When noa* Network of Architecture designed the original cantilevered swimming pool in 2016, the studio envisioned it as a rock stranded between earth and sky. In 2019 a new assignment was presented to the architects: to design a dedicated wellbeing extension to suit it. It was not an easy task for a building that had already found its symbol in the original swimming pool, yet this served as inspiration for the new project. 

The words “sleek,” “clean” and “architectural” aren’t often used to describe landscapes and gardens. But in the case of this Frontenac home, they fit.

When they built their current home less than two years ago, the homeowners, now empty nesters, were looking for “easy livability.” The words “clean modern aesthetic” described what they wanted for the interior of the home, where the predominant color palette is “a mix of warm neutrals.”

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Nicole England captures beautiful spaces and the dogs who call them home.

It is often said that great design makes timeless design—and this custom-crafted home in Springfield, Illinois, tells a story illustrating that belief flawlessly. Dubbed the “Hand in Glove House” by architect and interior designer Susan Bower, founder of Bower Leet Design, the intentionally understated aesthetic melds interior with exterior “like a hand in a glove, so interwoven are the materials and space,” she says.

Mark Kalk and his partner Mark Lammert had a problem. More succinctly, it was a landscaping problem. They needed to fit a large garden full of native plants and flowing water into a much smaller space. The reason why goes back a few years.

In 2010, then living in Compton Heights, they assembled four adjacent parcels of land into a one-third-acre site in iconic Lafayette Square, where they had once lived and still had friends. On that lot, they built a large, red brick townhome.