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08/29/2026

Every hour has its own favorite room.

A central skylight brings daylight into the heart of 6016 Chesterbrook Road rather than leaving the interior dependent on windows at its edges. As the sun moves overhead, emphasis shifts from one room to another.

The plan stays the same. The experience does not.

Explore our latest Featured Home at listModern.

08/27/2026

Some houses are understood through a single architectural gesture. Others reveal themselves through the relationships between spaces.

At 6016 Chesterbrook Road, Mark McInturff, FAIA, explores a more nuanced balance: privacy without isolation, openness without sacrificing definition, and rooms that remain connected while retaining their individual purpose.

Our latest Featured Home looks more closely at architecture designed around how a house is actually lived in.

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08/27/2026

The most considered residential architecture does not demand attention at every turn. Over time, it becomes inseparable from the routines it was designed to accommodate.

Our latest Featured Home explores how Mark McInturff's architecture reveals itself gradually, through light, movement, spatial connection, and the ordinary patterns of a day.

At 6016 Chesterbrook Road in McLean, McInturff substantially reworked an existing 1950s house around a series of carefully resolved relationships.

Explore 6016 Chesterbrook Road, a Mark McInturff, FAIA renovation in McLean, Virginia, where connected rooms, shifting daylight, considered privacy, and a close relationship to the landscape shape an architecture designed around daily life.

06/01/2026

NaCl House still feels remarkably current more than a decade after its completion.

Not because it anticipated trends.
Because it was never designed around them in the first place.

Architecture driven by authorship tends to age differently. Its value is not dependent on surface styling or market cycles, but on proportion, spatial intelligence, material discipline, and clarity of intent. Those qualities remain legible long after trend language disappears.

David Jameson’s NaCl House operates with that level of precision. Every projection, opening, and moment of compression feels deliberate. The house rewards repeated observation rather than instant consumption.

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7405 Helmsdale Rd, Bethesda, MD
Listed by Ron Mangas, Jr
TTR Sotheby’s International Realty

05/29/2026

NaCL House never relies on scale for presence

Despite spanning nearly 6,000 square feet across three levels, the structure settles into the site with remarkable restraint. Cantilevered forms extend outward while preserving openness around the home itself, avoiding the visual heaviness typical of large new-build construction.

Designed by David Jameson

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NaCl House never relies on scale for presence
7405 Helmsdale Rd, Bethesda, MD
Listed by Ron Mangas, Jr
TTR Sotheby’s International Realty

05/28/2026

Summer sharpens the experience of Sea Del House.

Walls of sliding glass open the living space directly to the oceanfront deck, allowing salt air, shifting light, and the surrounding dune landscape to become part of daily life in North Bethany Beach.

Designed by Robert Gurney Architect.

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40220 Sugar Hill Rd, Bethany Beach, DE
Offered at $8,495,000
by Justin Noble
of Monument Sotheby's International Realty

05/19/2026

NaCl House exists somewhere between residence and sculptural study.

Designed by architect David Jameson, the internationally published Bethesda home manipulates geometry, light, and perception through cantilevered forms and carefully controlled spatial sequencing. Volumes appear to hover. Openings reveal themselves gradually. Light continuously reshapes the experience of the interior.

The result is architecture that feels rigorous, restrained, and deeply intentional from every angle.

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7405 Helmsdale Rd, Bethesda, MD
Listed by Ron Mangas, Jr
TTR Sotheby’s International Realty

05/12/2026

Designed by architect David Jameson, the internationally published NaCL House in Bethesda manipulates projection, shadow, and proportion with unusual control. Cantilevered forms appear to hover within the landscape. Openings resist repetition. Light continuously reshapes the experience of the interior.

The closer the house is studied, the more disciplined it becomes.

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7405 Helmsdale Rd, Bethesda, MD
Listed by Ron Mangas, Jr
TTR Sotheby’s International Realty

05/12/2026

Designed by a principal of Studio MB, a Washington, DC-based architecture firm, the home reflects a focus on proportion, clarity, and controlled openings.

Four bedrooms and four baths are arranged with clarity, including a dedicated home office and a double-height screened outdoor living room with a fireplace. This defining space extends the house into the landscape while remaining usable across seasons. Equally suited for quiet retreat or hosting, the home holds both with ease.

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316 Gordon Rd, Kinsale, VA
UNDER CONTRACT
Listed by Ron Mangas, Jr
TTR Sotheby's International Realty

05/09/2026

There are very few homes in the Washington region that approach architecture with genuine discipline.

Designed by builder and structural engineer Jack Willmore, this Fairfax Station residence draws from the principles of organic modernism through horizontality, layered cantilevers, integration with landscape, and restrained spatial sequencing. The influence is recognizable, but the home never feels imitative.

Inside, a two-story gallery centered around an interior koi pond establishes the atmosphere immediately. Light reflects from the water throughout the day while the surrounding woods and moving air become part of the experience itself.

11604 Fairfax Station Road
Fairfax Station, Virginia
Offered by Ron Mangas, Jr
TTR Sotheby's International Realty