Personal Retreat in the San Juan Islands: Hillside Sanctuary
The owner of this property came to Hoedemaker Pfeiffer looking for a personal retreat inspired by a treasured stone and wood home lost to fire decades earlier in the hills of Appalachia.
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Alpine Terrace House Float in the New Zealand Mountains
The Alpine Terrace house is a cluster of simple blackened buildings set around a courtyard. The cluster is sited on a sloping terrace surrounded by mountain ranges overlooking the Wakatipu Basin in New Zealand’s Southern Alps.
Little Art Studio / Chen + Suchart Studio
The Little Art Studio is a 1400 SF addition to an existing contemporary stucco and glass residence. The addition of this project to the site provided a backdrop and bookend to an existing desert courtyard and a…
Prospect House / Johnston Architects
Designed to take full advantage of its quirky site, Prospect House is a compact cabin contributing to the stock of innovative modern residential design in Washington’s Methow Valley.
Hexagonal House that Offers Views from All Six Sides: Goto House
Goto House is a hexagonal weekend house situated on a rugged parcel in Napa County. The house’s design engages the spatial dynamics of its situation through the formal and experiential activation of negative space relative to conditions of surface, material, view…
Prumirim Beach House / Bruno Rossi Arquitetos
The Prumirim beach house is located in the northern coast of the São Paulo state – Brasil, it is laid out among the thick Atlantic woods of the Sao Paulo shoreline, a few meters from the sea.
Eco Houses / Rebelo de Andrade Architecture & Design
The Eco Houses grew from a double conceptual root. On the one hand, ensuring the profitability of Pedras Salgadas Park as a tourist hotel project made the option between rehabilitating the existing hotel or building a new…
Unconventional Cabin with a Strongly Scandinavian Aesthetic
This 160 sq.ft. all concrete structure is one part Scandinavian minimalism and two part Virginia countryside. With a crackling fire that heats the hot tub, solar panels, cisterns, murphy bed, shower and compost toilet this off-grid structure…
Casco Bay Island Retreat / Whitten Architects
An active young and growing family approached us with a desire to create a home that would give the ability to thoroughly enjoy this serene landscape. They wanted a “low-impact” Casco Bay Island retreat with the capability…