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A 1910 Seattle Beach House Gets a Colorful Makeover

Perched above Seattle’s Alki Beach, Alki Lookout is a century-old home that has traded conventional coastal style for a palette of saturated colors, playful patterns, and warm wood. With sweeping views of Puget Sound, Bainbridge Island, and the Olympic Mountains,…
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California Modernism Finds a Home on Canada’s West Coast

West Coast modernism has a distinct flavor—that blurring of lines between architecture and nature so exalted by mid-century practitioners is made manifest here. The style is most associated with California, especially the Pacific Palisades, but also much appreciated in British…
Architecture

Leibal — Oakley House

A stucco wall cuts across the clearing at Oakley House, enclosing a gravel courtyard on a wooded site that already offers privacy in every direction. Designed by Ravi Raj Architect together with developer D&A Companies, the four-bedroom, five-bathroom house in…
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This Boomerang-Shaped House Wraps Around a Mountainside

Perched above 41 acres of rugged Wyoming terrain, a cantilevered, boomerang-shaped residence folds into the mountainside. Designed by CLB Architects, the home makes an unforgettable impression, a quiet marvel of restraint and precision framed by sweeping vistas. Photography by Matthew…
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The Up Studio Designs a Hamptons Home for Living Well and Aging in Place

On a wooded, irregularly shaped lot in the Hamptons, Victory Lap Residence is a 7,000-square-foot home designed by The Up Studio, which also oversaw the interior architecture. A dramatic pitched roof rises above the main gathering space, nearly doubling the…
Property Blog | Property-design

How to Style a Home with Custom Furniture and Art (Design Masterclass)

Understanding how to style a home with custom furniture and art begins with collecting pieces that hold personal meaning. At a residence in Wainscott, New York, designer Matt McKay shares his approach to creating interiors that balance individuality, comfort and…
Architecture

Chalet Moraine

The two main floors of Chalet Moraine, a lakeside vacation home in the Laurentians of Quebec, Canada, contain no load-bearing walls. Montreal studio Appareil Architecture designed the house for a couple who had lived on the site for several decades,…
Architecture

Framed House

The reception room of a double-fronted Victorian house in East Dulwich is lined with delicate molded paneling, and that framing detail became the organizing device for Framed House, a refurbishment and two-story rear addition by Will Gamble Architects in London,…
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Inside a Penthouse Where Architecture, Interior and River Become One (Penthouse Tour)

Inside a penthouse where architecture, interior and river become one, ARC Penthouse by bureau^proberts offers a remarkable expression of riverfront living in Brisbane. Positioned atop ARC Residences in Toowong, the residence embraces the Brisbane River through expansive views, carefully considered…
Architecture

Treetop House

Treetop House was designed around the version of Torquay that appears after the holiday crowds leave – heavy skies, damp tracks through coastal scrub, and the subdued tones the landscape takes on in winter. Melbourne-based Studio Kennon set the residence…
Architecture

House of Wall Forest

A crab-claw-shaped lot in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan, bordered by a greenway to the south and an electrical transmission tower to the east, set the terms for House of Wall Forest. Saitama-based IGArchitects, led by Masato Igarashi, designed the two-story timber…
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A 1908 Japanese Prison Finds New Life as a Luxury Hotel

Constructed in 1908 by government architect Keijiro Yamashita, the landmark Nara Prison is the only complex among Japan’s monumental “Five Great Prisons of Meiji” to survive almost entirely intact. More than a century later, Hoshino Resorts has transformed the former…
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Architect Buries a Home in a Hillside So the Neighbours Can’t See It (House Tour)

When an architect buries a home in a hillside, the result is a close connection between architecture and landscape. At Toro Canyon House, Marmol Radziner has created a contemporary hillside home overlooking Montecito, Santa Barbara and the Pacific Ocean. Designed…
Architecture

House in Yamanakako

The ground under House in Yamanakako falls gently from east to west across a wooded slope at the foot of Mount Fuji, and CASE-REAL worked through many rounds of massing studies before settling on a plan that keeps the natural…
Architecture

Casa Piva

From its laneway in Malvern East, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, Casa Piva shows the street a white brick facade with almost no windows. B.E. Architecture designed the house as the home of architect and director Andrew Piva. The plan…
Architecture

Orchard House

Local planning rules required Orchard House to carry a 22-degree roof pitch, and Fearon Hay built the entire scheme around that constraint. Set within a mature chestnut orchard near Queenstown, New Zealand, the house by the Auckland-based studio is composed…
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Architect Designs a Dream Home Into a Cliff Above the Ocean (House Tour)

Set against the rugged coastline of Montauk, New York, an architect designs a dream home into a cliff, creating a beach house that balances architectural precision with its natural surroundings. Designed by SAOTA with interior design by Rafael de Cárdenas,…
Architecture

Walkers Hook Residence

A creek runs through one side of this Salt Spring Island lot and a road defines the other, and the riparian setbacks between them left so little buildable area that many prospective buyers assumed nothing could be built there. Walkers…