House of the Week - a retrospective (part deux)

This is the second retrospective of the House of Week category. It is sadly a little late in coming, the first covering numbers 1-49, this retrospective attempts to cover the balance to 100. There are some obvious exceptions which I intend to fill shortly. Enjoy

050 The Cube (Lac Superieur), Quebec, Canada
051 Casa Santa Margarita, Spain
052 Uccle 2003, Belgium
053 House K, Croatia
054 House Saramago, South Africa
055 Talo Kekkapaa, Northern Finland
056 Studio-House in Acorán, Spain
057 House in Lubienica, Poland
058 East Windsor Residence, Texas
059 Villa Pinia, Sweden
060 Les Aventuriers, Japan
061 Slice House, London, England
062 Great Bamboo Wall, China
063 Shodan House, Northern India
064 House on Takapuna Clifftop, New Zealand
065 Bar House, Colorado
066 San Remo Drive, Southern California
067 Szirtes House
068 Krater, Greece
069 Concrete Studio, Texas
070 Bamboo House, Costa Rica
071 Norman Fisher House, Pennsylvania
072 Lifeguard Tower, California
073 Queens Park House, Australia
074 Origami House, Singapore
075 Vacation home in Pyranèes, Spain
076 House on Cluny Hill
077 Lago Vista, California
078 Ranu House, Australia
079 Artreehouse, Connecticut
080 Sugarbowl, California
081 Woodstock Farm, Vermont
082 House in the Woods, Italy
083 Lee House, California
084 Leavitt Residence, Chicago
085 Yard House, Sweden
086 Sagaponac House, New York
087 Ijburg House, the Netherlands
088 Mill house, Sweden
089 Hill residence, Texas
090 Oxlade House, Australia
091 House at Berrima, Singapore
092 Barnes House, Canada
093 Casa Cubo,
094 Lembah Kemang townhouses, Indonesia
095 House for a Photographer, Spain
096 Rodríguez Harvey House, Chile
097
098 Deep Eddy Residence, Texas
099 Casa Tropical, Brazil
100 Bequia House, the Grenadines


We are still seeking suggestions for the next 50 especially from cities & countries not listed.

House of the Week - retrospective

This is the third retrospective of the House of Week category. You can find the first covering numbers 1-49, and the second covering numbers 50-100. There are some obvious exceptions (which shows I can't count very well) but I intend to fill them... I promise. Enjoy

151: Itiquira House Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
150: Sunset Vale, Singapore
149: West Edge House, Réunion Island, Indian Ocean
148: Catch the View House, Bumi Serpong Damai, Indonesia
147: Hijuan House, Kuala Lumpur
146: Bonaire House, Bonaire
145: Manhattan Beach House, Manhattan Beach
144: Prospect, La Jolla, California
143: Mop House, Al-Nuzha,Kuwait
142: Corallo House, Santa Rosalia, Guatemala
141: Lakeshore View House, Sentosa Cove, Singapore
140: Two Hulls House, Port Mouton, Nova Scotia, Canada
139: House in Mallorca, Mallorca
138: Mt Martha House, Australia
137: Diamond Residence, San Francisco
136: Palms Residence, Venice, California
135: Cliff House, Gig Harbour, Washington
134: Villa Shoestring, Gibbs Beach, Barbados
133: Cove Way, Sentosa Island, Singapore
132: Casa Paredes Tres Ocho, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Mexico
131: El Secreto, Mexico
130: Solid & Voids, Filothei, Athens
129: Travertine Dream House, Serangoon, Singapore
128: 25th Street Residence, Santa Monica, California
127: Stacked House,
126: Summer House in Menorca, Spain
125: Villa Grand Cayman, Grand Cayman
124: Brown Residence, Scottsdale, Arizona
123: Laurel Residence, Houston, Texas
122: Casa HG, Zapopan, Mexico
121: K3 House, Sydney, Australia
120: Useche Residence, São Paulo, Brazil
119: Containers of Hope, San Jose, Costa Rica
118: Small House, Dry Creek Valley, California
117: Palácio da Alvorada, Brasilia, Brazil
116: Goulding Summerhouse, Enniskerry, Ireland
115: House on Kona, Hawaii
114: Suncrest Residence, San Juan Island, US/Canadian border
113: Casa em Guarujá, Sao Paulo, Brazil
112: Wall House, Auroville, India
111: Villa in Szentendre, Szentendre, Hungary
110: Arthur Casa, São Paulo, Brazil
109: Waikopua, New Zealand
108: Dorsey Residence, Bainbridge Island, Washington
107: Ponce House, Buenos Aires, Argentina
106: Villa Darvishabad, Caspian Sea
105: Matryoshka, Maryland
104: Villa K, Tagadert Berber, Marrakesh
103: Villa K, Nagano, Japan
102: Forest Guard's House, Varberg, Sweden
101: Wood Box House, West Java, Indonesia

We are still seeking suggestions for the next 50 especially from cities & countries not listed and works considered relevant to the tropics.

