Mountain House / By Agraz Arquitectos

Santa Anita Golf Club, Tlajomulco, Jalisco, Mexico
Agraz Arquitectos
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Photo © Courtesy of Mito Covarrubias

Never has a name been more appropriate. The Mountain explains the implicit challenge in this project: a piece of land with a highly accentuated slope that obliges full respect.

Chemosphere-Malin Residence / By John Lautner

Torreyson Dr, Los Angeles, CA, United States
John Lautner
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Photo © Courtesy of John Lautner

The Chemosphere, built by American architect John Lautner in 1960, is an innovative Modernist octagon house in Los Angeles, California.

Vivienda At Xemena House / By Ramon Esteve

Ibiza, Spain

Ramon Esteve

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Photo © Courtesy of Ramon Esteve

The rudiments of this project are based on its physical and cultural surroundings, on its light, its landscape of stone and vegetation and, in the skyline, the sea and the cliffs against it.

Agosta House / By Patkau Architects

San Juan Island, Washington, United States
Patkau Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of James Dow / Patkau Architects

The Agosta house sits in a grassy meadow enclosed on three sides by forty-three acres of second-growth Douglas fir forest. The fourth side of the meadow opens to the northwest, where it overlooks rolling fields and, across Haro Strait in the distance, the Gulf Islands of British Columbia.

Paz y Comedias House / By Ramon Esteve ESTUDIO DE ARQUITECTURA

Valencia, Spain
Ramon Esteve ESTUDIO DE ARQUITECTURA
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Photo © Courtesy of Léa Chave

Huge contention walls, built from a local red stone, come along as you climb up the mountain.

House on the Castle Mountainside / By Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

Ayora, Valencia, Spain
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
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Photo © Courtesy of Fernando Alda

The building is located in a landscape of unique beauty, the result of a natural and evident growth.

Terrace Mountain House : By Dick Clark Architecture

Austin, Texas, United States
Dick Clark Architecture
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Located on a steep site in Westlake Hills, oriented towards a spectacular view of downtown Austin, this 4,700 square foot house merges traditional Texas forms and materials with unique contemporary details.

Allens Rivulet House : By Room 11

Allens Rivulet, Tasmania, Australia
Room11
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The house has a duality of character and experience defined by the way it responds to context and use. On approach its angular and severe form is a toughened abstract container, bracing itself against the robust Tasmanian landscape and weather conditions.

House Haller : By Haller Jürgen & Peter Plattner Architekt

Mellau, Austria 
Haller Jürgen & Peter Plattner Architekt
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The vision was a customised building, incorporating the impressive panorama at the foot of the Alps with a lifestyle demanding variable solutions. The owner’s specifications were a house combining living and working areas under one roof.

Queenscliff House : By Utz Sanby Architects

Queenscliff, Australia
Utz Sanby Architects

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Photo © Courtesy of Marian Riabic

This new house is built on a tight urban site, perched on the edge of a cliff 100metres above the ocean. The wedge shaped block has a due north-south aspect with neighbouring buildings very close to the boundaries on the east west.

Zephyros Project : By Koutsoftides Architects

Pomos, Cyprus
Koutsoftides Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Costas Koutsoftides, Christos Papantoniou, Costas Efstathopoulos

“The shadow of your project is captured in the landscape, so you must first hearken it” said Renzo Piano.

Wimberley House : By Cunningham Architects

Wimberley, Texas, United States
Cunningham Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Tre Dunham

Designed by Cunningham Architects, the Wimberley House quietly sits among dense brush and native Oak and Juniper trees nestled on the edge of a bluff in the Texas hill country. Accessed via a winding half-mile driveway and a short walking trail from the garage, this 5,000 sqf residence provides a peaceful respite for its inhabitants.

Sugar Bowl Residence : By John Maniscalco Architecture

Norden, California, United States
John Maniscalco Architecture
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The design of this new home in the old village at Sugar Bowl is entirely a product of its dramatic environment. With a snow pack of as much as 8-9 feet, massive snow loads, and dangerous shear snow blocks dropping from typical sloped roofs, the site conditions dictate design.

VILLA-K : By Cell Space Architects

Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan
Cell Space Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Masao Nishikawa

This site is located on a hilltop in one of the eminent Karuizawa villa areas. All directions around the site are clear for view in winter.The villa consists of four parts of floors and four parts of roofs around a central pillar.

House Holman : By Durbach Block Architects

Dover Heights, Sydney, Australia
Durbach Block Architects
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House Holman in Dover Heights, Sydney sits on the site and off. Sitting at the edge of a 70-meter high cliff, the house takes advantage of the bountiful vistas at such altitude. Durbach Block Architects out of Sydney, Australia based the plan of the house on Picasso's painting The Bathers. For a bit of context, from 1918 on, Picasso spent his summers by the sea. This tradition led to a series of works with bathers. The Bathers possesses fluid forms and demonstrates a sense of freedom.

Putney Mountain Residence : By Kyu Sung Woo Architects

Vermont, United States
Kyu Sung Woo Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Wayne Fuji’i and Timothy Hursley

Architect Kyu Sung Woo designed this house in Vermont for him and his family.

Kangaroo Valley House : By Alexander Michael

South of Sydney, Australia
Alexander Michael
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Photo © Courtesy of Alexander Michael

Firstly, the house at Kangaroo Valley is our own weekend house.
The thing I love most about design, whether it’s a mechanic’s tool or a multi-story building, is to see how it’s put together and what makes it work. When these features of machinery are denied by covering up, or burying out of sight for no other reason than decorative, then I think is a terrible waste. I guess it’s the same reason I love to stare at the skeletons of great whales, or fish, or humans; it’s all architectural machinery, its function is to support, and it’s beautiful.

Rahimoana Villa : By Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects

Bay of Islands, New Zealand
Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects
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Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects designed the Rahimoana Villa, which is part of the
Eagle’s Nest Resort located in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand.

Weigel Residence : By Substance Architecture

Copper Mountain, Colorado, United States
Substance Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of Farshid Assassi/Assassi Productions

This 4,000 square foot residence is a vacation home for a couple and their four young children.  Located on a quarter-acre site in a residential development in Copper Mountain, Colorado, the home is comprised of a single-story, post-and-beam pavilion containing the primary living and entertainment spaces, and a four-story, conventionally framed tower containing the service spaces and bedrooms.

Grid House : By Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz Arquitetos

Serra da Mantiqueira, Brazil
Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz Arquitetos
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Photo © Courtesy of Alexandre Schneider

In an area of 53.24 hectares, only 65,000 square meters are not covered by the lush native intact forest that is permanently protected. In this area of accidented topography, where large stones are surrounded by Araucaria trees, a small valley was chosen, protected from the winds and close to the forest. This is where the natural walking paths cross: the site where people who arrive at the plot of land go to, access to the paths leading to the heart of the forest and to the top of the hill where one sees an impressive view.