Renzo Piano never wanted to build a house. With a portfolio of museums, towers, and other award-winning buildings across the world, his mind was elsewhere.
The clients, a family of five, asked the Germany-based firm to design a house in Stuttgart with light-filled living spaces, connecting to a gallery space for exhibiting the family's private art collection.
At one of their first meetings, William Reue’s client handed him a piece of paper bearing a rough sketch of the home that she had been imagining for the last 25 years.
A family asked Connecticut-based architect Joeb Moore to convert a bulky 1980s-era house into an airy dwelling to accommodate its contemporary art collection and showcase panoramic views of the Long Island Sound.