House of the Week - a retrospective

Over the last 50 weeks we've presented contemporary houses from around the globe (US, Japan and Australia mostly) and from a variety of architects - houses with odd titles, some that render the function of the house and others that seem to follow the alphabet.

001 TDA House, Mexico
002 Casa Bellicini, Italy
003 Terrace House, Israel
004 Casa San Isidro, Argentina
005 McKinley Compound, California
006 Tattoo House, Australia
007 Surfhouse, California
008 Blackwell House, Arkansas
009 700 Palms, California
010 Haus W, Germany
011 Raumati House, New Zealand
012 Ant Farm, Taiwan
013 Sculptor House, Chile
014 House in Curitiba, Brazil
015 Eggo House, Czech Republic
016 Hanghaus Weidling, Australia
017 NX House, Portugal
018 5ive, Minneapolis
019 Loblolly House, Maryland
020 Azuma House, Japan
021 Clontarf, Australia
022 Cliffhanger, Greece
023 Slot House, New York
024 Villa Cote d'Azur, France
025 Grangegorman, Ireland
026 Phoenix, Jamaica
027 Cascade House, Canada
028 Desert Nomad House, Arizona
029 Lake House, Washington
030 Brosmith House, California
031 House 2, India
032 House in Kasumi, Japan
033 Residence F, Germany
034 Thiang Residence, Australia
035 Villa Malaparte, Italy
036 Bangkok House, Thailand
037 Sumaré, Brazil
038 T-House, New York
039 Casa N, Mexico
040 Villa Dall'Ava, France
041 N-House, Japan
042 Otake House, Japan
043 Big Sur, California
044 Farnsworth House, Illinois 
045 K18V123, Netherlands
046 Heeren Shophouse, Malaysia
047 Tubac, Arizona
048 Sorrento, Australia
049 Spaghetti House, California

We are seeking suggestions for the next 50 especially from countries not listed.

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New Feature: House of the Week

I have always argued that a house is the most difficult of typologies. The types and styles of houses are as varied as the colours in the sky. And nothing prepares you for the changing whims of a client wanting more for much less, being influenced by something they saw, experienced, or simply felt. As one architect puts it,

"essentially the architect/designer simply becomes the noble scribe of space and ornamentaion of the patron...we don't actually create"

Introducing the house of the week featuring modern residences around the world that attempt to critique the way we inhabit domestic space

House of the Week 026: Pheonix

A 30 ft geodesic dome for and by a Jamaican architect (Pat Stanigar) was completed in 2004, on the site of a previous dome (c.1984) that was burnt to the ground in 2002. The project is aptly titled the Phoenix.
The dome made from a prefabricated kit of parts that provides the basic structure is based on a hexagonal unit that is cyclically layered to a closed loop. The building is faced with insitu concrete with fiberglass additives to prevent hairline cracks.
The purity of the dome is broken by climatic considerations to deal with the tropical environment most notably the angled protrusions below the equator of the dome. These triangular elements allow cooler air into the structure that can be shut during storms.
The interior of the Phoenix is spartan, walls made of finished timber between the main structure and painted concrete floors. The kitchen is defined by two pods used for storage, and two counters - one longer than the other used for washing and cooking.
Two additional structures were later added (never included within the circa 1980s scheme) and provide the services and were meant to be crustacean inversions to the rigid structure of the dome.

House of the Week 164: S House

(c) Patrick Reynolds

The S House in Mount Eden, New Zealand was designed for a family of five by architects Glamuzina Paterson. The house derives its name from the fluid and winding circulation that divides the long, thin site into two gardens to the east and west of the lot. The perimeter of the home is finished in stained cedar in contrast to the black oxide concrete through the floors of the interior. The lush gardens compliment the palette of materials in a landscape composition of reeds, waterways and rocks.

House of the Week 133: Cove Way

Located on Sentosa Island in Singapore the residence named by its siting along Cove Way, was designed by architects Bedmar & Shi. Two thick, heavy and rough stone walls define and ground the front entrance of the house under the dappled shadows created by the large over-hanging timber trellised canopy.

Recalling somewhat the stone walled buildings in his native Argentina, Ernesto Bedmar is able with this project to redefine and modernize his tropical language and spatial organization while still echoing traditions of craft of the region.

