Best House Design

Designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer for informal living, This Pearl beach house is located on the southern peninsula of Pearl Beach, North of Sydney, and enjoys sweeping views of the beach through a stand of eucalyptus trees.
The house has been designed as a comfortable retreat for a family that will eventually spend more time away [...]

Three and a half hours north of Toronto is Pointe Au Baril, a remote archipelago in Georgian Bay on a cusp of the Canadian shield. Eight miles from the nearest marina, on a 2.8 acre island is a private seasonal retreat. The aim of the project was to balance comfort with the bare necessities so [...]

This luxury modern lake home design in Seattle, Washington is designed by Washington Native and a brilliant architect Peter Cohan. Cohan angled the rooms to open onto the terrace and lawn, solidifying this luxury home’s characteristic connection to the outdoors. In an interview seesion with The Seattle Times, Cohan described his masterpiece,”The idea was all [...]

Architects: PLOT = BIG + JDS Architects
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Function: Boat house, play ground, youth house
Client: Kvaterloft Copenhagen, Loa Fund
Collaborator: JDS ARCHITECTS, BIRCH & KROGBOE
Constructed Area: 2,000 sqm
Project year: 2004
Budget: US $1,950,000
Photographs: Julien de Smedt, Mads Hilmer, Esben Bruun, Paolo Rosselli
Architects Homepage: www.plot.dk, www.big.dk, www.jdsarchitects.com
The site was polluted with heavy metals. To save budget the architects [...]

Villa Berkel
Location: Veenendaal, Netherlands
Architects: Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter
Architects Homepage: www.paulderuiter.nl
Design Team: Paul de Ruiter, Sander van Veen, Helga Traksel
Contractor/s: Bouwbedrijf Valleibouw
Site Area: 1232.9 m2
Built-up Area: 221 m2
Cost of Construction/Execution: 720.000
Villa Berkel was built on a site formerly occupied by a bungalow built in the nineteen seventies. The family wanted to remodel the bungalow, but decided [...]