The 2022 Residential Design Architecture Awards (RDAA) received nearly 370 entries in 11 categories of residential design. With such a…
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2022 RDAA PROJECT OF THE YEAR
This project’s strong handling of architecture’s universals—space, proportion, and light—earned uniform praise from the jury. “This is the one I…
Read MoreCUSTOM URBAN HOUSE
There has always been an exuberant, improvisational quality to Dan Shipley’s architecture, and nowhere is that spirit more evident than…
Located on a tight suburban lot, this new, modern house replaces one that “was built on fill and falling down…
CUSTOM PERIOD OR VERNACULAR RENOVATION
“How do you deal with the ethos of a historically significant building? You don’t shy away from it—you push it…
What if you could go back in time and build the perfect Midcentury Modern house right from the start? And…
CUSTOM PERIOD OR VERNACULAR HOUSE
Custom Builder Steven Streeter has built houses for many nationally known firms, but when it came time to build his…
It’s a mistake to think a house in the city can’t bring you closer to nature and community life, for…
CUSTOM RURAL / VACATION HOME
Is it rural or is it urban? This new house overlooking an escarpment occupies that liminal zone between the two—a…
No one builds a house in Hawaii so they can live indoors. The entire exercise is about immersion in the…
RENOVATION
When this midcentury project in Studio City came to Assembledge+, it was largely untouched by time. The sawtooth plan engaged…
Constraints are almost a cliché on urban lots these days. But here the solutions are anything but ordinary. A dilapidated…
ARCHITECTURAL INTERIORS
A series of strategic moves transformed this generic ski condo into a modern retreat for extended family. The judges particularly…
Older urban townhouses are string bean–like spaces that challenge even the most astute designers, and more so when they are…
RESIDENTIAL SPECIAL CONSTRAINTS
Peter Reynolds is a true believer in Passive House, so much so that he built his own. And he thinks…
Linear and layered, this house’s fluent response to a complicated urban site earned high praise from the judges. On a…
CUSTOM ACCESSORY OR OUTBUILDING
Almost like a bird alighting on a rock, Filtered Frame Dock captures a moment of frozen motion at the water’s…
Read MoreCUSTOM OUTDOOR LIVING DESIGN
“The desert always wins” is the certainty that guided Brett Woods’ design of his own family retreat in the hills…
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With its lofty views of the San Francisco skyline, this otherwise banal apartment unit was ripe for reinvention. Low‑ceilinged and…
“When our clients approached us about doing this house, they told us that they liked our work, but they really…
CUSTOM ON THE BOARDS
Fourteen feet wide and about 100 feet long, this skinny house on a 3,000-acre working cattle ranch ups the ante…
“In Texas, when it rains, it pours,” says architect Cotton Estes. This suburban house for a young couple (one is…