The house’s metal roof is indicative of the architectural vernacular of the area.

Tejas Shah

This wonderful home is photographed by Bob Greenspan

This Seattle modern house by chadbourne + doss architects provides open spaces for living and entertaining. A library is enclosed in the guard rail and overlooks the Great Room below. Photo by Benjamin Benschneider

Built on the former site of a casino, this residence reflects the client's desire to have a home that is welcoming to family members and friends while complementing the historic site on which it is located. This home is formal and stately, with classic American detailing outside and in. Photo Credit: Brian Vanden Brink

Contractor: Gary Howe Construction Photography: Roger Turk

This lovely screened porch was a recent client project. Our goal was to create a warm and welcoming spot that had the feel of an indoor space.

Rear entry stairway with skylights and entrance to exterior balcony at the landing. Peter Bosy Photography.

The new house sits back from the suburban road, a pipe-stem lot hidden in the trees. The owner/building had requested a modern, clean statement of his residence. A single rectangular volume houses the main program: living, dining, kitchen to the north, garage, private bedrooms and baths to the south. Secondary building blocks attached to the west and east faces contain special places: entry, stair, music room and master bath. The double height living room with full height corner windows erodes the solidity of the house, opening it to the outside. The porch, beyond the living room, stretches the house into the landscape, the transition anchored with the double-fronted fireplace. The modern vocabulary of the house is a careful delineation of the parts - cantilevering roofs lift and extend beyond the planar stucco, siding and glazed wall surfaces. Where the house meets ground, crushed stone along the perimeter base mimics the roof lines above, the sharply defined edges of lawn held away from the foundation. The open steel stair stands separate from adjacent walls. Kitchen and bathroom cabinets are objects in space - visually (and where possible, physically) disengaged from ceiling, wall and floor. It's the movement through the volumes of space, along surfaces, and out into the landscape, that unifies the house.

This modern home features stone leading from the inside out into a fabulous patio with wood accents.

Architecte: Frédérique Pyra Legon Photographe: Pierre Jean Verger

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