Homes
Stunning hillside home is like a huge modern treehouse
At once a challenging site and a scenic perch, the hills of Mill Valley, California serve as the backdrop for this stunning new modern house. Taking over three stories, the 4,000-square-foot home comes off as an expansive modern treehouse.
Impressive Indian home features rotating and sliding marble walls
We’ve seen moving glass doors and louvers that open and shut, but what about hefty stone walls? This house in Ahmedabad in northwest India has walls that not only slide—but also rotate.
7 gorgeous houses that showcase American design
These houses show that anything goes when it comes to dreaming up your ideal home.
Modern timber and glass cabin connects its owners to nature
An Oregon family commissioned Washington firm Cutler Anderson Architects for a modern Douglas-fir-and-steel-frame cabin in the northern town of Newberg, about 30 miles southwest of Portland.
Smart home tech drives eco-conscious Aspen home
This polished abode in Aspen, Colorado offers a tremendous indoor-outdoor experience. Plus a whole lot of eco-friendly cred.
Inside a 19th-century Brooklyn firehouse turned light-filled modern home
While the firehouse’s brick exterior was fairly well preserved, the interiors were in a sad state, having fallen into disrepair after years of disuse. So its new owner, a photographer, commissioned a local firm to give it a makeover.
Minimalist Aluminum House is all clean lines and no nonsense
Even though this glistening, modern house is all clean lines and sharp corners, there’s something so serene about the minimalist space in spite of its starkness.
This Mies-inspired modern home was built DIY for $150K
Meet the Blakboxhaus, a steel-clad modernist home in Central Illinois built on a budget.
Serene Japanese house features oversized roof and dormer window
This spacious, asymmetric building in Gifu Prefecture (located in central Japan) was designed by Hiroki Tominaga Atelier as a retirement home for an elderly couple.
Modern home in Iran features striking slatted-timber exterior
This timber-slatted house in Isfahan is another example of bold, new architecture currently on the rise in Iran thanks to newly lifted international sanctions.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s accessible, empowering design for a client with a wheelchair
Designed for a client who used a wheelchair, the home made its owner realize "his capabilities, not his disabilities."
Industrial warehouse converted into semi-communal housing for friends
If you’ve ever toyed with the idea of getting in on real estate with friends and building your dream home together, then this conversion project in Belgium might inspire you to give it more serious thought.
Inside a gorgeously restored Frank Lloyd Wright house
The house was built in 1948 for Edith and Albert Adelman, and is still in the family. It comprises a concrete block-and-wood exterior with the long, low-lying profile for which Wright’s residential designs became renowned.
Concrete house in Brazil makes the case for curves
This private home in São Paulo, Brazil, designed by architect Ruy Ohtake is a rebuke to right angles, and features boldly curved walls and equally vivid, quirky interiors.
Colorful mosaic tiles brighten renovated 387-square-foot flat in Spain
Madrid firm Zooco Estudio revamped a compact apartment using thousands of mosaic glass tiles, color-coded according to the "zone" in the home in which they are lain and the function of that zone.
‘Micro Town House’ latest example of skinny architecture in Vietnam
Vietnam’s dense urban areas have strong "skinny house" game, and this so-called "Micro Town House" in Ho Chi Minh City, by MM++ Architects, is the latest player to join in on the action.
Couple happens to buy Richard Meier masterpiece, restores it to perfection
What happens when you accidentally buy the "best house" ever designed by a world-renowned starchitect.
3 affordable starter home solutions from architects
While our discussion of starter homes has largely centered on existing older houses or large-scale new developments, those are certainly not the only means of first-time homeownership. Here's a look at three designer approaches.
Glass-walled courtyard takes center stage in this unique Indian home
This sculptural home located in Bangalore, India combines geometric volumes to create a unique space of cubes and undulating curves.
Singer James Taylor's childhood home in North Carolina up for auction
Now you can make like James Taylor and go to his idyll of Carolina—not only in your mind but also in real life. The five-time Grammy winner’s Chapel Hill childhood home is going up for auction next week.
