Located in the woods near the owner’s main house, this one-room personal retreat is sculptural and abstract in its form, but traditional in use of materials.
Occupying the crest of a windblown bluff overlooking the Atlantic and nearby saltwater ponds, this four-bedroom, 6,850-square-foot summer house was intended to be reminiscent of the early camps in Martha’s Vineyard.
In a newly constructed multifamily-residential development in New York City’s East Village, the architects had a unique opportunity to honor a client’s desire to combine two penthouse condominiums and connect them with a helical slide.
With Chile’s capital, Santiago, a two-hour drive away, and the vibrant seaport city of Valparaiso just down the coast, the onetime shipping village of Zapallar has become a chic resort destination.
Alternately called “The Trapezoid House,” Cassilhaus comprises three trapezoidal volumes across a very steep and densely forested site with views of Duke University Forest and New Hope Creek.
Located on a rocky slope in the western outskirts of Madrid, this 2,691-square-foot concrete, glass, and steel house turns its back to the surroundings and interacts instead with the distant Pardo forest and Madrid’s skyline.
Sitting high above its neighbors, this house for a young couple and their three small children offers views of Chipinque National Park to the south, and Cerro de la Silla Mountain to the east.