This is a project done in my spare time.
The house is called Courtain House and was designed by the architect Shigeru Ban.
The scene was done in 3DsMax 2011 and rendered using vray 1.50 SP5. Postprocessing done in Photoshop.

this is the reference image I used:
http://c1038.r38.cf3.rackcdn.com/group5/building41715/media/vrfo_xl_shigeru_ban_05.jpg