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An Italian firm design a home made of suspended volumes.

As more architects get their hands literally dirty with the design-build process, this form of project delivery is resulting in some quite elegant structures.

A house by architect Ben van Berkel rarely could be described as a glass box. Instead the principal of the Amsterdam-based UNStudio avoids the rectilinear modernist approach for a more organic direction.

Toshiko Mori designs a modernist house in picturesque Camden, Maine, that is embedded in the earth but opens out to the view.

In Japan, a country that worships hot water, many people begin their day with a sip of green tea and end it with a soak in a deep tub.

Secrecy and privacy. Hiding in plain sight. These are themes Mike Mora of Heliotrope Architects toyed with while drawing up the designs for this Portage Bay residence, a 2,500-square-foot home for a bachelor that replaced an existing structure.