Villa CG Netherlands, New Enschede Home by Powerhouse Company, Dutch Residential Building Photos
Villa CG, New Enschede House
Contemporary Luxury Residence in Enschede, Netherlands property design by Powerhouse Company, Holland
Updated 11 Mar 2021 + 13 Sep 2016
Villa CG in Enschede
Design: Powerhouse Company, architects
Location: Enschede, The Netherlands

?Design the most beautiful house on the street?, said our clients for Villa CG. A tall order, perhaps, as the neighbors are all one-off villas created for private clients by prominent architectural offices like SeARCH, Bolles + Wilson and Erick van Egeraat, but at Powerhouse Company we can never resist a challenge.

The design lives up to its owners? ambitions by relying on perfect symmetry and a delicate balance between closed and open volumes. By framing a solid brick cube between two diaphanous glass wings, and sheltering all three volumes beneath a white canopy, we create an unexpectedly high-contrast, yet harmonious, visual experience.
Brick by Brick

We realized our villa?s closed front façade in beautiful long and narrow Wasserstrich bricks, their color carefully chosen to harmonize with the walnut wood of the interior. This brick cube shields the inhabitants from the street and is flanked by transparent and frameless glass bays, anticipating the openness of the rear garden side of the house.

A white stucco canopy, supported by slender columns, unifies the design, adds to the horizontal dynamic and creates an ...