Lifestyle Design featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.
Explore 46 award-winning designs tagged Residential Building on Lifestyle Design.
As this home is surrounded by natural park and landscape, we devised a nature-inspired design that features comfortable urban hues and warm wood textures to capture the rejuvenating vibe of its surroundings. The majestic wooden ceiling feature is sure an eye-catcher for the common area to maintain visual connectivity in each space, while the grand double-volume ceiling ensuring that every corner is being illuminated with a healthy amount of natural light.
Terrace is a vacation apartment building located in Picarras, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The building has 59 units on 25 floors, reaches 87 meters in height and offers 11,179 square meters of built area. Every apartment includes a large terrace facing the sea, and the repeated terraces form a monolithic facade that links the ground floor to the upper collective terrace. Exposed reinforced concrete at the base is combined with sliding panels in the apartment frames. The design was inspired by the old beach houses once found on the site.
MareNostrum is an eight story residential building in Quito, Ecuador. The name refers to the Latin term for our sea, and the facade reinterprets the movement of the oars of Roman fleets. The curved facade forms large balconies that extend the interior space to the exterior. Cutout corners span two levels, give shade from the sun and create places where neighbours can meet. The building holds suites, two bedroom and three bedroom apartments and lofts, with a lounge and green areas on the terrace. Passive strategies provide natural light and ventilation.
Gathering of Talents is a residential interior design set beside a waterfront in a former industrial district. A vacation house serves as the design model, and the facilities refer to hotel standards, including a fitness room, a game room and a sky garden. Cool colors and modern white lines create a calm and elegant atmosphere. At the main entrance, an open white space holds suspended glass tubes that resemble a hanging curtain and recall the white lines of the exterior. A sunlight house links the roof and the sky garden, where residents can gather in daylight and greenery.
Continue reading about Gathering of Talents Residential Building
The project location is in Hsinchu City, Taiwam; it's a rezoning area from farmland and a military base. The village that once stood there dates from 1950. The memories of the old village and childhood neighborhood are rapidly disappearing with modern development. The ideal of this project is to recreate a space that reminds one of an old village by using modern architecture, a place where streets and courtyards are available for children to play in and nature is nearby, and to stimulate diversity for each household through a combination of residential and park.
Continue reading about Dua Tau Din Village Residential Building
This project redefines the morphology of a residential building with two bevels on both sides to improve the quality of life and prevent the repetition of similar and neighboring buildings. Tried to create a dynamic view by cutting parts of the bevels and creating full and empty spaces in the play of light and shadow and despite similar plans, define an independent identity for the units and the building by creating a different view and perspective, and transform the elevation to in between space, to form different narratives of the flow of life inside the building.
Love Story of City is a residential interior design for three connected buildings in Taichung City, Taiwan. The property covers 1000 square meters. The design links indoor and outdoor areas, turning separate exterior spaces into a shared area for activities. Themed landscapes between the buildings guide the indoor traffic flow. Electric windows improve air circulation and reduce air conditioning use. Window frames act as frames for the scenery and reflect direct sunlight to keep interiors comfortable. Stone and tile create a consistent style.
Continue reading about Love Story of City Residential Building
X House is a residential building set in a mixed forest within the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine. Respect for the site and preservation of the existing green spaces guided the design and the construction. Large areas of panoramic glazing connect the interior with the surrounding trees, making nature an accent of the living space. Cantilevered roof projections and second floor terraces are made of reinforced concrete and form broken lines around the main volume. The exterior uses porcelain stoneware, metal, wood and fiber-cement panels. The total area is 460 square meters.
The 135 Jardins Project was designed to be an emblematic residential and commercial enterprise - to become an icon and a landmark among so many buildings already built in the city of Balneario Camboriu (Brazil). Designed in a pure prism, it was designed to be asymmetrical, in which the apartment tower interconnects with its base and retail area; bringing the concept of green areas in all shared use spaces.
The Z Shaped Creation is a bioclimatic residential building in Fasoula, Cyprus. The white Z shaped form defines the morphology of the building. The interior spaces are arranged as volumes placed into the cavities of the white form. The design follows simple geometries in a minimalist approach, with exposed concrete, large wooden surfaces and a neutral white color. The house covers 230 square meters on three levels, one basement and two floors above. The basement is set into the slope, holds the parking spaces and is built with stone masonry.
Continue reading about House in Fasoula Residential Building
Flexhouse is a single-family home on Lake Zurich in Switzerland. Built on a challenging triangular plot of land, squeezed between the railway line and the local access road, Flexhouse is the result of overcoming many architectural challenges: restrictive boundary distances and building volume, triangular shape of the plot, restrictions regarding local vernacular. The resulting building with its wide walls of glass and a ribbon-like white façade is so light and mobile in appearance that it resembles a futuristic vessel that has sailed in from the lake and found itself a natural place to dock.
New Chinese Style Villa is a residential interior design located in Changsha, China. The villa stands close to mountains and rivers, in an area with rich ecological resources that suits both children and elderly residents. The design is based on Huxiang culture and on the culture of the Tang and Song dynasties. The prosperity of the Great Kaiyuan Period and the light-hearted mood of Song lyrics are expressed through artistic decoration. Elegant, calm and delicate details give each space a cultural character.
Continue reading about New Chinese style villa design Residential Building