Is there anyone who doesn’t have a soft spot for A-frames? Despite their spatial inefficiency, A-frames are romantic, retro, hopeful, and fun. And as imagined here by architect William O’Brien, modern and more function than their reputation would suggest. Allandale House is a merging of three asymmetric A-frames, actually. The widest of the three contains [...]

There’s nothing small — or subtle — about Stone Creek Camp on Flathead Lake, Montana, but it’s plenty provocative. The project by Andersson-Wise architects turns the traditional inside out: It’s a log cabin in the sense that the walls are comprised of timber — cordwood cut from the Douglas fir and larch trees that were [...]

The long wooden walkway of the Foster Loop cabin near Mazama, Washington, is suggestive of a pier floating above a body of water, and entering the house reminds one of boarding a vessel — self-contained, welcoming, secure. Exiting, too, echoes stepping away from the craft and venturing into a seamless world, though in this case [...]