This environmentally savvy house and garden in Mexico is based on universal design principles.
Well-connected outdoor spaces keep the conversation going at a Virginia home.
Indoors and outdoors are connected by this Phoenix house.
Aside from its Mediterranean climate and postcard-ready natural beauty, Sonoma, Calif., has a number of claims to fame.
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Presented with a large, perfectly flat site surrounded by preserved farmland and ocean views, it's easy to imagine any number of ways to fill the void with a house, garage, pool, and vegetable garden. A common solution might have been to cluster the buildings and recreational amenities together...
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"I'm always happiest in a house when I can't imagine it existing without the landscape,” says architect Ron Radziner, FAIA. His home in Venice, Calif., is all but inseparable from the thicket of rushes and sedges, sycamores, and oaks that fill the 65-foot-by-175-foot lot. Interwoven with plantings...
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Decades from now, tales of this Martha's Vineyard, Mass., vacation home will draw peals of laughter from the people who spent childhood summers there.
A Texas-sized pool links the numerous outdoor spaces overlooking this sloping site.
A thorough reading of the landscape will help preserve its character.