Huangshan Mountain Village

Huangshan Mountain Village

By Loannie Dao Location: Huangshan Shi, China | Architect: MAD Architects Photography: Hufton + Crow Heavy clouds blanket an afternoon sky high above the river. Stone steps snake through otherworldly-shaped rocks and disappear into the horizon. Similar images have inspired centuries of classical paintings and literature.   UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mount Huangshan (Yellow Mountain), is…

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A Modern Beach House in the Heart of Sea Bright

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A stone’s throw from the beaches of Sea Bright, a boxy, modernist structure parts a sea of typical waterfront homes—a beacon paying homage to styles of both past and present. Lines of clad cedar wrap around every sharp corner, systematically separated only by bold vertical glass and a breathtaking mezzanine offering unchallenged views of the…

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Fjordenhus: A Castle by the Sea

Fjordenhus

By Melissa Sorge Photography by Anders Sune Berg Project: Fjordenhus Design: Studio Olafur Eliasson Location: Vejle, Denmark Completed: 2018 In the Danish town of Vejle, immersed in a large fjord surrounded by forested hills, Fjordenhus stands, tall and alluring, somewhere in between the city and the water. By day, the structure shimmers, a reflection of…

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Wave House

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Architect: Mark Dziewulski Area: 3,200 Square Feet Location: Malibu Beach, CA Beyond the steadfast highway that hugs the Pacific Coast, at the limit of a long stretch of Malibu beach, lies a shoreline sanctuary. Perched above the sand, the western surf washes in beneath its cantilevers at high-tide, every breaker crashing down for the weekend…

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Hadaway House

hadaway house

Deep in snow country, above the icy echoes of a Whistler valley, an unrecognizable structure parts a sea of white-capped evergreens—a geometric monolith surveying life below the cliffside. Not one born from unearthed layers of erosion or metamorphic rock, but one conceived from human ingenuity. A symbol of liberation yet isolation, an escape yet a…

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Mask House

Location: Ithaca, NY Architect: WOJR Area: 587 square feet Beyond the blanketed fog, which lays thick and noiseless, one can begin to see what roughly resembles a house. Perched high on wooden piers, it is gently framed by stark, sagging branches, its charred façade fading into the shadows of this portentous place. It feels not…

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