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John Pawson . photos: © Douglas Tuck

Central to this design is the idea of accommodating the separate elements of the programme in a hamlet of cubic forms, clustered around natural circulation routes, orientated to provide shelter from the prevailing wind and to optimise views. Rubble stone walls tracking around the property set up a defining dialogue with these smooth white volumes, framing courtyards, terraces and pools. Where the white cubes cantilever out from the rubble walls, the effect is to give the composition an archaeological quality, as if the house has been built on ruins. The landscape strategy is defined by the ambition of reinstating the natural vegetation of scrub and trees, to give the impression of a house set in an olive grove. Continue reading John Pawson

John Pawson . photos: © Nacasa & Partners

The site for this family home is a 414sqm cliff-top plot on the island of Okinawa, where the clients wish to spend their summer and winter holidays. As they live in a box-shaped house in Tokyo, the brief was for somewhere with a sense of vertical and horizontal expansiveness and the fluidity of the catenary curve came up as a visual reference. The design traces the diagonal footprint of the plot, combining single and double-height spaces within a form that is closed and tapered to the rear, but to the front flares and opens like an eye over the headland, with the ground floor level raised to optimise sightlines to the ocean. Continue reading John Pawson

John Pawson . photos: © Åke E:son Lindman

This house on the shore of Lake Drevviken takes the form of a simple box, with an enclosed courtyard at the back and a terrace to the front. Uncompromisingly contemporary, the architecture is nonetheless a quiet presence in the landscape. In winter, when the lake freezes over and the site is blanketed in snow, the pale volume is all but invisible.
In summer, viewed from across the water, the elevations are fragmented by foliage. Inside the house is designed to be as open as possible to views over the lake, with spaces framed in simple surfaces and in a pale tonal palette. Continue reading John Pawson

John Pawson . photos: © Gilbert McCarragher

St James’s Square comprises predominantly Georgian and Neo-Georgian architecture set around a substantial private garden, between Piccadilly and the expansive green public spaces of Green Park. For the first two hundred years of its history one of the most fashionable residential addresses in London, today its exclusivity is expressed in the prestigious nature of its commercial inhabitants. Continue reading John Pawson

John Pawson . photos: © Gilbert McCarragher

This family house in the hills overlooking Los Angeles takes the form of two distinct horizontal volumes, stacked one above the other. Where the lower volume is visually anchored in the landscape, the cantilevered upper storey appears to float. This impression is reinforced by the different material treatments of each, which contrasts the solidity of limestone with the lighter rhythms of vertical timber panels. The house’s structural configuration increases space on the upper level and gives the ground floor an open character in terms both of its layout and of the relationship between interior and exterior areas. Continue reading John Pawson