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The Cresta

January 16, 2015

Architect and developer Jonathan Segal's cast-in-place concrete house for his family in La Jolla, California, brings urbanity to the suburbs. In temperate La Jolla, California, a narrow building lot and a desire for a generous outdoor living area gave rise to the straightforward rectilinear motifs of the 5,300-square-foot Cresta House, a three-story coastal residence designed by San Diego architect Jonathan Segal for himself and his wife, Wendy. “The house wanted to be a pure form on this site,” Segal says. He conceived the cast-in-place concrete structure as an orthogonal volume, slicing and shaping rooms and functional spaces within and around

Equestrian Project

The 30,000 square-foot complex includes a freestanding main house flanked by stables and a riding ring.

Josephine Minutillo

December 16, 2014

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For a Mexican country home, CC Arquitectos positions living quarters and stables side by side to forge a closer bond between human and horse. One man’s passion for horses inspired the design of his family’s vacation home, set in the mountains two hours from Mexico City. The linear, gable-roofed wood structure contains four bedroom suites that float above the ground floor’s reception hall and the expansive living and dining area, finished in wood and stone and outfitted with furniture by renowned French designer Christian Liaigre. Additional quarters for the household help are also included in the elongated volume. Partially depressed

Lake Minnetonka Retreat Home

Sarah Amelar

November 15, 2014

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Though inspiration sometimes emerges slowly, it can also flash unexpectedly, like a bolt of lightning'as it did the first time architects Julie Snow and Matthew Kreilich caught a glimpse of their clients' site along Minnesota's Lake Minnetonka.

Red Rock House by Anmahian Winton Architects

Red Rock, Massachusetts

Josephine Minutillo

October 16, 2014

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Asked to design a modern cabin for a couple with passions for music and art, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm Anmahian Winton Architects created an ensemble of structures that is equal parts rustic and refined.

Flip Flop House

Sarah Amelar

September 16, 2014

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The story of the Flip Flop House began with a chance encounter in a camera shop.

Water Mill Residence by Andrew Berman Architect

New York

Josephine Minutillo

August 16, 2014

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This New York home started as a way to bring three generations of family, spread across the globe, under one roof.

Casa Ventura

Lamar Anderson

July 16, 2014

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Tatiana Bilbao encloses each programmatic area of Casa Ventura in connected pentagonal volumes that sit high above Monterrey, Mexico. The mountains outside Monterrey, Mexico, offer city views and forested vistas, but the terrain ruled out the one thing that the clients, a couple with six children, had their hearts set on: a house all on one level.

Island Residence

There are times when a site is so perfect, so breathtaking, there is nothing for an architect to do but surrender to it.

Josephine Minutillo

June 16, 2014

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There are times when a site is so perfect, so breathtaking, there is nothing for an architect to do but surrender to it.

Topo House

A hill-hugging landform of a structure that rises like a zigzagging ramp out of a grassy incline.

Lamar Anderson

May 16, 2014

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The trouble with building on unspoiled terrain is, well, spoiling it.

A House In The Woods

A House in the Woods by William Reue melds organic and geometric forms in the landscape.

Nicole Anderson

March 16, 2014

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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.