house of the week 81: Woodstock Farm

Designed by Rick Joy architects the Woodstock Farm is a departure from his typical oeuvre of desert modernism. Located on a 210 acre farm in Woodstock, Vermont the barn-like residence responds to the local typology in form and the use of a natural palette of locally sourced materials.

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House of the Week 80: Sugarbowl

Located in the old village at Sugarbowl, California sits a cedar-clad house with a simple bent planar roof. The residence designed by architect John Maniscalco (m-architecture) is perched on a concrete plinth to take in views to the mountain are captured through framed openings.

house of the week 84: Leavitt Residence

This 3 story residence in Chicago, is a conversion of a 1920 mercantile building by architects Miller Hull and Studio Dwell, and took a little over 3 years to complete. Much of the original brick walls and timber beams were retained and sit comfortably amongst the finished industrial aesthetic of the house.

house of the week 83: Lee House

Eliot Lee and Eun Sun Chun, architects living in New York (he's a partner at Steven Harris Architects, she's a partner at 212box), collaborated on this rammed-earth compound in the Napa Valley for Lee's parents. Before embarking on the design process, they consulted with another design couple—Eric and Silvina Blasen, of Blasen Landscape Architecture in San Anselmo, California—to establish an integrated plan.

house of the week 82: House in the Woods

Located in the quiet hills in the suburbs of Turin, Italy the residence seeks to make a modern synthesis with nature with exterior spaces carved from the landscape. The façade of the house is finished in layers of timber strips evoking a traditional gable roof.

Architect, unknown.

House of the Week 79: Artreehouse

Architect Della Valle Bernheimer [dbnyc] has carefully located a 5400 ft² residence on a wooded site in New Fairfield, Connecticut. The house in part floats, much a tree canopy on the site providing both shelter and the cast of light as of coming through gaps in tree branches.