This house has been planned with particular care to ensure intimacy and privacy while keeping a wide view towards outside to enjoy the beautiful surrounding landscape without being seen from outside public spaces. The use of shadowed spaces and of glazed winter gardens in this particular region becomes an energy saving natural instrument while using [...]

The simple plan and the comfortable relationship of outdoor living areas are key elements to the house. The front and rear of the house are stripped by wood with shutters that open up to let light in for the kitchen. Larger garage door (three garage-type) size shutters fold up and over to open the living [...]

It’s hardly a secret that Germany has long been at the forefront of energy-saving design. Even back in the early Modern days, its health-oriented obsession with getting natural light and cross ventilation into living quarters paved the way for later passive-energy-saving strategies. In the 1920s, “zeilenbau” planning principles, calling for long, narrow housing blocks to [...]

Terms that come to mind to describe the architecture of the city of Chevy Chase, Maryland, a few kilometres outside Washington, DC, is classical, romantic and nostalgic. Architect Robert Gurney, FAIA, director of the Alexandria, Virginia-based company name, designed a house (a house on a typical street in this city, despite its facade and roof [...]

The design of the new building was designed as a simple box sitting next to the original octagonal tower, but isolated to maintain a respectful separation and emphasize the distinct form of the original structure. Its location and orientation aims to meet the exposed coastal location of the site, the movement of the sun, and [...]