House on the Flight of Birds
Azores, Portugal
A red wall with large window cutouts and covered courtyards on the ground level buffer the home from frequent wind and showers. A rooftop patio provides panoramic views, and a nook inside the windowed "V" shape provides a great place to read. The geometric home is surrounded by farmland on St. Michael's Island.
Glass House
Berlin
On the outside, this glass home designed by Pott Architects has an unconventional, futuristic-looking sloping shape. Beyond the sunken entrance, the interior is designed to be flexible and evolve as the owner's family grows.
Jigsaw Residence
Bethesda, Md.
A series of puzzle pieces that "interlock in a very unique way," architect David Jameson's award-winning, complex, yet column-free Jigsaw Residence is designed around a central courtyard that allows light to pulse into the home from every direction without compromising privacy.
Color Cubes
Sarasota, Fla.
Taking its cues from nature, this modern manse takes a puzzling rainbow twist. Foliage-green, grape-soda purple and banana-yellow walls delineate the concrete cubes that make up the exterior of the home. They also designate the formal and casual spaces of the resortlike family dwelling on 1.53 acres in a gated community on Siesta Key
Bridge House
Kent, Conn.
Built in a "Z" shape, this sustainable yellow-cedar-clad residence bridges the landscape, which runs through and under the mountainside dwelling. Situated on 17 acres and designed with an open-air feeling, the vacation home overlooks a state park and the Housatonic River. It oscillates, in the words of architect Joeb Moore,
Distort House
Jakarta, Indonesia
Architects in Jakarta created a jigsaw-shaped home with angular, unglazed terra-cotta tile roofs. They twisted the structure — dubbed the Distort House — 15 degrees and shifted it toward the back of the lot to create a larger front yard.
Fallingwater
Mill Run, Pa
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater is one of the earliest and most sublime examples of jigsaw architecture that jibes with its natural surroundings. It was designed in 1935 as a mountain retreat for a prominent Pittsburgh retailer who wanted to live near the waterfalls of Bear Run, Pa.
L-Stack House
Fayetteville, Ark.
Two independent boxes linked by a glass-enclosed staircase. That's how architect Marlon Blackwell of Fayetteville describes his L-shaped contemporary home built over a crawfish-stocked creek on a trapezoid-shaped lot not far from a city park.
Nakahouse
Hollywood Hills, Calif.
"Jigsaw patterns" architect Austin Kelly says, work "very well for these hillside properties." The residence recently won an American Institute of Architects award for its "feeling of serenity, spectacular framing of the views and the folded geometry of the enclosure."
Beachfront jigsaw
Golden Beach, Fla
A property once owned and used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as his "winter White House," this jigsaw home could double as a large modern-art sculpture. The property features a white onyx glass wall and a floating granite walkway that crosses two koi ponds leading to the entryway.
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