Architects Luc Bouliane embraced the challenges and opportunities of the site—the narrow lot sits due north, in the shadow of a low-rise apartment building—to balance spatial complexity and economic simplicity.

An Italian firm design a home made of suspended volumes.

The clients wanted to renovate a two-story, ranch-style, 1960s-era, wood-frame house, which was left devoid of natural light after an earlier duplex conversion.

Atop a high ridge in a densely wooded 'Outer Cape' area of Cape Cod, the architects designed a four-bedroom residence offering both long, unobstructed vistas and passive cooling from the breeze.

For a family of five, the designer and architect sought to gut and renovate a building that had been partially converted from a 5,500-square-foot church to a residential space, preserving historic elements of the existing structure while updating the home with modern conveniences.

On the site of an 850-square-foot cottage from the early 1900s, the architects sought to create two new compact, modern, single-family homes in an architecturally conservative area.

The owners wanted a compact single-family home on a sloping site that would afford views of the natural surroundings, including Lake Washington and Mount Rainier.

The architect aimed to convert the former 8-by-11-foot boiler room of a commercial laundry to a guesthouse and potential full-time residence.