Facades

A playful twist on the concept of a pitched roof, the Just K house designed by AMUNT in Tubingen, Germany, features a monochromatic, blue-gray facade with strikingly skewed geometric forms. An exterior staircase leads to a separate entrance at the rear of the building, allowing the structure to be used as two separate units.

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.

The form of the 556-square-foot home in Tokyo that Tomoko Sasaki designed for her close friends inspired the name Milk Carton House.

Clinton’s passion seems more urgent than ever against the backdrop of one of the worst bushfire seasons on record in Australia. Fittingly, he has designed a new home for himself, his partner, and their three children to be an eye-catching emblem for the cause.

A light renovation connects this Sydney home with its lushly landscaped grounds.

NOEM, a Barcelona–based architecture firm, created a metal-clad house for a young client just outside Madrid. It’s raised 12 feet off the ground to offer better views of the landscape, lending it "the futuristic feeling that it just landed," says Pol Guiu, one of NOEM’s cofounders.

the project arises as a script for the dialogue between geometry and topology, between scale and construction, between continuity and place, between time and will

The Glebe House by Chenchow Little architects is defined by its arched details and wedge-like form.

“We love geometry—we believe it can help us to establish an order between ourselves and nature,” explain Vietnam-based Gerira Architects.

“The parapet makes the building look quite a bit bigger than it is and it creates an idea of mystery – or discovery” says Ben.