RD Bi-Weekly NL | | | When clients hire Mowery Marsh Architects, they deal exclusively with Jennifer Mowery Marsh, AIA, and Brian Marsh, AIA. The husband-and-wife team, based in Hoboken, New Jersey, work on all their projects without the help of staff or interns. “It’s just the two of us, and from the beginning... |
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| | | Idyllically situated beside Puget Sound, Seattle’s North Beach neighborhood has a strong Scandinavian heritage. A century ago, many Norwegians, Swedes, and Finns immigrated to work in the fishing and timber industries and built homes here. Ship captain Ole E. Nilsen was one of... |
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| | | For young urban couples, the decision to have children means envisioning the ideal environment in which to raise them. And often, it’s not the city. That was the case for Brooklynites Julian King, AIA, and his wife and business partner Christina Lyons, who a few years ago began... |
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| | | Residential Design invites you to enter your best residential work in the seventh annual RD Architecture Awards competition. Registration officially closes on Wednesday, February 4, and final entry materials are due on the 11th. |
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| | | Build for resiliency with propaneEnergy resilience is not a luxury — it’s now a necessity in home construction. A new Department of Energy report warns blackouts could increase 100x by 2030. That’s why builders are turning to propane — an affordable, reliable, on-site energy source that delivers when the grid can’t.
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| | | The AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index® (ABI) closed out 2025 in negative territory with a December score of 48.5, up from 45.3 in November. Any score below 50 indicates a billings decline, although this month’s score indicates that… |
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| | | Builder confidence moved lower to start the year as affordability concerns continue to weigh heavily with buyers, and builders continue to contend with rising construction costs. |
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| | | The Copper Development Association is now accepting submissions from architects, designers, contractors, and construction professionals for the 2026 NACIA Awards.
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| | | Private residential construction spending was up 1.3% in October, rebounding from a 1.4% decline in September 2025. This modest gain was primarily driven by increased spending on home improvements. Despite this increase, total... |
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| | | Hot tubs are a coveted item in many abodes, but the latest indulgence is the ice bath. Teaming with wellness guru Dr. Jonathan Leary of Remedy Place, which claims it’s the first social wellness club, Kohler is launching a line of products geared to self care, including the x Remedy Place Ice… |
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| | | Hastings’ Urban Rough-Cut countertops offer a live edge look in nine wood grain finishes. Designed and crafted by hand in Italy, the oak veneer product is engineered for durability. The counters accept an integrated or vessel basin and come in custom lengths of 27½ to 94½ inches. |
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| | | With their proximity to New York City, Connecticut’s coastal towns have long attracted wealthy families who built distinctive stone houses on pastoral tracts of land. Some of these structures were the work of architect and master stone mason Frazier Forman Peters, who reportedly built 41... |
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| | | The town of Harbert, Michigan, sits on the shores of Lake Michigan, but the nearly 8-acre site of Prairie Road Retreat is more savanna than beachfront. Designed as a second home for three generations of a family comprising toddlers and septuagenarians, the 4,572-square-foot ranch by Chicago... |
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| | | Sometimes when clients ask for an architect’s help on a farmhouse, what they’re really craving is the outbuildings a farm property necessitates. What the heart truly wants is a tractor and all its accoutrements. Indeed, Brian Korte’s client found the firm from its standout work on light industrial... |
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| | | NAHB’s analysis of Census Data from the Quarterly Starts and Completions by Purpose and Design survey indicates year-over year growth for custom home builders amid broader single-family home building weakness. The custom building market is less sensitive to the interest rate cycle than other forms of home building but is more… |
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| | | Residential building material prices continued to experience elevated growth, according to the latest Producer Price Index release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Price growth has been above 3.0% since June this year, despite continued weakness in the new residential construction market... |
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