Courtyard + Connector Residence stands in Austin, TX, United States, as a new-build house by Chioco Design. The project responds to a single-family neighborhood with an extroverted plan that reaches from the street to a sheltered pool courtyard. Designed in 2023 for a speculative builder, it borrows materials from nearby homes and gives them a crisp, contemporary reading.
Wood, Water and Stone anchors a contemporary house compound in St. Helena, California, United States, by ROCHE+ROCHE Landscape Architecture. Framed by courtyards and low-water planting, the project channels agrarian pragmatism with mid-century clarity across guest house, yoga barn, and a garage arranged around a central garden. Designed in 2025, the landscape ties new structures to a heritage walnut and an existing pool, setting a calm cadence for daily living and outdoor gatherings.
Vale House settles into Rollingwood, United States, as a gabled stone house by Furman + Keil Architects. The home reads private from the street yet opens to a bright courtyard at its core, where thin steel windows draw sun across pale wood and honed stone. A family house at heart, it guides daily life toward a kitchen that serves both routine and revelry with calm, durable materials.
River Road is a house in Austin, United States, by Furman + Keil Architects. The commission rethinks a remodeled 1954 ranch, restoring order with a clear plan and daylight. Across two levels, the team keeps much of the structure intact and threads new rooms with a warm material palette, shaping contemporary places for daily living and relaxed gatherings with friends.
Casa del Sol sits in Conil de le Frontera, Spain, a house by Steyn Studio that draws its plan and poise from the sun. The project threads courtyards through a low, stone-lined ensemble and crowns it with a latticed central volume. Materials do the talking here, from Andalusian limestone to clay tiles that temper glare and heat, while timber and woven textures warm the interiors for relaxed coastal living.
Onda sits in Attadale, Australia, a riverside suburb of Perth, and recasts a worn bungalow as a contemporary house by State of Kin. The studio keeps the original shell yet reshapes circulation with sweeping curves and a tactile palette tuned to family life. Completed in 2024, the project privileges outlook and privacy in equal measure.
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