Location: Hintersdorf, Austria Year of construction: 2002 Architect: lichtblau . wagner architekten Photography: Bruno Klomfar The challenge of this project was to create a home and office in a protected area with minimal visual impact while making the most of the setting’s physical features. Using the natural slope of the land, the project was conceived […]

Location: Rustic Canyon, California, United States Year of construction: 1987 Architect: Ray Kappe Photography: Reiner Blunck The majority of houses architect Ray Kappe has built on hills are linked horizontally with the landscape. With Cookston House, however, the interpretation is vertical, and the construction is in concrete, with a castle-like structure surrounded and overhung by […]

Location: Carinthia, Austria Year of construction: /988 Architect: Manfred Kovatsch Photography: Reiner Blmick. This single-family house stands 1,150 ft (350 m) above Lake Ossiach, on a steeply sloping site that drops vertiginously down to the water’s edge. This elevated position provides panoramic views of the stunning landscape that surrounds the building on all sides. The […]

Location: Porza, Switzerland Year of construction: 1987 Architects: Franco Мого, Paolo Мого Photography: Filippo Simonetti This building, with its avant-garde features, is inspired by the desire to make the structure an integral part of the site without changing the nature of the land itself. The site, being at the very top of a hill, has […]

Location: Lake Orta, Italy Year of construction: 1987 Architect: Alessandro Mendini Photography: Occhiomagico Alessandro Mendini’s design for what has come to be known as “The House of Happiness” was the result of his friendship with the owner, a well-known Italian industrial designer, and his understanding of the needs and personality of his friend. Mendini has […]