Homes
Striking modern home is an ode to right angles
This modern Vancouver home is as beautiful as it is spacious. Designed by James K. M. Cheng Architects, the home’s look and structure is dominated by clean right angles and lines that draw the eye along a vertical or horizontal axis.
Score a converted train station home in Sweden for $318K
If you’ve never dreamed of living in a converted train station, this stellar example in southern Sweden, near the city of Malmö, might change that immediately.
Low-cost vacation home lights up with translucent walls
For many a home owner, good design is all about the light. This wee seaside cottage has an entire wall made of polycarbonate panels—a translucent material that brings beautifully diffused natural light into the home.
Timber vacation home merges with its wooded surroundings in Sweden
Nestled among stone cliffs and pine trees is this understated, low-budget vacation home, which succeeds in seamlessly blending in with its surroundings.
This house masters architectural camouflage
Plenty of homes have tried to camouflage into their surroundings, usually by matching the material found in the landscape or simply "vanishing" through mirrored facades. This Barcelona house, designed by local firm PMMT, takes a more inventive approach.
8 cool modern homes in the Mountain West
With expansive, awe-inspiring terrains, the mountain states of the United States provide some of the most stunning backdrops for sleek modern homes. Take a look.
Designer couple creates a dreamy home with textiles and plants
You haven’t seen a sublime Australian home until you’ve seen the cozy-cool abode of Melbourne couple Poppy Lane and Scott Gibson, who together design furniture and homewares for their business Pop and Scott. Their home, believe it or not, is a rental that they’ve certainly made their own.
This rustic cabin was built right into the Norwegian coast
This home, built for a chef who wanted views of the water from every room of the house, features a burnt wood facade that blends into the surrounding coastline.
Cool modern house looks like an inverted pyramid
This muscular timber dwelling was designed with an inverted-ziggurat shape that calls to mind the gorgeous new National Museum of African American History, which draws inspiration for its eye-catching form from West African art.
'Enchanted cabin' offers backyard space to relax and reflect
This compact writer’s cabin nestles behind a 1930s home in a small town outside of Vienna, its dark charms playing foil to the more traditional house beside it.
Drool-worthy steel home frames mountain views in Wyoming
Situated in a picturesque mountain meadow just outside of Jackson, Wyoming, this modern beauty looks more like a SoCal transplant than a local lodge.
Dramatic, cantilevered pad breaks the beach house mold in Australia
The dwelling, a design by Brisbane-based architecture studio Refresh Design, includes an open-plan kitchen, living, and dining room that floats above a paved carport on the house’s tight, verdant lot.
Fancy prefab houseboats are a drifter’s dream
The fear of rising sea levels and love of tiny homes seems to be converging into a growing number of rad houseboats. This latest line from Ireland’s Bluefield Houseboats also jumps onto the passive house trend.
Stunning Chinese country retreat is built into the foot of a mountain
The home’s insistence on showcasing the surrounding landscape’s beauty takes it to a new level.
Old timber chapel offers historic bones in the English countryside
The wood-and-brick structure sits on approximately half an acre in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (an official designation) among gardens and within views of the Downs.
Eco-friendly prefab home with green roof built in 6 weeks
Erected over a period of six weeks by Archiblox, the two-bedroom abode was sustainability-driven throughout, from the initial decision to go prefab to the hardwood cladding milled from sustainable forestry methods.
Midcentury water cistern transformed into gorgeous modern home
The elegance of this Spanish home’s curved glass wall belies the structure’s original use as a stone water cistern. The building served for many years as a storage space—until a Madrid firm converted the structure into a glamorous home.
Restored 19th-century townhouse rises in Portugal
There’s something infinitely calming about this old, restored house in Porto, Portugal.
Compact home in Japan rises upward to maximize space
The 1,065-square-foot Gap House is divided into alternating platforms that promote seamless transitioning from one to the next.
This angular modern home in Spain is also a passive house
Located on a sloped site on the island of Mallorca in Spain, the angular modern house comprises four white volumes that appear to intersect one another at different points.
