Articles Tagged with ''modern residential architecture''

Featuring indoor and outdoor spaces that flow into each other and clad in charred timber, Translators’ House was designed for husband-wife scholars of Japanese and their children.

The two-story house disregards the formal and compositional conventions of its context, while elevating locally common materials—stucco, regional cedar, and board-formed concrete—to give it a strong sense of fit.

Tucked away in a historic enclave, Morningside Residence balances climatic demands with an approach influenced by Sarasota Modern design principles.

The Chilean architect caps each of the dwellings with fiberglass shells, creating a series of contemplative spaces that serve different functions for each family.

While more modest in scale than past awardees, this year’s six Record Houses—all of them primary residences—make their own big, bold moves that help to set them apart.

Set into a hillside, Rancho El Bosque comprises six largely independent dwelling modules, including a trio of two-bedroom duplexes.

Perched on a bluff overlooking Fall Creek, this shed-roofed retreat in Texas Hill Country is anchored by a generous porch rivaling the size of the interior living room.

A cramped L.A. bungalow is transformed into an airy three-bedroom primary residence featuring wood framing, concrete finishes, and generous expanses of glass.

A 1960s-era Connecticut residence with a distinctive flared roof is updated for 21st-century living through a careful gut renovation.

Clad in dark metal panels and floating above a concrete basin that doubles as a shaded patio, this modern expansion of a 50-year-old country house contrasts with the original structure in just about every way possible.