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Modern design with traditional materials. Now this is how you do countryside living! From Spanish architects Anna & Eugeni Bach. The local building regulations are straightforward, specifying mere general characteristics for the new houses, such as stone cladding, or sloped roofs with “arab” tiles. The main aim of these regulations is to lead new buildings to look like old rural houses, the so called Catalan “masias”. Rather than portraying a traditional rural house, the project looks for another type of a relationship to the countryside, making a connection to the farm storages around this area. The spatial organisation of the house follows the logic of a warehouse, generating a large volume within which smaller units are placed, to offer intimacy. Bedrooms, kitchen and bathrooms are placed in “boxes” inside the “storage”. Between these, crossed views and circulations offer direct relationships to the landscape around the house.

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A starkly beautiful white shell becomes a stylish contemporary apartment by Berlin-based BRUZKUS BATEK. Stripped down and gallery-like the scene is set for life’s dramas through “the interplay of space, materiality, colour and light”.

The talented folks at Robson Rak Architects took this tired Victorian home in Melbourne and transformed it into a modern masterpiece, while renovating the existing structure and restoring the façade. It must be an incredible feeling to walk under that ornate porch, through the front door, under gorgeous original arches and you are lead into BOOM – a large, open and bright space that is really stunning. All of that reclaimed wood lends a bit of nature to the space and keeps it from being too cold. Respecting the old and embracing the new.

Photos: Lisa Cohen + Mark Roper

Hard edged sophistication softened by lush fabrics, texture on texture, rambling plantings. Light and air pour into double height spaces with tall doors and windows. No concrete bunker but rich and lush. H House by Bruce Stafford Architects.

How do you beat stalking a fabulous light filled loft? Let’s go stalk this amazing pavilion house which clings to the hillside at Great Mackerel Beach in Sydney’s Pittwater area. Access is via ferry or water taxi from Palm Beach opposite. With no roads in and surrounded by the Ku-ring-gai National Park this house is all about that view. Well worth the climb up. That’s what I’m telling myself anyway. At least there’s an inclinator to the guest pavilion. Link here while it lasts.