Affordable Modern L.A. Home Built by Habitat for Humanity and SCI-Arc Students
With Los Angeles being one of the most expensive places in the U.S., it’s encouraging to see architects and designers tackle the area’s affordable housing crisis head on, even if it’s one house at a time. This is one example.
Stunning modern house in Brazil offers rooftop pool and incredible views
With the Rio Summer Olympics just a little over a month away, we have our radar out for impressive Brazilian architecture—and this concrete jewel box of a house certainly registers.
Narrow beach house frames killer ocean views in Australia
To conserve square footage in the skinny A&M House, the architects did away with all semblance of traditional doors and dividers inside the house, instead deploying a series of interior sliding glass doors, curtains, and more.
Gorgeous vacation home with green roof perches on Canadian hillside
Called the Go Home Bay Cabin, and perched on a rocky island in Georgian Bay (a section of Lake Huron) in Ontario, the low-lying house nods at the vernacular architecture of the region.
3 gorgeous vacation rentals to inspire your summer travels
If you’re still dragging your feet making those vacation plans, here are three stunning properties from around the world that will inspire you to get out of town ASAP.
Inside a 1600s oil mill turned dreamy Italian country house
Stepping into the country home of Ludovica and Roberto Palomba is like entering into a dream sequence in a Federico Fellini film.
Indoor-outdoor house frames bucolic river views in Argentina
Designed by Santa Fe, New Mexico-based firm Celula Urbana, the House 50 50 unites a series of enclosed and open-air spaces under a single roof, and uses a roof overhang to shelter terraces and frame sweeping views.
19th-century greenhouse converted into airy modern home for sale in Kent
Designed by Peter Leonard, the two-bedroom, two-story brick-and-glass home retains much of the original greenhouse but is decidedly modern in all other respects.
Retro-chic housing adapted from traditional Taiwan home
Local firm HAO Design renovated one of the village’s houses, creating a modern space with the historic bones of the existing structure.
Urban bungalow combines concrete, glass, and wood screens
This modern home features an off-kilter roof, massive window walls, an open-air plan, and unique, geometric veil-like teak screens from Bali.
Rent this modern island cottage made of cylinders
There’s something oddly delightful about round homes, which is why we’re loving this children’s playhouse-inspired Danish cottage made up of a cluster of cylinders.
Asymmetric shipping container house thinks outside the box
Designed by architect Josué Gillet of studio 2A Design, the angular Flying Box House lies on a site in the French town of Orgères, and comprises three stories of stacked shipping containers.
Gorgeous glass house offers scenic perch above Santa Monica
Saddle Peak House is a modernist confection made of glass, concrete, and wood nestled in the rugged Santa Monica Mountains.
Gabled, weathered steel-clad cabin joins bucolic compound in Canada
Joining an architect’s compound that already includes four two-story, shingled cottages, the minimalist residence—a prototype of sorts—echoes the proportions of an adjacent schoolhouse.
Modern house clad in blackened timber updates the rustic cabin
This lovely timber cabin is the work of Milwaukee-based firm Johnsen Schmaling Architects, which created the home as a vacation retreat in the northern Wisconsin town of St. Germain, which lies just south of the Canadian border.
This airy Australian getaway is actually a prefab beach house
Here's another beaut from Australia that will have you seriously considering going Down Under for your next beach town vacation. Take a look around.
Austin Modern Home Creates Amazing Indoor-Outdoor Lifestyle
From Seattle to the Hamptons, Sweden to Australia, architects have been breathing new life into the familiar gabled house. Take a look at another example hailing from Austin.
Bright, Airy Apartment Doubles as a Tucked-Away Bookstore
Hidden away on the top floor of a high-rise, formerly a state-owned fireworks company, the space is not only a bookstore and reading room for the public, but also a literal home library for residents in the building.
Wood-Shuttered Hideaway Offers Beach Escape in Australia
This bunker-like, timber-sheathed "sleepout" (Aussie for guest house) outside of Melbourne is an airy retreat for a big extended family and their friends.