Architects Santiago Valdivieso and Stefano Rolla wrap a Chilean retreat with a wood shell.

Strand Design works with a builder to update a Midcentury house in Minneapolis.

A young firm creates surprising spaces within a gabled-roof house in Chicago.

A house in Aspen fits discreetly into the landscape.

An architect creates a secret garden house for himself and his family in a dense residential section of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A discreet facade belies the surprises within a house in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.

On a 25-acre site in New South Wales, a Sydney-based architect designs a home for an environmentally-minded young builder.

A firm based in San Jose, Costa Rica, envisions an open-air pavilion for a vacation house.

Simple forms and local materials are all architect Alfonso Quiñones of BAAQ’ needs for a beach house on Mexico's Pacific coast.

On a tight site in Amsterdam, architects create a slim, five-story residence.