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Inspirational Architectural Designs
Architectural design has been amazing the human race for centuries. Architectural historians have brought us buildings like The Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Taj Mahal, The Eiffel Tower & The Australian classic The Sydney Opera House.
Some of the most creative and unique buildings have one awards and gained recognition for numerous reasons.
Castle Cove Sydney
Designed by Chris Rogers, this house in the bushes a Castle Cove, Sydney has been named the best-completed house in the first dayâs judging of the 2019 World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam.
Wavy Wood House
David Seely the architect envisioned the house as a co-habitant with the wildlife and nature that surrounds the house, including using natural and recyclable materials where possible to complement the surrounding environment of the Property.
Copper House
Aiming for a quintessential Queensland look, Paul Uhlmann designed this unique cooper house, located on the Gold Coast in Queensland. The house has a large open plan design, including a glass elevator and views of the water.
Square Kyoto Apartment
This staggered concrete stack in Kyoto Japan is a head turner. With a huge maple tree through the property and a pool suspended above the house you get an amazing view of the surrounding city as well as a view into the level bellow through the two glass panels acting as the pools floor.
The Big Black Box
Located in the heart of Collingwood, Melbourne Architectural duo couple – Jesse Linardi of DKO Architecture and Seada Linardi of SLAB Architecture designed this creatively unique home to suit their dream of living in the city.
Concrete Jungle
Listed on the âWorlds Ugliest Buildings Listâ this property is described to be dull, depressing and oppressive and yet despite its unpopularity, architects, preservationists and historians all over the world have created numerous campaigns to save this brutalist building from being demolished over the past decade. It might not be everyoneâs cup of tea, but it sure makes the one of a kind lists.
The Spaceship
There is no missing this house, with not one corner in the whole house, irregular shaped windows and completely white this house is one of a kind. Designed by Mary Gordon between 1969 and 1972 the property was later named the âThe Spaceshipâ by the owners daughter because of the cupcake shaped bath tub and spaceship like glass staircase.
The Bee Hive
This quaint little Beehive in Texas was inspired by Dutch and Japanese Architecture. Designer Nicole Blair managed to make this 29sqm house squeeze 51sqm of interior space while still maintaining a sense of light and refreshing while keeping its functionality.
The Pool House
This weekend escape offers a panoramic, 360-degree view of everything that surrounds the home. The designerâs intent for this property was to create a building that would allow you to observe and engage with nature from any position in or on the house. With floor to ceiling windows and doors and a 360-degree view rooftop pool.
Circles on the beach
Light and airy, thatâs what most Australian holiday homes look like. But Austin Maynard Architectsâ oceanside project on Victoriaâs Mornington Peninsula couldnât look more different if it tried. Named after the beach it sits on, St Andrews Beach House is a cylindrical, two-storey timber home, with a radius of less than five metres. A spiral staircase sits at the centre of the home, and combines with a spoke-like network of timber beams and exposed metallic fixings to create a strong, natural aesthetic.
The Jetsons come to 2019
Fast forward to the future with this property. Located on the beachfront in Northern New South Wales, the residence itself is defined by geometric shapes; it features bold usage of glass and concrete, and nods to the Googie style of architecture. This post-modern style of architecture was influenced by the Space Age â just one look at these digs and you get the impression the animated Jetsons would have loved living here in 2019.
The Bubbles of Ipswich
Designed by architect Graham Birchall during his final year thesis in 1983, the home is an ode to the strength, beauty and simplicity of the humble circle. In love with the adaptability of circles, Graham built the concrete home after work and on weekends. Incredibly, he did so without the assistance of modern computer software to undertake the incredibly complex calculations required for the design.
Going round & round the house
Known as the David and Gladys Wright House, the concrete spiral structure is located in the affluent residential neighbourhood of Arcadia. Built in 1952 by Frank Lloyd Wright, it is one of three spiral structures Mr. Wright designed. Wright built the property on roughly six acres at the base of Camelback Mountain and raised it off the ground on columns so that one could see the citrus orchards beyond.
Disney meets Turkey
All in neat rows hundred of Disney look alike castles have been abandoned after the developers declared bankruptcy protection during a dive in the property market.
Vacation in a Plane Cockpit?
Fancy spending time in the cockpit of a former jet while relaxing in four-star luxury? Costa Verdeâs Phoenix hotel suite is located in Costa Rica and is made from the salvaged body of a 1965 Boeing 727. The plane sits on stilts at the edge of a lush rainforest and features a renovated interior of Costa Rican teak wood panelling, all the way from the cockpit to the tail.
