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Explore 71 award-winning designs tagged House on Magazine of Design.

Villa Mandarin Palace House

Beilei Ge House Interior

Villa Mandarin Palace

Villa Mandarin Palace is a residential interior design located in Shanghai, China. The 1800-square-meter house follows a symmetrical layout based on a central axis. Corridors, courtyards and a waterscape form a modern Chinese courtyard with a private garden. The ground floor holds the living space of the elders and a Shanghai-style Chinese dining room for family gatherings. The longitudinal area contains the main reception area and a separate lounge for female guests. Two patios bring daylight and greenery into the basement floor.

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Garden House

Christos Pavlou House Architecture

Garden

The proposal highlights nature's beauty in our urban lives, as a result, it creates a new standard of lifestyle in the city as well as introducing a breath of tranquillity into the neighborhood. The internal courtyard becomes an intermediate space functioning both as an important temperature regulator but also as a means of communicating and unifying the interior spaces. Inspired by the environmental effects that cities have on CO2 emissions and global warming, the designers tried to emphasize that the implementation of urban gardens into the home design is welcoming and achievable.

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Morimachi House

Toshiaki Tanaka House Architecture

Morimachi

House in Morimachi is a single storey house designed in a minimal form. The house is clad in metal sheets and kept low to respect the surrounding scenery. Steel framing forms the main structure, with dimensions standardized to the module of the traditional Japanese timber house to keep a familiar sense of scale. Wood sliding doors add depth, continuity and openness to the interior. The garden combines water scenery with gently undulating ground, creating a different view from each room along the south facade. Traditional carpentry and plaster techniques were used throughout.

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H2O House

Niroop Kumar Reddy Nallari House Architecture

H2O

H2O House is a private residence in an urban residential area of Hyderabad. The house is designed for a family of four and covers an area of 12500 square feet. Indoor and outdoor water bodies support passive cooling and lower indoor temperatures during the day. Light weight fly ash bricks and thermal insulation sheets are used as masonry to limit heat transfer. Large openings on opposite walls allow cross ventilation, and solar panels are placed on the terrace. Spaces are zoned vertically according to privacy, with shared rooms below and bedrooms above.

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Basalt House

Aamer Qaisiyah House Architecture

Basalt

Built for comfort as well as being elegant. This design is truly eye-catching and remarkable inside and out. Features include oak wood, windows made to bring in plenty of sunlight, and it is soothing to the eyes. It is mesmerizing by its beauty and the technique. Once you are in this house, you can't but notice the serenity and the oasis feeling that takes over you. The breeze of the trees and the surrounding with the sun rays makes this house a unique place to live in away from the busy city life. The Basalt house is built to please and accommodate a variety of people.

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Zen Mood House

Francisco Eduardo Sá and Felipe Savassi House Architecture

Zen Mood

Zen Mood is a conceptual project centered in 3 key drivers: Minimalism, adaptability, and aesthetics. Individual segments are attached creating a variety of shapes and uses: homes, offices or showrooms can be generated making use of two formats. Each module has been designed with 3.20 x 6.00m arranged in 19m² within 01 or 02 floors. The transportation is mainly made by trucks, also it can be delivered and installed in just one day. It is a unique, contemporary design that creates simple, lively and creative spaces made possible through a clean and industrialized constructive method.

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Alina House

Fatemeh Fooladi House Architecture

Alina

Alina is a two-story private house with a total built area of 480 square meters. Several styles are combined, and the forms, colors and materials are chosen to reflect the emotions and personality of the client. Industrial metal, glass, concrete, stone and wood are the main materials. A glazed corridor placed before the entrance limits the entry of cold and heat. A smart system controls the electronic devices and the lighting through a simple application. A smart water supply system eases irrigation across the whole house.

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Nestled in the Green House

Tomomi Omachi House Architecture

Nestled in the Green

Nestled in the Green is a house located in Tajiri, Hiroshima, Japan. The site stands in a typical Japanese residential area, with small mountains to the north and the Seto Inland Sea to the south. The house was built on the plot of a former European-style vacation home, which was demolished while the garden was kept and tended. The position of the house and the size of the windows were studied so that the garden and the mountains can be seen from many directions. Open windows bring in the sound of leaves and birds. The site area is 713.24 square meters.

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Ike House

Hatsuo Morimoto House Architecture

Ike

Ike is a three-story house with a penthouse, built in a densely populated urban area of Nagoya, Japan. The reinforced concrete building has a site area of 365 square meters and a floor area of 602 square meters. The outer walls are finished in wood grained concrete, made by lining the formwork with cedar boards before the concrete is poured. Wood garage doors, curtain wall glass and stone fence blocks complete the exterior. Three pocket gardens bring indirect light, air and greenery into the rooms. The upper floors are offset so that sunlight still reaches the neighboring houses.

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Mellow Refined Residence House

YU CHUN CHENG House Interior

Mellow Refined Residence

Mellow Refined Residence is a 165 square meter home interior in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The design blends simple Japanese and Nordic styles with a warm milk-tea and gray color scheme. At the entryway, wooden-veined grilles meet flooring with marble veins. Lotos cement covers the main wall for high moisture absorption and air permeability, which suits the humid local climate. Tawny glass divides the wall to open up the space. Toxin-free green materials are used throughout, and integrated cabinetry provides storage for a family of four.

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Sliding Door House

Masaki Suzuki House Interior

Sliding Door

Sliding Door is a renovation project for an apartment in Chiba, Japan. Ten continuous sliding doors were installed in place of a wall. The doors run on two rails, so the connection between the corridor and the rooms can be adjusted. Natural light reaches the corridor, which is often dark in Japanese apartments. A workspace enclosed by glass sliding doors was added in the living area. The doors, the desk and the television board are made of the same plywood. The plan allows work, rest and family life within a limited space.

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Fish Farm House House

Junghee Lee House Architecture

Fish Farm House

For the client, the sea means home, ground for living and life. So above all, architect the greatest focus was set on their relationship with the sea. Fish Farm House which represent a house greeting sea was made into structure open to the sea in order to be a shelter to keep in tune with the sea. As a one-storied house, reed field in the rear of house and mountain beyond were used as a background. In the case of exposed concrete, it is far unused material in this fishing village. However, 2m2 architects used combination of familiar materials e.g. stone and wood in order to look familiar.

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