Best House Design

Cedar House, North Elmham, Norfolk, England. Built: 2005. A barn-like house clad entirely in cedar shingles.
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HUDSON Architects’ Cedar House, a new-build private residence in Norfolk, pilots a new prototype for cost-effective new-build modern housing. It deploys innovative off-site construction, which simplifies the building process without compromising the architecture of the house.

The U House embraces the landscape by creating a generous courtyard between it’s bedroom wings. So despite it’s moderate size it provides a generous accommodation when the courtyard can be used for daily life. While best oriented towards a view, it can also be effectively sited on moderate sized lots. Where there are neighbors in [...]

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If cabins make you think of lumberjacks…of Camp Grenada, circa 1974…of Deliverance…then you need a copy of Superb Cabins. Paul Bunyan would be proud to call any of these twenty-five magnificent cabins home for himself and Babe. Each cabin has been designed to maximize limited living spaces and create a warm, appealing place for [...]

Lau Sun House was designed by Kyson Design. The building was not completed until Autumn 2007 due to a lengthly Planning Appeal, yet has already won the CIAT’s ‘Alan King Prize’ for Technical Excellence, was a finalist on Grand Designs TV show for ‘New Build’ home of the year 2008 and featured on the BBC [...]

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How do you maximize living space in increasingly small and expensive apartments that are being built in cities around the country? This stunningly illustrated book reveals how renowned architects — including Stephen Alton, SA Architects, David Hotson Architects, and Gary Schoemaker Architects — have solved that problem in their designs for small apartments and [...]

SHALKAI HOUSE
Gulf Islands, B.C. : 2006
2500 square feet
Shalkai is designed as a retreat and meditation environment for its owners. The plan is like a path on a level contour across the hillside, moving dynamically from social rooms to private ones as the rafters rise and fall to create the gentle undulating form [...]