Faulkner Architects tucks Forest House into wooded site near Lake Tahoe
Concrete, steel and glass define the exterior of this California holiday home by US firm Faulkner Architects hidden in the trees of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. More
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Heusch adds underground concrete office to Beverly Hills house
Architect Gerhard Heusch has completed a subterranean extension for his own 15-year-old home that sits atop pilotis over a hillside in California. More
Unbuilt shipping container house for Joshua Tree on sale for $3.5 million
London designer James Whitaker's starburst-shaped shipping container house for Joshua Tree, California, has gone on sale for $3.5 million before construction has even started. More
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Tinted glass bathes Lookout House by Faulkner Architects in red glow
This house at the bottom of Lookout Mountain volcano in Truckee, California has glass walls chosen by local studio Faulkner Architects to tint the interiors "the colour of cooling magma". More
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White stucco Casa Mami by Working Holiday Studio contrasts California desert landscape
Los Angeles design firm Working Holiday Studio has transformed a property in the California desert into a shoppable holiday home that "stands out" against its desolate landscape More
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Renovated Californian house Ridgewood pays homage to its "flamboyant" modernist architect
Design collective Framestudio has completed the renovation of this mid-century house near San Francisco, which was designed by architect Henry Hill in a boomerang shape around a swimming pool. More
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Dawnridge House by Field Architecture splits in two around giant oak tree
US studio Field Architecture has designed the dining room of this house in a suburb of Silicon Valley, California so it is open to the outdoors and frames an oak tree. More
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Swimming pool cantilevers from Los Angeles residence by Standard Architecture
Three gabled volumes form this residence that perches on a cliff in the Hollywood Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles, designed by local practice Standard Architecture. More
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Overhanging roofs shade outdoor areas of cedar-clad Seaside Reef House
Long roofs extend from this cedar residence in California that architect Alec Petros designed for a client he met in a bookstore. More
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Chunky limestone walls feature in California residence Atherton Contemporary
This house in California's Silicon Valley, designed by local studios Pacific Peninsula Architecture and Leverone Design, is built with blocks of Texas split-cut limestone. More
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Black gridded windows form Valley Street house extension in San Francisco
San Francisco firms Síol Studios and Levy Art and Architecture have updated this house in the city's Noe Valley neighbourhood with a gridded glass extension and two rooftop decks. More
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Mirror-clad Invisible House reflects its desert surrounds
Designer Tomas Osinsk and Los Angeles film producer Chris Hanley have created a mirrored house near Joshua Tree National Park, designed to look like a New York skyscraper on its side. More
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The Pavilion by Feldman Architecture has glass walls designed to "disappear" into California hillside
American firm Feldman Architecture has inserted a glass pavilion between two white stucco volumes to form this residence in San Jose, California. More
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Ras-A Studio builds Walk-Street House near the beach in California
A photographer and his family live in this boxy house clad in cedar that design-build practice Ras-A Studio has designed near the ocean in Los Angeles County. More
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Slim wooden slats cover "wild geometry" of renovated Californian house
San Francisco's Blue Truck Studio clad the exterior of this holiday house in Manhattan Beach, California with cedar siding to tone down its unusual geometries. More
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Marc Thorpe designs Case Study 2020 house for Los Angeles
American architect Marc Thorpe has designed this Hollywood Hills residence for an art collector to draw on the modernist Case Study Houses. More
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White Twin Gable House by Ryan Leidner Architecture is a remodeled Eichler
Californian firm Ryan Leidner Architecture has used bright white paint and lush greenery to refresh a mid-century modern Eichler home in Silicon Valley that was completed in the 1960s. More
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Woodwork and skylights stream light into Noe Valley Residence in San Francisco
American firm Malcolm Davis Architecture has placed skylights over existing wood framing to streak the interiors of this San Francisco house with beams of light. More
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Saez Pedraja adds small studio to a fashion designer's Santa Monica residence
California architect Juan Saez Pedraja has added a studio fronted with aluminium panels and cedar shades to the backyard of a remodelled Santa Monica residence. More
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Five San Francisco house extensions designed to contrast the original architecture
These five houses in San Francisco are traditional in the front and have contemporary extensions in the back. More
