CALL FOR ENTRIES: THE 2022 RD ARCHITECTURE AWARDS |
The 2022 Residential Design Architecture Awards Are Open for EntriesThe RD Architecture Awards recognize excellence in custom residential architectural design. This is a different kind of awards competition that covers the breadth and scope of work by talented residential architects and designers. We recognize that contemporary and contextual projects… |
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2021 RDAA | Custom Rural or Vacation House | Blur | Studio B Architecture + InteriorsThe rugged Colorado countryside nestles this home in a craggy embrace. Designed with care and sensitivity by Studio B, the house returns the regard. A modest black box on a concrete plinth, it focuses fully on the natural bounty that surrounds it, while slipping down into the sloped site to escape glimpses of… |
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2021 RDAA | Custom Rural or Vacation House | Ledge House | Desai Chia ArchitectureDesigning a house between a rock and a hard place (in this case a cliff) is no easy matter. Previous construction had bowed to the glacial erratic, forming a U around the immovable object. When Desai Chia’s clients approached the firm to build anew, the architects decided to embrace the boulder as part… |
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2021 RDAA | Custom Rural or Vacation House | Kettle Moraine | Johnsen Schmaling Architects“When you do a rural house, you create something manmade that interrupts the natural environment forever. It’s a big burden,” says Sebastian Schmaling, AIA. The firm is often asked to take on this burden, but always goes about the task with a reverence for what is already there. In this case, they… |
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2021 RDAA | Custom Rural or Vacation House | Wanaka Wedge House | Actual Architecture CompanyAlthough a seemingly inevitable design for this scenic site in New Zealand, Wanaka Wedge House began as an internet plan in America. Well, that’s not completely accurate; it goes back even further than that. The idea of it germinated as a house for architect Jeff Day’s mother. The intended site was the coast… |
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2021 RDAA | Custom Period or Vernacular House | Backriver | Hutker ArchitectsCoastal areas are often filled with oversized houses designed more for investment than to reflect a site’s history. By contrast, the Backriver residence in Abrams Hill, formerly a summer cottage community on Duxbury Bay, honors the area’s rich building traditions and conservation ethic. One of the driving forces behind its design, says… |
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2021 RDAA | Custom Period or Vernacular House | Bayberry Point | Peter Zimmerman ArchitectsThis timeless piece of coastal land had been in the clients’ family for several generations, and when it came time to build on it, they requested something that would fit into Cape Cod’s cultural and historic landscape. Peter Zimmerman Architects gave them a house that’s classically proportioned and simply detailed, a modern… |
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2021 RDAA | Custom Period or Vernacular House | Hull House | David Jameson ArchitectWith its sharply gabled rooflines, Hull House plays nicely with the neighbors even as it asserts its individuality. Situated behind a stone wall on a busy street corner, the house presents as three gables no higher or lower than the neighboring roofs. “We used time-honored materials found in Alexandria, such as stone for the walls… |
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RD Call for Projects: Custom Modern HomesVolume 1, 2022 of Residential Design magazine will focus on custom modern projects (custom traditional and vernacular projects will be considered and featured for Volume 2, 2022). New custom houses or whole-house remodels are eligible for publication. We’ll also consider full condo or apartment build-outs. All must be commissioned by a private client. Please see… |
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2021 RDAA | Project of the Year | High Desert Retreat | Aidlin Darling DesignVoluptuous rock formations, a desert plateau, and remarkable valley views of Palm Desert and Palm Springs: This was the enviable canvas Aidlin Darling was handed when two gentlemen asked for an elegant but humble second home. What they got was an indoor-outdoor dwelling fitted expertly around the desert landscape. “There were a number… |
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2021 RDAA | Custom Urban House | Art House | Aidlin Darling DesignDesigned for an art collector, Art House doesn’t just make a statement, it creatively addresses several issues that plague San Francisco’s residential neighborhoods, namely its narrow lots and steep terrain. The house sits on a downslope with dramatic backyard views to the north, while the street side faces south, creating competing needs for… |
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2021 RDAA | Custom Urban House | Merrilee Lane | Max Levy ArchitectMerrilee Lane resonated with our judges because it brings fresh thinking to modest, mid-20th-century neighborhoods, which “are wall-to-wall carpeting across America,” says Max Levy, FAIA. Faced with a flat, featureless lot and a client with a simple program, Max explored how to design an economical house that channels light and nature—two elements tract… |
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2021 RDAA | Custom Urban House | Urban Tree House | Sparano + Mooney ArchitectureUrban living is always a balance between privacy and proximity. The client for this house on a tight lot in Salt Lake City asked Sparano + Mooney to titrate that balance, while delivering a house that felt like a vacation paradise. “The owner is in real estate,” says Anne Mooney, AIA. “He wanted to demonstrate… |
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2021 RDAA | Custom Urban House | Flex House | Johnsen Schmaling ArchitectsJohnsen Schmaling likes to work the in-between zones. For its rural buildings, that means the area between forest and pasture, wild and cultivated. And for their urban structures, such as Flex House, the architects find richness in the transition between residential and commercial areas… |
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2021 RDAA | Custom Urban House | Highland Park Residence | AlterstudioAlterstudio’s ambitious design for full-time art collectors succeeds on many levels, not least for its elevation of a featureless suburban lot—and the artwork inside. Deep lot setbacks influenced its boomerang-like footprint, which is articulated as an Indiana limestone-clad bar that cantilevers over the main level. Retracting glazed walls on each side of the long living… |
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