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A close-up of the home's wood facade.

Elegant alpine home celebrates natural timber inside and out

Exposed concrete, wood and glass define the recently completed House R, a stunning nature-focused home that puts...

red perforated building with greenery growing over the balconies

Modern, energy-efficient office harvests rainwater in Surat

New Delhi-based multidisciplinary firm Urbanscape Architects along with Utopia Designs have recently completed...

small gray cottage home with front yard

A Melbourne worker’s cottage gets revamped into a solar-powered family home

When a young family with two children approached Melbourne-based practice Gardiner Architects for a renovation...

linear concrete and timber home

A 1970 home gets a modern, light-filled revamp in Santiago

When a family with three children sought a modern refresh for their aging home in the commune of Las Condes in...

gray concrete home lit up at dusk

This holiday home in Montauk produces all of its own electricity

East of the Hamptons sits a solar-powered, holiday home that celebrates indoor-outdoor living. Wrapped in exposed...

exterior of modern home lit up at night

Solar-powered Austin home can save owners nearly $100K in energy costs

This sculptural home in Austin is a scene-stealer, for more reasons than just its good looks. For starters, the...

Höller House by Innauer-Matt Architekten, Bregenzerwald contemporary architecture, minimalist Austrian architecture, timber contemporary architecture in Austria, Höller House in Austria, wraparound covered terraces, homes with a concrete core

Minimalist timber home gracefully blends into the Austrian landscape

Lovers of minimalist architecture will swoon over Innauer-Matt Architekten’s Höller House, a beautiful modern...

Kew Gardens Hill Library by Work Architecture Company, Kew Gardens Hill Library, Kew Gardens Hill Library Queens, green-roofed library, Queens green roof NYC, glass fiber reinforced concrete facade,

Green-roofed Kew Gardens Hill Library lures patrons indoors with a lifted facade

A branch library in New York City is luring the community indoors with a clever facade that lifts up at the corner...

Villa in Amagawa, concrete holiday villa in Japan, Planet Creations, cantilevered house, green-roofed concrete villa

Striking green-roofed house cantilevers over a cliff in Japan

This striking concrete house extends from a cliff above a river in Japan, providing spectacular views of the surrounding...

Rusty House, OK PLAN ARCHITECTS, sheet metal, CorTen, exposed concrete, concrete, Czech Republic, green renovation

Brilliantly renovated Rusty House is wrapped in a layer of rusted steel

Exposed raw steel wraps around this small house in the Czech Republic, renovated by OK PLAN ARCHITECTS. Covered...

Sleeve House, actual / office, charred wood, timber house, New York, timber, exposed concrete, glass walls, green architecture

Charred wood-clad Sleeve House is a home within a home

The traditional barn gets a brilliant reinterpretation in the modern charred wood-clad Sleeve House. Two elongated...

Figueras Stables by Estudio Ramos, Figueras Stables in La Pampa, Figueras Stables Argentina, Figueras Stables architecture, green-roofed stables, green-roofed polo stables, contemporary stables architecture,

Beautiful stable grows wild grasses on the roof for horses to eat

Don’t be alarmed if you see horses on the roof of this stable—they’re meant to be there. Argentinian architecture...

The Barn by Antonin Ziegler, adaptive reuse barns in France, adaptive reuse barn into home, barn transformed into house, contemporary barn homes, zinc-clad homes, zinc-clad barns

Barn ruins transformed into contemporary home with spa

Parisian architecture studio Antonin Ziegler converted an abandoned barn into a metal-clad home crafted to evoke...

Leuphana Central Building, Studio Libeskind, green-roofed university building in Germany, zinc-clad university building, zero-emission university building in Germany

Students collaborate with starchitect Daniel Libeskind to design university building

Dramatic interlocking volumes and sharp angles define the new green-roofed Central Building at Leuphana University...

Satoru Hirota Architects, Tsunyuji temple, temple renovation, green renovation, Japan, Japanese architects, exposed concrete, charred cedar, minimalist design

Tokyo's refurbished 17th century Buddhist temple marries modern aesthetics with Edo period architecture

Over 60 years after the Tsunyuji temple was first rebuilt, Tokyo-based Satoru Hirota Architects were commissioned...