Oak Pass Guesthouse, Los Angeles, CA

Oak Pass Guesthouse, Los Angeles, CA

A two bedroom guesthouse that sits along a ridge in a grove of over 120 coast live oak trees.  The building utilizes a small footprint and height to maximize panoramic canyon views while strengthening its connection with the trees below.  An existing barn was rehabbed...
Shoreline Retreat, Lake Minnetonka

Shoreline Retreat, Lake Minnetonka

On a wooded site in Deephaven, Minnesota, Snow Kreilich Architects conceived a geometric cedar-clad retreat overlooking Lake Minnetonka. “This new holiday house by Minneapolis-based Snow Kreilich Architects balances the quiet and the dramatic. Its stained-cedar...
Reinvention of the Scottish black shed

Reinvention of the Scottish black shed

Colbost House on the Isle of Skye, Scotland by Dualchas Architects An ‘abstracted shed’ with oiled Siberian larch cladding and aluminium roof sheeting on the Isle of Skye. “The whole arrangement of Colbost House – which also includes a separate...
Cross Laminated Wood Panel House

Cross Laminated Wood Panel House

Transformation of a small, damp, single storey bungalow in North Cornwall into a modern minimalist designed family home constructed almost completely from a prefabricated German ‘cross laminated’ wood panel system, or giant sheets of plywood… and all...
Orchard House by Studio Octopi

Orchard House by Studio Octopi

I recently came across this fantastic home in South West England on Dezeen by London based architecture firm Studio Octopi and thought it was certainly worth sharing. The private dwelling was commissioned by a client with very specific needs, but the exceptional...
Planning Permission Granted!

Planning Permission Granted!

Extension & Upgrade in Rathfarnham, South Dublin We were delighted to have another Planning Application successfully granted this week by South Dublin County Council. Really looking forward to seeing the extension and refurbishment of this fantastic semi-detached...
Shou Sugi Ban Maarn

Shou Sugi Ban Maarn

Shou Sugi Ban Maarn by Rotterdam-based BYTR architects I recently spotted this really interesting extension on Archinect.com. The sculptural form and the cladding which is made of wood which has been carbonised with fire on the front side making for a really...
The High Line, NYC

The High Line, NYC

The High Line, New York City On a recent trip to NYC, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to visit the High Line, a new linear park located on Manhattan’s West Side.  The High Line is a public park built on an historic freight rail line elevated above the...
Hoxton House by David Mikhail Architects

Hoxton House by David Mikhail Architects

RIBA Awards 2011 For the second year running, Zaha Hadid Architects won the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize for the best new European building built or designed in the United Kingdom for their Evelyn Grace Academy, a school in Brixton, south London. However, it was a...