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7 Modern Homes in Missouri
December 28, 2015
These houses from Springfield to Kansas City are bellwethers of contemporary design.
Thanks to Matthew Hufft, their envelope-pushing architect and longtime friend, Hannah and Paul Catlett have a new home in southwestern Missouri that’s a fresh, unconventional take on the traditional farmhouse.
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Originally appeared in Modern Take on a Traditional Farmhouse in Missouri
The house that Dake-Wells Architecture designed for Cory and Kerry Watts in the Ozarks in southwestern Missouri is defined by subtle nods to its lakeside setting, such as an elevated wooden plank that carries visitors over a bed of river rock to the north entrance.
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Originally appeared in Modern Lake House in Missouri
Architect Jamie Darnell had a simple plan for his family’s home in Kansas City, Missouri, but the result is anything but plain. The house in the evening, with the main living space and basement illuminated. "It gets pretty windy here," Jamie says. "I have nightmares about the roof coming off like the lid of a can."
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Originally appeared in Affordable, SIP-Built Family Home in Kansas City
At the client's request, this house in Springfield, Missouri, has curved lines integrated throughout. Outside, the most notable example of this is the exterior brick wall that emerges from the sharply linear ironwood walls in soft waves. The roof is also made of a curved Spanish tile punctuated by an extensive, angular solar array.
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Originally appeared in A Bold Home Creatively Combines Curves and Modern Lines
The Kansas City firm Kem Studio helped Ethan and Heidi Whitehill navigate the tricky process of modernizing a converted 1960s-era duplex on a street that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Originally appeared in K.C. Cool: 7 Striking Designs in Kansas City, Missouri
The house that Kem Studio designed for Sarah Magill on a narrow lot in Kansas City, Missouri, has a steel facade with reclaimed cypress cladding near the entrance. The entire structure sits atop a steel foundation set on concrete piers that were driven into solid stone.
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Originally appeared in A Versatile House Fulfills All This Musician's Needs
In a leafy residential area a few miles from downtown Kansas City, Missouri, architect Christian Arnold saw opportunity where others saw trouble. He took a sloping, triangular lot and designed a new home for his growing family—an open tree house–like structure on stilts that hovers at the quirky edge of a conventional neighborhood.
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Originally appeared in K.C. Cool: 7 Striking Designs in Kansas City, Missouri
Thanks to Matthew Hufft, their envelope-pushing architect and longtime friend, Hannah and Paul Catlett have a new home in southwestern Missouri that’s a fresh, unconventional take on the traditional farmhouse.
Photo by Joe Pugliese.
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