Mint green-painted ironwork and tiles connect the indoors to the outside more fluidly.

The Max-A studio is also built with a pine frame, though it has pine panelling on the ceiling, while the main house ceiling is painted a warm white.

The bed, also by Hynam, is on casters, allowing ten Hompel to move it to gaze at the stars.

Green tea and a sweet for a guest.

Bright train headlights make their way through the pillars that separate sets of tracks. Photo courtesy Matt Litwack.

Signage on walls let workers know how far they are from the platform. Photo courtesy Matt Litwack.

A section of tunnel in the NYC subway. Photo courtesy Matt Litwack.

Worker tools left for construction. Photo courtesy Matt Litwack.

An autobiographical diary entry by the graffiti artist REVS, who scattered these pages of his life story throughout the transit system. Photo courtesy Matt Litwack.

Beneath the Streets A train passes through an abandoned station in the New York City subway. Photo courtesy Matt Litwack.

Graffiti artist standing on a wood covering over the third rail. Photo courtesy Matt Litwack.

Masstransiscope—a 228-panel installation by artist Bill Brand—can be viewed from trains headed towards the Manhattan Bridge. It was installed in 1980 and sanctioned by the MTA. Photo courtesy Matt Litwack.

Red and white panels on track walls indicate areas of no clearance in which an individual will be hit by the train

Emergency exits in tunnels lead back to the street level above. Photo courtesy Matt Litwack.

A cozy reading nook fits underneath the stairs, saving floor space in the 1690-square-foot home.

Wood decking extends out to the yard.

Amending Meeuwissen’s early request for an open bathroom space, the architects devised a more private chamber with an overhead skylight and walls in stone tile from Intercodam Tegels.

After - living room (Rubio monocoat floors, Chantilly lace walls, used fireplace)

This piece of ephemera started it all: Bubeshko's first check to Schindler, which kicked off the design process.

The kids play in the family room just beneath the stairs.

99 by Von Tundra and Lydia Cambron $13,000 Oregon-based Von Tundra’s unit combines three different storage options—a rack, drawers, and boxes—into a multipurpose dresser.

The Armadillo is parked on a 1,000-square-foot lot that gives the couple ample outdoor space.

Gregory and Caryn Katz are dwarfed beneath the cantilevered concrete overhang, which houses the bedroom on the upper level. The stackable glass doors that run beneath allow the house to open completely to the yard and swimming pool, soften the severity of the concrete, and blur the boundary between indoors and out.

Bériault enjoys some leisure time in the lounge beneath the master bedroom.

Angus opts to sleep on top of the bed rather than beneath it.

This outdoor chair from designer Damian Velasquez is both striking and strikingly comfortable—you might not believe you're sitting on metal. The mesh design is sturdy, but has just enough give to conform to your body. The heat-dispersing, wind-resistant powder-coated stainless steel construction makes it a smart addition to your yard.

O Table by Half 13 $2,800 This curvy powder-coated stainless steel outdoor table, fabricated by Damian Velasquez in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is available in nine vibrant colors.

Brand and DeMarie also inherited this early blueprint.

Wooden decks can be added to heighten the indoor-outdoor living experience.

Landscape architect Kevin Campion went to great lengths to protect the poplar trees during construction. Delta Millworks charred the cedar gable fronts following the shou sugi ban technique.

From the Central Pavilion: The architect Juan Herreros materialize the theme of the Biennale through large scale technical documents of constructive details, facade cross-sections, and abstracted models of unmentioned projects, in order to illustrate his idea of Common Ground in current architectural practice, in which technique acts as an amalgam of diverse disciplines and where the architect is no longer a conductor but a member of a multi-polar, interdisciplinary team, also enriched by those who occupy and share the building.

Jörg Hamburger's document portfolio is from 1957.