Semi clad in luxury, this French cottage is a dream home for many.

via homeholic.

This boathouse on Loch Tay in central Scotland was created over a specially constructed cave which allows a boat to be driven in and tethered to the ceiling before an electric winch hoists it out of the water into mooring position. The living space above includes a kitchenette, shower room and a fold-away bed.

via materialicious.

what a gorgeous beach house!… i am decidedly envious.

via john wardle architects.

wow… absolutely gorgeous home in Chilé.

via materialicious + carrió arquitectos.

“the summerhouse is a seasonal hideaway for a hackney-based family of four. they all needed more and safe play space as the children are growing older. the new space should serve as a painter’s studio, garden shed, table tennis venue and sleep-over place. developing the somewhat neglected rear of their garden became and alternative to moving away into a larger property.

the outside of this timber structure is clad in thin skins. beyond weather protection these surfaces are meant to re-enforce the presence of the garden and to frame the seasons. an 8m long mirror reflects the diverse floral range and defies the solidity and proximity of the wall it is mounted on. semi-transparent striped polycarbonate interferes with the shadows of the moving leaves above.
the summerhouse sits in the rear of an elongated victorian garden and the design attempts to screen out this urban setting. baroque ideas of illusion, distortion, camouflage and capture of nature create a contemporary, rigorous and surprising building.”

via ullmayersylvester

“The building is located on the edge of the site, to maximize the distance with the neighbors and make room for another building. The basement concrete anchor the building to the slope of the land and houses access and services. About this is a volume of wood in the house, which appears as a boat. This floor overlooking eastward, protecting access.
The concrete chimney rises from the basement as a mast, and next to the concrete walls form the skeleton, which are located behind the two stairways that connect the 3 levels. The kitchen area is deliberately lower to recreate the feeling of space compact enclosures of mountain huts.”

“The panoramic window fixed 5m long, which fits the incredible view of the landscape, introduces a contemporary modernity. The plant makes possible a polygonal space division differentiated and allows the chimney is the protagonist in the spaces.”

via materialicious

once again “gorgeous”… and once again i don’t understand a single word.

via plataformaarquitectura.cl.

“Floating Boathouse and Sleeping Cottage, on an island in Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada.”

via materialicio.us.

“A stream runs around the house, and because of certain restrictions of the Army Corps of Engineers and because of the potential for flooding, the buildable area is quite small. This induced us to design a vertical house, with raised Living Room and Master Suite. These spaces give one the feeling of being in the trees.”

via sander-architects.

“THIS ELEGANT yet simple and habitable work of art is itself an embodiment of Wright’s design principles. It has been described as having “more architecture per square foot than any other building (he) ever designed.” Balanced on the edge of a wooded bluff overlooking picturesque Mirror Lake, the Seth Peterson Cottage, a 1958 design, is one of Wright’s last commissions.”

via sethpeterson.org