The neatly composed street elevation barely hints at what lies w…
The neatly composed street elevation barely hints at what lies within.
Bill Timmerman Photography
The house's side courtyard is shielded from view by the building…
The house's side courtyard is shielded from view by the building and a high garden wall.
Bill Timmerman Photography
The main living space observes a visual boundary that includes t…
The main living space observes a visual boundary that includes the courtyard and pool.
Bill Timmerman Photography
What appears to be a high window is, in fact, a periscope that p…
What appears to be a high window is, in fact, a periscope that projects a roof-top view of the Tucson Mountains onto a mirror mounted above the kitchen cabinets.
Bill Timmerman Photography
Deep glass soffits cast watery reflections overhead.
Bill Timmerman Photography
The master suite opens onto a more private rear courtyard.
Bill Timmerman Photography
The rear courtyard
Bill Timmerman Photography
The master bath, with its windowed shower, relies on the garden …
The master bath, with its windowed shower, relies on the garden wall for privacy.
Courtesy HK Associates
This building section shows the profile of the periscope.
Courtesy HK Associates
The floor plan
Elliott Kaufman
Strong geometrical forms and soft, muted colors give this new ho…
Strong geometrical forms and soft, muted colors give this new house an assertive yet respectful presence in its rural landscape.
Elliott Kaufman
The entry elevation presents a bold composition of rectilinear f…
The entry elevation presents a bold composition of rectilinear forms.
Elliott Kaufman
The house opens up on its downhill side.
Elliott Kaufman
The building fans out in both plan and section.
Elliott Kaufman
Interior and exterior living spaces take in long views over an o…
Interior and exterior living spaces take in long views over an olive grove.
Elliott Kaufman
The kitchen overlooks the living area. A sliding screen beyond o…
The kitchen overlooks the living area. A sliding screen beyond opens a window into the bedroom.
Elliott Kaufman
A view of the living room from the kitchen.
Elliott Kaufman
The concrete wall that slices through the building opens for a w…
The concrete wall that slices through the building opens for a windowed seating nook in the living room.
Elliott Kaufman
The interior palette follows the same grayscale theme as the ext…
The interior palette follows the same grayscale theme as the exterior.
Elliott Kaufman
2011 CHDA Custom Home of the Year House in an Olive Grove, Gey…
2011 CHDA Custom Home of the Year House in an Olive Grove, Geyserville, Calif. Cooper Joseph Studio, New York City Architect Wendy Joseph of Cooper Joseph Studio captured views and maintained privacy in this cozy bedroom with fixed horizontal glazing that suits the gaze from the adjacent built-in bed. The far wall is all glass and connects to a small balcony jutting out over the olive groves on the property. Those two carefully curated windows offer close-up and distant views of the surrounding countryside.
Elliott Kaufman
The master bath. The mirror reflects the view through the glass-…
The master bath. The mirror reflects the view through the glass-walled shower.
Courtesy Cooper Joseph Studio
The site plan.
Courtesy Cooper Joseph Studio
The floor plan.
Courtesy Cooper Joseph Studio
Building sections.
Doug Edmunds
A cubelike mid-level entry makes a virtue of the feature that on…
A cubelike mid-level entry makes a virtue of the feature that once distinguished this house as a "raised ranch".
Meditch Murphey Architects
Warren Jagger Photography
Three traditional building forms—a gable-roofed main house, a …
Three traditional building forms—a gable-roofed main house, a shedlike studio, and a saltbox-style loft—come together in an unexpected fashion.
Lerner/Ladds + Bartels
Frederick Phillips and Associates Architects
The Custom Home Design Awards celebrated its 20th anniversary last
year! Throughout the years the numbers have grown—even during the worst
of the downturn—to as many as 500 entries per year. The editors of
Custom Home are trying to provide broader reach and higher exposure to
the innovative projects entered into the design awards each year. Next
week, we officially are announcing a more comprehensive and prestigious
program in combination with our sister publication, BUILDER. The 2013
Builder’s Choice & Custom Home Design Awards will receive coverage
in both print publications as well as being featured within our various
digital and online venues. In addition, we will present the awards at a
dinner event on Oct. 8, prior to Residential Architect’s annual
Reinvention conference.
To help launch the new
program, we’ve collected winners from the past nine years for our Custom
Home of the Year award. To select these best-of-the-best honorees, our
jurors meet in person and consider each project before making tough
choices on which ones should be selected to represent the best in
pioneering architecture and meticulous construction. And from among
those carefully curated whole-house entries, one is further elevated as
the Custom Home of the Year (CHOY) award winner.
These houses
vary in style, location, and program yet they all share sensitivity to
their sites and enduring details that propelled them into this elite
category. Our design award juries often engage in lengthy discussions
about the merits of certain projects over others or philosophical
debates on housing in general, but selecting the CHOY typically is one
of their speediest decisions. These projects seem to have something
special that immediately catches the attention of both the custom
builders and architects on our juries. CHOY winners from the past nine
years are gathered in this slideshow. After viewing these projects, we
hope you’re inspired to submit your own work to our bigger, better 2013
design awards program.
