Designed by Alejandro Aravena, We were asked to design a summer/winter house in a remote landscape in the most southern part of Chile. More than a des ...
In response to the growing interest among Pinterest users in earthy interiors, we have rounded up eleven refined rammed-earth projects from our Pinter ...
millo\'s photographs provide a visual narrative of the athletes\' village, capturing its transformation and impact on the surrounding area. The post p ...
Continuing our high-tech architecture series we look at Reliance Controls, the last building that two of the giants of high-tech architecture ? Richar ...
The designers at Venice, California-based Electric Bowery have toned-down the opulent and slightly heavy Tuscan influences of a large colonial-style ...
What might initially appear too stark and brutally minimalist, turns into a peaceful calm in this sensitive renovation of a decades-old house in Tai ...
Pabellón de la Reserva is an award-winning recreational pavilion by Mexico City-based architecture studio Hemaa. The Pavilion is a part of Reserva ...
Avoiding the tired recreational ski resort style of log structures and gabled roofs, architect Omar Gandhi has nevertheless managed to create a ?cott ...
Floating in a luxuriously classic Celine bathtub while viewing the Eiffel Tower is not an experience many people get to have at home, even in the ...
Theresa Obermoser, Austrian-born, London-based designer and founder of TO Interior Design has completed the three-year overhaul of a Renaissance-st ...
Hong Kong-based interior design firm Lim + LU founders Elaine Lu and Vince Lim received a dream assignment from their friends: to design an office sp ...
Using startling wall colours sparingly and adding stunning mid-century modernist pieces, Amsterdam-based Framework Studio has created an elegant p ...
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada-based McLeod Bovell designed Liminal House for a couple that wanted a residence to meet their needs as soon-to- ...
Celebrated Dutch architect and Pritzker Prize laureate (2000) Rem Koolhaas is not known mainly as a designer of private residences. However, the ones ...
Polish-born, Abu Dhabi-based designer Agata Kurzela has completed an impressive refurbishment of a 1908 heritage building in Abu Dhabi?s historic ...
Located about an hour?s drive from the western entrance to the Yellowstone National Park, the recreational residence of a young family of six is a mo ...
When we first saw the recent loft renovation project by the Parisian design firm Agence Véronique Cotrel we knew we needed to find out more. The lo ...
In 2006, when philanthropist and gallerist Shulamit Nazarian bought the famous Smalley House designed by A. Quincy Jones in 1973 on Holmby Hills in L ...
Mixing several components relevant to the owners and highlighting the surrounding nature, interior designer Marc Berger of Los Angeles-based Hunterho ...
When Jordan Carlyle and Mario Margelist tired of constant commuting ? Marglist commuted from Switzerland to New York ? and the hectic life of New Yor ...
The form is indisputably farm-like. So, do we care that the house is not on a farm, neither are the owners farmers" No we don?t, as the Bass Coast Fa ...
Melbourne-based architecture firm Powell & Glenn has designed a stunning home for a couple and their three children with outdoor-living as one of the ...
Japanese multidisciplinary artist Mariko Mori (b. 1967) reminds us in many ways of another Japanese female multidisciplinary artist, the 93-year-old ...
There are places for which the only suitable description is ?a place to breathe.? Over the years, we have featured quite a few of these for the obvio ...
It is not news to The Cool Hunter readers that we value tasteful restorations. We believe that new and flashy and complicated is easy. Restored and r ...
Serendipity, good luck and a great deal of trust and courage were all needed to make this elegant restoration of a century-old traditional Mallorcan ...
Husband-and-wife, Kathryn Robson and Chris Rak, founders of the Melbourne-based Robson Rak architecture and interior design practice, have recently c ...
Rehousing their Michelin-starred restaurant Äng into a starkly minimalist glasshouse is the latest development at Ästad Vingård winery . The owne ...
Great things take time to develop. The secondary home in Montecito, California, planned and completed over a period of a decade by of Los Angeles-bas ...
Masseria Belvedere is an expertly restored Italian 16th century masseria now functioning as a sophisticated guest house for up to 16 people. Located ...
