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Cover designed this 414-square-foot prefab office/guesthouse specifically for the Hollywood site.

White oak flooring keeps the open-concept space feeling light and bright.

There’s the option to rent out the top floor, but it also makes a great place for family visiting from Europe to stay.

Jagoda installed two Velux skylights in the kitchen and one apiece in the kids’ bathroom and the parents’. “Ideally, every room in the house has enough natural light that you don’t have to turn on the lights during the day,” says the architect. The frost bathroom tile is from Heath Ceramics, while the faucet is from Vola

The loft is situated at the end of the wood-paneled hallway upstairs.

“We were trying to be respectful of the original house but also feel free to make changes,” says Jagoda.

Adam and Karyn Bechtel tasked architect Emily Jagoda with renovating the 1960 home they share with their two daughters in the hills of Woodside, California. A curvilinear, built-in sofa with integrated storage sits below a lofted art studio and angular clerestory windows that frame views of the surrounding trees.

In the living room, a Malm fireplace sits on a yellow powder-coated steel table that matches the bookshelf ladder leading to the loft. Jagoda designed the table with space underneath to store firewood.

A cutout in a wall in the kitchen creates a sight line to the living/dining room, which is overlooked by the art loft. The kitchen range is by Fulgor Milano, while the sconces are from Vipp.

A Nelson Bubble pendant from Design Within Reach hangs above a dining table and chairs by Jasper Morrison for Maruni.

Loewen windows and sliding glass doors from Western Window Systems connect the common spaces on the ground level to the balcony and wooded backyard. “We really wanted to feel connected to nature,” says Karyn.

Every room of the home has a view of the sea, and the salty air patinas the bespoke cedar panels over time.

Floor Plan of Stoneleigh Terrace by OGA

In the bathrooms, a different variety of plaster was employed: Moroccan Tadelakt, selected for its waterproof application. (“You see it in most hammams,” says Grimshaw, who had spent time working in Morroco.)

Four layers of carpet came out, and another four layers of paint were stripped down.

Built-in benches line the living room.

This transformation by Irisarri + Piñera in the northwest province of Pontreveda, Spain is an elegant example of how a ruin can be incorporated into a new contemporary structure while preserving and respecting tradition.

When their clients were unsure whether to renovate this historic ruin on the northern coast of Scotland or build an entirely new house, WT Architecture advised them that by partially occupying the ruin they could actually do both.

Taking inspiration from Le Cabanon by Le Corbusier—the architectural firm B-ILD conceived of modular wooden fittings which would maximize the potential of the interior space of this Bunker-turned-holiday home in Vuren, The Netherlands.