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The Bianchi House was designed by Italian architect Mario Botta in 1971. Built on a sharply inclined hillside above the village of Riva San Vitale on the shores of Lake Lugano the house is set in the lower part of the plot and laid out on different levels like a tower.
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Luis Barragan House and Studio, also known as Casa Luis Barragan, is the former residence of architect Luis Barragan in Miguel Hidalgo district, Mexico City. It is now a museum exhibiting Barragan’s work and it is owned by the Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía and the Government of the State of Jalisco.
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The iconographic Raventos house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Bonet Castellana, perhaps best known for designing the iconic B.K.F butterfly chair with Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, was built between 1973 and 1974 and is one of the latest domestic proposals of the architect.
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The Fisac House designed by the Spanish architect Miguel Fisac in 1978, is located in Almagro, Ciudad Real. The project turned an old oil mill into the architect’s home with exquisite care for popular architecture. In the facade, Fisac introduced elements of its flexible formwork in the large entrance gate and on the balcony of the upper floor.
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The design of John Lautner’s Arango House, also called Marbrisa House, is inspired by the natural features of the site: the ocean and the sky. The house was commissioned in 1970 by Jeronimo Arango as a weekend home for his family and in 1973 the architect built a 25,000-square-foot home that seemed to float above the water. The client had…
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Frank Lloyd Wright designed Hollyhock House as part of a commission from oil heiress Louise Aline Barnsdall to create an avant-garde theatre and cultural complex called Olive Hill. Of the entire complex, only the residence and two apartments were completed. Located in the East Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles, Hollyhock House was completed between 1919 and 1921.
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The U House was designed by the famous Japanese architect Toyo Ito in 1976 for his older sister, who had just lost her husband to cancer. Built in the centre of Tokyo, it was demolished in 1997.
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Located at the Emporda in Giron well-known Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill designed a summer house for his parents. Built on the ruins of an old country home, the Family House is organized around a brightly red central courtyard that captures different views of the surroundings.
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The new Dutch embassy in Adis Abeba designed by mecanoo is located in a site with five hectares of eucalyptus woods, dropping steeply into a valley. The new buildings blend with the landscape, with a winding road as the connecting element with the historic villa.
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The house the Australian architecture duo Bolles + Wilson designed and built between 1990 and 1993 for Mr. Suzuki in Tokyo is a playful unicum, yet a perfectly contextualized fragment in the Japanese city.
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