Massive glass wall lights up modern retreat in the Hamptons
The weekend home—done up with heavily insulated stucco exterior walls, steel casement windows, and radiant concrete flooring—was conceived and constructed in just eight months.
Cool modern house comes with built-in rock climbing wall
For a long-time Jackson, Wyoming resident who wanted a cost-effective modern home, local firm Carney Logan Burke stuck to simple forms and simple materials, with some quirks thrown in.
An architect designs a cozy, contemporary home for his mother
Conceived in 2013 and completed this year, "House for Mother" combines a minimalist residence and studio in two volumes that are slightly off-set from one another.
7 brilliant converted warehouse homes
These examples showcase fabulous ways to inject modern touches into raw landscapes of concrete and steel, elevating former industrial sites into elegant, if not totally glamorous, private abodes.
Thatched-roof seaside home rises like a glorious dune
Today in traditional-materials-deployed-in-sublime-new-ways, Lithuanian practice Archispektras has completed a seaside holiday home primarily clad in reed hatch. And it’s pretty dreamy.
This idyllic steel-clad cabin frames both pastoral and beach views
This steel-clad cabin perches on a beachside cliff and combines the simplicity of farm life with modern flourishes.
This Spanish villa is an artist’s dream studio
This charming live-work home located in the Andalusian mountains of Gaucín in southern Spain fulfills many a daydreaming bohemian’s ideal of what an artist’s studio should be.
Striking 'Cube House' creates a cozy family home in a pine forest
The crisp Cube House rises in a pine forest in Kiev, Ukraine, its shape meant to minimize its impact on the site while also providing a comfortable and flexible space for a growing family.
Abandoned coastal house revamped into high-tech modern home
Spreading over 5,000 square feet, the reimagined residence shows off dramatic indoor-outdoor spaces. Take a look around.
'40s flat revamped into bright, 700-square-foot family home
In Tel Aviv, local interior designer Dalit Lilienthal renovated a 1940s-era apartment into an airy modern home with plenty of storage and a bright color palette.
Fortress-like Japanese home's traditional screen lets in natural light
From the street, the home’s black, windowless facade looks severe and fortress-like, but upon entering through a side corridor, one is greeted by a bright and open space illuminated by a massive shoji screen.
Midcentury-inspired modern home prioritizes outdoor living in San Diego
This recently completed modern home in San Diego takes inspiration from midcentury modern design, the clearest evidence of which may be its enthusiasm for indoor-outdoor living. Look inside.
Peek inside a sublime ‘60s prefab bubble house
One of the coolest prefab homes ever conceived, French architect Jean Maneval’s Bubble House comes off as futuristic today as it did when it was first introduced in the ‘60s. Here, peek inside one.
Reclaimed barn wood clads rustic-meets-modern home
Philadelphia firm DIGSAU deploys reclaimed wood on the exterior of the home, cladding the house in horizontally laid wood panels recovered from a dilapidated barn.
Transportable surf lodge chases the simple life
Designed by local firm Red Architecture and located in Whale Bay, Raglan, Crow’s Nest was created with a very specific purpose: To function as an impermanent surfer’s lodge for the client.
Simple rules for crafting a modern home, from architect Deborah Berke
Architect Deborah Berke’s new book House Rules is at once a monograph of the firm’s extensive portfolio, and a practical guide for anyone who wishes to create a home to love. We highlight a few favorite principles.
Warehouse conversion showcases old tea factory's majestic arched windows
The 3,229-square-foot apartment takes up the top two floors of the historic Edwards & Co. building, a former 1920s tea factory.
Renovated off-grid cottage keeps centuries-old beams and stone walls
The milky white facade of this house on the Spanish island of Ibiza belies a more colorful, textured interior, as well as a long history. Take a look inside.
Stunning cliffside California home ‘blooms’ like a flower, asks $3.7M
Gorgeous organic architecture by Kendrick Bangs Kellogg