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In a newly constructed multifamily-residential development in New York City’s East Village, the architects had a unique opportunity to honor a client’s desire to combine two penthouse condominiums and connect them with a helical slide.

The owners of the House in Nakameguro wanted their architects to design a residence that would remain in the memories of their three children forever.

With Chile’s capital, Santiago, a two-hour drive away, and the vibrant seaport city of Valparaiso just down the coast, the onetime shipping village of Zapallar has become a chic resort destination.

Alternately called “The Trapezoid House,” Cassilhaus comprises three trapezoidal volumes across a very steep and densely forested site with views of Duke University Forest and New Hope Creek.

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.

Many architects claim they build with light, as if they possess an alchemical ability to make the ethereal material.