MODERN HOUSE DESIGNS

Carol Richard of the Atlanta-based architecture firm Richard Wittschiebe Hand designed a passive solar home design in Madison, Wisconsin, which she calls her castle. Also known as Ross Street House, this modern sustainable architecture project was a collaborative effort with her mechanical engineer husband, Fred Berg, and was recognized as Wisconsin’s first LEED for Homes Platinum-rated residence in July 2009. Set in a neighborhood of post-war Cape-Cod-style homes peppered with some “modern” 1960s homes, this residence was actually designed to ... Continue >

A short 35-minute ferry ride from Seattle, this luxury waterfront house is a nature-lover’s paradise, removed from the hustle and bustle of city life, embracing peace, privacy and the environment. Located on Bainbridge Island, WA, the very modern house plan was designed to frame the waterfront views. Tucked between the waterways of Puget Sound and the Cascade Mountains, this Zen-style home’s cool facade complements its surroundings with its a contemporary combination of tongue-and-groove cedar, a sloped corrugated metal roof ... Continue >

Bates Masi Architects created this modern, contemporary riverfront home in Noyack, NY, bringing new, natural luxury to the term "casual." Designed for an actor with rest and relaxation in mind, this home plan “became a study in architectural theatre: a series of spaces in a carefully scripted sequence that subtly reflect his professional life,” explains the architect. A simple, modern facade makes way for gorgeous, light-filled interiors. Expansive windows boast views of the riverfront and gardens, and are covered by ... Continue >

Charged with bringing new life to an older 1950s ranch style house, m.o. daby design worked their magic on the Burke Residence, located in Portland, OR. Clad in wood from the outside in, this ranch house was in need of a complementary receiving area so an entrance foyer was added to its existing footprint. Continuing through to the main living areas, a family room, kitchen and dining room were given the open concept treatment for a space suited to socializing ... Continue >

Award-winning architecture firm Swiss Fine Line created this stunning coastal house design to frame the spectacular views. Set along a shoreline, this glass wall house features a glazed and stone facade, with windows lining the entire main floor and the majority of the second. But once you take in the surroundings, you’ll understand why glass is such a dominant material of choice – visions of water and shorelines are yours from virtually any point in the home, which is largely ... Continue >

This long narrow house design by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects really brings nature home. Apart from its lush redwood forest setting in Sebastopol, California, the natural design features a wood facade framing massive windows that invite the outdoors in. Topped by a metal roof, the narrow wood frame is clad in rich cedar siding, with two Douglas fir decks at each end of this very long house which allow for casual outdoor entertaining areas amid the trees. Interiors open onto ... Continue >

This luxury beach home by Villa+Villa Architects in Macmasters Beach, New South Wales, Australia is anything but a sandy shack. Its thoughtfully designed home plan is relaxed, yet elegant – everything a contemporary beach house design overlooking the ocean should be! This oceanfront home boasts lots of windows and outdoor living rooms from which to take in the amazing view of sun, sand and surf. Modern minimalist interiors create a sense of serenity inside this open concept house plan. Outdoors, ... Continue >

Sustainable architecture is the future of home design. This California house designed by a sustainable architecture firm, John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects, encapsulates cool, contemporary living in its modern design with attention equally doles out to aesthetics and environmental sustainability. In fact, according to the firm, this eco friendly home “suggests that attentiveness to sustainability can inspire and elicit beauty where it might not be otherwise.” This 3,900-sq.-ft. Santa Monica-area eco house design boasts a simple, modern white facade punctuated ... Continue >

David Jay Weiner is the architect behind this urban cottage design in Stephentown, New York. The contemporary, urban look of expansive glazed facades set in a black wood frame is complemented by the cottage unique, irregular shape, which really stands out among its pastoral, grassy meadow surroundings. Inside, the tall ceilings of this single-storey, open concept house plan, with floor-to-ceiling windows extending the length of the cottage on both sides, bathe interiors in natural light and enhance its sense of ... Continue >

When architect Adrian James designed this curved roof house - Muswell House - in Piddington, Oxfordshire of the UK, it’s as though he was in a race to incorporate as many innovative technologies, methods and looks as humanly possible. Thus unusual house features an innovative steel structural frame, topped by a distinctively curved, prefab timber roof which extends all the way to the ground. This all-encompassing wooden roof creates a characteristic look from the outside, while the open concept house ... Continue >

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