designed to cut a box, a closed volume, which bifurcates into two separated to create two separate units, each with its [...]

MAPS Design, designed the W Retreat in Koh Samui, Thailand. . W Retreat and Residences Koh Samui is the first W Retreat in Southeast Asia. An all-villa beachfront resort, it is located on a 26-acre site on Maenam Beach, at the north shore of the island of Koh Samui. The retreat features 70 villas, each [...]

Studio DUNN have designed the Corliss chair. . Description from Studio DUNN: The spitting image of revolution.  The Corliss Chair cleverly integrates traditional American hardwood construction in its maple seat with a graceful, comfort driven, and handcrafted aluminum backing.  Its true connection a secret between them, this union of sustainable and recyclable materials harmoniously joins [...]

Australian artist Chris Fox created the CONVERGENCE Sculpture located in the lobby/atrium of the Global Switch data centre solutions office in Paris, France. . Visit Chris Fox’s website – here. .

RDR Arquitectos have designed the Buenos Mares villa in José Ignacio, Uruguay. . Visit the RDR Arquitectos website – here. . .

AW² have designed the Six Senses Con Dao Resort in Vietnam. . Visit the AW² website – here. Photography by Daniel Moulinet .

Bruno Armando Gomes Marques have designed the S. Roque House I in the Oliveira de Azeméis Municipality of Portugal. . This house is located in Oliveira de Azeméis, specifically in São Roque. The housing lies between two roads, one to the south and the other to the north, which delimit the allotment and have imposed [...]

Superkül Inc Architect have been given a 2012 Design Excellence award by the Ontario Association of Architects for their work on the SPLIT house in Toronto, Canada. . Description from the architect: Split in plan and section, the parti of the house allows for a flood of light to the centre. The house is designed [...]

mimaristudio designed new social/communal areas for Turkcell’s Maltepe Plaza office in Istanbul. . Description from mimaristudio: Turkcell Maltepe Plaza renovation project was led by Turkcell Communication Services Building Managment Department and designed and executed by mimaristudio in a total of 4 months. Main objective of the project was to provide a new and desirable social/communal [...]

Peter Gluck and Partners Architects designed the renovation for this home in Armonk, New York. . Description from the architects: The Czech émigré architect, Ladislav Rado’s famous modern house built in 1956-57, provided the original context for its renovation.  Exemplary of its time, the building reflects the simplicity and directness of the relationship to the [...]

Smart Design Studio designed a contemporary renovation and extension for an early 20th-century terrace house in Sydney, Australia. . This exciting renovation and extension of a turn-of-the-century terrace house in Sydney’s Potts Point focuses on a grand and gracefully spiralling stair that forms the pivotal junction of the old and new parts of the house. [...]

BELLBOY, a collaborative wood shop based in Brooklyn, have created a lounge chair made from the reclaimed timbers of a New York City Water Tower. . Visit the BELLBOY website – here. . .

Pb Elemental have designed a LEED Platinum prefab house in White Rock, BC, Canada. . Designed by Pb Elemental for InHaus Development Photography bySeeVirtual . .

STUDIOLAB have designed the interior for an apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. . Description from the designers: The owners of this prewar apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan wanted to combine two dark and tightly configured units into a single unified space.  StudioLAB was challenged with the task of converting [...]