Record Houses

Pound Ridge House by KieranTimberlake

Pound Ridge, New York

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

April 16, 2015

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A house wrapped in a sophisticated skin makes the most of a site with challenging topography.

Shulman Home & Studio by Raphael Soriano and Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects

Los Angeles

Sarah Amelar

April 16, 2015

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A photographer's midcentury house, little changed over the decades, is sensitively restored for a young family.

The Lightbox by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Point Roberts, Washington

Laura Raskin

April 16, 2015

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Designed for an architectural photographer, a house in the woods has an innovative spirit and a modular concept that enables Modernism on a budget.

Yamate Street House by Taichi Mitsuya & Associates + UNEMORI ARCHITECTS

Tokyo

Naomi R. Pollock, FAIA

April 16, 2015

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A Japanese architect stacks the atelier and dwelling of a local artisan to mesh with the urban environs.

Balint House by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

Valencia, Spain

David Cohn

April 16, 2015

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Gentle curves and almost seamless surfaces give a Mediterranean house an enigmatic allure, with spaces that flow indoors and out.

Carmel Residence by Jim Jennings Architecture

Carmel, California

Deborah Snoonian Glenn

April 16, 2015

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A simple modernist free plan, organized around outdoor spaces, integrates lessons of the past.

Los Limoneros by Gus Wüstemann Architects

Marbella, Spain

Suzanne Stephens

April 16, 2015

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A pristine, thick-walled house in southern Spain affords privacy yet openness through its interplay of void and mass.

Record Houses 2015

April 1, 2015

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Phoenix House

Shadow Box: Finely crafted concrete walls serve as thick canvases for the play of light and shadow at a family house on the southern California coast.

Deborah Snoonian Glenn

April 16, 2014

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Concrete can wear many faces. In the wrong hands it goes cold and clinical, the stuff of a thousand Brutalist eyesores.

Sun Valley House

A Split With Tradition: Making the most of its spectacular setting, a house in a mountain resort town cracks open an everyday form.

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

April 16, 2014

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When asked if his latest project, a vacation home in the Idaho resort town of Sun Valley, is at all based on a local vernacular, Tuscon-based architect Rick Joy bristles.