The first house designed by American architect Philip Johnson has been put up for sale by its owners, after 55 years living in the Upstate New York residence. On the market for $1 million (£775,000), the Booth House was built in 1946 in Bedford, New York – close to the modernist haven of New Canaan, Connecticut, where Johnson later built the iconic Glass House for himself.
Italian architect Antonino Cardillo has coated the walls of a vaulted chamber-music and events space in lumpy coral-pink, grey and green plasterwork. Cardillo designed the space called Specus Corallii, which translates as The Coral Cave, within a baroque oratory in Sicily owned by the Cathedral of Trapani. The room will be used as a venue for chamber music and lectures, and occasionally as a ballroom. Its design is inspired by the shell and coral imagery associated with the city of Trapani, which is a major fishing port on Sicily's western coast. The vault of the main room is covered in roughly applied plaster and painted a muted pink. The lower parts of the wall are lined in large slabs of porous limestone, a material also applied in its polished state to the floors.
Casa A.G. by duearchitetti architects involved the renovation and division of an 18th century home in Varese, Italy into contemporary apartments.
@vincentvanduysen's recently completed DB Residence in Puurs, Belgium photographed by @koenvandamme.
Cooper Residence by Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman in Orleans, Massachusetts.
John Lautner's Segal Residence on Malibu's Carbon Beach. (at Malibu, California)
One of our personal favourite entries, Ansty Plum, a 1960s modernist house renovated by London firm Coppin Dockray, has been shortlisted for the 2016 RIBA House of the Year. The home is located in a small village in Wiltshire, England. It was built in 1962 by architect David Levitt – who later went on to establish Levitt Bernstein – and then extended in the early 1970s Brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson. "Ansty Plum is a very special 20th century house, resurrected for viable modern living without damaging the spirit or the fabric of the original. In the house what has been taken away, and what has not been added is as important as what has been rescued or retained."
This vertical, concrete university campus in Peru by Grafton Architects has been named world's best new building by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Walnut and stone feature throughout this penthouse apartment by Belgian practice Hans Verstuyft Architects located in a David Chipperfield-designed building in Antwerp. The residential building, one of Chipperfield's Westkaai Towers on the waterfront in the neighbourhood of Eilandje, is made up of stacked white concrete terraces. Photos: Dorothee Dubois.
Setouchi Retreat Aonagi is an intimate seven-room resort just outside the city of Matsuyama on Japan’s smallest island, Shikoku designed by Tadao Ando.
Hidden behind large wooden doors in a historic house on the Kompagnistræde is the Copenhagen studio of ceramicist Eric Landon (aka Tortus Copenhagen) where traditional craftsmanship and architecture meet modern design. Landon was awarded Craftsman of the Year” at Denmark's DESIGN AWARDS 2015.
Brioni's new flagship store in Paris by David Chipperfield Architects.
Pair of rare Italian lounge chairs by Gastone Rinaldi reupholstered in @rafsimons.official for @kvadrattextiles blue velvet via @1stdibs | 1954.
A 312-metre-long concrete wall provides the framework for this house and art centre designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando for a picturesque site on the Mexican seafront. The building provides a home for the Casa Wabi Foundation, an arts charity established by Mexican artist Bosco Sodi and directed by Patricia Martin, best known as the curator of Latin America's largest private art collection, the Colección Júmex.
This holiday home in Rhode Island by US studio Roger Ferris + Partners consists of a cluster of gable-roofed volumes, influenced by vernacular architecture in rural New England. The 'Ocean House' is located on a coastal site in the quaint town of Little Compton.
Photographer Juergen Teller's studio designed by 6a architects in West London. The space contains offices, an archive, studio space, kitchen and library.
A large mango tree called ‘Bethany’ inspired the layout of this home in Brazil by architect Alessandro Sartore. The tree passes through three meter wide voids in both the floor slab and ceiling.
Romanian architect Vlad Rusu has resurrected a "cultural palace" that was originally built in the 1930s but has sat in ruin for 20 years after being ravaged by fire. Rusu won a competition to overhaul the ageing structure in Blaj, a small city in central Romania. The aim was to create a multipurpose space suitable for a wide variety of events, from theatre performances to exhibitions and conferences.
Translucent curtains surround a mezzanine tea room in the heart of this home, designed by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates for a retired couple in Japan's Aichi Prefecture.
Light Soil V2 by Studio de Materia, Poznan, Poland.