Inspired by the context, the 360-degree views and the passions and rituals of every family member, this house by GO’C was built on a very steep slope to the south, with neighbors on both sides.
Based in Cape Town, architecture studio SAOTA has projects all over the planet. The firm made its name through projects with pure lines and a clean yet sculptural designs that typically maximize views. This two-story Los Angeles home is no exception.
With the clean lines of a modern aesthetic balanced with the warmth of traditional style, Palisades Ranch is a characteristically sunny Southern California house designed by a quintessential California architect, William Hefner.
Tainaron Blue Retreat is quite literally a hotel for the ages. Lovely and romantic, it is infused with ancient myth and has patinaed with time.
Finished in 1989, an often aesthetically garish era, the Neuendorf House was destined to stand out, a work of committed minimalism by the now lionized architects John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin.
With its minimalist rectilinear form clad in charred shou sugi ban rain screen siding, the house by Annie Barrett & Hye-Young Chung contrasts with the San Pedro cacti and other kinds of vegetation that welcome the inhabitants and their visitors.
Isla del Rey in Menorca, Spain, a decommissioned naval hospital established by the English in 1711 is now a contemporary art center for Hauser & Wirth with gleaming-white galleries, artfully drawn gardens, a nautically touched restaurant and a craft-filled gallery shop.
Placemaking is of foremost importance to Dorte Mandrup, the founder and creative director of Danish architecture studio Dorte Mandrup A/S and Monocle’s architect of the year. Her repertoire of highly contextual works includes a growing number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Located in a flat sagebrush plain in the bed of the historic Snake River, just across from Grand Teton National Park, this 4,700-square-foot, four-bedroom house by CLB Architects, which embraces the natural terrain of Jackson, Wyoming, provides exceptional unobstructed views of the Tetons.
Situated on a quiet cul-de-sac in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles and designed by Abramson Architects, this house has an ideal location that invites the homeowner—a photographer and interior designer—and her guests to enjoy exceptional views of the Getty Center and beyond.
With Pam and Paul’s House, an unambiguously work of modern architecture in Cupertino, California, architect Craig Steely is in his element—at the intersection between the natural and built environments.
Spread over 25 acres, AutoCamp Joshua Tree comprises 47 Airstreams, four accessible suites, and four X suites—with outdoor showers in some premium units and with HVAC systems in all of them.
