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Why should architecture be a stopping point for nature? This beautiful Zurich lake house designed by Appels Architects shows that everything can flow together...

For centuries, humans looked at pieces of land and imagined possibilities for building great things. And, let's face it, some medium things too. Throughout most of history, bringing those big ideas to life always started...

Rye-based architectural practice RX Architects has completed a charming cabin at the edge of a lake in Brabourne, an English village within the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty about a two-hour drive from London...

Designed by Curitiba-based firm Solo Arquitetos, the Lake House sits overlooking the expansive wetlands of the Paranapanema River in southern Brazil. Designed to blend into its natural setting, the family vacation home was...

Architecture firm artek created a site-specific holiday home lodged into the hillside by a lake in El Peñol, a Colombian town renowned for its massive 650-foot-tall monolith...

Lyon-based architecture studio AUM convinced their clients to build their home on a lake rather than in the middle of the forest as originally planned—and the results are nothing short of stunning...

This stunning timber home by the lake sensitively embraces its Midwestern landscape with its design and use of local, reclaimed materials. Designed by Desai Chia Architects in collaboration with Environment Architects (AOR),...

There’s nothing quite like taking a cool dip in a lake on a hot summer’s day. The lucky owners of the Lake House get to escape the brutal Texan heat with laps in Lake Austin thanks to their off-grid boathouse. American...

Villa Sunnanö is a few hours northwest of Stockholm on land surrounded by an expansive lake, picturesque boulders, and greenery on all sides. Hans Murman, founder of Merman Arkitekter, told Dezeen, "We wanted to take advantage...

Commissioned by a family of five who sought a simple country getaway from Bratislava, the holiday home is sited on an island in the Danube River overlooking beautiful lakeside views...

The house is wrapped in a timber wall that also functions as a retaining wall for the landscape. It encloses the structure and seems to leak the abstract forms out into the surroundings. Inside, these forms create spaces...

Artists and painters will swoon over the Lake House, a contemporary getaway flooded with soft north light. Austrian architect Maximilian Eisenköck designed the black timber building on a lakeside property about a half-hour...

The building is located in Canada’s Mont-Tremblant National Park and consists of three parts: an amphitheater, a space for service facilities and a discovery zone...

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