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Kelly Klein House, Sag Harbor
Two summers. That is how long Kelly Klein lived in the old 1950s beach cottage on this stretch of Sag Harbor Bay before a single line of the new house got drawn. She watched where the light landed and where the water wanted to be. Only then did she hand the site to David…
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Casa Malonic, Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Nine frangipani trees surround Casa Malonic, and the house borrows its colour from their blossoms. Crisp, bright white, set against dry tropical forest on a steep hillside above the Pacific in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. Morelia-based HW Studio chose pure modernism for this one, with…
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Pine Island Cottage: A Georgian Bay Retreat Built From the Shoreline Up
The kitchen island at Pine Island Cottage looks like it was lifted straight off the shoreline. Fieldstone, stacked and rugged, planted in the middle of a room made for chopping, pouring and hanging around. It sets the tone for a family retreat on a secluded island in Ontario’s…
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Fumagalli and Dossi, Milan
The last plaster cast house in a city that once had many, still pouring history one thin layer at a time. White is the hardest colour to get right. Plaster does it without trying. In a former stable off Viale Montello in Milan, two rooms hold the most persuasive case for the…
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Jungle’s Madrid HQ: Four Floors, Four Moods
MIL Studios takes 2,850 square metres inside the Madnum tower and gives every level its own material, its own light and its own pulse. The result is an office that behaves more like a building of rooms you want to visit. Most offices are designed once and then copied down the…
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Dune House: A Shell and a Jewel Box by Waechter Architecture
Two houses live inside Dune House. One is built to take a beating. The other is built to be lived in. Portland studio Waechter Architecture set this 1,800 square foot residence into the dunes of the northern Oregon Coast, a stretch of land where wild grasses and shore pines get…
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Elan: Snohetta’s Stage for Coffee in Oslo
For a decade, this corner of Oslo’s historic Kvadraturen quarter served a quiet, functional purpose: it was the showroom for Magnat Kaffehus, a commercial coffee supplier known for outfitting the city’s cafes rather than serving its public. Snohetta has now flipped that logic…
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Gray Davis Builds a Glass House on Copake Lake
There is a particular kind of restraint that only comes from a designer building for himself. Gray Davis has spent more than two decades shaping some of the world’s most photographed interiors, from resort hideaways to city hotel lobbies, as co-founder of Meyer Davis. His own…