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In addition to the pellet stove, the floors are radiantly heated.

The 1963 residence has traditional lanterns, shoji screens, and tranquil outdoor areas with a 60-year-old cherry tree.

There’s even a sense of play in the entryway: Bocci lights are installed in the layout of the Orion constellation.

Mobili Vintage

Floor plan of Philadelphia Town House by Trade Architects and General Assembly

SHED rebuilt the deck to have only two support posts, and an integrated planter faced with COR-TEN steel to tie into the front facade.

The contrasting style of the original home and the 70s-era addition come together in this space, now with white oak wall paneling and a twenty-foot-long, seven-foot-wide custom sofa designed by Office of Tangible Space. The painting is by Kathan Zerzan.

After entering through a gate, the home's charred spruce siding presents a somber face.

Floor plan of Fidalga Apartment by Gurgel D’Alfonso Arquitetura

The cantilevered addition was kept, and another bedroom added to the second floor over the existing house. Parks collaborated with Fort Structures to ensure that the third addition would sync with the rest of the house, replicating the window placement to make them sit between the roof beams, while still meeting current code and insulating the ceiling.

As Nicolás Tovo and Teresa Sarmiento of La Base embraced modular design as part of their architectural practice, they noticed that prospective clients were wary of prefabricated construction. So the duo teamed up with Place, an Argentine prefab builder, to make a proof of concept just outside the Patagonian resort town of Bariloche.

Floor plan for Refugio Bariloche by Nicolás Tovo and Teresa Sarmiento

A triangular cutaway in the barn's volume creates a transitional space between indoors and outdoors and fills the interior with natural light.