12 + Alder by Skylab is One of Portland house, Oregon’s, up-and-coming neighborhoods can thank a modern reinterpretation of a previously decrepit building for inspiring a wave of rather chic downtown development

Referencing the First Presbyterian Church’s slate roof, 12 + Alder makes nice to its divine neighbor

The door to the street boasts a graffiti-resistant paint, [...]

Szymon Szczesniak house in Wilga, Poland, features a dynamic skin, a curtain that covers the long side of the elevation. The intermediate space changes during the day due to the winds of the area. A project by architects Jakub Majewski & Lukasz Pastuszka most famous as Moomoo. via

This very beautiful house, simple, International Style house, perfectly sited on two acres. Designed in 1955 by noted modernist architect Willis N. Mills, the four-bedroom, 4,200-square-foot house featured view-filled expanses of glass and generously scaled spaces, including a double-height living room that cantilevered dramatically outward some 30 feet above the landscape. The property had everything—even [...]

Located in Sagaponac, New York, Sagaponac House 43 was designed by Hariri and Hariri. House 43’s modernist elevation is both monumental and inviting. These shots show the Hariri design in its spec stage, before the first residents, Heide Banks and Howard Lazar, moved in.

A view through the kitchen/living area, with the door to the master [...]