The sequence of circulation of the house, punctuated by full story voids, gradually reveal space after space, with dramatic transitions of light and shadow, and enclosure and release - opening the entire "sourthern" facade framing views of the marina.

house of the Week 073: Queens Park House

The concept for the Queens Park House was a room in the garden, the result created a house designed around openness where spaces would flow and extend from one to the other allowing for seamless interaction. Designed by MCK (Marsh Cashman Koolloos Architects) the facade responds to the context of modest suburban bungalows common in Sydney, Australia.

Continued effort to fill the gaps in the House of the Week list

House of the Week 006: Tattoo House

The Tattoo House, designed by Maynard Architects is a simple and boxy extension to an existing 3 bedroom house in Melbourne, Australia. The tight project budget shaped many of the design decisions from the kitchen bench that becomes part of the stair to the use of stickers on the rear façade to provide screening - required by council to reflect heat and glare. The graphic of the screen is composed of trees that dually softens the impact of adding a modern structure to a traditional neighbourhood both at day and night.

House of the Week 144: Prospect

This private residence and studio is located on a triangular 7,200 ft² site in La Jolla, California and was designed by architect and developer Jonathan Segal for himself and his family. The ground level has large glazed openings that allow the interior of the house to freely flow to the manicured landscape. The volume of the upper floor is a large stucco box with Corten steel details and has minimal fenestration, some with deep recesses, to restrict views from the outside in. The house is fully divorced from the grid with electricity provided by an array of solar panels mounted on the roof of the house.

house of the week 47: Tubac House

In the desert of Arizona, architect Rick Joy has created a rough weathered steel exterior form that contrasts with the refinement of the soft white, steel and maple wood interior palette. The house, defined by retaining walls burrowed into the hillside, is punctuated with openings that frame articulated views of the landscape.

No house should ever be on a hill [...] It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other

Frank Lloyd Wright

house of the week 001: TDA House

The TDA house by Cadaval & Sola-Morales is a three story villa facing the Mexican Pacific . The building's unusual section, with its pronounced cantilevers, seeks to maximize how it occupies the narrow lot and the views of the pacific. The walls of the villa completely open, revealing its spartan interior - a flexible space to casually accommodate any number of guests. The furniture, carefree and colourful and as much a part of the architecture plays against the robust concrete walls.

House of the Week 169: House Gepo

images (c) Tom Janssens

From the untethered landscape of the rear garden, House Gepo appears as a floating concrete box. The openness of the glass clad communal level integrates the interior of the ground floor with the site. Designed by Open Y Office, the material use inside serves to divide the spaces into private and public areas, whilst on the exterior softens an otherwise industrial aesthetic of steel, concrete and glass.

House of the Week 120: Useche Residence

The house of architect Pedro Useche is located in the wealthy district of Morumbi - one of the highest points in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Construction of the 3-storey 1,000m² residence began in 1999 and took 4 years to complete. The very simple yet contemporary design incorporates traditional and humble materials from the city of São Paulo and is finished with furniture designed by the architect.

images by Fran Parent

house of the week 031: House 2

House 2 is a 6,000 sq ft single family house in Karjat, India by architect Samira Rathod

The house is situated on the edge of a stream. It was conceived as a combination of a contemporary box and a pitched roof structure forked to accommodate a fan shaped swimming pool in between. The house is devised as a series of spaces to create a narrative of tactility. Large openings blur the edge of the inside with the outside allowing the outdoors to integrate with the indoors.

- Samira Rathod via

House of the Week 153: M11 House

Photos by: Hiroyuki Oki

The M11 house was designed by a21 studio and is located in the suburbs of the Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam. The 3-storey house has a number of small shaded green-courtyards, creating peaceful spaces that block out the noise of the city. The interiors bathed in a natural palette of wood and stone open to the courtyards giving the spaces light and airiness.

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For more works by a21 Studio

House of the Week 64: House on Takapuna Clifftop

The residence was designed for a patron of the arts on top of a cliff in the coastal suburb of Takapuna, New Zealand by architect Pip Cheshire whilst at Jasmax prior to setting up his own firm. Despite the limited palette of materials and the sedated expression of the form, the language of the architecture boasts a pedigree in a home that is both rich and complex, dually fort-like yet open.

thanks Carl Douglas for the correction

House of the Week 125: Villa Grand Cayman

Located on an ironshore bluff on the Caribbean coast of Grand Cayman, the house is formed as a response to the nature of the site. The house, designed by architects YAR+D, is set on the highest point on a narrow plot, is oriented to receive the tradewinds via a clerestory of fixed louvres. The material palette of flat white paint and glistening dark plaster grounds the house to its environs and within the evolving idiom of Caribbean modernism.