Retreats

Using a contemporary play on vintage ski cabins in Vermont, architect David R. Maclean designed a modern home that takes advantage of sweeping valley views and opens up to the surrounding forested landscape.

For Mount Washington Residence, McBride Architects use prefabrication to save on costs while going big on functionality and style.

The maple kitchen cabinets are punctuated by leather and brass pulls.

Retractable glass walls allow living spaces to blend from inside to outside, creating a direct connection with the Bondi Beach climate.

Corrugated Cor-Ten steel clads the entryway that connects the two cedar-clad wings.

Just a short walk away from two of Norway’s largest hospitals in Oslo resides a tranquil forest featuring the trickling Sognsvann Creek. It’s in this lush oasis that Norwegian architectural and design firm Snøhetta has built the Outdoor Care Retreat, associated with the Friluftssykehuset Foundation. The project allows nature to provide a healing respite for patients who’ve been kept in isolation. For that purpose, the interiors have been left relatively bare, in stark contrast to the crowded, tall hospital buildings they’re associated with.

Masi's main goal was to better connect the home with its private yard.

At under 100 square feet, the 8' x 12' Site Shack includes just the essentials: a wood-burning stove, a desk, and storage.

The rear courtyard appears to float over the site. On the right is a large screened porch with three walls of retractable insect screens from Phantom Screens, which make it easy to use the space whether it's bug season or not.

The Cabin is used by a couple with a young child, who spend their weekends here while a larger country home is under construction.

Set on a slope, the property faces the forest to the north and sweeping views of the landscape to the south.

Minimally separated by LaCantina walls of glass, the interior white-washed fumed oak flooring flows into the Alaskan yellow cedar deck built at the same elevation.

Cabin Nordmarka, 2006.