Another charred wood siding residence by Fujimori, the compact Coal House has a tearoom on the second story that accessible from the exterior by a timber ladder from the interior by a secret door in the master bedroom.
The Urban Cabin examines what the future could hold for city dwellers, celebrating immigration and cultural diversity while exploring design for life on a small footprint.
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To revive the original architects’ vision, studioWTA restored a four-foot roof overhang above a wall of La Cantina sliders. The shade helps limit solar gain, while a pool by Evans + Lighter Landscape Architecture provides respite on sweltering summer days.
Architect Damien Brambilla turned a run-down Paris apartment building into an open, bright adolescent group home with a landscaped garden.
On an eight-foot-wide site in London, architect Luke Tozer cleverly squeezed in a four-story home equipped with rain-water-harvesting and geothermal systems.
Designers Christopher Robertson and Vivi Nguyen-Robertson conceived their house as an unfolding sequence of simple geometric forms: a low concrete wall, a concrete cube, and a boxclad in Siberian larch.
The Frey II House, embedded in the rocky hillside of Palm Springs.
He worked around existing oak and eucalyptus trees for the new building, and retained the vernacular of an original barn, at right, where Frankel hosts concerts.