The client, a businessman with a young family, wanted to experiment with unusual construction methods for his new house on a steep hill overlooking the sea and mountains outside Barcelona.
The clients, a couple with a dog, desired a contemporary twist for the renovation and extension of their one-story 1940s bungalow on a corner site in west Los Angeles.
Los Angeles architect Bob Hale, of Rios Clementi Hale Studios, wrapped his Cheviot Hills house in a perforated-metal screen punched with the hebrew word for love.
It's probably safe to bet that most architects have designed their dream house—on paper, in their heads—many times over. Bob Hale, of Rios Clementi Hale Studios, was lucky enough to make one of his iterations a reality in Los Angeles's Cheviot Hills neighborhood.
Although located in a neighborhood near Kyoto known for its historical buildings, this house is in a newly developed residential area marked by contemporary architecture.
The clients wanted to keep a low-profile for their new residence, with an emphasis on sustainable, natural materials that blended in with the rural landscape.
The MTY house is located in San Pedro Garza Garc'a in northern Mexico, in a partially wooded area that has recently been developed into 107,639 square foot lots and with stringent environmental protection regulations.
A Stairway to the Treetops: A chameleonlike house'which changes with the seasons and throughout the day'provides a perch for total immersion in the surrounding woods.
With his design for the Atrium House, 36-year-old architect Fran Silvestre takes a fresh look at 20th-century Modernist formulas, from the courtyard houses of Mies van der Rohe of the 1920s and '30s to the Case Study Houses in Los Angeles of the 1950s and '60s.