Can Brut is a family villa on the island of Ibiza located on an 85,000 square-metre cove plot overlooking Spain?s Balearic Sea. The plot overlooks a ...
When Rustic Canyon house was completed in May 2018, one of the residence?s redeeming qualities already then was the surrounding nature. As the 4,100 ...
Magic can result when architect and client have known each other for two decades and when both are willing to take the time to consider the best way ...
A vast book collection and a trusting friendship between designers and their client helped turn cramped ground-floor rooms into a sun-filled, tranqui ...
?It’s not a place to show off, it’s a place for my soul to rest,†says 37-year-old Colombian reggaeton superstar, José Álvaro O ...
The shingle-clad East Hampton beach house, located on the coveted Further Lane, has an illustrious celebrity-amplified past as do so many in the area ...
In interiors, we are not fans of subdued and prissy nor decorative and antique-filled. When we saw the first images of the Californian Canyon house r ...
Owning any kind of car today is questionable. Owning a whole collection of luxury cars even more so. But there is no denying that the cars of the pas ...
Although BIBU is promoted as a ?pet store? it is really much more. It is an entire pet-care and pet-pampering environment, strategically answering th ...
In its three-plus-year existence, Casa JL, designed by Cinco Solidos, has become gradually more and more one with its lush natural surroundings. When ...
It is always a challenge to design a new house that doesn?t scream NEW. This is especially demanding if the neighbourhood is well established, the ho ...
With smart design, basic local craft skills and a flexible experimental attitude, even the most ordinary warehouse-like space can become an appealing ...
Although designed without a specific client in mind, Radius House in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles is both livable and sculptural. Designer ...
Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran, founding partners of the Los Angeles?based architecture firm Woods + Dangaran are infinitely familiar with the langu ...
The team at London-based Alessandro Isola studio named their recent residential project Fluid House. The fluid in the name does not refer to wavy or ...
How can we not love this residence located in the outskirts of Palma in the Son Vida luxury residential area often referred to as the Beverly Hills o ...
The recently reopened Municipal Baths of Strasbourg really must be addressed as ?Baths.? It would not seem right to call the complex just simply a sw ...
The island of Mallorca has seen its fair share of what we call invasive luxury architecture but there are also many beautiful exceptions that referen ...
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom Hamptons residence has many of the features of a traditional clapboard barn, but it is in fact only a few years old ...
The brand-new Pera Perou villas are located on the mountainous, sun-baked Kefalonia, an island in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland Greece. With its ...
A transformation from devout urbanites to resolute cottage-dwellers was unlikely for Torontonians Renee and Ken Metrick, their sons Andrew and Jamie ...
Monegasque Christopher Poyet and Parisian Emil Humbert established their Monaco-based Humbert & Poyet design agency in 2007. Over the years, their w ...
The need to upgrade the design of medical and dental offices has been talked and written about for at least three decades. Yet real change has not ta ...
Sophisticated but practical would be an appropriate description of the large new family home in Laurel Canyon with interior design by West Hollywood- ...
Consistently ranked as one of the top ski resorts in North America, Whistler is located less than two hours? drive (120 km) up Sea-to-Sky Highway fro ...
With its 9,800 square feet (910.5 sq. ft) and five bedrooms, Carla Ridge Residence fits perfectly in the portfolio of the developer for whom Los-Ange ...
In the recent NORM residence renovation, Montreal-based Alain Carle Architecte has created an elegant study in white that appears even more magical ...
When Sophie and Frank De Jonghe were given the opportunity to buy their neighbour?s property, they didn?t hesitate even for a moment. Initially, they ...
The darker and bulkier, more tropical aspect of Brazilian mid-century modernism is currently under our radar. Compared to its Scandinavian, European ...
We are always looking for balance. That elusive poise where everything belongs and nothing is missing. There is no definition for it. Certainly not i ...
Once in a while, we encounter a space or structure that we end up describing with one version or another of ?this is a place where one can breathe.? ...
Return to the office or not" As organizations and their employees contemplate this post-pandemic dilemma, one can only hope that while offices were em ...
A couple of young professionals living in Melbourne was looking to purchase a primary home in which to enjoy a more relaxed lifestyle. They found it ...
