When Seattle-based designer John Van Dyke visited Cabo Corrientes for the first time nearly a decade ago, he found a kind of place he thought no longer existed.
As more architects get their hands literally dirty with the design-build process, this form of project delivery is resulting in some quite elegant structures.
A house by architect Ben van Berkel rarely could be described as a glass box. Instead the principal of the Amsterdam-based UNStudio avoids the rectilinear modernist approach for a more organic direction.
In the far reaches of a peninsula in Wisconsin, Johnsen Schmaling has designed a textured wood structure with a green roof and expansive views of nature.