Nestled into sloping topography, the design of this home allows privacy from the street while providing unique vistas throughout the house and to the surrounding hill country and downtown skyline. Layering rooms with each other as well as circulation galleries, insures seclusion while allowing stunning downtown views. The owners' goals of creating a home with a contemporary flow and finish while providing a warm setting for daily life was accomplished through mixing warm natural finishes such as stained wood with gray tones in concrete and local limestone. The home's program also hinged around using both passive and active green features. Sustainable elements include geothermal heating/cooling, rainwater harvesting, spray foam insulation, high efficiency glazing, recessing lower spaces into the hillside on the west side, and roof/overhang design to provide passive solar coverage of walls and windows. The resulting design is a sustainably balanced, visually pleasing home which reflects the lifestyle and needs of the clients. Photography by Andrew Pogue

Menlo Park Residence

Matarozzi Pelsinger Builders

Ground up project featuring an aluminum storefront style window system that connects the interior and exterior spaces. Modern design incorporates integral color concrete floors, Boffi cabinets, two fireplaces with custom stainless steel flue covers. Other notable features include an outdoor pool, solar domestic hot water system and custom Honduran mahogany siding and front door.

Urban Loft

Crescent Builds

Photo by Ross Anania

Washington DC Full House Remodel

Four Brothers Design + Build

Greg Hadley

NW 13th Avenue Loft

User

This loft apartment is on Portland’s NW 13th Avenue, one of Portland’s most interesting streets. Located in the recently transformed Pearl District, the street is a busy ensemble of shops and apartments housed in late-19th and early-20th-century loft warehouse structures, with the buildings largely intact as originally built, including special features such as water towers, loading docks, old brick, and original painted signs. Photos by Lincoln Barbour.

RockHouse

[STRANG] Architecture

A clear sealant onto the structural concrete slab created a natural finish for this master bedroom. An ebony-stained pine headboard anchors a platform bed from Room&Board. Photography © Claudia Uribe-Touri

Marek Sikora Photography

Marek Sikora Photography for Venessa Hermantes

Flinders Ranch

Destination Living

The brief for this project was for the house to be at one with its surroundings. Integrating harmoniously into its coastal setting a focus for the house was to open it up to allow the light and sea breeze to breathe through the building. The first floor seems almost to levitate above the landscape by minimising the visual bulk of the ground floor through the use of cantilevers and extensive glazing. The contemporary lines and low lying form echo the rolling country in which it resides.

Phillips Residence

ConcreteWorks East

Concrete countertop

Suncrest

Heliotrope Architects

Sean Airhart

Hewer Street, North Kensington, London, W10

Domus Nova

Minimalist at heart, the home has an overwhelming sense of energy. “With the recent renovation, we wanted to create living areas that were comfortable and beautiful but stayed true to the original industrial aesthetic and the materials we had used in the first renovation,” says the owner. http://www.domusnova.com/properties/buy/2056/2-bedroom-house-kensington-chelsea-north-kensington-hewer-street-w10-theo-otten-otten-architects-london-for-sale/