Minimal Green Shakin Stevens House, Melbourne, Australia

When planning their home, people want to reach perfection, do the best they can, build a dream home and often this idea can carry them in complete opposite direction. Here's one example how simplicity and minimalism sometimes can be more than enough for a beautiful house.


Shakin Stevens House is designed by Matt Gibson Architecture + Design and built in Melbourne, Australia. Small two story house has everything for a contemporary lifestyle. As per client's request, interiors are mostly bright, white with highlighted green color in the kitchen and living room.

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"‘Shakin Stevens’ is not only about a coloured front door but the experience of what’s beyond it. Conceptually beyond this green door, there are no doors; the newer space is about flow and continuity where delineation of space is soft and less infinite than expected from the street.  In a clear formal idea the rear composes 3 extruded white cubes that look essentially like they have been let go, landing like dice randomly on top of each other next to a Victorian ‘monopoly’ house.

The 3 cubes, as with the existing villa, are composed so as to be immediately deciphered internally or externally and in clear programmatic zones all house different functions. The cubes which are opened at their ends (or sides where required) are utilised as devices to orchestrate views to green elements within the structure and to greenery within or beyond the site."

All photos © courtesy of Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

Impressive Modern Villa F Overlooking The Greek Archipelago

Hornung and Jacobi Architecture office designed this impressive modern Villa F for Rhodes, Greece. It is modern holiday home imagined as something that is rarely seen.


Villa F is designed for a couple who wants to house some guests from time to time. Main entrance is located in the garage located inside of the stone wall which follows the road. Floor above the garage is open area with large swimming pool, living room and dining room offering breathtaking views of the sea. Bedroom with the glass wall and balcony is located on the third floor above the swimming pool, while the area above living room is left open.

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"The site of the holiday home in Rhodes, Greece yet possess characteristics and outstanding qualities, which we only attempted to frame with our design. The site is located three meters above a coastal road, which is bordered by a natural stonewall that has been equally continued for our proposal. On the one hand the continuation of the found wall generates a high level of privacy, while on the other hand it relates to the given situation, which we were tempted to preserve as much as possible."

All photos © courtesy of Hornung and Jacobi Architecture

Future Architecture Taken To Extremes

What kind of projects you create in your head while thinking on the future architecture? I'm sure we could get incredible stuff if printing pictures out of our heads would be possible. Here's one example how we see architecture in our near future.


This amazing project is proposal by Mauro Turin Architects and it takes modern architecture to another level. It's wine museum proposed for Lavaux region in Switzerland, known as a beautiful land with terraced wineyards.

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This modern museum is imagined as a single story object literally sticking out of the rock above the road, nicely blended into the landscape. It is good example of how future architecture will move the borders and sometimes it will be taken to extremes. And we approve that. Do you?

All photos © courtesy of Mauro Turin Architects

Dream House In The Wild - House Tsi by Nico van der Meulen Architects

This is what happens when owner of huge site (10,000 sqm/~2,5 acres) hires talented architects to build him beautiful dream house in the wild. Nico van der Meulen Architects designed amazing House Tsi in Mooikloof, near city of Pretoria in South Africa.


As we heard from the architects, owner requested visually extraordinary house with one very important feature, indoor swimming pool. "The relaxed attitude of the client and the large site (10 000m²/~2.5 acres) provided the architects with a golden opportunity to explore the home three-dimensionally with advanced 3D computer software, and fuse the programmatic requirements into the 3D model. The outcome was a design where form meets function. Enhancing the structure are the incorporation of sun-orientation, circulation, open-plan living areas, view orientation and privacy."

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An amazing dream house in the wild, perfectly fits into South African landscape. It's simply perfect for people who love to experience the nature, far away from concrete jungles but still keep this feeling of contemporary architecture around them.

"The interior design team from M Square Lifestyle Design ensured that finishes and fittings accentuated the architecture of the home. All fittings were specifically designed and made to suit the architecture of the house. “The interior reflects the exterior with intersecting planes creating points of interest. The exposed steel roof trusses, steel I-beams, and the bent steel staircase tie the interior with the exterior and refer to the quasi industrial aesthetic of the home,” explains Phia van der Meulen of M Square Lifestyle Design."

All photos © David Ross