Dining Room Werner Straube Photography
Design ideas for a midcentury dining room in Chicago with white walls and light hardwood floors.

Whitney Lyons
Design ideas for a modern rooftop and rooftop deck in Portland with no cover.

Photo of a mid-sized asian front door in Berlin with white walls, concrete floors, a single front door, white floor and a gray front door.

Paul Smith Images
Modern patio in Sunshine Coast with concrete pavers and a roof extension.

Design ideas for a large modern two-storey white house exterior in Other with a shed roof.

Modern two-storey exterior in Other with a flat roof.

Inspiration for a modern deck in New York.

Design ideas for a large contemporary three-storey exterior in Los Angeles.

Proper Photography
Photo of a traditional rooftop and rooftop deck in Perth with no cover.

Photo of a contemporary two-storey brown house exterior in Portland with mixed siding and a gable roof.

Catherine Tighe
Inspiration for a modern two-storey white exterior in Nashville with a flat roof.

Photo of a contemporary one-storey brown house exterior in New York with metal siding and a flat roof.

Design ideas for a modern two-storey exterior in Seattle with wood siding and a flat roof.

This is an example of an asian two-storey white house exterior in Other with mixed siding and a flat roof.

Photo of a large contemporary white exterior in Dresden with concrete fiberboard siding and a flat roof.

Construction on this 2400 square foot, modestly budgeted, green design-build project began after completing a large lot subdivision with the City of Austin and required all new utilities during construction. In addition to a spatially expansive interior with eleven foot ceilings, we incorporated both North facing and South facing roofdecks of 400 square feet each, 800 square feet of covered outdoor living space on the ground floor and two huge cantilevered Master Bedroom window spaces. In front, there is a street-facing covered front porch off the Master Bedroom and a sculptural storage room on the ground floor that the Clients anointed "il Ferro Tartaruga" (the Steel Turtle) and which is outfitted for a future Jacuzzi. This space is a built experiment of the Firm's research into parametric modeling, planarization routines and digital fabrication. Also all the steel was modeled in 3D allowing it to be all shop cut with no in-field cuts. In retrospect, a super minimalist approach leveraged the structural engineering into creating extra-ordinary outdoor spaces, while a compact plan allows the indoors to naturally brush up against the building envelope and outside spaces. A quote from the Client: "This house is amazing to live in. I do Tai Chi on the decks. I like to look at my work with magnets on the iron tortoise. Tonight I watched the moon from the balcony. I'm very happy here. I feel like I am living in the sky sometimes." photo: atelier wong

fotos: Pablo Casares
Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary two-storey beige house exterior in Madrid with stone veneer and a flat roof.

photo credit: Cheryl Mohr
Inspiration for a contemporary two-storey exterior in DC Metro with wood siding.

This is an example of a mid-sized contemporary two-storey multi-coloured exterior in Seattle with mixed siding and a gable roof.