Cape Town-based studio SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects has completed the Plett 6541+2 project in 2010. This three story contemporary home is located in the coastal town of Plettenberg Bay on the famous Garden Route, South Africa.

Post tags: Beach Houses, Beautiful View, House, Open Spaces, Pool

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House Kalafatas Challita is in suburban Sydney. The area is undergoing a gentrification, where single storey brick bungalows in established gardens are being bull-dozed in favour of enormous new mansions.

Post tags: House, Interesting Shapes, Interior Design, Nature, Open Spaces, Residential Architecture

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Because of practical and budgetary reasons, Atherton Keener doesn’t have the luxury of using crazy materials. Concrete block has been a part of building in the desert for a long time.

Post tags: Concrete, House, Inner Garden, Interesting Shapes, Interior Design, Open Spaces

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A combination of differing relations, resulting not only from the topography but also from diverse requirements to the building, leads to an individual living space. Tailored to the particular requirements of the house owner, this habitat cannot be determined typologically.

Post tags: Nature, Open Spaces, Pool, Residential Architecture, Soft Form, Villa

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Two 4-story buildings placed parallel to the street in Hollywood, California.  The simple cubic shape of the buildings allowed for greater project resources to be deployed to the sectional relations within the units.

Post tags: Interesting Shapes, Residential Architecture, Stairs, Urban Architecture, Windows

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The ‘king crawler’ structure is a multilevel playing wall that incorporates facilities for the playground manager and two public toilets. The playing strip is located at the foot of two rolling green hills with trees.

Post tags: Interesting Shapes, landscape, Metal, Nature, Open Spaces, Public Architecture

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The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a nomadic annual music festival. For the last 14 years, this event has been held in a different world city, welcoming the sixty pre-selected international participants and surrounding them with musicians, producers, and DJs, thereby giving them the opportunity to experiment with and exchange knowledge and ideas about the world of music.

Post tags: Bar, Interesting Shapes, Interior Design, Lounge, Open Spaces, Public Architecture

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Within a landscape of merging water, rice fields and a forest in Daesim-ri, Yangpyeong, Korea is ‘s_mahal’, a single family dwelling by korean practice Moon Hoon.

Post tags: Interesting Shapes, landscape, Nature, Open Spaces, Residential Architecture

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This project has about 400,00 m², seeks to bridge the gap with various levels of the ground, where the rooms of the house will be settling. The design proposal indicates a longitudinal implantation, creating a beautiful view of the back, closing the street view from the rest of the house, where the service area and kitchen are.

Post tags: Concrete, Countryside House, Inner Garden, Interesting Shapes, Interior Design, Open Spaces

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In a residence, for the configuration of volume and internal space. In a residence, we thought timeless and simple was best. Here, keeping an awareness of orientation and road connections,

Post tags: House, Interesting Shapes, Open Spaces, Residential Architecture, Urban Architecture, Wood

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