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Four Roof House / TW Ryan Architecture

Nana Dokua — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Located on a bluff above Seeley Lake in central Montana, Four Roof House is conceived as a single-story, age-in-place residence designed for durability, low maintenance and long-term habitation in a remote environment. The project responds to a demanding climate, including 30-degree temperature swings, wildfire exposure and heavy snowfall, through an integrated approach to form, material and performance.

Meadow House / Mark English Architects

Susanna Moreira — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Meadow House presented us with an opportunity to work within the exceptional Santa Lucia Preserve in the Carmel Valley. Both the site and brief paved the way for a challenging and, ultimately, deeply rewarding process.

The Preserve I Home / Studio Schicketanz

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Studio Schicketanz designed this unique, multi-family architectural compound for studio founder Mary Ann Schicketanz and her son and his young family. Encapsulating a small home for his family of four and an ADU for Mary Ann, the compound is located within a planned community adjacent to the Los Padres National Forest. Mary Ann's family collaborated with her team to create the affordable, energy-efficient homes so that they would sit lightly on the land. Method Homes was selected for its exceptional manufactured housing capabilities, which allowed her team to achieve an efficient, high-quality and precise design with environmentally responsible sourcing on a quick turnaround.

ArchDaily's Best Architectural Projects of 2025

Hana Abdel — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:30:00 +0000

As the year culminates, it's once again time for the ArchDaily team of curators to reflect on the best-performing projects of 2025 and consider what readers were most interested in. Through this diverse overview, we assess the cross-continental similarities and differences in trends and construction development. This year brought us many grand cultural and public spaces by Lina Ghotmeh, BIG, Zaha Hadid Architects, DnA, and Serie Architects, who populated events like Expo Osaka and the Venice Biennale, as well as a surprising number of museums and public or landscape works in China and the rest of the Asian continent. However, while these were sought-after projects, the leading works remained, unsurprisingly, residential projects.

The Illusion of Level: Detailing for Water in “Flat” Architecture

Jonathan Yeung — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:30:00 +0000

We walk on "flat" ground every day and rarely think twice—but how flat is it, really? In the city, curbs are chamfered, sidewalks pitch toward grates, and roadways are crowned to shed water into shallow gutters. In suburbs and on unpaved paths, irregular terrain is the norm. Inside buildings, by contrast, we pursue near-perfect horizontality—structural frames, slabs, and finishes are all disciplined to create level walking surfaces in the name of safety and accessibility. Yet flatness is inherently at odds with water. A closer look reveals a quiet repertoire of accommodations: slight falls at entries, thresholds raised a few millimeters, wet areas with barely perceptible pitches. The floor is read as flat, but it is in fact carefully tuned—micro-topographies masquerading as plane—to manage water without calling attention to themselves.

Pavilion in the Oaks / Mork-Ulnes Architects

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

The clients approached Mork-Ulnes Architects with a desire for a flexible space that could provide a meditative, spa-like experience for exercise, yoga, and quiet contemplation, as well as a place for social gatherings with their extended family and friends.

Hosono House / Ryan Leidner Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Located in San Francisco's hilly Bernal Heights neighborhood, the Hosono House has an interesting setting in that the original structure, which was remodeled, was built in the rear of the property and setback significantly from the street, giving the home a unique sense of privacy and a feeling of being a true retreat. While the feeling of separation from the street created a unique sense of seclusion and sanctuary, it also presented challenges in terms of access and circulation. To resolve this, a new entry sequence was created, including a bridge that spans from the front garden, over the landscaped lower courtyard, to the new front door.

Twin Gable House / Ryan Leidner Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Located in Sunnyvale, CA, a quiet residential community in Silicon Valley, the Twin Gable House is a thoroughly renovated Eichler Home originally designed by A. Quincy Jones and Frederick Emmons in 1962.

High Desert House / Ryan Leidner Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Located on a picturesque, undeveloped parcel in Joshua Tree, the High Desert House celebrates the beauty of the desert in its simplicity while serving as a home and creative space for the owners.

25 Projects Merged into the Diverse Landscape of California

Mónica Arellano — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Located in the western region of the United States, the state of California is the most populous state and the third-largest — it includes some of the most populated cities of the country such as Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Long Beach and Oakland.

Butterfly House / Feldman Architecture

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 18:00:00 +0000

The clients approached Feldman Architecture to design a retreat for eventual retirement and visits from their grown children—a retreat befitting the natural beauty of the location in the Santa Lucia Preserve, a 20,000-acre private development, and land trust near Carmel, California. The clients were meticulous in the selection of the site, searching for two years for a spectacular piece of land that was flat enough to accommodate living on one level. In an initial meeting with Feldman Architecture, the clients noted their vision of butterflies alighting on the meadow site, which the architects took as inspiration.

Cut Out House / Fougeron Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 19:00:00 +0000

The Cut Out House is a 2500 square foot, three bedroom complete remodel of a Victorian built over a century ago and previously untouched since the 1920s.

Bluff Reach / Butler Armsden Architects

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 10 May 2018 13:00:00 +0000

On a jagged cliff overlooking the Pacific, tucked in between tufts of cypress, an architectural gem becomes a family vacation home under the design vision of Lewis Butler and Reba Jones. The home, located in the 1960s planned community of Sea Ranch, preserves the distinguishing elements of its neighboring buildings — vertical wood siding, muted materials, views full of drama — while giving the clients, a San Francisco-based couple in search of a secluded retreat, details all their own. For the architects, as enamored of the curving coast and soothing landscape as their clients, updating the home, designed in 1974 by Ralph Matheson and renovated in 1990 by William Turnbull Jr., proved easier than expected. With its relaxing lushness, the site itself played the role of mediator.

Remember House / Edmonds + Lee Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 13:00:00 +0000

On a down-sloping hillside parcel of land in San Francisco’s Noe Valley sits the Remember House, a four-story project that embraces vertical stacking and crisp materiality and was designed by Edmonds + Lee Architects for a tightly-knit family unit of three.

House Set On The Valley Floor / Jørgensen Design

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:00:00 +0000

Set within the vineyards and close to the center of town, the site for the house is a large plot of land dotted with full grown trees and vineyards.

Elastic / Garcia Tamjidi Architecture Design

Karen Valenzuela — Sat, 23 May 2015 12:00:56 +0000

Having undergone a complete re-branding effort, Elastic – formerly Elasticsearch – expanded into a larger headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

Butterfly House / Feldman Architecture

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The clients approached Feldman Architecture to design a retreat for eventual retirement and visits from their grown children – a retreat befitting the natural beauty of the location in the Santa Lucia Preserve, a 20,000 acre private development and land trust near Carmel, California. The clients were meticulous in the selection of the site, searching for two years for a spectacular piece of land which was flat enough to accommodate living on one level. In an initial meeting with Feldman Architecture, the clients noted their vision of butterflies alighting on the meadow site which the architects took as inspiration. They also expressed a desire to integrate indoor and outdoor spaces with a simple, modern aesthetic and to provide separate spaces for the growing family.

AIA Names its 2014 Small Projects Awards Winners

Rory Stott — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected ten recipients for their 2014 Small Projects Awards, which recognizes design excellence in projects with a budget of up to $1.5 million and with a floor area less than 5,000 square feet. The award "strives to raise public awareness of the value and design excellence that architects bring to all project types, including renovations and additions, no matter the limits of size and budget."