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Edge House by Mobius Architects: cutting edge contemporary architecture
Poland-based Mobius Architects have created something modern, beautifully unusual and definitely stunning. The Edge House near Cracow is supposed to be built on an excavated niche on a limestone hillside – a terrain that certainly poses many challenges, but also gives birth to some truly exceptional ideas. Pressed by local building codes which disallow roofs […]
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Westwanda by Tag Front Architecture – not another Beverly Hills mansion
Not the typical Beverly Hills house, Westwanda designed and built by award-winning architects Tag Front, is 2,100sq. ft. of pure industrial aesthetic. The blend of classic and modern architecture elements like raw concrete facades, extensive glass walls, stainless steel, wood flooring, open spaces and cubic volumes, works really nice here and creates a beautiful minimalist […]
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Half buried house in Mexico profits from soil’s thermal mass
In desertlike regions temperatures often go to extremes, with differences between daytime and nighttime of about 20-30 degrees Celsius. This is the case with this golf club community house in Chihuahua, northern Mexico. To take advantage of the soil’s thermal mass and reduce temperature variations, the architects of PRODUCTORA partially buried its 375 sq.m. into the […]