design homes

Fewer, better homes.

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designed around a massive boulder the owners fell in love with. 2,400 sq ft for a family of five — every room opens to forest. the kind of place where you forget what day it is.

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Kebony wood, dark steel, and a yellow front door tucked into the pines. Hillside Residence in Mazama, Washington by Prentiss + Balance + Wickline Architects. 📷 Andrew Pogue

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93 square metres. every door, window, and piece of wood was salvaged. looks closed off from the street but opens up completely inside — the patio becomes the living room depending on time of day. proof you don't need much when the design is honest.

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salvaged brick, repurposed timber, Mangalore tiles, and a central courtyard that turns a tiny village plot inside out. The Threshold House in Tamil Nadu by Madras Spaces. 📷 Syam Sreesylam

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Sistelo sits inside Peneda-Gerês National Park — terraced corn fields and granite houses have defined this landscape for centuries. oitoo kept that language but made it contemporary. two mirrored homes that feel like they've always been there.

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granite walls, terraced hillsides, two houses reading as one in a mountain village. The Sister Houses in Sistelo, northern Portugal by oitoo. 📷 Attilio Fiumarella

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four solid volumes — bedrooms, kitchen, family room — connected by a glass-wrapped living space with a 9.6m floor-to-ceiling window. the fireplace anchors the whole thing. architecture shaped around the trees, not the other way around.

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glass walls between forest pines, a central void preserving ancient oaks, rainwater guided downhill to a stream. House in Avándaro, Valle de Bravo by Ignacio Urquiza + Ana Paula de Alba. 📷 Rafael Gamo

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the architects let existing mature trees dictate the entire layout — no orthogonal grid, just volumes placed between trunks. the floor is raised so roots keep growing underneath. 260 sqm that barely touches the ground.

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compressed earth walls, trees growing through the floor plan, light shifting like music through open galleries. "A Forest in the House" in San Bernardino, Paraguay by Equipo de Arquitectura. 📷 Federico Cairoli

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the site was a historic boomtown during the 1870s mercury rush. the clients lived off-grid before the fire and wanted to keep that spirit — landscape-driven, minimal footprint, Sonoma County wine country all around.

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off-grid in the Mayacamas Mountains. rebuilt after the 2019 Kincade Fire on an old stagecoach road above Healdsburg. Pine Flat by Faulkner Architects. 📷 Joe Fletcher

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the site slopes down toward the river — the house follows it, stepping with the terrain instead of fighting it. every room framed by maples that go full colour in fall.

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perched above a river valley in Quebec's maple woods. black steel, warm timber, floor-to-ceiling glass dissolving into the forest. Perchée Residence in North Hatley by Matière Première Architecture. 📷 Ian Balmorel

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back-to-back housing reinvented — staircases and bathrooms against the shared wall for acoustic privacy, split levels that follow the slope. low-cement concrete, adjustable facades. smart density without losing character.

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two homes, one building. timber louvres on the street side, full glass opening to the garden behind. 2in1 Houses in Noisy-le-Sec, Paris by MXarchitecture.

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glulam timber diagrid roof, split-level rooms that follow the hillside, courtyards dug into the earth. Arbour House in Crouch End, London by Andrei Saltykov. 📷 French + Tye

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Soviet-era military bunkers on the Baltic coast, transformed into a family home among the dunes and pines. SAR Residence in Latvia by OAD. 📷 Alvis Rozenbergs

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a looping metal terrace for potted plants, wrapping a timber-lined home in Tokyo. 96 square metres of everything you need. House in Nakano by HOAA.

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