![Surrounded by forest, the 'BST House', which also has a guest house, features a facade of hand-formed brick.](https://www.contemporist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/modern-brick-house-black-window-frames-281220-703-01.jpg)
33bY Architecture has designed a modern brick house in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.
Surrounded by forest, the ‘BST House’, which also has a guest house, features a facade of hand-formed brick.
![Surrounded by forest, the 'BST House', which also has a guest house, features a facade of hand-formed brick.](https://www.contemporist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/modern-brick-house-black-window-frames-281220-703-02.jpg)
![A modern brick home with black window frames.](https://www.contemporist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/modern-brick-house-black-window-frames-281220-703-03.jpg)
Complementing and contrasting the brown brick are the black steel window frames, panels, and balcony railing.
![Complementing and contrasting the brown brick of this home are the black steel window frames, panels, and balcony railing.](https://www.contemporist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/modern-brick-house-black-window-frames-281220-703-04.jpg)
![Complementing and contrasting the brown brick of this home are the black steel window frames, panels, and balcony railing.](https://www.contemporist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/modern-brick-house-with-black-steel-accents-281220-702-05.jpg)
Apart from the tall trees of the surrounding forest, the home also has expansive landscaping designed by Alex Zinevich, and includes more than 500 different plant species.
There’s also a long rectangular swimming pool with a deck furnished with sun loungers on one side, and a path on the other.
![This modern brick house has a long rectangular swimming pool with a deck furnished with sun loungers on one side, and a path on the other.](https://www.contemporist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/modern-brick-house-with-swimming-pool-deck-281220-702-06.jpg)
![This modern brick house has a long rectangular swimming pool with a deck furnished with sun loungers.](https://www.contemporist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/modern-brick-house-with-swimming-pool-deck-281220-702-07.jpg)
Low gabion walls define the edge of the pool deck and provide a separation from a lower path.
![Low gabion walls define the edge of a pool deck and provide a separation from a lower path.](https://www.contemporist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/landscaping-low-stone-wall-gabion-281220-701-08.jpg)
Another water element has been added to the landscape design in the form of a natural pond with a waterfall.
![The landscape design of this modern brick house includes a natural pond with a waterfall.](https://www.contemporist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/landscaping-natural-pond-with-waterfall-281220-702-09.jpg)