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The lofted bedroom is bookended by windows overlooking Ponderosa pines

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Marie and Kurtis Saldivar designed a 1,200-square-foot guest suite using a modified takes on a traditional Quonset Hut in Sisters, Oregon.

Highly-durable furniture was chosen for the upper deck's sitting area, which routinely hosts sunset parties.

We proposed large openings that can open wide to connect the interior and exterior,

"Our many ideas were floating around the mountain, and we needed someone to bring them down and turn them into reality,

The whole project comprised only three months of design, two months of production (some 90 percent of which was completed at a Buenos Aires factory), one day of assembly, and five days of adjustments. The structure consists of just four 9-foot-8-inch-by-19-foot-7-inch modules supported by a foundation plate. “If we want to move it, we can,” says Teresa. “We could get a crane and disassemble it and then reassemble it on the coast.”

Architects Nicolás Tovo and Teresa Sarmiento designed their glass-encased vacation home for a site in Patagonia, a two-hour flight from their studio in Buenos Aires. Nicolás calls it “a magical enclave” overlooking Nahuel Huapi Lake. “It’s a panoramic viewpoint where we can watch what happens,” adds Teresa.

Beside a simple but spacious kitchen, the living area is meant to be warm and casual.

The three arms of the Apfel House stretch out to catch the best views of Ranco Lake and the Andes Mountains.

The stairwell of this Melbourne house by LLDS looks like it could be inside the Goethenaum.

A worm filter system to treat all black water, producing fertilizer to regenerate the soil.

White oak slats and cork cladding give texture to the facade of a house that architect Jack Becker designed for himself and his wife, landscape architect Maddie Hoagland-Hanson, in an alley in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C. High awning windows let daylight in while preserving privacy.

White oak slats and cork cladding give texture to the facade of a house that architect Jack Becker de-signed for himself and his wife, landscape architect Maddie Hoagland-Hanson, in an alley in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C. High awning windows let daylight in while preserving privacy.

The cabinet door pulls are closet knobs that Jack retrieved from his grandfather’s house in D.C. before it was torn down.

A skylit staircase, wrapped in a more refined version of the exterior slats, rises through the center of the 1,600-square-foot house.

The primary bathroom repeats the tiles used in the kitchen, another example of the couple’s restrained choice of materials.