Summer House in the Stockholm Archipelago / Kod Arkitekter
Photos © Måns Berg
Summer House in the Stockholm Archipelago / Kod Arkitekter
Photos © Måns Berg
New York studio apartment | photos by Aaron Bengochea
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Concrete & wood home in Denmark | photos by Andreas Mikkel Hansen
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Even as you approach, it is hard to spot the new house by Marcio Kogan, it blends so well into its natural setting. The concrete roof of this low-lying country retreat, two hours by car from São Paulo, is camouflaged by a grassy lawn on its top, making the strongly horizontal structure almost invisible from a road on higher ground. “We seek an architecture that has the least impact possible on the environment,” says Kogan, Brazil’s best-known architect. “The house becomes a continuation of the surrounding topography.”
Japanese architect Akihisa Hirata has completed a multi-storey project in Tokyo’s Otsuka district, which expands upon his affinity with nature-inspired architecture. although it is primarily a residential building, ‘tree-ness house’ also contains spaces for commercial tenants at its lower levels. located on a deep but narrow site, the slender design employs an organic layering system to generate a series of three-dimensional spaces that relate to the building’s surroundings.

Studio apartment in New York | photos by Aaron Bengochea
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Valley of the Moon Retreat / Butler Armsden Architects
Photos © Joe Fletcher
Atelier Barda & Lise Gagné architectes. Chalet Forestier. Québec, Canada. photos: Frédéric Bouchard, Yves Lefebvre, Kevin Botchar