Careyes Bay, Costa Careyes, Mexico In the state of Jalisco along the Mexican coast between Puerta Vallarta and Manzanillo, a contemporary regional beach-house style developed in the 1960s and ’70s. Gianfranco Brignone is the wizard responsible for this magic. In the late ’60s, this Italian who had spent decades in France fell in love with … Continued

Pregonda Coast, Menorca, Spain When seen at a distance, this house near Pregonda on the island of Menorca in Spain disappears into the craggy hillside. This effect was planned by Barcelona architect Javier Barba, who designed the house with Alfredo Vives for a European financier and his family. The site is on a steep promontory … Continued

Gulf of Solanto, Sicily, Italy A house located close to one of Sicily’s most beautiful bodies of water, the Gulf of Solanto, is surrounded by vegetation and has a most evocative sea view from its terrace. ‘For the design of the house, we wanted to make sure that it did not look like a new … Continued

Islands cast a magic spell on our imaginations as they separate us from the rest of the world, creating their own worlds in seemingly infinite oceans. Because of their isolation, islands can foster habits and customs which are entirely distinct from those of neighbouring landmasses, as can be seen on the Galapagos and Madagascar. As … Continued

Costa Brava, Cape Creus, Cadques, Spain Blava, the port area of Cadaques in Spain, is one of the best preserved and most typical fishing villages along the northern coast of the Mediterranean near the French border. Bougainvillaea and oleander are interspersed amongst the port’s steep, narrow streets, which rise up from the waterside. White houses … Continued

Little Harbour, Cohasset, Massachusetts Cohasset is a beautiful town, originally a resort and now a suburb. It was one of the defining coastal places where in the late nineteenth century Americans came to terms with their colonial past,’ explains Robert A. M. Stern, who renovated a house in this New England harbour town between 1992 … Continued

Indian Ocean, Talpe, Sri Lanka   The name “IF” comes from this magnificent [Rudyard] Kipling poem about maintaining oneself with “head held up high” through life’s challenges,’ says David Gerard, one of the owners of this house in Talpe, a village in the forested, humid southern portion of Sri Lanka. The entire island is fringed … Continued

Port la Galere, Cannes, France When building by the sea, the curved forms of nature are the right forms for architecture,’ says Antti Lovag of the summer house he designed and built in 1970 at Port la Galere on the Cote d’Azur near Cannes. The house, now a fine example of 1970s modernism, appears both … Continued

Tyrrhenian Sea, Sabaudia, Italy Count Giovanni Volpi recalls growing up on the Tyrrhenian seashore at Villa Rocca nel Circeo, the classical villa his mother. Countess Nathalie Volpi, built in 1955 with architect Tomaso Bruzzi to fulfill her vision of ancient architecture as interpreted by Palladio. ‘It’s a version of a Palladian design, a central colonnaded … Continued

Caribbean Sea, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic ’I always use the natural material of the country where I work,’ says French architect Savin Couelle, who practises in Turin and along the Costa Smeralda of Sardinia. ‘Since I adapt to the country where I work, in the Dominican Republic, I designed a Dominican house.’ The Caribbean beach … Continued

Atlantic Coast, Asilah, Morocco The jetty at Asilah projects like a finger out into the Atlantic. Located on the coast of Morocco approximately nineteen miles south of Tangiers, the village is composed of buildings set like white cubes on rocks behind a rampart. The town has a tumultuous past: it was first Portuguese, then Spanish, … Continued

Port of Fourmis, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France Оn a rocky peninsula projecting into the Mediterranean, archaeologist Theodore Reinach built a caprice – a folly – at the beginning of this century. This waterside house exactly reconstructs a Greek house of the second century BC. Reinach built the house at the foot of dramatic cliffs on a coast … Continued

Santa Monica Bay, Malibu, California The community of Malibu occupies a series of rocky points, shallow coves and sandy beaches facing south and west towards Santa ! Monica Bay and the Pacific Ocean along the Southern California coast. The pleasant climate makes surfing, spearfishing, diving, running and sunning possible year-round. The rural character of the … Continued

What Plants to Choose What is an edible garden and how you can create it? Is this a garden fence or something else?  This is a question that people nowadays are more likely to ask. It is because today people like to experiment with growing their own food more than they did before. But what … Continued

Fun Outdoor Games Get rid of the commercial electronic games on devices that kill all our free time. Don’t you want to spend more time with your family outdoors, instead of sitting on the chair, putting your headphones and isolate yourself from the rest of the world? Is this the modern lifestyle? The answer is … Continued

Your Garden with Beautiful Roses When you are trying to express your romantic soul with using roses for your garden, you can use the following house garden guide. You have to know, for example, that the roses not only grow in the ground, but can also be places in a container. For example, let’s have … Continued

What is a Ha-Ha Wall An interesting solution for animals that keep coming into your garden has been found in the far 18th century in England. The answer for the problem is a sunken ditch, or so called ha-ha. It is not something that is hard to construct and at the same time is one … Continued

Outdoor Furniture Examples One of the most used materials for different outdoor and indoor products is cement. It is widely used nowadays and it becomes a trend in the design. Famous architects and interior designers love it for its durability. The neutral color that it has is a perfect match for almost any kind of … Continued