Located on a rocky slope in the western outskirts of Madrid, this 2,691-square-foot concrete, glass, and steel house turns its back to the surroundings and interacts instead with the distant Pardo forest and Madrid’s skyline.
Sitting high above its neighbors, this house for a young couple and their three small children offers views of Chipinque National Park to the south, and Cerro de la Silla Mountain to the east.
'Now, the early guys got it. Schindler, Neutra, Wright,' says Barton Myers, sitting on a ledge of the terrace outside of his most recent steel and glass house in Montecito, California, completed in 2009.
Located off a main highway in Kuwait, these six houses, which total 36,758 square feet, are differentiated from their surroundings by a stark facade design that serves to give the buildings visual prominence and helps to achieve unity among all residences.