Disc House | 2020 Best Dream House of the Year

New York, USA

Architects: KARIM RASHID Inc.
Lead Architect/Concept designer: Karim Rashid

Project Description

Dubbed “The Disk House,” the design of this circular, see-through residence, came as a response to the Covid lockdown. The concept of the Disk House is to have 360 ​​degrees views, with no sharp corners and no obstructive columns.

“Being locked down for so many months now, made me realize how important the connection with the exterior is – and how much a glazed surface can do for you.

Transparency is immaterial; therefore your space always feels much larger and it creates a positive mental psyche,”

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In the Hamptons, a Modern Home Fit for a Bond Villain

The experimental midcentury-modern architecture of the Hamptons has long been a source of fascination to many in the design world — including Timothy Godbold, an interior designer based in Southampton, NY So in the fall of 2019, when he noticed an unusual modernist house in town listed for sale, he was intrigued.

More intriguing still: It was built in 1973 by Eugene L. Futterman, a name he didn’t recognize.

The 1,700-square-foot home was all angles, with two intersecting, triangular roof planes and a primary bedroom that rose into the treetops like a periscope. But the interior was dated and the

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Architects 49 House Design completes a modernist office venue, developing both contemporary indoor working stations and an outdoor activity space

Bangkok, Thailand

Architects 49 House Design have created the new, modernist office building for Pine-Pacific Corporation, located between the company’s former mineral warehouse and its current headquarters.

Warehouse 12 by A49HD

Warehouse 12 as it is known is comparable to a central connecting link that merges the various working functions together, housing offices, laboratories, a cafeteria, and meeting rooms.

Τhe project has been awarded a 2021 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

Warehouse 12 by A49HD

The initial concept, inspired by an abundance of trees between the new extension and the

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Australian project takes out World Interior of the Year

Australian multidisciplinary design firm SJB has claimed three awards at this year’s Inside World Festival of Interiors as part of the World Architecture Festival in Singapore.

19 Waterloo Street won both the Interior of the Year and the Residential Single Dwelling Award. The jury praised the modestly-sized residence for being “like a wardrobe for the architect himself to live in … not just a building or an interior but a pocket-sized tour de force.” The Tetris-like plan consists of seven internal floors and the façade is dotted with 15 openings onto the street—a design approach that the judges felt “generated

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BC housing: Standard designs to speed up builds

The BC government is hoping a new approach will help encourage people to build new homes.

The province’s Standardized Housing Design Project lays out standard home designs that will enable builders to cut down on design costs and approval times.

“We’re trying to get the building process moved faster so that anyone, whether they’re a new building or a very experienced builder, can take a set design and get it straight through the local government to get it approved,” Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon explained Thursday.

Kahlon says the program is similar to the post-war CMHC Catalog of Homes, adding BC

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Mi Casita Is an Ultra-Compact Custom Tiny Home That Surprises With Oodles of Cool Features

Mi Casita tiny house on wheels
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Photo: Modern Tiny Living

Tiny house designers never cease to amaze us with how much functionality and cool features they can pack into the limited square footage of a compact home, proving that tiny living does not necessarily need to be about paring down to the bare basics.

Designs like the recent Mi Casita from Modern Tiny Living show that moving into a tiny home doesn’t mean compromising but rather gaining more freedom, liberation, and flexibility. This gorgeous house on wheels is a custom model built for a client who has been dreaming about living in a tiny

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Canada housing plans: Explaining new plan to tackle housing crisis

The federal government has unveiled what it is calling their “plan to solve the housing crisis,” outlining both steps they intend to take, as well as issuing a callout to other levels of government and homebuilders to roll up their sleeves.

The 28-page plan includes billions of dollars in spending commitments and is divided into three pillars: building more homes, making it easier to own or rent a home, and helping Canadians who can’t afford a home.

“Today we are releasing the most comprehensive and ambitious housing plan ever seen in Canada. It builds on the sizeable investments we’ve made

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Oystercatchers | MCK Architecture & Interiors

From the architect:


For several years a Sydney based family had enjoyed their holidays in a tiny pre-fabricated house on the beachfront lot, but had finally outgrown it. They wanted to improve the accommodation and take better advantage of the opportunities of the location and aspect, while maintaining a relaxed, simple pattern of inhabiting the site.



The design response was to retain the open, exposed and windswept nature of the site, and to allow the envelope of the house to provide privacy, security and protection from the elements, literally the house as a

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