Forest House | By Johnston Architects

Signal Hill takes a large family home and makes it feel surprisingly modest. Designed by Bates Masi + Architects in Montauk, the 6,325-square-foot residence is set into a 4.8-acre hillside, using the contours of the land to reduce its visual presence while opening the interiors to wide views across the surrounding water and protected landscape. The design draws from Montauk’s agricultural past, particularly the old livestock pens built from glacial stone. S...
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Designed by Ben Callery Architects, this self-sufficient retreat in Australia captures the spirit of what it means to live off-grid. Located an hour north of Melbourne, the Elemental House has a 10-metre-by-10-metre footprint and simple layout, with space for one bedroom, one bathroom and one living room with an open plan kitchen. Perched on a hill overlooking stunning panoramic views, the dream cabin produces and stores its own power, collects its own rain water an...
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The 2021 INDE.Awards winners have been announced, and from a wide array of entries there could still only be one winner and it went to the incredibly deserving Federal House by Edition Office. With a monochrome exterior composed of black-pigmented concrete and black timber, this impressive house sits like a void in the Byron Bay hinterland of Australia. The stunning interior welcomes in the greenery through floor-to-ceiling windows, while a central fern garden bring...
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