Owned and designed by architects Ana Cecilia and Alfred Quezada, this home in the Middle Ridge neighborhood of Mill Valley, California, has recently been listed for sale at $4.175 million.

The 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home of just under 4000 square feet, sits on a half acre of land, nestled among mature oak trees with canyon and creek views. Read more »

V house that located in Sydney, Australia is designed to be energy efficient, the house relies on natural cooling, under floor hydrostatic heating together with some solar heating. Perched high atop a hill, the property affords generous views of Bondi Beach, the ocean and the city. The interplay of these views within a north/south orientation, combine with the unusual wedge shaped form of the property, to generate a strong and simple built form. Conceptually, it is a house of three pavilions. Two long pavilions form a ‘v’ around a central courtyard with the 24m pool and garden. One hugs the eastern side boundary, the other, the western side boundary. Both connect via a central glazed double volume entry hall and meals space. The third pavilion in the garden houses the sauna spa and Japanese ‘onsen’ bathhouse. Read more »

The Signal Box designed by Melling:Morse architects, Gerald Melling and Allan Morse of Wellington’s Melling Morse Architects in Masterton, New Zealand, a Masterton house designed using the “stretched metaphor” of a Masterton Railway Station, was awarded the winning house New Zealand’s richest architecture award. The home is owned by Stephanie Chilcott, an art enthusiast and former fashion designer who decided to move from Wellington to Masterton after purchasing the large section on which the Signal Box stands. Read more »

This House design, Seadrift Residence, as a second home for a San Francisco family, was designed by CCS Architecture in Stinson Beach, CA, United States. The design follows a rigorous sustainability program; photovoltaic panels generate all the home’s electricity, sending surplus energy back to the grid. All the home’s systems – hot water, HVAC, and radiant heating – are integrated, electric-based, and powered by the PV panels on the roof. With the exception of a propane tank which powers the cooking range, the home is net-zero in terms of its energy consumption. Read more »

M House that located in one of Nagoya’s more attractive residential neighborhoods is designed to both address the site conditions that rendered the site “unbuildable”, only 2.5 meters of dead end street access and set on a difficult site that steps down from this access level a total of 7 meters by the local real estate community and provide for a simple, modern lifestyle for the American owner/architect and his family. Read more »