Modern Monochrome Homes With Calm Cosy Terraces Win Global Design Awards

The shortlist for this year’s Home of the Year award is dominated by a particular aesthetic sensibility: quiet, restrained, material-honest, and attentive to the relationship between a house and its landscape.

The frontrunner, a single-storey house carved into a south-facing hillside, achieves its effects through the most direct means: concrete, timber, glass, and a terrace that dissolves the boundary between dwelling and landscape.

“We wanted the outside to come in and the inside to go out,” said the architect. “The threshold between the two should be a place you want to spend time, not a line you cross.”