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Sam Crawford Architects crafts contemporary residences that respect heritage

Habitus Living

As a practice, Sam Crawford Architects (SCA) creates bespoke projects for its clients. His team of 17 also contribute their special talents, so that each commission becomes a unique example of excellent contemporary residential architecture. They are in dialogue through shared materiality and geometry.”

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La Brea Affordable Housing in West Hollywood is a contemporary take on art deco

Deezen

Located in West Hollywood , the La Brea Affordable Housing complex, designed by architects Patrick Tighe and John Mutlow , is a five-storey, 50,000 square foot (4,650 square metre) mixed-use building completed in 2014 for the non-profit West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation. But not what would be known as a 'ribbon environment'.

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Contemporary layers with industrial at the new Armadillo Melbourne showroom

Habitus Living

The original building has been celebrated through a material palette that allows the scale and magnificence of the site a second life. For Armadillo, the site in Fitzroy, Melbourne, offered both a historic connection to a contemporary neighbourhood filled with a good mix of design studios, galleries and homewares.

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A Futuristic Contemporary House Design

Design Thoughts Architects

The client is a business owner who desires a residential building for sale purposes in the bustling area of BTM Layout. The client was keen on contemporary house design, and we at Design Thoughts Architects were up for the challenge. The client wanted a G+6 building with parking on the ground floor for eight cars.

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Coppin Dockray turns mid-century Hampstead House into contemporary family home

Deezen

Post-war buildings are notoriously flimsy and thermally volatile." It first identified key aspects of the house that were important to retain, such as the spatial sequence and material qualities of the building. Finally, it aimed to significantly improve the building's thermal comfort and energy performance.

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Frida Escobedo reveals first American residential design in Brooklyn

Archinect

The designer of the new Modern and Contemporary Art Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (in which she has set up a working studio) will deliver the new Bergen development at 209,000 square feet for client Avdoo & Partners by 2025.

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Contemporary Duplex Home Design

Design Thoughts Architects

A Cheerful Contemporary Duplex Home Elevation Design That Inspires. With the sense of economic growth and change today, people are looking at building homes that not only look good but also have a modern feel to them. The clients, who now reside in Bangalore for many years, were originally from Tamil Nadu.