Sited atop a shallow hill, it offers magnificent views across the vines and creates a striking silhouette against the skyline.
Architects Denton Corker Marshall pared back the design to its most elemental forms.
The main body of the house is fashioned from two long metal tubes or 'boxes'. The box embedded in the ground is clad in ribs of rusted Corten steel.
The central section of the lower box is given over to an expansive living space.
Furniture and fittings are low key, with a distinct absence of curves.
...and a reliance of large swathes of simple, monotone materials as in the solid balustrades.
Stained strand board features in the stairwell.
The black-clad 'box' housing the master suite is set at precisely 90 degrees from the lower box and cantilevered some nine metres over the entrance.
The glazed ends of the 'boxes' create panoramic vistas of the rolling hills.
From the outside, the minimal dwelling frames the landscape.
The house forms a compass, naturally, but also a stark, almost dolmen-like symbol on the far horizon.
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Like a modernist iceberg, this Krakow house has a perfectly chiselled façadeA Krakow house by Polish architecture studio UCEES unites brutalist materialities with modernist form
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Leo Costelloe turns the kitchen into a site of fantasy and uneaseFor Frieze week, Costelloe transforms everyday domesticity into something intimate, surreal and faintly haunted at The Shop at Sadie Coles
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Can surrealism be erotic? Yes if women can reclaim their power, says a London exhibition‘Unveiled Desires: Fetish & The Erotic in Surrealism, 1924–Today’ at London’s Richard Saltoun gallery examines the role of desire in the avant-garde movement
