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Constrained by a tight oceanfront site, the sauna-equipped cottage features a pinwheeling plan and pyramidal roof.

The hip-roofed pavilion claims a pair of disparate influences: rural Scottish shepherd huts and Charles Moore’s own Bay Area residence built in 1962.

Updating the limestone-clad 1905 structure required serious interventions, including inserting a sky-lit central staircase to directly connect the garden level with the rest of the house.

The Connecticut-based architect details the in-progress metamorphoses of two canonical, early-career residences designed by Peter Eisenman.

Planning for the five-bedroom dwelling began with mapping out a perimeter around the root system of a sprawling rubber tree, adored by the clients, on the site.

Daylight is smartly scooped and funneled into this modest—and aptly monikered—bluffside residence.

Our dwelling-focused picks include monographs dedicated to Tom Kundig and Anne Fougeron, an expanded edition of ‘Fire Island Modernist,’ and a history of Neutra’s Lovell Health House.

RECORD’s annual appraisal of houses looks at residences with a smaller scale but equally big impact.

Featuring indoor and outdoor spaces that flow into each other and clad in charred timber, Translators’ House was designed for husband-wife scholars of Japanese and their children.

The two-story house disregards the formal and compositional conventions of its context, while elevating locally common materials—stucco, regional cedar, and board-formed concrete—to give it a strong sense of fit.