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On an ongoing evening, the Paris condo of Benjamin Paulin and Alice Lemoine is obvious bare put something aside for a solitary shelf and a couple of bits of workmanship—not actually what you'd expect chez the child of the late, incredible French architect Pierre Paulin (1927–2009). "Here and there we don't have anything and once in a while we have four couches," notes Benjamin, clarifying that their missing furnishings, all by his dad, is on credit for displays in London and Frankfurt. On the off chance that that seems like a game of seat juggling, they prefer it as such....

This issue is brimming with unique masterminds, free spirits, and broad, present day visionaries. Among them, Danish starchitect Bjarke Ingels exemplifies living huge—his firm, all things considered, is called BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group). With worldwide reach, he has understood the numerous uncontrollably innovative, sky's-the-limit thoughts that have put him on the map—including Lego House and Copenhill, a waste-treatment office with a ski incline on the rooftop. Be that as it may, as AD's Sam Cochran writes in our main story, Ingels had never handled a private habitation. "Nobody asked," says an impassive Ingels, who is without a doubt scaring to...

NOT LONG AGO, even newly built cottages favoured a more traditional style, with lashings of gingerbread trim and smaller windows. The results were charming and cosy, but they also tended to be dark and disconnected from the landscape. So when a couple with grown children who had children of their own confessed to Margot Bell and Dasha Ricci of Peaks & Rafters that they were ready to replace their family cottage with a design that emphasized light as well as the rugged surroundings, the designers, who specialize in cottage properties, immediately understood. “This was a dream project for our clients,”...

AA DECADE AGO, my husband, Paul Kilback, and I had three young kids, an oversized mortgage on our Toronto home and no job security to speak of — I’d left my post at House & Home and was launching my f ledgling design business. It was terrible timing to buy a dingy hunting shack in the woods of Frontenac County, Ont., but common sense had never stopped us before. Boasting 280 feet of crystal-clear shoreline packed with towering birch, pine, cedar and spruce, the property had nary a neighbour in sight, and we couldn’t resist the opportunity for a secluded...

INLATE SPRING, not long after the magnolia trees have burst into bloom, Kevin and Bernadette decamp fromtheir house in Toronto and head to a summer home on Prince Edward Island. They arrive around the same time bobolink songbirds are also migrating back to the couple’s seven-and-a-half-hectare South Shore plot overlooking the Northumberland Strait. As the small birds make their summer home in the meadow, one of Bernadette’s favourite daily pursuits is counting them. She might spot as many as 10 per day, which she’ll dutifully report to the local Island Nature Trust. It’s a peaceful pastime indicative of the couple’s...