In the family room, white walls and integrated storage—with a hidden door that accesses the guest suite—contrast with walnut shelving and insets.
Yakisugi siding and site-built details enhance the $1.05 million modular package.
The bedroom is a comfortable show of geometric regularity.
The inner dimple, not far from the front door, separates the entrance from the living space.
The kitchen is a long sleek space.
Irregular milled perforations form intriguing light wells in the skin of the house.
Completed in 2008, the rectilinear home features a roofline with a dramatic parabolic curve that creates two bulbous volumes inside the home, one of which houses a curved skylit shower.
At Modernpast, terradomes mounted on Eero Saarinen tables, like this five-footer (left), steal the show, even amid vintage Eames chairs and Calder prints.
Walk Street House floor plan
Set on a sprawling 30,000-square-foot lot, the Lake Vista home has been lightly updated, and it comes with a pool and a cabana.
With the Wirick House, Calvin Straub used slender, exposed wood framing and tall windows to open up views of the San Gabriel Mountains.
The 1941 Druckman Residence has a new pink kitchen, original plywood paneling, and an open living area overlooking the Hollywood Hills.
This pristine 1966 home opens to its wooded site with a series of patios, balconies, and outdoor entertaining areas.
Stones excavated during the foundation dig were redistributed to level out the yard while simultaneously creating a drainage curtain around the leach field.
The home's courtyard design allows for views to nature from every room.
The 1950 Eichler home in Palo Alto, California, that Ogawa Fisher Architects renovated for a family of five features a cool gray facade punctuated by a bright orange front door.
Architect Ana Smud’s residence in the Vicente López suburb of Buenos Aires is surrounded by gardens and wrapped in timber, concrete, and glass.
Wrapped in perforated metal and European larch stained a deep-brown color, the rectangular prefab includes an open kitchen and living space, a bedroom, a bathroom, and wall-height windows to take in a view.
The roofs pitches align with the landscape’s different slopes, creating a sympathetic composition. The exterior is clad in burnt larch timber and features expansive glazing that embraces the views, timber floors, and natural stone details. Designed by Koto Living, a new branch of the firm, the interiors of the home reflect the studio's focus on natural materials and texture to create a connection between the house and its environment.
“The CLT panels have been insulated, coated in textural render, and painted a bold banana yellow to form a stepped rear extension and cubic front porch,” says Unknown Works. “The yellow additions are tempered by gently rounded edges to bring a softness to their overall form, and stainless steel rain chains—a traditional Japanese guttering option—negate any visual clutter caused by downpipes.”
London creative studio Unknown Works has bookended brick infill terrace house with two semi-detached additions to provide “space for a young family’s creative pursuits, ensuring the layout could be adapted for hosting parties and intimate family gatherings.” Designed as a kit of prefabricated structural panels in spruce cross-laminated timber (CLT)—chosen as a flexible, cost-effective, sustainable material technology—the additions were assembled on-site in just four days.