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Pato’s dog, Helmut, snoozes in the luminous bedroom. “The only fixed idea I had was that I wanted to preserve the essence of the original house in terms of its aesthetics and the size of each room,” says Pato, who, despite being nervous about fixing up his first house, gave his team a lot of creative license.

“We were working with a casa chorizo, which is a distinctly Argentinean type,” says Giusto. The equivalent of a tenement, these buildings, which date mostly from the turn of the 20th century, were designed to house multiple families in separate rooms with a shared bathroom.

The first floor with bedrooms overlooking rooftop gardens.

Hilary and her husband, Jimmy, opted for a functional, restrained material palette. In the dining room, Rejuvenation pendants hang above a table by Hedge House and chairs from Hay.

“Everything needed to be approachable and simple,” says Hilary. “The house reflects who we are.”

Originally the home only had one bedroom and it received limited natural light.

When Austin-based firm Matt Fajkus Architecture was tasked with renovating this classic midcentury home, they sought to open up the interior—not only by unifying the common areas into an open-plan layout, but also by literally raising the home's roof. This strategy increased the ceiling height on three sides of the home, allowing for the insertion of clerestory windows to create a bright and airy open living space. "The raised ceiling maintains the original pitched roof geometry to stay harmonious with the existing gabled roof in the private zone," explain the architects in a statement.

The natural material palette of stone, wood, and polished concrete is enhanced by views of the surrounding greenery.

The new open-plan living/dining/kitchen space benefits from the raised ceiling height and the addition of the clerestory windows on the south, west and north sides.

The increased square footage and the outdoor patios are welcome additions to the home.

The College Park pavilion has become an inviting gathering point for residents of the surrounding community, well west of the Dallas city center.

The elongated midcentury facade of 946 W. Ceres Road is classic Palm Springs and features beautiful native landscaping by a local landscape architect.

Two awnings on casters can be adjusted to shade or expose the interior to sunlight.

Structural engineering firm Robert Silman Associates was key in helping the couple execute their design, particularly the cantilevered standing-seam aluminum roof.

Manufactured with up to 70 percent recycled steel, the hybrid prefab Graham Residence by Blue Sky Building System limits construction waste to the factory, where it's recycled.

The team shipped the FutureHUAS on five 43-foot-long trailers from Virginia Tech to Dubai, and installed it in less than two days for the 2018 Solar Decathlon Middle East. The open hatch is for drone deliveries.

Tech CEO and billionaire Elon Musk just listed the smallest of his four L.A. homes—and it's larger than life.

About 100 miles southwest of Mexico City, nine black concrete blocks in a forest clearing make up one family's holiday home. Designed by Fernanda Canales with landscaping by Claudia Rodríguez, Casa Bruma makes elegant use of a construction material that's commonplace in Latin America