The exterior of the home is clad in Norway spruce. All of the windows are from Velfac, with the sliders from Schuco.
After entering through a gate, the home's charred spruce siding presents a somber face.
The fourth floor entrance highlights views of the garden—with red and white plum trees, and a three-dimensional Kanze Water pattern carved in the black mirrored granite path.
The wings of this cruciform residence jut out over the landscape on stilts to capture panoramic views.
Set in the Algarve region, the brutalist compound made of board-formed concrete is not your average countryside getaway.
The 3,000-square-foot Floht House has epic views and one of the longest residential cantilevers in western Canada.
Partially hidden from the main driveway, the cottage is accessed by a meandering stone path—you can't drive a car up to it. "It's not conventionally convenient,
Double doors open to the deck.
The cottage is located on a site just over an hour from Gothenburg and two-and-a-half hours from Oslo, Bohuslän was the ideal location. “We immediately fell in love with the slightly hilly site and its location along a narrow dirt road with cows grazing on the other side,” says Helena. “Until then, I had never thought of building a summer house but when we got the chance, we just had to take it. Especially when my old friend Susanna said she could design a house for us.”
An outdoor breezeway between the storage shed and the main house is ideal for outdoor dining.
White oak flooring now feels much lighter and brighter.
After an unprecedented year of earthquakes, hurricanes, and fires, a bright light has been shed on the benefits of building with concrete.
Much of the home’s exterior was preserved. The siding is painted Benjamin Moore “Dolphin,” and the trim is Benjamin Moore “Mopboard Black.”
Simple brass screws affix the bathroom’s antibacterial copper cladding, reclaimed from a barn roof in Connecticut, to the walls. Bronze screen frames, salvaged from buildings on Shope’s Amenia property and then cut into small decorative strips, line the bathroom door frame.
Villa Bio is situated a little over an hour outside of Barcelona in Llers, a green, hilly, sun-bathed sprawl near Figueres (hometown of everyone’s favorite mustachioed surrealist, Salvador Dali). The hydroponic rooftop garden grows out of volcanic stones. The home is conceived as a giant C-shaped spiral.
Located in Hobart, Tasmania, Taroona House is a 2,600-square-foot residence built using a timber prefab building system developed by architecture firm Archier.
Perched high above Oakland, this expanded midcentury soaks up jaw-dropping views—even from the bathroom.
Layered landscaping by Boxleaf Design transforms the property.
Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP used 87 translucent bricks to reframe a family’s connection to nature and the city.
The cabin is surrounded on three sides by Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante.
The primary bedroom cabin sits in a natural clearing amongst the trees, allowing for a water view and copious sunlight. The boulder-studded coast offers gently sloping paths to the ocean for a quick dip.
The concrete-and-steel home by Faulkner Architects gives one family a refined escape in the mountains of Northern California.
Extra-wide concrete pillars help to support the studio at its core.
Owners Jill and Toby Gebben went on their first date by the shores of Lake Michigan, and long dreamed of building their own lakeside cottage.
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