Custom Home editors have compiled a slideshow featuring the winners in the Outdoor Spaces and Accessory Building categories from our 2012 Custom Home Design Awards.
A modern pavilion negotiates the space between manicured and natural landscapes.
Four linked pavilions double the living space in a historic house.
This project shows the power of a simple cube.
Our judges admired the quality of light and clean materials used for this house on the Chesapeake Bay.
Our judges praised the composition, materials, and the porch of this suburban infill project by Robert M. Gurney.
The Watergate's famous circular geometry posed interior challenges for Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect.
The clients for this Washington, D.C., renovation have young children and a modern art collection—both of which tend to thrive in open floor plans.
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The 11th annual residential architect Design Awards received 978 entries in 16 categories. Just 26 projects were singled out for accolades, making RADA the most competitive residential architecture awards program in the country. The jury comprised six distinguished architects, including Ed Binkley...
Converted long ago to office space, this townhouse in the heart of Washington, D.C.'s downtown commercial district seemed an unlikely candidate for a return engagement as a residence.
Asked to design a simple bathroom makeover, architect Robert M. Gurney and project designer Claire L. Andreas instead combined an existing master bedroom, bath, and closet into a single continuous space.
Much of the ground floor of this exurban house opens to its wooded site via floor-to-ceiling glass.
As remodeling candidates, some houses offer architects more to work with than others.
A wooded point of land on the shore of Virginia's Lake Anna presented architect Robert M. Gurney and project designer Claire L. Andreas with the perfect stage for this strikingly sculptural weekend retreat.
The open floor plans so commonly seen in homes' public living spaces in recent years are finding their way into private areas as well.
Though the owners of this renovated kitchen dwell in a Craftsman-style house, their imaginations had been captured by Modernism.
When it came time to liberate her dark, disorienting apartment in a Beaux-Arts building, this client—a psychiatrist—prescribed an orderly, austere environment, perhaps as an antidote to the daily hazards of her practice.
Nearly 1,500 square feet of storage space atop a bakery and parking garage was the starting point for this apartment by Robert M. Gurney, FAIA. Along the way he also had to contend with the historic Washington, D.C., neighborhood's building restrictions—n
Architect Mary Griffin had lived in this house—the oldest in Sausalito, Calif.—for 15 years by the time she remodeled it.
