The effervescent structure of Ocho Casas can be found in the neighborhood of Santa Margarita in Spain. Designed by Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos, it looks very special because the it can change its appearance with each passing moment and thanks to a beautiful white-walled facade made of panels that opens in brilliant pops of color. Constantly changing into a multitude of colors makes the housing complex a vibrant architecture at its innovative best. - via

Most of us, really appreciate when seeing a new design, but this awesome sculptural home in Somosaguas, Spain, is more than just a modern design and managed to get me drooling. Designed by A-cero Architects on the water’s edge, it’s a stratified building with texturized dark concrete facades, that promotes open space and will sure get you a wow when looking at the pictures. The most amazing things are the rooftop swimming pool that will get all the neighbors to die of envy and the fact that it has some breathtaking lights at night. Now that’s a place I’d love to live for the rest of my life, if I were to choose.

There comes a time in our lives, when we need some time alone. And where can we do that better than in the middle of the nature. Architect Emilio Ambasz knew all these and in 1975 he designed the House of Spiritual Retreat (Casa De Retiro Spiritual).

Built on a 1,000 ha estate, the Book House is located just 25 miles (40km) north of Seville in Spain. Surrounded by the beautiful Sierra Morena mountains, in a Spanish countryside scenery, with a man-made lake, olive trees, evergreen oaks and wild flowers, the picture is close to perfection.

Two steep cantilevered staircases climb on the two tall white walls that rise like sails from the lush green ground, only to meet at the right place, a window that offers a great view of the whole area and especially over the lake. The most interesting thing is the mysteriously sunken courtyard.That’s where the actual house is. It has large rooms with hidden arrangements and light coming in through serpentine openings that will blow your mind.

That’s quite an artistic vision and Ambasz materialized it greatly. Check out the video below. - via UltimateHouse

The House 108 is designed by H Arquitectes and is located on a sloping hillside in Girona, Spain. The house adapts to its natural setting, following the inclination to the hillside. Still being in one of the most virgin zones of the Brave Coast, the Rosamar urbanization characterizes by a mixture of tipologías of constructions and autoconstrucciones of low architectonic interest and high landscaping impact.

In response, the project has the possibility to carry out the minimum possible ecological track in a parcel with strong slope and thick Mediterranean vegetation. Surroundings that we modified at minimum, as much by the inclined positioning of the house and its consequent reduction of the earthwork, generated laying of foundations and remainders, the maintenance of the vegetation not losing the shaded and fresh existing atmosphere, and finally, by the sensible design of the outer elements - wood stairs following the natural slope and minimum perimeter fence. - Via - Technohaus & Coolboom - Thanks our loyal reader Razvan for helping me with this article.

Marià Castelló Martinez designed and build this beautiful minimalist house for himself on on the Spanish island Formentera. The building is a 12×12 meter square, sitting between existing woods and an old traditional stone wall. The house and studio are divided by a core infrastructure: library, filing cabinets, bathroom, kitchen, cupboards, Murphy beds, mechanicals, and two sliding iroko wood panels that can partition off spaces as needed, such as for a guest room. I love how something so little and simple can be so complex, modern and beautiful. - Via - materialicio.us & arkinetia