Designed by architects for travel enthusiasts: Our curated collection of outstanding holiday accomodations — also via map. Do you already know our new entry?
URLAUBSARCHITEKTUR is Europe’s leading online portal for architecturally outstanding holiday homes. We’ve published a series of award-winning books—available in bookshops or directly in our online shop.
As we do every year, in mid-January we publish the holiday homes that our readers particularly liked last year.
In part 1 you will find the most popular holiday homes.
Designed by architects for travel enthusiasts: Our curated collection of outstanding holiday accomodations — also via map. Do you already know our new entry?
Consistently green in thought: Arnold / Werner Architekten have realized an aesthetic statement for future-oriented building in the Bavarian Fünfseenland that looks brightly into today and tomorrow.
The art of idleness: In an exquisite neighbourhood, with a view of Hermann and Mia Hesse’s home and Lake Constance, the two holiday homes open up airy, transparent spaces for relaxing holidays.
Aesthetic without compromise: With her weekend barn in Chiemgau, interior designer Stephanie Thatenhorst has created an eclectic hideaway, an experiment between tradition and zeitgeist.
In the middle of the spectacular infinity of Thy, the Vipp Cold Hawaii guest house faces the elements. A reimagined fisherman’s cottage — as open, contemplative and puristically bold as the landscape itself.
From the outside, the GDR prefabricated building on the edge of Märkische Schweiz faces up to its past without embellishment; inside, it breaks up old structures and surprises with two bright, airy holiday homes.
By the tiled stove — under the hipped roof: the listed Mühlradhof dating from 1659 vividly tells the architectural story of rural life in the Upper Black Forest. All combined with modern comfort and a casual atmosphere.
Hidden in a lush garden in the centre of charming Porto is the Fábrica no Jardim — a minimalist factory-style house that quotes the city’s history and translates it into the present day.
Light and shade, landscape and architecture: the Olive Garden Bungalow combines clear shapes, large window fronts and atmospheric outdoor areas in the Cretan countryside.
The Schaalsee loft in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is reduced to the essentials with an open-plan layout, large glass and steel windows and timeless materials: A stage for light and landscape.
La Chalette is a holiday cottage in the Upper Black Forest. It is located next to two historic houses on the edge of the village. On the outside you can still see its former use as a tractor shed, inside you feel like you are in a fine wooden box.
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Here you will find the other parts of the most popular houses 2024:
La Chalette: Ein ganz besonderer Ort im Schwarzwald. Die Ruhe, die Nähe zur Natur und die Schönheit des Chalets sind einzigartig. Die Abwicklung der Buchung und die Kommunikation verliefen problemlos. Das Chalet ist sehr gut eingerichtet und sehr sauber.
Consistently green in thought: Arnold / Werner Architekten have realized an aesthetic statement for future-oriented building in the Bavarian Fünfseenland that looks brightly into today and tomorrow.
Aesthetic without compromise: With her weekend barn in Chiemgau, interior designer Stephanie Thatenhorst has created an eclectic hideaway, an experiment between tradition and zeitgeist.
Hidden in a lush garden in the centre of charming Porto is the Fábrica no Jardim - a minimalist factory-style house that quotes the city's history and translates it into the present day.
The art of idleness: In an exquisite neighbourhood, with a view of Hermann and Mia Hesse's home and Lake Constance, the two holiday homes open up airy, transparent spaces for relaxing holidays.
La Chalette is a holiday cottage in the Upper Black Forest. It is located next to two historic houses on the edge of the village. On the outside you can still see its former use as a tractor shed, inside you feel like you are in a fine wooden box.
By the tiled stove - under the hipped roof: the listed Mühlradhof dating from 1659 vividly tells the architectural story of rural life in the Upper Black Forest. All combined with modern comfort and a casual atmosphere.
Light and shade, landscape and architecture: the Olive Garden Bungalow combines clear shapes, large window fronts and atmospheric outdoor areas in the Cretan countryside.
From the outside, the GDR prefabricated building on the edge of Märkische Schweiz faces up to its past without embellishment; inside, it breaks up old structures and surprises with two bright, airy holiday homes.
The Schaalsee loft in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is reduced to the essentials with an open-plan layout, large glass and steel windows and timeless materials: A stage for light and landscape.
In the middle of the spectacular infinity of Thy, the Vipp Cold Hawaii guest house faces the elements. A reimagined fisherman's cottage - as open, contemplative and puristically bold as the landscape itself.
Below deck, overlooking the sea: Ardora is situated on a Galician hillside overlooking the Atlantic – a complex of flats inspired by upturned boat hulls and traditional granaries. A multifaceted revelation.
From an agricultural storehouse to a hub for ideas: where grain was once stored, ideas can now be pooled and teams formed. The Silo in Fröndenberg an der Ruhr, near Unna, offers a wide variety of seminar, activity and retreat spaces, blending rural industrial charm with clean lines and vibrant colours.
Travelling alone and following your own instincts without a care in the world: these eight places to stay offer the ideal setting for a solo getaway. For anyone who wants to explore new places on their own or simply do things their own way.
Architect Christof Rösch has transformed a centuries-old barn on the outskirts of the mountain village of Vnà in the Lower Engadine into a bright and airy three-storey holiday home.
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La Chalette: Ein ganz besonderer Ort im Schwarzwald. Die Ruhe, die Nähe zur Natur und die Schönheit des Chalets sind einzigartig. Die Abwicklung der Buchung und die Kommunikation verliefen problemlos. Das Chalet ist sehr gut eingerichtet und sehr sauber.