Architecture and Home Design

This Luxury Home Design with Swimmable Water Gardens is designed by Frank McKinney.
Acqua Liana is a house which showed that not only small houses could be green and LEED certificated. This house is an incredible 15,071 square foot mansion that sits on 1.6 acres of oceanfront property near Palm Beach in Manalapan, Florida. Besides having 7 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms it has a lot of other features of luxury home design. Some of these features are: an oversized garage with windows to the pool above, fitness studio, swimmable water gardens, glass office, glass wine cellar, glass staircase, glass elevators, 2,000 gallon aquarium bar, waterfall spa with fireplace, yacht dockage and so on. LEED certificate became possible because the house utilizes enough solar power to run two average-sized homes, energy efficient appliances and air-conditioning, roof design that collects runoff water and several pools and ponds which reduce site’s temperature.

this Luxury Riverfront Home with Beautiful Perth’s Swan River Views is designed by Hartree Architects.
Hartree + Associates Architects is well recognized design practice with a creative, dynamic team of architects and interior designers in Perth, Australia. B-Hive is one of their great contemporary works for a family of five. It’s the luxury riverfront home with beautiful Perth’s Swan River views. The project combine indoor and outdoor areas in order to maximize flexibility and comfort of the family. The design solution involved defining zones of the home and wrapping the public spaces with the roof which itself spans a 17m shelter. Concealing glass panels within the stonework, the large riverside veranda and the infinity-edge pool are things that characterize the house and differ it for many other houses near by.

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This sumptuous residence is one of those properties which come in mind when you think about luxury home designed in traditional style. Elegant architecture, dormer windows and ivy covered walls could attract attention of everybody who’ll take a look at it. The house features 6 bedrooms, 6 full bathrooms, and 2 half-baths at the more than 11000 square feets of living space. Besides that there are the sauna, pool cabana with kitchen, dedicated library with a fireplace, two powder rooms, fully customized office, family room with fireplace opens to the pool, tennis court, two garages for 7 cars, fitness area and other usual living spaces. Large outdoor entertainment area is decorated with colonnade of towering palm trees. The interior is done neutral, sophisticated palette which makes it very pleasant for living. [ 351stockbridge ]

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This Beautiful Luxury Home with High Quality Furniture is designed by Marc Canadell.
Marc Canadell is an European architect who designed this beautiful luxury house high above the famous Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. The site is one acre of privacy but the house is perfectly perched at the end of a cul-de-sac in order to get most stunning city views from its windows. Only the highest quality materials and modern high quality furniture was used in its construction and interior designing. 9000 square feet house features 5 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, infinity lap pool and great outdoor desks and entertainment area. Although the price for such piece of art is also affordable only for those who already has luxury lifestyle.

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Applecross is an elite suburb of Perth, Australia with great views on Swan River. This house for family who often hosts guests was designed by Jackson Clements Burrows. It is divided into two halves – Verandah (the western side of the house) and Enclosure (the eastern side of the house). The western side characterized by double height space enclosed by operable louvers which control natural ventilation and shading levels. It’s mostly occupied during the day and evening. The eastern side hosts the kitchen, garage, bedrooms, study and bathrooms. There are also the dining room and various lounge areas which flow into outdoor space. The translucent roof is striped with timber battens and the floors are a warm dark timber. Cross-ventilation cools the spaces while passive solar energy heats them.