Sagaponack is one of the most expensive areas of the Hamptons, the famous seaside playground of New York?s elite at the East End of Long Island. In f ...
Whether you know them as metro, subway, U-bahn, skytrain or tube, underground railways have existed for a long time. The oldest, the London Undergrou ...
Villa JM, designed by Powerhouse Company manages to convey both lightness and solidity, and transparency and stability. Located in a woodland area o ...
The exterior of the Tipo949 renovation project by architects Raz Melamed and Omer Danan drew our attention first. We absolutely love the way this tw ...
Costa Smeralda (Emerald Coast) is a resort destination in northern Sardinia, Italy. Parisian Architect and founder of Stera Architectures, Stefani ...
Built in the summer of 2020, DVB Knokke residence is a single-family house located in the province of West Flanders in the municipality of Knokke-Hei ...
Casa Mais Linda (Most Beautiful House) is located in the historic municipality of Itu, about 100 kilometres west of the city of  São Paulo in Bra ...
RN Residence is a recreational property overlooking a massive dam in the small town of Itaúna in the State of Minas Gerais in the southeast region o ...
It is always risky to renovate a classic or potentially classic building. Is this really a classic and worth saving" Are the changes necessary" Will ...
A family of four had purchased a gorgeous, white Edwardian-style building on a hilly street corner in the historic Pacific Heights area of San Franci ...
An eclectic fusion of styles, cuisines, cultural influences, traditions and urban settings was the inspiration and starting point for the dark and ma ...
A prolific home-swapper, art lover, entrepreneur and hotelier, Kevin Wendle is known to engage high-profile designers and architects in his extensive ...
From the Garden House was an exceptional project for the Katowice-based architecture studio KWK Promes. Situated in a secret location in the Polish c ...
Situated at a dramatic upstream bend of the Clyde River that flows down another 10 km into the Tasman Sea on the south coast of Australia?s New South ...
When the owners of a property and their collaborators can see the exact same potential in a potentially elaborate renovation, magic can happen. It is ...
A family-owned piece of land on Waiheke Island had long been the family?s favourite hiking spot. Taking the 40-minute ferry ride from Auckland?s cent ...
New-York-based architect and developer Jared Della Valle, his artist wife Carolina and their two daughters fulfilled the couple?s more than two decad ...
While no longer new ? it was completed in 2017 ? the Portland, Oregon, office of Expensify is still one of our favourite office reconfigurations. ...
It takes considerable skill to design a house that is brand-new and completely modern yet fits in its rural farmland environment as if it had been the ...
When Cécile Combelle and Antonio Di Bacco came to Montreal from Paris, they had intended to stay for one year. But they liked the city with its F ...
The Atherton II residence is located in the Atherton area of San Mateo County, about 46 kilometres (30 miles) from San Francisco. Atherton is regular ...
Those familiar with the 1980s architecture will recall the curved whiteness and plastic-y expanses that were so modern then but today seem like tacky ...
In 2017, finally realizing their long-time dream, founder and creative director of Amsterdam-based Framework, Thomas Geerlings, and his wife Danielle ...
Several features delight us in this compact Church Point residence in Sydney, Australia. Its location is one of them. The house looks toward Sydney?s ...
The angular 5,300 square-foot (492 sq.metre) Villa Varoise is a project that took its time to become a reality. Boston-based architecture firm, NADAA ...
As were dreaming of an ideal location to self-isolate, we discovered the VD House, situated on a golf course in Kapellen, a municipality in the Belg ...
Many people say they crave cozy during this time of crisis but we seem to gravitate even more than usually towards stark clarity. We are also drawn t ...
The work of Kengo Kuma, the master of wood, mood and light, will always draw our attention. The 65-year-old Japanese architect and his prolific offic ...
Sometimes we find ourselves contemplating our preferences. Or, let?s be truthful here, that?s all we ever do. We keep re-evaluating our preconceived ...
We love the idea of Old is New Again. We also believe that when we experience global disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic, we learn to appreciate o ...
Hancock Park in central Los Angeles is a neighbourhood known for its distinctive 1920s residences and its famous inhabitants that include past and pr ...