The house began its life in 1949 as a modest four-room row house on one of the steepest streets in San Francisco’s Noe Valley. Dramatically expanded with two new floor levels, the building is now home to an active family of five with ample space for guests, parties, and projects.
Located in the upscale village known as Barvikha, this estate contains three buildings in a line on the site: a garage, clad in black slate, a 15,048-square-foot house, finished with white glass panels, and a wood-clad 1,219-square-foot guest house and pool.
Architect Robert Gurney and his client, a young entrepreneur with a large family, shocked the residents of the Edgemoor section of Bethesda, Maryland, with the house they created. It was not because of the design's Modernist roots, although the house is decidedly unlike the Colonial- and Craftsman-style ones nearby. The surprise comes from its size.
Opening seamlessly to the tree of a former estate, this 5,300-square-food country home in a New York settlement reflects a family's desire for a luxurious—yet unpretentious—raw and comfortable retreat.
In an area of intense development overlooking the Aspen Valley, where many 20,000-square-feet-plus houses are built, the site for this house is clearly visible from the town of Aspen.
Exposing the dynamic potential of a building under construction was behind the development of the seismic exoskeleton that became one of the defining elements of Xiao-Yen’s house.
Situated on a 20-acre plot at the edge of a small town surrounded by small lakes and meadows, this 2,450-square-foot house is in an ideal place to take dogs for a run into the untouched wilderness of interior Alaska.
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