Under the stairs, the base board was raised and updated with steel plate to create a camouflage storage space for bikes, while the sleek cabinet above was added to display mementos and store other belongings that originally had no home. Photo Credit: Mark Woods

Houston Riverview Way

Tom Hurt Architecture

The stairs are as much a part of modern architecture as anything. They are thoughtfully designed to create a memorable experience, a contemporary version of something as old as time.

Riverside Residence

Moore Architects, PC

The new house sits back from the suburban road, a pipe-stem lot hidden in the trees. The owner/building had requested a modern, clean statement of his residence. A single rectangular volume houses the main program: living, dining, kitchen to the north, garage, private bedrooms and baths to the south. Secondary building blocks attached to the west and east faces contain special places: entry, stair, music room and master bath. The double height living room with full height corner windows erodes the solidity of the house, opening it to the outside. The porch, beyond the living room, stretches the house into the landscape, the transition anchored with the double-fronted fireplace. The modern vocabulary of the house is a careful delineation of the parts - cantilevering roofs lift and extend beyond the planar stucco, siding and glazed wall surfaces. Where the house meets ground, crushed stone along the perimeter base mimics the roof lines above, the sharply defined edges of lawn held away from the foundation. The open steel stair stands separate from adjacent walls. Kitchen and bathroom cabinets are objects in space - visually (and where possible, physically) disengaged from ceiling, wall and floor. It's the movement through the volumes of space, along surfaces, and out into the landscape, that unifies the house.

Noe Valley

Jeff King & Company

Paul Dyer Photography

Midcentury Modern Custom Home Build in Eagle

Solitude Homes

Modern Beach house in Venice

Weather Projects

Caledon Mountain Home - Industrial Farmhouse

BLDG Workshop Inc.

A mid-century a-frame is given new life through an exterior and interior renovation

Geddes Ravine Residence

Beechwood Building & Design

The custom steel and glass stairway is clean and stylish, and allows the views of the Geddes Ravine to pour into the lower level family room space. Jeff Garland Photography