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Anchored by a totemic stone chimney, the blush-colored Promontory Villa is densely packed with tactile details.

Designed by a Pritzker Prize laureate, this brick-and-concrete house exemplified a humble and humane mode of Modernism.

Set among the towering pines of North Carolina's Piedmont region, the Steeplechase House is the product of intense collaboration between architect and client.

Using primarily concrete, the architect rebuilds on the site of a destroyed house he had designed for his parents nearly four decades earlier.

With its pleated, open-weave wood canopy, Arbour House takes full advantage of water views and natural light.

The first major completed work by the 2013 Design Vanguard firm reuses a preexisting foundation and is capped by a sextet of light monitors.

This year’s selection of exemplary single-family residential projects embraces the unexpected at a variety of scales.

Using a pared-down material palette of concrete, wood, glass, and stone, the country house for a family of six is defined by its panoramic vistas.

Key elements of a 1920s-era New Jersey farmhouse are preserved and expanded with an addition that creates an energy-efficient three-bedroom, two-bathroom family home.

A neglected but architecturally significant mid-century house and its surrounding grounds are saved from potential demolition and redevelopment through a comprehensive renovation and expansion.