Best Cabin

Rock House, Alberta, Canada, by Cutler Anderson Architects

- Jonathan Bell

The Rock House doesn’t give much away to the visitor. A compact, one-bedroom retreat, it lies tucked into a hillside site in a remote spot west of Calgary. Approached from the rear, all one sees is a slender entrance door cut into a concrete wall. Yet once inside, the sheer drama of the landscape is unveiled, with floor-to-ceiling windows showing a panoramic sweep of prairie and woodland reaching all the way to the horizon, split from the sky by the jagged white peaks of the distant Rockies.