Guillermo Acuña fronts his remote Chilean retreat with large wooden staircase
Architect Guillermo Acuña has added a wide wooden stair to an old boathouse as part of his self-designed retreat on a remote bluff in Chile. More
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Vibeke Lichten designs her own concrete Eco House for secluded New York island
A micro vineyard, a rooftop garden and an abundance of artwork are among the features in an island retreat that New York architect Vibeke Lichten has created for her family. More
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Staggered floors overlook four-storey void at architect's house in Lisbon
Architect Daniel Zamarbide worked with Leopold Banchini to design a pared-back Lisbon house with glass-walled rooms overlooking a full-height living space, as his own home. More
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White yoga studio "delicately shelters" Jorge Ramírez's weathered Ceiba House in Mexico
Architect Jorge Ramírez has preserved an old fruit tree, tired mud walls, and decorative archways in his family's 1930s home in Aguascalientes, Mexico, and then added a white yoga studio on top. More
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Chris Price's black TreeHaus staggers down wooded hill in Utah
Dark-stained cedar planks cover a series of volumes that are stepped and rotated down a slope in a Utah forest, forming a house for architect Chris Price and his family. More
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Alfonso Arango builds tiny black cabin next to his childhood home
Architect Alfonso Arango has designed himself a 24-square-metre weekend retreat next to his childhood home overlooking the Andes mountains in Colombia. More
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Rafael de Cárdenas renovates rundown Brooklyn brownstone for himself
New York architect Rafael de Cárdenas has transformed a tired apartment in a 20th-century brownstone into a home for himself, featuring "multiple living rooms of varying moods". More
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Martin Fenlon completes expansion of his own Los Angeles home and studio
Expanding a remodelled bungalow in Los Angeles and connecting it to an adjacent commercial building has allowed architect Martin Fenlon to create more living spaces for his family and offices for his studio. More
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Timber volumes form live-work spaces for artist and architect in rural Japan
Japanese architect Makoto Suzuki has designed his own live-work space as a series of interlocking timber-clad buildings near Sapporo on Hokkaido island. More
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Moss converts Chicago corner shop into art gallery, apartment and its own studio
Architect Matt Nardella has turned an abandoned bodega in Chicago into his home and studio, arranging spaces around a courtyard he created in the centre. More
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Oppenheim Architecture founder builds Bahamas holiday home atop a sandy dune
Architect Chad Oppenheim has built himself a getaway on a secluded three-mile-long island in the Bahamas, featuring a living room that extends onto a deck overlooking the water. More
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3322 Studio builds concrete home in Tel Aviv around enclosed patios
Huge windows and patios in this concrete house in Tel Aviv shed natural light across the interior while also allowing the family full views of the surrounding garden. More
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Arhitektura DOO refurbishes Edvard Ravnikar-designed apartment in modernist Ljubljana tower
Slovenian studio Arhitektura DOO has refurbished a small apartment inside one of the five Ljubljana towers that modernist architect Edvard Ravnikar built in the 1960s. More
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Andrew Maynard drenches home and studio in natural light to help combat mental health issues
In a bid to improve his mental health and vitamin D levels, architect Andrew Maynard has renovated his Melbourne home and studio to make it so brightly lit that he has to wear sunglasses inside. More
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Jon Danielsen Aarhus creates pine-clad mountain cabin in Norway for himself
Architect Jon Danielsen Aarhus designed this pine-clad cabin in rural Norway for his own family, creating a large glazed living area with mountain and lake views. More
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Platform 5 Architects completes shingle-clad home overlooking a private lagoon
This house in the Norfolk Broads by Platform 5 Architects features steeply pitched gables and shingle cladding intended to reference traditional boat sheds found alongside the surrounding waterways. More
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Tokyo home comprises cluster of protruding white boxes
The staggered stack of boxes that form this family home in central Tokyo contain a set of spiralling, interconnected rooms. More
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10 homes architects and designers have created for themselves
From John Pawson's minimally styled London house to the skinny Rotterdam residence of architect couple Gwendolyn Huisman and Marijn Boterman, we've rounded up 10 of the best self-designed homes by architects and designers. More
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Skinny Rotterdam house for two architects features black brickwork and concealed windows
Dutch architects Gwendolyn Huisman and Marijn Boterman designed this skinny house in Rotterdam for themselves, incorporating hidden windows into the black brick walls and adding a large indoor hammock. More
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Movie explores Jonathan Tuckey's home in a former London steel workshop
Filmmaker Tapio Snellman has documented the home of Jonathan Tuckey in this movie, produced 14 years after the designer overhauled a 19th-century London workshop to create it. More
