Take Flight With Home RO54 by Arshia Architects
Perched on a hilltop in Bel Air.
Overlooking the Los Angeles basin and the Pacific Ocean, RO54 has a dynamic form that looks as if it might take flight.
Designs for Living
Step Inside Halfmoon Bay House by Frits de Vries Architects
Cabin in the woods.
Good architecture builds windows instead of walls and makes poetry out of practical decisions. Take the cabin at Halfmoon Bay designed by, and for, a partner at Frits de Vries Architects + Associates. Where woods meet water, it’s a retreat for him, his partner, and their yellow lab, Taavi.
Stewart Avenue Residence by Brillhart Architecture
Elevated coastal design.
It appears different from every angle, formal and textural, a house of many faces rising from the tangled earth.
Octothorpe House by Mork-Ulnes Architects
Home sweet home.
Octothorpe House is as versatile as the # symbol for which it is named. Built to be sustainable, support flexible living, and draw the outdoors in, the house has an easygoing efficiency and is filled with light and changing perspectives.
Camel Quarry House by McLean Quinlan Mines Art From the Earth
Unmistakably English.
There are few architects whose work makes one wonder at the wild beauty of dirt. McLean Quinlan is a British firm that reminds us—in a way that should be redundant but is not—that the Earth is made up of animals, vegetables, and minerals animated by light, and it is by weaving these miracles together that we build a home.
BlackCliff House by McLeod Bovell Modern Houses
Monumental desires and benign disorientation.
For all the moments this house presents, though, the designers are interested in a material wholeness. Their signature monumental concrete plinths are grandiose.
Ballantrae Country House by Drew Mandel Architects
An armature for experience.
Responding to both land and family, the house seems to float on the soft green hills, lounging in articulated space next to the tree-lined watercourse, which hosts blue jays, herons, and pileated woodpeckers.
Roberts Creek Residence by Burgers Architecture Redefines the West Coast Cabin
Retreat within a retreat.
Set back from the water on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, Roberts Creek Residence combines characteristics of local wood cabin structures and contemporary dwellings into a compelling architecture made up of a series of three distinct areas, each with its own vaulted ceiling.
Sangre de Cristo House by Specht Architects
Sand and shade in Santa Fe.
Scott Specht says that his greatest influence for Sangre de Cristo House was the Land art movement, which has always worked well with the expansive natural canvas that is the desert.
