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David Hertz Architects was inspired by the remote hills of this Malibu property to design a home with unobstructed views of the beautiful mountain. With the architects’ goal of incorporating found objects into their design and the homeowner’s vision of a floating, curved roof, the idea of using airplane wings as roof material surfaced. Incoming [...]

This design challenges the conventions of northwest modernism. The “bones” of the original mid-century modern building were preserved to reduce construction cost and environmental waste, overhangs were minimized to allow the free flow of light and view, wood beams and other stylistic conventions were dropped in favor of taught finishes and clean surfaces, and geometric [...]

House PS is the result of an ongoing investigation of the courtyard house typology with all its Mediterranean connotations of climate, shade and intimacy. In this house, the courtyard is designed in section rather than in plan. Placed above the lower ground floor and below the bedrooms of the upper floor, the courtyard is shaded [...]

House in Ekali by Thanos Athanasopoulos: This single-family house is located in Ekali, a suburban area of Athens. The project has shaded lot of pine trees which let to the decision to create a continuous openable glass envelope. The sliding glass walls possible the daylight to enter into the deep plan while defining a large [...]

To encounter the slope site, Mount Fuji Architects Studio makes this Tree House climb higher from edge of the site. The architect manages the house in vertical volume without exposing to the outside, and secluded from the town. Polar coordinates system used as the geometry defining this architecture, which describes the location of an element [...]

Built in the hills above Noe Valley, the structure commands sweeping views of the Oakland Hills and the city skyline below, the H House takes a strong modernist stance while still respecting the scale and proportionality of its neighbors. Purposed to be a modest – a simple boxy two story structure. However, the deceivingly spacious [...]