6 Modern Lakeside Homes

From a modernist icon to a New Jersey prefab, these six projects show that a body of water does a structure good. View Slideshow Slideshow

This family home on Australia’s Mornington Peninsula is built to blend in with its lakeside setting. Part of it cantilevers over the water. “We deliberately chose to keep the design restrained, as the natural setting here is the highlight,” says architect Karen Alcock.

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