Govaert & Vanhoutte Architects transforms Belgian fort into home and guesthouse
Govaert & Vanhoutte Architects has renovated and extended a former fort in West Flanders to create a home for an estate agent and his family. More
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John Hix designs off-grid concrete guesthouse for Caribbean island
Six apartments stacked in pairs of rectangular concrete blocks make up this Caribbean guesthouse, designed by architect John Hix to be completely self sufficient. More
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Modus Studio turns old workshop into Manzeum guesthouse with steel extension
US firm Modus Studio has extended a rustic studio and workshop building in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to add a shop, guesthouse and entertaining areas within a steel structure built by the owner (+ slideshow). More
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Giant window fills gable end of Hamptons guest house by TA Dumbleton
Brooklyn studio TA Dumbleton Architect took cues from two divergent typologies – an old farmhouse and a city loft – while designing this weekend retreat on Long Island in New York (+ slideshow). More
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Hostem's New Road Residence is a guesthouse that includes a "lifestyle minibar"
London fashion store Hostem has launched its first guesthouse – a refurbished Georgian house with furniture from Pierre Jeanneret, Faye Toogood and Max Lamb, and accessories that guests can buy (+ slideshow). More
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DDAANN adds minimal guest house to cyclist's home
Czech architecture studio DDAANN has converted the lower level of a spacious apartment in Prague to create a guest house and a meeting point for group cycling trips. More
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Bow-wow House by Design Band YOAP is a guesthouse for dog lovers in rural South Korea
This dog-friendly guesthouse and residence in the South Korean province of Chungcheongnam features doors decorated with canine illustrations and a sloping playground overlooking the rural landscape (+ slideshow). More
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Tainaron Blue Retreat is a guest house in a converted tower on the Greek coast
This early 19th-century fortified tower overlooking the coastline of Cape Tainaron in Greece has been converted into a guest house with three suites arranged inside its thick stone walls (+ slideshow). More
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Oficina d'Arquitectura's Portuguese guest house is cut in two by a recessed entrance
A void in the centre of this gabled guest house near Porto contains an entrance onto a patio that links it to the adjacent main property (+ slideshow). More
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Ladders lead to capsule-sized bedrooms in Koyasan Guesthouse by Alphaville
Bedrooms the size of a single mattress are slotted two-high into the walls of this wooden guesthouse in Japan by Alphaville, which takes its cues from capsule hotels (+ slideshow). More
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Peter Pichler's mirror-clad guesthouses are designed to be visible to birds
Mirrors create a reflective facade on this pair of holiday homes in the South Tyrolean Dolomites, but have been coated with a glare-reducing film to help prevent bird collisions (+ slideshow). More
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Red-brick boiler room converted into tiny guesthouse by Azevedo Design
San Francisco studio Azevedo Design has squeezed a small guesthouse featuring a glass mezzanine floor into the old red-brick boiler house of a converted laundry. More
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Faceted zinc roof connects uneven wooden gables of Casa FM guest house
Italian studios ES-arch and Consalez Rossi Architetti Associati have added a timber guest house with an angular zinc roof to a villa in the Madesimo ski resort (+ slideshow). More
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Halls Ridge Knoll Guest House by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
This guest house by American firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson nestles against a rugged stone wall within a coastal mountain range in California (+ slideshow). More
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Guest House for an Anthropologist by Air Architecture
Los Angeles architect François Perrin of Air Architecture has recently completed this guest house for a Buddhism expert in Brentwood, California. More
