Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Montparnasse in the south of Paris has a new mixed-use ...

The building materials were on site, the plans laid across the table. The would-be client, surveying the detailed drawings, cast a discerning eye and asked: “Are there any doors?” The client was my ...

UK-based architects Space Popular have a reputation for clashing colours and computer game imagery. Now the rising duo have built their first house – and it’s been confusing the locals A bright-green ...

Dutch firmPaul de Ruiter Architects has triumphed over 110 entries to win the highly-esteemed ARC13 architecture prize with their ecologically-minded Villa Kogelhof. The prestigious award is given to ...

Text description provided by the architects. Located near Aix-en-Provence, in arural area, this project plays with the typology of agricultural farm houses architecture. The clients' brief was the ...

Le Corbusier may have been one of the most influential and prolific modern architects of the 20th century, but I'd never had a chance to step inside one of the Swiss-born visionary's structures until ...

The folded form of this villa, designed by Peter Pichler Architecture for the owners of a vineyard in South Tyrol, is intended to merge with the existing landscape and form a shield around its central ...

Text description provided by the architects. Architect eigen huis (Dutch for architect own house) has designed a contemporary barn house on the domain of castle Duivenvoorde, Voorschoten, the ...

This holiday home in Spain by Laura Álvarez Architecture is built from the walls of a stone ruin and generates more energy that it consumes. Named Villa Slow, the dwelling replaces a former ruin found ...

Oxygen Villa is very much about light and air, and the name more than implies the homes breathing new life into a classic Arabic form of architecture — the mashrabiya. Developed centuries ago, the ...

This new complex in Xitang Ancient Town takes its cues from its context. Set within a historic water town in the Jiangnan region of southern China, the project, called Villa, is a hotel conceived by ...