Vast, slick, and all round magnificent, these luxury house exteriors stand out as examples of private residential architecture at its finest. We’re looking at everything from clean cut white & wood linear beauties and nature loving modern palaces, to unique sculptural creations and concrete Brutalist style abodes. Whatever your dreams or style aspirations are, there’s a lot here to light a million sparks. Check out amazing swimming pool designs, gravity defying cantilevered decks, sweeping sun terraces, and some truly stunning locations.
A complex of cuboid volumes land around an impressive terrace for entertaining. A covered outdoor lounge is attached to the main mass, whilst an exposed fire pit nestles into a niche created by two volumes and an outdoor bar hooks up to the pool house. Green roofs on the outermost volumes integrate the build into the gardens green borders.
Cantilevered from the cliff, raised on stilts from the rockface, great linear slabs push out into the blue. Exterior lights beam to highlight the split between floors and canopies.
Villa Amanzi looks out over a cliff in exclusive Cape Sol in Thailand. Its swimming pool probes forth on the landscape, seeking to join the sea. See more pictures here.
This chic modern house exterior uses glass to reveal the heart of the home, and to open the upper floor up to the stars. Privacy walls cover the glazed lower wings of the house, whilst wood clad interior walls hide away private quarters on the second story.
Swirling, curling lines draw a welcoming driveway, a rounded reflection pool and a curvaceous abode that embraces itself and its stunning setting.
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Visualizer: Ioan Ralea-Toma & Vlad Andrei Popa
Like a souped up lifeguard lookout station, this luxury beach home surveys the sea and coastline through four sides of glass. The rooftop pool deck is more reminiscent of a luxury yacht, complete with ‘control room’.
As though one massive garden room, every wall of this L-shaped living space retracts to adjoin with its green outdoor space or breathtaking view over the front terrace.
The Orum House stands on a 1.6 acre lot. An impressive swimming pool and 6000 square feet of covered terraces & outdoor decks increase the indoor living space of a central Y-shaped mass. More images here.
An exterior staircase is suspended on string-like balustrades into a verandah living room with an acrylic sided swimming pool. Open sided outdoor rooms were designed to encourage interaction between family members and to embrace the tropical climate of Singapore. A rooftop garden crowns the lush urban oasis. More images of this beautiful home here.
An enormous V frame holds up the open top story of this spectacular abode, which melds into a shuttered volume of bedrooms. Sharp overhanging eaves shelter the living areas from direct sunlight.
The 1200 square metre South Lake House renovation project in Brazil preserves the original triangular form of the uppermost floor, held in structural independence from the rest of the house. See more of this impressive mass renovation project here.
Like a modern play on a colonial home, this home exterior is imposing and dignified. Its elevated position puts it up on a pedestal, right where it belongs.
Architects had complete freedom to design this unique house as if it were their own. External walls and ceilings were converged into oblique angles, so that rainwater pours toward the centre of the roofs before rushing down into the courtyard like a waterfall. Read more about this special design here.
The layout of this 4000 square foot family retreat in Hampton Bays incorporates the latest strategies in sustainable design. The existing tree arrangement and natural fauna of the site was protected, and a green roof helps pay back a chunk of what was removed. More images here.
Differences in heights, scales and views allows residents of this stunning modern house to revel in the sun and sea breeze, and views of the ocean and forest.
Named Britain’s House of the Year by the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Flint House adapts to its landscape with an extraordinary stepped profile and a rugged material composition. More images here.
