Architect Kyu Sung Woo is no stranger to designing properties for his family. His own home in Massachusetts started life on his drawing board, as did a relative’s loft in New York City.

Now the Cambridge-based architect has created a weekend destination for three generations of Woos. And this time, the location is so isolated it’s off-grid. The 4,000sq foot Putney Mountain House stands in 250 acres of its own land deep in the Vermont hills. The house is over a mile from its nearest neighbours, which Woo describes as “typical New England rural houses and barns, characterized by wood siding, metal roofs and stone walls

For the Greek, Hemeroscopium is the place where the sun sets. An allusion to a place that exists only in our mind, in our senses, that is ever-changing and mutable, but is nonetheless real. It is delimited by the references of the horizon, by the physical limits, defined by light, and it happens in time.

Salzburg is an incredibly rich and complex city, where architecture and nature coexist in a unique state of balanced tension. Situated between intense cliffs which surge in height, the city’s architecture is confronted with the duality of nature and urbanism. Our conceptual approach seeks to address this duality by proposing a scheme which establishes a symbiotic relationship between the low rise urban context and the sublime beauty of the cliff.