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Malvina Zayat perches House in the Clouds on hilly site in Argentina

February 19, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Argentinian architect Malvina Zayat has completed a white home for herself and her family that is lifted above a sloped site and enters into “an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds”. The residence sits within a native forest in the town of Salsipuedes, which lies about 30 kilometers from the city of Córdoba. Zayat

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CLB Architects creates trio of “tectonic structures” for Wyoming residence

February 9, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of “tectonic structures” set within a diverse ecosystem. The ShineMaker home looks toward

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SAOTA lines Los Angeles house with white metal screen

February 6, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

South African architecture studio SAOTA has completed an angular residence in the Los Angeles hills meant to provide privacy while drawing in the “calmness and serenity” of the surrounding landscape. The Stradella Ridge house sits on a steep, triangular property in Bel Air, an affluent neighbourhood in the foothills of the Santa Monica mountains. The

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Taller Héctor Barroso envisions Valle de Bravo houses as “silent architecture”

February 5, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Mexican studio Taller Héctor Barroso used concrete, wood and brick to create a series of holiday homes that merge with the wooded landscape and “allow nature to act in the intimacy of the home”. The small residential complex – called Los Helechos, or The Ferns – is located in Valle de Bravo, a scenic area that is

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The Ranch Mine adds steel-clad lookout tower to Arizona house

January 30, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

US studio The Ranch Mine has completed a house in Arizona clad in wood and weathering steel that includes a tall volume that can “serve as a sentinel for potential forest fires”. Called Malapai Tower House, the family residence is set within a ponderosa pine forest in northern Arizona, near the mountain town of Flagstaff.

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Kendle Design clads Arizona “micro building” in weathering steel

January 26, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

US architecture studio Kendle Design Collaborative has designed an accessory building for a family home with a metal roof extension meant to frame an outdoor garden while “celebrating the Arizona sky”. The Flex Pavilion was designed as a companion to a modern-style residence that was built in 2016 and was also designed by local studio

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D’Arcy Jones adds subterranean garage to century-old house in Vancouver

January 25, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Canadian architecture studio D’Arcy Jones Architects has completed a project called John Street Redo, which involved renovating and enlarging an early 1900s home in a way that is “forward-looking without erasing an old building’s original charm”. Located in East Vancouver, the project was designed for a young couple who had a baby upon the home’s

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Rectilinear and sculptural forms converge at Bridgehampton Beach House

January 24, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

A curvy canopy with a rooftop reflecting pool is among the standout features at a Long Island house designed by US studios Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts & Partners to embrace its sand-dune setting. Located on a hilly site in the Hamptons, the project was created for an urban, art-loving couple who wanted a

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HGA creates two mass-timber buildings for Bowdoin College in Maine

January 22, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities, Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first “commercially scaled mass-timber buildings” in the state of Maine. Located near a grove of mature pine trees, the neighbouring buildings are in the southeast corner of the 215-acre (87-hectare) Bowdoin College campus in the city

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Massachusetts co-living building by French 2D is model for “alternative American housing”

January 16, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

An irregular roofline and pale pink walls feature on the exterior of a multi-generational co-living complex in New England that architecture studio French 2D hopes can “serve as a replicable model” in the country. Described as “a typology-challenging” project, the Bay State Cohousing complex is located in Malden, a suburb in the Boston area. It

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