The Hobson Bay House is the contemporary house was designed by Stevens Lawson Architects. This award-winning house sits majestically on a north sloping section with a dramatic outlook to Hobson Bay, in Auckland, New Zealand, adjacent to an enclave of iconic New Zealand modern houses. The living areas, sky deck and main bedroom are located [...]

Tamahere House is a contemporary country house was designed by Stevens Lawson Architects that located in grassy fields at the edge of a steep gully, in New Zealand. The house and the landscape of the Tamahere family house are designed as an integral whole, interacting with the surrounding landscape not in a deferential way but [...]

The Private House in Dublin, Ireland was designed by FKL Architects. The site of Private House in Dublin is located on shift between two district contexts, the broken organisation of the north end of the street and the ordered 1940s semi detached houses to the south. The high walls to the houses to the north [...]

20a The Droveway is private residence was designed by Alan Phillips Architects in Brighton, United Kingdom as a simple pavilion with long views to the sea. The concept of 20a The Droveway house in Brighton was to refer back to the vocabulary of early modernism, then use contemporary technology to create a progressive variation that [...]

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 [...]

Remuera, a quiet suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, is the home of this contemporary, glass house – a modern beacon among its natural surroundings. This sleek design by Hillery Priest Architecture features expansive windows outlined by bold frames that punctuate their contemporary, geometric shape. The window walls seem to float beneath a vast angled roof, [...]

When a couple of nature lovers ventured to create a contemporary home that respects the land as much as they do, they came upon Carter Burton Architects and their cutting-edge take on the countryside retreat. The result is the Shenandoah Retreat House set on a 24-acre property on the shores of Virginia’s Shenandoah River and [...]