houses
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Partisans creates an undulating Ontario guest house
An undulating wooden structure makes for a striking guest house, designed by Canadian architecture studio Partisans, in the grounds of a Southern Ontario home
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Coppin Dockray’s renovation of Jørn Utzon’s Ahm House wins Wallpaper* Design Award
By Dominic Bradbury Last updated
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Strang Design unveils home created for Florida's climate
Tarpon Bend Residence by Strang Design is a new-build family home in Florida, tapping into its site's context and the architect's approach to ‘environmental modernism'
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Contemporary residential redesign transforms California family home
The contemporary redesign of this South Pasadena residence by architecture studio Medium Plenty transforms California family home
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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1920s Los Angeles house transformed by Nwankpa Design
Nwankpa Design's Curson Residence is the imaginative contemporary transformation of an existing 1920s Los Angeles house – completed by an all-women-of-colour design and construction team
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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1960s bungalow renovation cuts cinematic dash in Belgium
House BPB, created by Belgian architect David Bulckaen, is the imaginative reintepretation of a 1960s bungalow into a dark, mysterious, contemporary house inspired by the movie A Single Man
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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US architect David Montalba invites us into his family home in Los Angeles
Designed for himself and his family, Montalba's LA home blends interior and exterior landscapes with Japanese architecture influences and a crisp, contemporary aesthetic
By Carole Dixon Last updated
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Upstate New York home is a blissful, remote retreat for two architects
Designed and built by David Leven and Stella Betts of Leven Betts Studio for their own use, Open House is a compact, precise and blissfully remote retreat
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Modernist houses for sale in sunny California
Few places capture the public imagination like California. The Golden State on the American West Coast is the stuff of myth, movie and modernism; and these modernist houses – which are currently up for sale – could be just the excuse to make the move
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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The remote Canadian architecture of power couple Shim-Sutcliffe
The Architecture of Point William delves into a series of works by Toronto architecture firm Shim-Sutcliffe, all masterfully bridging nature and architecture on the Canadian Shield
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Saunders Arkitektur designs masterful modernist micro-house
Norway-based practice Saunders Arkitektur crafts finely detailed prefabricated cabin on the Bergen docks, launching hand-crafted, modernist micro-house
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Chilean seaside cabin becomes dream retreat for four families
A cross between a beach hut and a cabin, Casa El Gauchal – designed by Iván Bravo, Martín Rojas and Gino León – is four families' private retreat in Chile
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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San Francisco bungalow transformed into spacious architectural home
San Francisco-based architecture studio Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) works its magic to turn a tired bungalow into The Fourth Wall, a contemporary urban family home
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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A 1930s Melbourne duplex is transformed into a richly layered contemporary home
Architecture journalist and Wallpaper* contributor Stephen Crafti welcomes us into his newly renovated home in Melbourne to explore its pavilion-like extension
By Stephen Crafti Last updated
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Haringey home’s crafted glazed extension makes it glow
This north London house redesign by architect Satish Jassal adds a timber-framed, glazed extension to a Haringey family home, making it glow like a lantern
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Oregon’s Royal Residence is a home among the trees
Perched on a steep slope in Oregon's tree-filled Forest Park, the Royal Residence by William / Kaven is the first in a series of inspiring, contemporary homes in a forward-thinking development by Kaven + Co, architect Daniel Kaven's development company
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Jared Della Valle's eco family retreat is in tune with the landscape
A minimalist, eco-friendly house overlooking the idyllic Hudson River Valley is the country home of New York based Alloy's principle, architect and developer Jared Della Valle
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Peter Womersley's High Sunderland restored by Loader Monteith
Young architecture studio Loader Monteith restores Peter Womersley's High Sunderland, a house designed for textile designers Bernat and Margaret Klein in the Scottish Borders
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Vo Trong Nghia designs Vietnamese shophouse with an artisanal twist
Vo Trong Nghia’s Bat Trang House breaks the traditional shophouse mould with two floors dedicated to commerce, several elevated gardens and a ceramic casing inspired by the owners’ artisanal heritage
By Joshua Zukas Last updated
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Step inside David Adjaye and Sue Webster's Mole House in London's Hackney
When contemporary London based artist Sue Webster aquired a derelict detached house in de Beauvoir Town, previously occupied by the eccentric ‘Mole Man of Hackney', she enlisted friend and past collaborator David Adjaye to create for her a perfectly balanced home that combines past and future, and spaces for work, art and everyday life
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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A spectacular hilltop house provides epic Tyrolean views
A dramatic, new hilltop house by Peter Pichler Architecture makes the most of its location and views of vineyards in Italy's South Tyrol
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Compact London apartment renovation draws upon Scandinavian minimalism
Young architecture practice Studio Hallett Ike completes ER Residence, an apartment renovation in a typical Victorian terraced house in North London
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Simone de Gale’s Indian villa blends local and global
London-based architect Simone de Gale with Arshak Architects complete The Manjeri Residence, a contemporary Indian villa steeped in local references in the lush Kerala region
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Armadale house blends minimalism and warmth
Conrad Architects and Mim Design collaborate on a contemporary home in Melbourne’s Armadale suburb that combines timeless minimalism, classical proportions and domestic warmth
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Takero Shimazaki reimagines the cloister typology for a suburban home
A contemporary reimagining of the cloister garden for a British suburban home, A Wall For A House by London-based Takero Shimazaki Architects delivers light, space and connectedness
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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ARO-designed Bucks County home brings together art and landscape
A new-build ‘forever' home for two collectors balances internal art and design displays with views of the green, agrarian landscape of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in a modest architectural composition by ARO
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Remi Connolly-Taylor's first home build turns a disused London infill site into something special
Inside Remi Connolly-Taylor’s bijou first build home/studio, Maryland House
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated