Sewall House

The interior dazzles as well. Panels form doorways into secluded bedrooms—you press on just the right spot, and they slide open. It’s built almost all the way up to the street, but you’d never know it. “From inside the house you don’t even realize that you’re three feet from the curb line,” says Barrie Bradley, former managing editor of Cite. “Spatially, it’s a very inventive house.”