Architecture
Buildings, form, and context. Saturdays at 11am LA time.
A Suita home by Fujiwara-Muro Architects on a narrow sloping plot, built around 3 integrated gardens, a sunken living room, and an elevated garden corridor.
A single-story weekend house in Uckermark by Sigurd Larsen, with a curved stone wall, a glass and polycarbonate roof, and terrace-facing bedroom alcoves
An Edwardian Melbourne residence extended by Adam Kane Architects with a light-filled addition, a helical stair, and a cantilevered master wing
A 2-level studio extension in Sterrebeek by LAVA Architecten for a ceramicist and jewelry artist, with a teaching workshop below and a private studio above
A 1962 Eichler courtyard house in Sunnyvale by Ryan Leidner Architecture, stripped of decades of alterations and updated with pocketing glass doors and a pool.
A cluster of 3 small houses in Toyama City by Studio Velocity, with 6 volumes stepping across 3 ground levels to follow the mountain contour
A 21-meter square house near Meco by Atelier RUA, with 4 bedroom clusters at its corners and terraces facing east, south, and west
A single-story residence near Ansião by Bruno Dias Arquitectura, elevated above a sloped site and organized beneath 2 organic concrete slabs
A De Haan coastal residence by GRAUX & BAEYENS with a white-washed brick facade extended beyond the structure to provide privacy
A 3-story Osaka residence by Tato Architects organized as a spiral of 16 split levels connected by step floors rather than walls
3 self-contained Puglia houses by Studio Andrew Trotter, converted from 2 structures using local tufo sandstone, vaulted ceilings, and bespoke fixtures.
A Melbourne residence by Edition Office above the Birrarung floodplain, its tree canopy woven through with Eckersley Garden Architecture's seasonal planting.
A 40-square-meter live-work house in Colombia's pottery region, built directly from the excavated clay beneath it
A north-facing London flat renovated around light, washed plaster, and a garden-connected rear extension
A 3,500-square-foot East Hampton extension by Helena Clunies-Ross, using stone, timber, and linen as a sensory counterpoint to her client's fashion career.
A garden house in Ghent by Machteld D'Hollander, built from raw concrete walls and steel framing with planting beds that grow through the structure.
A Tokyo house by Taketo Shimohigoshi of A.A.E., its 2 galvanized metal volumes separated by a courtyard and joined by a sunken lounge and spiral stair.
Hanne Kjærholm's 1962 house outside Copenhagen, designed by husband Poul Kjærholm, preserving its steel-and-glass structure among birch trees and brick walls.
A woodland retreat by Heliotrope Architects, its 3 wings arranged around a central clearing on a wooded Pacific Northwest site, each serving its own program.
A house in Kobe by Tomohiro Hata, its wooden arches built into cross-shaped columns that respond to layered retaining walls and steep terrain.
A narrow Osaka house by Fujiwaramuro Architects, its curved plaster walls directing movement and opening and closing rooms as they bend.
A house in Takamatsu by Fujiwaramuro Architects, using translucent polycarbonate screens and offset floor plates for privacy without walls on a visible lot.
A Sao Paulo house rebuilt by Felipe Hess, its walls removed for a white metal structure connecting half-levels from pool to rooftop in exposed concrete.
A Canberra house by designer Peter Besley, built from salvaged timber and recycled steel with structural elements sourced from demolished buildings nearby.
A rebuilt rear extension on a Grade II listed 1840s London house converted into a ceramics studio with a wet and dry working zone
A single-story Brentwood house for Jenni Kayne by Vincent Van Duysen, built around a central courtyard with Belgian brickwork and oak-facing glass panels.
Christian and Ruxandra Halleröd's own 82-square-meter cedarwood weekend home on Blidö island in the Stockholm archipelago
A concrete house on a Värmdö hilltop plateau by Tham & Videgård, with floors rotated 45 degrees to create sun-following terraces and panoramic archipelago views
A Hyogo residence by FujiwaraMuro Architects organized around a central eave-covered path that continues the street's spatial logic into the house
A 2-story in-situ concrete weekend house and outbuilding on a lakeside plot in Grünheide by augustinundfrank