Colombian Contemporary House

Philadelphia-based architect Antonio Sofan has designed the Sinu River House. Completed in 2010, this 5,380 square-foot single story contemporary house is located in Monteria, Colombia.

House 20 by Jolson

Australian architects Jolson have completed a house in Melbourne where cantilevering concrete slabs appear to balance on top of a bronze garden wall. Residents enter the middle floor of the three-storey House 20 beneath this cantilever. A basement floor is set into the sloping landscape below and contains an indoor swimming pool, gym, steam room and games room. A small pond is also located on this floor, at the base of a light well that is driven through the full height of the house. Living and dining areas are located on the ground floor, while bedrooms and studies can be found on the top storey.

Alarming cantilevers have featured on a number of buildings on Dezeen lately – see all the stories about cantilevers here.

Holman House by Durbach Block Jaggers

A Picasso painting inspired this cliff-top house near Sydney by architectsDurbach Block Jaggers.

The two-storey Holman House was completed atop the 70 metre-high cliff at Dover Heights back in 2004. Stone walls surround bedrooms on the ground floor, which nestle against the rock face.

The curved forms of the kitchen and living room, which project over the sea supported by four angled stilts, are derived from the torso of Picasso’s The Bather.

Terraces surrounding the house at different levels provide two patios, a top floor garden and a lower level swimming pool. This project is the third Australian house published on Dezeen in the last week, following one residence with an oversailing glass roof and another that incorporates cantilevering concrete slabs – see all our stories about projects in Australia here.

Show RCA 2011

Show RCA 2011: footwear designer Victoria Spruce presented these sculptural shoes at the Royal College of Art graduate show earlier this month.

The collection combines shiny plastic shells with traditional leather soles and matte-leather linings that are revealed as the uppers twist and fold.