Silver Pine Villa: a luxurious dialogue with nature!

This contemporary home, set among the pine woods on an island in the Moskva River, in Moscow, introduces a revolutionary outward-looking approach to the city's architectural tradition. Designed by SAOTA, a South African architecture studio known for advancing the possibilities of 20th-century modernism, this home represents the tradition of the terrace, with its emphasis on an outdoor orientation, but in a context and climatic condition vastly different from the origin of the type. The architectural premise is one of contrasts: the street frontage's heavy protective presence speaks to the capital's monolithic architectural character, built to resist the extremes of heat […]