Modern Project Stories

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Light Path Residence: Thoughtful Design Promotes Wellbeing

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Location: Rural Pennsylvania
Primary Material System: Large-format wood glazing systems
How do you design a wellness-focused home that maximizes daylight and serenity without overwhelming the surrounding landscape?
Designed by the architects of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, this elongated single-level home is the second residence on the family’s farmland estate in rural Pennsylvania. The first residence was built some fifty years earlier and was, interestingly, designed by the same architects.
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Riparian Retreat with Aluminum Thermally Broken Windows

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Location: Aspen, Colorado
Primary Material System: Thermally broken aluminum systems
How do you achieve expansive modern glazing beside a river corridor exposed to harsh alpine climate conditions?
Just outside of Aspen, Colorado, where a small creek runs into the Roaring Fork River and a quiet street follows the riverbank, there is an extraordinary new residence constructed by local builders, Koru Limited, and designed by local architects and interior designers at Forum Phi.
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Caddy Shack Residence: Daring Design Perched Over a Texas Ravine

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Location: Austin, Texas
Primary Material System: Oversized steel and glass systems
How do you suspend dramatic architecture over rugged terrain while maintaining openness, stability, and precision?
Overlooking the city of Austin, Texas, this new residence for a former professional golfer was designed by the architects of Olson Kundig.
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Martis Camp Residence: Mountain retreat blurs traditional and modern

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Location: Lake Tahoe, California
Primary Material System: Hybrid contemporary wood fenestration
How do you blur traditional mountain architecture with contemporary minimalism without losing warmth or character?
Nestled in the forest northwest of Lake Tahoe, this character home features sleek rooflines, a massive wooden pivot door and amazing views of the Northstar Ski Slopes.
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Hog Pen Creek Residence: Blending nature with lake front living

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Location: Austin, Texas
Primary Material System: Alaskan Yellow Cedar window walls and doors
How do you maximize indoor-outdoor living while preserving heritage trees and the natural character of the site?
The clients tasked Lake|Flato Architects to design a home that was part of the natural landscape with an emphasis on outdoor living and experiencing the surroundings through the architecture.
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Bigwood Residence: Panoramic mountain retreat in glass and steel

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Location: Sun Valley, Idaho
Primary Material System: Steel and glass panoramic window systems
How do you frame extreme mountain landscapes with expansive glazing while resisting demanding high-altitude environmental exposure?
Olson Kundig drew inspiration for this design from the surrounding landscape of rugged mountains, high-altitude desert and big sky.
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Aspen Residence: Family retreat on a working ranch

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Location: Aspen, Colorado
Primary Material System: Rustic contemporary wood systems
How do you reinterpret ranch vernacular architecture into a refined luxury retreat embedded within a working landscape?
This family retreat is part of an 860-acre working ranch. Local architectural traditions were reinterpreted, creating a unique collection of structures that carefully integrate into the rural site.
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Cortes Island Residence: Double-winged house on the water

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Location: Cortes Island, British Columbia
Primary Material System: Modern wood and glass systems
How do you maintain intimacy and shelter on an exposed waterfront site surrounded by expansive ocean views?
This unique single-level structure is situated on a rocky outcrop overlooking Cortes Bay with views of the Sound from every room.
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Feature Project: Stuart Silk Architects – Seattle, WA

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Location: Seattle, Washington
Primary Material System: Contemporary wood and glass pavilion systems
How do you choreograph views, landscape, and pavilion geometry into a cohesive residential experience across a difficult site?
Inspired by the distinctive and moving landscape, the design of the home is conceived as a string of five pavilions, each rotated on a different angle in response to the curving contours of the land.