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The concrete home soaks up the sun with solar panels, floor-to-ceiling windows, and a rooftop terrace with views of the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Ynez mountains. Location: 414B Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California  Price: $5,000,000 Year Built: 2017 Architect: Robin Donaldson Footprint: 3,160 square feet (4 bedrooms, 5 baths) Lot Size: 3,484 square feet From the Agent: “Designed by award-winning architect Robin Donaldson as his personal residence, this 1-of-1 home epitomizes the Santa…

A renovation made space for a record cabinet that’s wired to every room in the house; outside, a garden studio features a second setup. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. Project Details: Location: London, United Kingdom Architect: Archmongers / @archmongers Footprint: 2,200 square feet Structural Engineer: Foster Structures LTD…

When my dream sectional arrived covered in what looked like blood stains, Raymour & Flanigan saved the day. Welcome to Sofa Sagas—stories about the circuitous search for a very important and occasionally fraught piece of furniture. I recently purchased a sectional from a DTC furniture brand. Yes, I’m ashamed. I knew better than to spend thousands of dollars on an object I’d never experienced in person, and to buy that…

Some were turned into mezzanines, making the vertical plan feel connected—right down to a “pond” in the backyard. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. Project Details: Location: Ghent, Belgium Architect: LDSRa / @ldsra.be Architect: Olivier Goethals / @oliviergoethals.info Footprint: 2,368 square feet Builder: Jonas Bockxstaele Structural Engineer: H110 Ingenieur en Architecten Photographer: Michiel…

The cheerful Seattle midcentury sports fish scale shingles, punchy paint, and stained glass windows designed by one of the siblings. One of the first times Cynthia Chua saw her future home in person, it was about to take an excavator to its side. Fortunately, the Seattle property was handpicked by two of her daughters, Sarah and Julia Smith, who have a keen eye for design: Sarah is an architect at…

You might not need to scour auction sites for that rare item—new licensed productions from famous designers are making it easier than ever to get the real thing. Welcome to Field Guide, a column by Sami Reiss of Snake covering all-time design and where you can find it. At a recent edition of Salone del Mobile in Milan, Cassina, the Italian furniture company, debuted a light by Ray and Charles…

Set on a wooded coastal site just south of Vancouver, the home evokes the design language of the utopian community with its sloped roof, cozy nooks, and exposed timber construction. Location: 2432 Christopherson Road, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada Price: $1,700,000 CAD (approximately $1,189,347 USD) Year Built: 1979 Architect: John Perkins Footprint: 1,907 square feet (3 bedrooms, 2 baths) Lot Size: 0.19 Acres From the Agent: “Presenting The Cedar House—a rare surviving modernist retreat set between…

INC Architecture and Design used creative solutions to meet building codes and build “the tightest puzzle you’ve ever seen.” Welcome to How They Pulled It Off, where we take a close look at one particularly challenging aspect of a home design and get the nitty-gritty details about how it became a reality. Hiding in plain sight in Greenpoint, Brooklyn—a neighborhood known for its railroad-style apartments and recently developed high-rise buildings—is…

As the show reveals more of the “outie” world beyond Lumon’s headquarters, the spaces the characters inhabit hint at clues to some of its major questions. The following story contains spoilers for Severance’s first and second seasons. “Did you really see the outie world? How’s the sky?” Gwendolyn Y. (Alia Shawkat), a new member of Lumon’s Macrodata Refinement (MDR) department, asks Mark S. (Adam Scott) in the first episode of Severance’s…

The 1893 building—with tall, tinned ceilings and an open-plan second floor—has lived past lives as a library, boxing gym, and recording studio. Location: 4900 Longshore Avenue Philadelphia, PA Price: $1,070,000 Year Built: 1893 Architect: John Ord Footprint: 9,300 square feet (3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths) Lot Size: 0.13 Acres From the Agent: “Picture it: Tacony in the early 1900s. Industrialist Henry Disston, with his Keystone Saw Works, was hard at work creating…