This house by architects Ong and Ong in Singapore of 55 Blair Road may not be the most efficient house we’ve featured at MHM, but it does offer some very interesting aesthetics.
While not the typical sustainable modern house, this renovated terrace house is another take on merging the contained interior and exterior spaces. The …

If you were to travel the old Oregon Trail you’d still be able to find abandoned outposts and homesteads from a time gone by. But if you veered of course today you’d come across a number of modern energy efficient houses that would surely be the envy of those early Trail Blazers.
In recent stories Green …

Architects Replinger Hossner in Seattle describe their work as using “simplicity and restraint, innovative site planning, environmentally sensitive design, mastery of detail, and the creative use of material and natural light.”
That pretty well describes their new minimalist house with a view over the serene Elliot Bay west of Seattle, and also the ever expanding …

In our last featured modern house we saw how architects Rocha Tombal built a wood clad house with protruding windows that play up the view in various directions. Now, in similar fashion Tank Architectes in France has designed Airstream House, their interpretation of a wood clad house with a twist.
Working with a narrow sloping plot …

House Bierings by architects Rocha Tombal in the Netherlands is a study of light and angles to arrive at a modern mews house in the Utrecht suburbs.
The almost entirely wood clad house leaves only space for protruding windows strategically placed to provide optimal views of the landscape and not the neighboring houses. Projected to be …

If a modern sustainable house is built in the Oregon Forrest, will anyone hear it? That and more questions were answered (or at least asked) by the builders of this Neal Creek residence near the Hood River gorge.
This two bedroom house serves as a weekend retreat for the owners who are big windsurfing (the area …

A modern house can mean different things to different people - and the style is often interpreted differently by different cultures. A good example is this mews house created by TAKA architects in Dublin, Ireland.
Using the Victorian houses that surround their project as inspiration TAKA has built a very clean modern house that is customized …

As part of our tribute to architectural photographer Julius Shulman we featured a slide show of Cliff May and his California ranch house. Perhaps the German 1950’s equivalent is the Siedlunghaus.
Now German architects Anne Menke and Winkens Architekten have completed Haus+, an extension to an existing Siedlunghaus in Hameln, Germany that features a courtyard typology.

Venice is such a difficult place to leave which is why the owners of this Brooks avenue house decided to stay put and hire Bricault Design to remodel and add 1700 square feet to accommodate their larger family.
Borrowing from what mother nature gave Venice, a key design goal was to create a feeling of being …

Proving that you can design a beautifully modern house under a basic budget, SUB (Studio for Visionary Design) introduces the D-Minution House. The three bedroom 1050 square foot house was built for $17,500.
Of course costs vary from that in Jakarta where D-Minution House was built, but it’s still an impressive accomplishment.

The Ordos project in China offers 100 different architects from around the world to develop a 1000 square meter villa that fits into a master plan by Ai Wei Wei studio in Beijing.
This villa by Christ & Gantenbein is one example of how the masterplan calls for architects to make small spaces feel larger, and …

The architecture firm Moomoo has unveiled a new project called I House. Known for cutting edge design and material use, the firm doesn’t disappoint with their latest project clad almost entirely in a plastic called Thermopian.
Thermopian has typically been a material used as a thermal insulator for roofing. The choice by Moomoo to clad the …

The people at Suppose Design Office have apparently been very busy lately. Recently we showed you Nagoya House, the design that literally brings typical outdoor elements inside.
Now Suppose Design Office has created a house in Matsuyma Japan that is more earthquake resistant (a major concern in Japan) due to the structural walls being carefully spaced …

In Two by Two we saw architect Joseph Bellamo use concrete piers as a riser for his Home Arc design. But what would happen if you started with the concrete blocks and just kept stacking them?
That seems to be essentially what architects Jose Maria Saez and David Barragan have done to create Pentimento House.

So let’s say your neighborhood isn’t full of great looking architecture and you really don’t want to have to be forced into that kind of immediate view from inside your own house.
To cope with the difficult situation an Indian architecture firm designed for their client a cast concrete design called Out Of The Box, allowing …

This interesting modern house in Mexico by Dellekamp Arquitectos is composed of two rectangular volumes embedded into the hillside. Even more interesting was the budgetary constraint the architect had to work under - just $60,000.
This is yet another example of how it’s still possible to build a beautiful modern house that is functional and affordable …

A lot of modern house designs try to achieve a balance between definite architectural lines and how they impact the practical needs of the actual inhabitants.
So it’s especially interesting when we run upon a house such as the Black and White House by architect Paulo David.

Hidden House by LA architecture and design firm Standard is a new modern residence that borrowed from the existing structure rather than razing and building from ground-up. As Jeffrey Allsbrook, Standard Principal and Co-Founder says, “Hidden House is the perfect example of how incorporating an existing structure can actually be the key to a successful …

Apart from the niceties of seeing the sun almost everyday, the desert is a harsh environment to live in. But Jim Austin, a former surfwear entrepreneur calls his new home by architect Lloyd Russell built above Palm Springs “the ultimate desert structure.”
One of the more interesting ideas Russell incorporated to help tame the desert sun …

Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles has spun out hits from non-other than Frank Sinatra and Elton John, but now REthink Development is spinning the building that housed those recordings into 12 LEED Platinum-certified condo lofts.
This kind of development is the ultimate in repurposing old buildings that have ended their intended use.

MHM has featured a number of award winning small modern house designs, and now Dwell is highlighting some recently honored architecture firms by the American Institute of Architects who have turned their attention to small spaces.
The feature includes both commercial and residential spaces designed to make the most out of less.

Because much of today’s housing is uninspired repetitious suburbia drivel, it can easily go unnoticed how many small architectural firms in the US are doing great work one project at a time.
This house by Chen Suchart Studio in Tempe Arizona is one example.

In case you missed it G Living recently toured the first ever Wired LivingHome. The most appealing part of the post is short video clips of architect Ray Kappe talking about his design, his philosophy, and his experience working with LivingHomes.
Modern House Mag first told you about Steve Glenn and his company LivingHomes in our …

Continuing a series of houses designed by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects, Dezeen Magazine shows off House of Depth in Shiga, Japan.
Other designs from FORM include House of Diffusion, House of Inclusion, and House of Vision.

Ok, so this is not your average brick house, and it can’t be replicated en mass inexpensively, but still it becomes interesting as a eco-house that uses non-contemporary materials. A quick look at the house (photos below), and it’s apparent you won’t likely be seeing something similar in your neighborhood anytime soon.

The Edstroms of Milwaukee were living in a 70’s “Cavelike” bi-level house until they decided to renovate. They gave architect Johnsen Schmaling a laundry list of must-haves and pointed them in the direction of Frank Lloyd Wright and Scandinavian to communicate the overall desired style.

Dublin Architects FKL say their basic approach for all projects begins and ends with an appropriate application of materials determined by a site analysis. As reported in Dezeen, A-house “is an exploration of the possibilities of integrating environmental concerns at the fundamental level within a contemporary idiom.”

PROVIDENCE Poor Marcel Breuer. If he’d just stuck to furniture, his place in the pantheon of great 20th-century designers might be secure.
Indeed, even if they don’t know Breuer’s name, most Americans are familiar with his most famous creation — the so-called “Cesca Chair,” the sleek steel-and-mesh chair he first designed in the 1920s and that …

ROSA MUERTA “offers you a chance to re-frame and re-create your own world … if only for a weekend,” says its creator, Robert Stone. The minimalist structure is on the outskirts of Joshua Tree, Calif. (RICARDO DEARATANHA / LOS ANGELES TIMES / February 20, 2007)
It has a roof, albeit one that doesn’t cover the building …