This Colorado vacation home – custom tailored to the exacting specifications of a high-powered New York family of avid skiers – delivers outstanding form and supreme function in only 3500 square feet. Though seemingly three stories tall, it cleverly meets a one-and-a-half story height restriction necessitated by the steep grade changes of its mountainside site. […]
Located in Montrose, Colorado, Uncompahgre Retreat is a wooden vacation home designed by Barrett Studio Architects. From the architect: Nestled into the soft cottonwood trees at the edge of the Uncompahgre River, this modest home provides a cool, airy retreat from the oppressive heat of the surrounding high desert. Its simple form and rustic materials present a humble
Carmens House is a single-family residence located in Washington DC, designed by KUBE Architecture. From the architect: Carmen grew up and lived her formative years in Puerto Rico. As a young woman she moved to the United States to pursue a career. After more than 30 years of traveling and living away from Puerto Rico,
Lakeside Residence is a contemporary residence designed by Seattle-based Castanes Architects. Truly a dream home, Lakeside Residence rests at the West shore of Lake Washington, enjoying views of the lake and growing skyline of Bellevue. While the new residence takes a “bow” to its predecessor with a design that evolves around both traditional and contemporary
The clients, an interior designer and a DJ, requested a complete renovation and addition of a 1960’s kit house in Amagansett, NY to be a weekend retreat from their urban apartment.
Beach Haven Residence is a weekend residence designed by Specht Architects for a family of five. The lot is on the beachfront, but very small, tucked away from the street, and had many code-regulated square-footage and height restrictions. The challenge was to create something open and light-filled that takes advantage of its beautiful setting, yet
Located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, in a small Italian neighborhood, the Little Big House was designed by Robert Maschke Architects in 2016. The architecture emerges from the reconciliation of inherent contradictions embedded within the site and program. The client desired an urban presence, while also creating private exterior space secluded from the surrounding context. The
The Franklin Mountains are the southernmost expression of the Rio Grande rift, an uplift of Precambrian rock that runs from Colorado down through New Mexico. Eight-hundred feet above El Paso, Texas, on the side of the mountain range …
Cape Cod Beach House is a private residence designed by Hariri & Hariri Architecture, an architectural firm established in 1986 by Iranian-born Cornell-educated sisters Gisue Hariri and Mojgan Hariri. Provincetown is a thin strip of low-rise buildings at the curved tip of Cape Cod. Despite it’s known bohemian summering artist, writers, painters, and a historic
