Vacation Homes

An architect’s weekend place on the English Channel turns its attention to the sea.

Set within the sloped terrain of beautiful Cap Ferret, France, is a contemporary holiday home perfect for both entertaining and relaxation.

On the windswept Norwegian island of Stokkøya, a holiday cabin built from local timber connects deeply to the landscape.

Bigger isn’t always better—this lakeside cottage has a low-lying form that disappears into the surrounding landscape.

Designed as a vacation home for a young family, this tropical modern dwelling uses restrained forms and fundamental materials to stunning effect.

Mobile cabinetry and thoughtful reuse turn a dilapidated industrial structure into a warm and creative home with open-ended possibilities.

A New Zealand family taps into the creative capital of architecture students to make their dream home a reality.

A steeply sloped site in the Wisconsin forest, plus an equally steep budget, led architect Brian Johnsen to reinvent the archetypal cabin for a sturdy vacation home.

A family matriarch enlisted an architect, an interior designer, a builder, and a landscape architect to help realize her vision for a diminutive, low-key lakeside getaway.

Inspired by their clients’ bold art collection, a pair of architects designs a Hamptons vacation house that subverts tradition.

For design mavericks Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan, a challenging site that slopes toward the sea yields a unique opportunity to create an intimate and relaxing hideaway.

An homage to Mexico’s untouched landscape, this elegant low-impact getaway sports a pared-back aesthetic.

Two Washington, D.C.–based writers balance life in the city with a low-key vacation spot.

San Francisco–based designer Maca Huneeus created her family’s weekend retreat near Lake Tahoe with a relaxed, sophisticated sensibility.

An adventurous family envisions a dream getaway on Sweden’s southwestern shore.

Robust materials and a flexible floor plan help the owners of an Australian vacation home reap maximum rewards.

A young family builds a Wyoming retreat filled with playful details from top to bottom.

A smart vacation home fosters connectivity in every sense of the word.

When a traditional architectural style meets handmade details, the result is a quietly modern retreat.

A family escapes their urban environs to a vacation home attuned to its coastal landscape.

The acclaimed Italian designers Ludovica+Roberto Palomba carve a serene retreat out of a 17th-century oil mill in Salento, filling it with custom creations and their greatest hits.

A Connecticut home with a notable architectural legacy gets an expansive update for a family of six.

By pooling their resources and giving their architect complete creative control, two busy Mexico City–based brothers built a high-design vacation home for just $70 per square foot.

Designer Jens Risom returns to his 1967 prefab off the coast of Rhode Island, readying it for his family's next generation.

Billed as a design retreat, Casa Mami in Pioneertown, California, hosts visitors at the edge of Joshua Tree National Park—then invites them to buy what they love.

Responding to its stunning location, this cross-laminated timber home near Edinburgh, Scotland, trades the traditional notion of the stone country cottage for a more contemporary...

This Grecian holiday home puts a modern twist on the area's traditional cave-like abodes.

Butler Armsden Architects’ retooling of a Stinson Beach retreat allows one family to bask in the outdoors.

Set at the edge of Acadia National Park in Maine, Somes Sound House is a shingle-clad vacation home with winter and summer volumes.

MIM Design remodels the 15-year-old RLC Residence to create an atmosphere conducive to rest and relaxation.