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A new entryway was created for the home; it’s situated across from a patio that leads to a new garage. Western red cedar with a clear finish unifies the exterior look of the property.

The world’s most popular doll, with a hot-pink blueprint tube and a hard hat: friend or foe to a profession already suffering from a pronounced gender gap?

The Clark family residence in Raleigh, North Carolina, was designed around the Series 600 multi-slide window walls from Western Window Systems, a rarity in the southeast.

Inside, the dining nook is similarly clad in Western cedar, augmenting the home's connection to the outdoors.

The elongated stems of this modern cutlery set suggest chopsticks with the function of Western utensils. Choose among five types of wood handles, including ones in wenge and teak.

The western wall, folded like a paper screen to provide strength, adds another jolt of visual interest.

Compa and Cook relax on a patio at the western end of the house that overlooks a neighboring farm.

“The principal forms were there,” architect Robert Young says of the original property. The transformation reoriented the home’s entrance with horizontal roof planes and an exterior comprised of Western red cedar.

Called the “LDK,” for living, dining, and kitchen, the space is flexible—a blend of Western loft life and traditional Japanese homes, where rooms are multipurpose.

The team matched and continued the 1960s-era red oak floor into the living room, which gained an entire wall of new sliders from Western Window Systems. “We wanted to preserve the original intent of the house wherever we could,” Dimster notes.

The house opens to the rear deck, which the original architects projected into the setback to maximize the outdoor space. All the doors are from Western Window Systems. As in his own home in Venice, Dimster added a clear railingto the roof deck, so nothing would obstruct the view. He also designed the sun shades.

A look at the Western Window Systems wall from inside.

All of the glazing along the house’s 95-foot-long western elevation can be opened to the out of doors.

The architects of AKB designed a south-facing facade, seen here, with recessed windows to minimize sun glare and solar heat gain. To the west is an assemblage of boreal trees—sugar maple, poplar, fir, hawthorn, cedar, and birch. The north looks out to the greater Georgian Bay. The home is clad in Western red cedar.

The home, currently in production in Seattle, totals 825 square feet. All of the windows, provided by Western Window Systems, are fully operable.

LeBlanc sits at the western maple dining room table, designed by the architect.

Stained western red cedar extends around the full exterior of the home. A pea gravel driveway stays in place with a steel edge.

Sliding doors from Western Window Systems connect the living room and the deck, which is made of pressure-treated pine planks surrounding a black gravel pit.

The lively interior of the bedroom is evocative of the spaghetti Westerns that Boglione loved as a child.

Site of the Western Mosque in Amsterdam photographed by Christian van der Kooy.

The 510 Cabin is one of Leggitt's designs, executed with the help of student apprentices.

Muennig’s Green House utilizes the western sun of the dramatic Big Sur coastline.

A sliding glass Western Window Systems door dissolves the boundary between indoor and outdoor.

In the living room, spare Scandinavian design takes center stage. Hans Wegner’s Wishbone chairs surround an Essay dining table by Cecilie Manz for Fritz Hansen; a mostly wood palette is enhanced by slate-gray brick around the fireplace. The paper lanterns throughout the home are a mixture of classics by Isamu Noguchi alongside those picked up in Japan and France.

Devout Muslims and Western-style tourists congregate outside the Blue Mosque in the Sultanahmet district.

Clad in Western red cedar siding and punctuated with floor-to-ceiling windows, this minimalist two-bedroom home boasts sunrise views over the Sonoma hills.

A “Schof” – a type of closed porch that’s common in the Alpine region of Austria, links the corridor-kitchen to the western side of the house.

A cylindrical glass staircase with Western red cedar and painted steel mullions dominates the front of the house. The stair treads, along with the floor, are made of recycled spotted gum.

The cover of Murakami Versailles.

This opulent oasis promises mystery, adventure, and escape from ordinary life.

Hidden from the dense oceanfront in Malibu, California, this restoration by Brininstool + Lynch promises solitude and garden views.

Norske Mikrohus’s latest project, Rast, is a 174-square-foot-home that promises to get you closer to nature.

The house is hidden from the road and sits on a hilltop clearing that overlooks the rolling farmland of the Mississippi River bluffs in Western Wisconsin. From this vantage point, there is a 270-degree view, with dramatic sunsets over the distant hills.