Quiet living

Landscape designer Kenneth Philip worked with mwworks to fill in the forested setting.

The multi-purpose room opens to the courtyard and looks over a small reflecting pool to the Puget Sound beyond.

The meditation room can also double as a guest room when the couple has visitors. Wide plank white oak floors throughout bring a softness to the cabin.

For more than 70 years, claims have persisted, without much evidence, that a home in Portland, Oregon, is a lost work by Frank Lloyd Wright. Regardless of authorship, the structure—a flat-roofed, cedar and glass ranch—endures as a sterling example of postwar American architecture. Its recessed entryway features panes of translucent glass.

Listed for the first time since it was built in 1979, the cliffside home of architect Barry Downs is located in a waterfront area that is at risk of redevelopment.

Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP used 87 translucent bricks to reframe a family’s connection to nature and the city.

A more narrow window focuses the eye on tree trunks, creating an “abstracted view of the landscape,” says the firm.

The concrete foundation was poured on top of a rock outcropping, so that the house would feel like part of the natural features of the site.

The house was designed to minimally interfere with the hilltop vegetation, which is what attracted the family to the site.

The living room has views of the veranda and kitchen through sliding glass doors.

Greenway Studio designed this home addition In Victoria, British Columbia, to blend in with an existing natural rock formation.

The well-preserved wood-and-stone-clad home rests at the end of a long, gravel drive, surrounded by a mature forest. Its bright red door extends a cheerful welcome.