Many designs on sloping blocks are built on a single slab and will feature steep driveways and large retaining walls, resulting in a less attractive facade. But modern split-level designs such as the ...

Even in the images of architect Nina Still’s Putney house you can sense the movement of plant-infused air and leaf-filtered, wavering sunlight. Hers is an abnormally vivified domestic atmosphere.

Anyone who has lived in or traveled through suburban America will have seen a split-level house. Though this style of house began to appear as early as the 1930s, it saw its heyday in the post-World ...

Many designs on sloping blocks are built on a single slab and will feature steep driveways and large retaining walls, resulting in a less attractive facade. But modern split-level designs such as the ...