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The materials palette that I chose is light in color with a few splashes of color. This lightness holds the space open and gives it a contemporary feel.

A few children playing on the village basketball court.

A few of the tables exhibited at last year's show.

The master bathroom is one of few spaces that lacks windows, but it opens onto the brilliantly daylit master bedroom.

A few doors down is a space dedicated to children's clothing.

A few of the amazing staff and volunteers working tirelessly on the installation.

There are precious few decorative flourishes in the house; the architects put their faith in line, form, and materials. Concrete, stainless steel, and birch were used in the kitchen, where not an inch of space goes unused.

The exposed original brick is one of the few reminders of the apartment’s old bones.

Here are a few testers I did before I started printing on my cards.

After being held in position for a few years, this ash tree will cast a new shape.

Özdemir works at her desk, conveniently just a few blocks from her flat.

New residential buildings are few and far between in England, so architects like Phillips have increasingly been charged with creating groundbreaking modern environments within the shells of historic houses. “People just find it easier to work within existing houses to transform them to be sleek, stylish and functional,” says Phillips. “Extensions have almost become a requirement for any homeowner who wants to be a part of modern living within the U.K.”

In legendary designer Jens Risom's home, the painted white brick fireplace is flanked by wood bookshelves that join to form a mantle.

For participants in the Concorso, the hundreds of hours of painstaking restoration, preparation and transport, culminate in a few minutes of judgement.

The back porch, one of the few requests of the resident. Photo courtesy of Jared Boudreaux and Tim Hayes.

While the slate-clad northern facade has few windows and a steeply pitched roof, the southern facade is dominated by glass with the solar-panel-clad roof strategically angled to catch the sun.

The budget for the renovation was tight, but the architects splurged on a few elements, like the glass partition show here. "We concentrated investment in a few space-changing, expensive elements, like the glass walls we placed to divide spaces and bring the light in. We kept the budget low on almost everything else," says architect Matteo Colombo. "This is generally our philosophy: to concentrate resources in elements that make the project special, and keep the rest simple and affordable."

All the new built-in cabinetry floats a few inches off the ground and below the ceiling, adding light and shadow, so as not to make the 715-square-foot apartment feel confining.

A few thoughtfully selected objects bring warmth and comfort to the pied-à-terre shared by four siblings.

Concrete floors were polished a few extra times to reveal the pebbles and stones for a terrazzo-esque effect.

Sparano works in the dining area, where books about travel, architecture, and food, as well as framed architectural drawings from his grad school days, line the back wall. The hollow glass-walled light fixture is from Ikea; every few months, the family fills it with a different season-inspired item, such as pinecones in the fall and feathers in the winter, as pictured here.

Sattler-Smith explains that “the north side of the house is covered with corrugated galvanized steel and pierced with only a few very small windows; this protects from the 100-mile-per-hour north winds.”

Bizna Estudio combines passive house principles with a few regional materials to keep one family cool while on vacation.

The stone walls were built without any mortar holding them together, a historic technique that few masons use today.

A second aperture in the roof is located over the shallow end of the pool. An alfresco dining area, with seating by Kettal, is perched a few steps below.

Dwell's president and CEO, Michela O'Connor Abrams, kicked things off at the HP Lounge with a few announcements.

A few of the iconic images that might find their way onto a HeadHoods design

Over the past few years Milliken has gathered various species of lichen, organized by color, form, and source.

Dinner, however, has fewer rules and playing with food is permissible, as Tony Antonelli displays. Image courtesy of NASA.

Ben Koush has amassed a collection of new and vintage furniture that complements the few pieces he designed himself, like side tables and art stands in the living room.

"Overall, the lot was flat and grassy with a few beautiful trees," Lum says. "We nestled the house among the heritage redwood tree and the other mature oaks on the property."

Diego's typewriter. Easier to imagine him thundering his orders, but I expect he must of put a few to paper.

Here are a few others stamps that I have done. Strangely, they’re all flora or fast food. Hrm.

The Hoover Dam, one of the country’s great engineering feats, is just a few miles from Vegas and warrants a visit.

Though we are reading fewer and fewer printed newspapers, pages and pages of paper still gets dropped on doorstops around the globe everyday. Greetje van Tiem's furniture is created with yarn made out of newsprint. The front page of one newspaper can reportedly yield nearly 40 feet of yarn.