Project Stories

Aluminum clad pocketing sliding doors and wood window wall in garage

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.
Aluminum thermally broken windows frame forest views

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.
Cedar Creek Tasting Center and Winery

Cedar Creek Winery, also known as Martin’s Lane Winery: Okanagan winery integrated into the hillside

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Location: Okanagan Valley, British Columbia
Primary Material System: Large-scale commercial glazing and pivot door systems
How do you integrate industrial winemaking processes into a refined visitor experience embedded within the hillside?
Situated on the hills above Lake Okanagan, this winery was designed to interact with two key physical elements: the topography of the land and the flow of gravity, which is vital to the winemaking process.
Hog Pen Residence

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.
Architectural windows in panoramic modern mountain home

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.
Brooklyn rowhouse with a modern window update

Brooklyn Rowhouse with A Modern Update

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Location: Brooklyn, New York
Primary Material System: Traditional wood windows with contemporary detailing
How do you modernize a historic urban rowhouse without erasing its architectural identity?
Although rowhouses have been popular as single-family dwellings since the late 18th century and have brought architectural uniformity to city living, this particular home was bought by a young family in 2014, gutted and then customized to become their own unique expression of urban living.
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Dynamic Steel-Arte in Wine Country

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Location: California Wine Country
Primary Material System: Steel-Arte® thermally broken steel systems
How do you achieve razor-thin sightlines and architectural rigor while meeting modern energy-performance expectations?
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Shingle Style Home by Austin Patterson Disston Architects

Rye Residence: Shingle style home overlooking Long Island Sound

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Location: Rye, New York
Primary Material System: Traditional mahogany wood windows and doors
How do you create timeless coastal architecture that feels historically rooted yet performs to modern expectations?
This timeless colonial Shingle style home is situated in Rye, New York on a rocky ridge with spectacular views over the water. The home’s classic design achieves a delicate balance of subtlety and grand presence through finely wrought details.