Welcome to the April issue and the annual publication of Record Houses, a long tradition at the magazine. While not extending all the way back to our beginnings 125 years ago, RECORD has published special features on residential design for most of its history, long before the first issue of Record Houses came out in 1956. As early as 1910, the magazine began creating special sections on country houses and seaside cottages.
This year, each of the eight winning houses has an especially strong connection to its surroundings, whether it is a cedar-clad cabin perched in a forest overlooking a lake in Nova Scotia or a suburban New York residence that blurs the boundaries between architecture and landscape using stone walls that are set into its craggy site. The urban dwellings in the pages ahead are striking not only for their unusual plans—a multilevel Tokyo house is accessed only by a snaking perimeter ramp—but for the sensitive scale with which they respond to their neighborhoods.
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