A celebration of the best in world-class architecture and architects. From the most architectural homes, architectural landmarks and architectural design to case studies from all around world to profiles about and with the incredible people that build and design them.
The architect’s 1938 “Dream House” design for Life Magazine, this now-rentable construction is a striking example of Frank Lloyd Wright’s democratic Usonian vision—if not its ideal.
Located in Seattle, the 3,442-square-foot home by Heliotrope Architects was built on a site with an odd shape reminiscent of the state of Oklahoma, which faces the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains.
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.
A showpiece on stilts in Sherman Oaks, 3707 Oakfield Drive is a house of considerable architectural stock, a Platform House originally designed by Austrian-American modernist Richard Neutra, who was especially prolific in Los Angeles.
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.
That these clean-angled constructions are strenuously minimalist makes them more interesting and dynamic than one expects to find in a gated community. Robustly walled, but not walled off from the world, Abraham Cota Paredes’ Natura House is a bold rethink of privacy.
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.
Federal House makes good on Edition Office’s commitment to sustainability. Relying on cross-flow ventilation as a cooling mechanism rather than air conditioning, the highly insulated home thrives in sub-tropical temps.
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.
After living for two decades in a relatively small house in Palo Alto, California—where they raised their four now-grown-up children—the owners of this home jumped at the chance to expand their property by purchasing the adjacent lot.
