North Dallas House

Modern Home Design by Dallas Residential Architects

This 7,000-square-foot modern home in North Dallas was designed for a longtime client with multiple rural projects. After years of listening to how they live across different places, this residence offered an opportunity to explore a more distinctly urban expression while still carrying the same sense of restraint, clarity, and connection to land.

As Dallas residential architects, we approached the home through order, proportion, and careful moments of release. The plan follows a strict grid, broken only at moments of transition. The entry is one of those moments: a bridge crossing a shallow pool, rotated slightly off axis, creates a soft counterpoint to the home’s geometry.

Ashlar-cut stone extends from exterior to interior, giving the house a sense of continuity and permanence. The grid reasserts itself in the plan until, once again, the stair tower subtly shifts the rhythm of the home. Three live oaks were preserved and helped shape the footprint, allowing the architecture to respond directly to the site.

Natural light, stone, water, and shadow give the house its quiet atmosphere. A 75-foot Olympic lap pool completes the formal composition of the site, while every architectural gesture remains deliberate, calm, and deeply considered.

The result is a modern North Dallas residence shaped by listening, precision, and restraint. It reflects our work as modern architects in Dallas, creating homes that feel refined, grounded, and quietly personal.

Photography: Charles Davis Smith, FAIA

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