Modernist architecture

When the pandemic reshaped the way we think about home, one Portland family decided to reimagine theirs completely. The result is the Council Crest Residence (completed May 2024), a project by Risa Boyer Architecture that blends intimacy, craft, and high performance into a singular vision of residential living. Caption Jeremy Bittermann; © Jeremy Bittermann / JBSA Jeremy Bittermann; © Jeremy Bittermann / JBSA Perched into the hillside of Portland’s Council Crest neighborhood, the home responds to a deep desire for connection, to each other, to nature, and to the future. The clients, coming from a compact vertical home with little access to the outdoors, envisioned a sanctuary that would be warm, adaptable, an... More

Bordered by the public balcony of the Copan Building - a suspended sidewalk in São Paulo's Historic Center - the project for the New Headquarters of Greenpeace Brasil presents itself as a showcase of the institution to the largest city in Latin America. Manuel Sá Manuel Sá Its privileged insertion and architecture invite the inhabitants of the metropolis to enjoy a universally accessible space, with peculiar materiality and unique cultural relevance. Simple and inviting furnishings allow a thorough appropriation of  the balcony - an interface between the city and the public space of the new headquarters. Manuel Sá Manuel Sá While the Warehouse hosts various forms of the instituti... More

One Athens residential complex at the foot of the Lycabettus hill constitutes a legendary building for Athens and its architecture. The modernist building -designed in 1957, by the prominent Greek architect Constantinos Doxiadis (1913-1975) and fully completed in 1971- served as the Doxiadis Associates headquarters till the late 1990s. The 2014 transformation of the listed office complex to a residential development introduced a new building type and scale to the city dominated by the ‘polykatoikia’ typology. Yiorgis Yerolymbos Yiorgis Yerolymbos Yiorgis Yerolymbos The complete renovation of the double aspect 5th-floor ‘L’-shape apartment aspires to accommodate the contemporary needs for living, by pa... More

The Radio House on Rosenørns Allé is one of Vilhelm Lauritzen's most famous and esteemed architectural works – internationally as well. Since the elegant building with its distinctive fan-shaped concert hall was completed in 1945, it has provided the setting for life and music, and continues to do so to this day. For music lovers, students and staff of the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Rasmus Hjortshøj Rasmus Hjortshøj The materials used in the Radio House are exclusive both inside and out. The facades are made of Greenlandic marble, and the furniture and furnishings are designed in materials like dark mahogany. The ceiling in the foyer is divided into sections of oxhide, stretched directly over... More

A couple steeped in the Charlotte, NC, art scene had approached their architect Toby Witte of Wittehaus with images of the Netflix series “The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes”. With the need for soaring cantilevers, a desire to enjoy the home when climbing stairs might be at issue, and big eyes and open ears about the process of design, they were ready for their own modern home. Amanda Anderson Together they went on a tour to understand themselves and their needs, dreams, and desires as well as their site, and the potential inherent in the art of architecture itself. Over the course of eight months they talked, sketched, explored, flushed out a long laundry list of practical concerns, and inched ever so careful thr... More

Perched on a hill overlooking parklands, the Carnsworth House was originally built in the 1960s and exemplifies residential architecture of the period. JCB’s brief was to refurbish and sympathetically breathe new life into its old modernist bones, while extending its capacity to accommodate a growing family. Bathrooms, kitchen and living areas have been replanned and re-finished with a range of materials and colours that enhance the building’s natural setting.  Burnt orange carpets, rich timber ceilings, dark terrazzo floor tiles, tailored cabinetry, period lighting and Florence Broadchurch wallpaper all combine to dramatic effect in the rejuvenation of this much loved Sixties home. More