Text description provided by the architects. Courtyard House is a heritage-listed interwar bungalow. From the street, there is no visible presence of an addition beyond. But the Hawthorn home has ...

Vertical Courtyard House, a 5,450-square-foot single-family residence in Southern California’s Santa Monica Canyon, dissolves boundaries between interior and exterior, taking advantage of the region’s ...

Program: Located on a subdivision in the outskirts of Ahmedabad, this open-plan, four-bedroom house for a father and son is an amalgam of courtyards and semi-open verandas. Design Solution: Taking ...

In an expansive courtyard at Tree House, a warm contemporary home in La Jolla, California, a telescoping canopy provides shelter from the sun and rain, and an outdoor kitchen is outfitted with a ...

Influential architectural solutions sometimes emerge from specific zoning or code constraints. In New York, the 1916 setback requirements bred an entire language of massing (think of Hugh Ferriss’s ...

Architects love to live and build in Silver Lake — everybody from John Lautner and Richard Neutra in the ’30s and ’40s to, decades later, Michael Rotondi and Barbara Bestor, has designed homes for ...

Qishe Courtyard in Beijing, China, uses a glass veranda to connect different areas of the house – and its inhabitants to the outdoors. Image © Ning Wang As summer ...

A construction company owner builds his own home to house three generations under one roof Read more at The Business Times.