150 Best New House Ideas: An Essential Design Reference Featuring Stunning Modern and Green Home Solutions

by Bridget Vranckx

From expansive mansions to summer cottages, from ultra modern to environmentally friendly "green" homes, 150 Best New House Ideas is a comprehensive handbook showcasing the best new ideas in single-family home design. Featuring an extensive collection of full-color photographs, this book provides an in-depth review of exemplary house designs created by internationally renowned architects and designers who have achieved practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and tastes of their clients. An essential design reference, 150 Best New House covers the diversity of current trends in home design and provides an inspirational source of ideas for the homeowner, designer, interior decorator, and architect.

600 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2008

Reviews

[Jon · Rating 1 out of 5]

I like modern architecture, but it's laughable to say that these are the best new house ideas. This is designer masturbation resulting in modern bunker fishbowls with such harsh geometry that only a person functioning in the top one percent of sociopaths would find them habitable or affordabe. They are the emperor's new clothes for people with more money than humanity.

Some of the designs go past harsh and unimaginative and wander right into stupid. Why would you make a concrete stack of boxes with sliding doors on the second and third floors opening to nothing? How is that any kind of design? I suspect they are designated as "human disposal points" on the plans.

In fairness, there were 1 or 2 interesting ideas in the 500 pages, but they were not fully developed enough to hunt through for.

[Cary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had I an unlimited budget, I would love this book. But if I had an unlimited budget, I'd hire architects, not read a book. Everything here seems well out of reach of mortal man...