Small and single-purpose, a pool house is that quintessential object that can be precisely designed down to the smallest of…
ARCHITECTURAL INTERIORS
Everyone wins when locally harmonious building materials dovetail with the demands of a modest budget. Napa is largely rural, after…
The couple, a landscape designer and a hairdresser, already owned a small compound of sorts—two bungalows (one pink and one…
Renovation is often a wonderful thing, but in the wrong hands—whether client or architect—it can inflict greater harm than good.…
RURAL / SECOND HOMES
Small and single-purpose, a pool house is that quintessential object that can be precisely designed down to the smallest of…
For Matthew O’Malia and his firm OPAL Architecture, each design opportunity is not just a creative exercise, it’s also a…
Everyone wins when locally harmonious building materials dovetail with the demands of a modest budget. Napa is largely rural, after…
When art and architecture come together, wonderful things can happen. For this home in Roxbury, Connecticut, the idea was to…
URBAN
New houses are never just about space, or even objects of art on the street. They influence the aesthetic and…
Builder Peter Crain and his wife spent several years looking for the right lot on which to build their third…
With its proximity to the Pacific Ocean, the Hermosa Beach community is all about, well, the beach. Many of the…
Having outgrown their fixer-upper in a Dallas neighborhood they loved, Paul Field and his wife went looking for a site…
RENOVATION
COR-TEN Tree House, named for its setting in a woodsy Washington, D.C., suburb, is almost unrecognizable from its original form. But…
Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains are an unlikely location for the nation’s first subdivision that mandated modernist design. So it’s something…
It takes an ambitious architect and a steady client to rebuild a house that spans an active creek. The property…
Renovation is often a wonderful thing, but in the wrong hands—whether client or architect—it can inflict greater harm than good.…
ON THE BOARDS
When you’re a residential architect, you’re in the business of delivering dream houses. But what happens when your clients’ dream…
Working largely on the West Coast, Feldman Architecture already faces some of the strictest building codes in the nation, but…
When you design a house in Hawaii, you dare not compete with the scenery. In this case, the views are…
Fourteen feet wide and about 100 feet long, this skinny house on a 3,000-acre working cattle ranch ups the ante…
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When you first see the 2,600sq ft lake house in Riverside, Texas, it looks like a glass box floating on…
Architect Robert Gurney leverages a site’s steeply sloped terrain to transform a suburban Maryland home into a tranquil oasis that takes its cues from nature.
When he was brought in to design a modern home in Palo Alto, California, Tai Ikegami knew he’d have to…
Job location: Ann Arbor, MI DESIGN CHALLENGE When a Michigan family started the journey of updating the home they built…