Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest
refuges, discover the world's finest crop of new homes. This
cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV,
and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-coming names like Aires Mateus, Xu
Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa.
Here, there are homes in Australia and New Zealand, from China and
Vietnam, in the United States and Mexico, and on to less expected places
like Ecuador and Costa Rica. The result is a sweeping survey of the
contemporary house and a revelation that homes across the globe may have
more in common than expected.
Among guava trees and abandoned forts in Western India is a sanctuary
designed for and by Kamal Malik of Malik Architecture. The House of
Three Streams is a sprawling spectacle with high ceilings, verandas, and
pavilions, perched atop a ridge overlooking two ravines. A medley of
steel, glass, wood, and stone, the house weaves along the contour of the
landscape, almost as an extension of the forest.
Encina House by Aranguren & Gallegos, an elegant, sloping structure
reminiscent of a gazebo, similarly inhabits its surrounding vista.
Ensconced in a pine forest north of Madrid, the lower level is embedded
in rock and connected to the upper by a natural stone wall.
Shinichi Ogawa's Seaside House is an immaculate two-story minimalist
marvel in Kanagawa that overlooks the Pacific. Its living area spills
onto a cantilevered terrace and infinity pool, almost dissolving into
the ocean as one seamless entity.
In Vietnam, Shunri Nishizawa's House in Chau Doc exudes tropical
sophistication with exposed timber beams, woven bamboo, plants, concrete
panels, and inner balconies and terraces. Its corrugated iron panels act
as moveable walls and shutters, ushering in views of surrounding rice
fields.
These homes--along with more than 50 others--are each remarkably
distinct in design. They all, however, toe the line between inside and
outside, each one symbiotic with its surroundings.
