Erich Gutmorgeth’s speciality is difficult locations. The architect advises his client to find a site that nobody else wants to obtain, because these plots are mostly available at a low price. Then, the saved money is meant to improve the building A detached home near Innsbruck shows the result, which can be achieved with [...]

Villa Neuendorf in Mallorca, Spain
The dialogue between building and landscape is the central theme of a villa in the south of Mallorca. Like a medieval castle it overlooks the spacious site with such a natural air as if it had always been there. Since Claudio Silvestrin, the architect had earth pigment from this area [...]

The house seems to fly. The Querkraft studio constructed a three- storey villa above a hill with a 25 degree incline on the city limits of Vienna. The building extends up to two thirds over the slope and creates a sheltered open-air space This is made possible by a two-storey construction of a steel space [...]

The art of tea preparation is a time honored tradition in Japanese culture. The mobile ichijyo architecture is dedicated to this procedure. One can dedicate oneself to this meditative procedure in a very small space, to be more precise, in a single transportable room. Toshihiko Suzuki’s design strongly reminds one of a simple paper lantern. [...]

Wolkenstein in Meran, Italy
Wolkenstein is designed by Holz Box Tirol and Di Anton Hoss. Marquees and sunshades usually spell the death of every architecture with ambition. For that reason, the architects of a four-storey residential building in Meran have taken precautions to prevent unregulated design elements appearing at random on the balconies of the [...]