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The exterior of Albert Frey’s 1964 Frey House II in Palm Springs, California. Photo courtesy Palm Springs Art Museum

The modular building was designed with ease of future relocation and reuse in mind.

Karol Pasternak of NOKE Architects, who undertook the design project alongside his business partner Piotr Maciaszek. "When the overri

A structure built in a Polish ROD cannot be permanent, nor can it exceed 375 square feet.

Reilly, pictured here, deleted the original front door in order to create an expanse of uninterrupted wall in the living room. The existing slider is now the main entry point. She clad the exterior with planks marketed as a shou sugi ban product that reads as burned, knotty cedar. A new, corrugated metal roof replaced asphalt shingles.

The bench Reilly made when she was a student at Rhode Island School of Design sits under industrial-style hooks in the entry.

A couple draw from the surf shack aesthetic to create a holiday home in Camber.

The custom wood banister was designed by The Brooklyn Home Company’s artist-in-residence, Fitzhugh Karol.

Sabbeth designed the built-in sideboard, which Waterfield topped with a wall mirror by Ben and Aja Blanc, bought from the Future Perfect, to fit beneath the clerestory windows.

Set in a bush clad gully by Honeymoon Bay in the Abel Tasman National Park, this modern bach is built with materials and finishes chosen to cope with the day-to-day rigors of bush and beach life—think steel and powder-coated aluminum joinery that dissolves into the bushscape, Laminated Veneer Lumbar (LVL) columns, and whitewashed timber. The bach also features a central deck with operable louvers that extends the covered living area outside.

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