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Explore - My House
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Welcome to the Jungle
In Central America, Spanish colonial architecture prevails. But the creeping tide of modernism—represented here by the home of architect José Roberto Paredes—is signaling that...
written by: Sonja Hallphotos by: Paco Perez04.14.09 -
Village People
Amidst the pedestrian-friendly maze of leafy streets in New York City’s West Village, LOT-EK, a firm whose designs focus on the creative reuse of industrial materials, inserted a gut...
written by: Geoff Manaughphotos by: Dean Kaufman03.05.10 -
Village Green
This place was a filthy dump when we bought it,” says Cathryn Barmon, sipping tea in a knockoff Le Corbusier chair. “I didn’t want to go barefoot until we’d redone the...
written by: Virginia Gardinerphotos by: Raimund Koch01.18.09 -
Urban Vessel
"I'm used to spending time on boats," says New York based architect and interior designer Page Goolrick, who has been sailing competitively for 15 years. "It's influenced my design....
written by: Shonquis Morenophotos by: Dean Kaufman02.26.09 -
Universal Appeal
When David Carmel decided to propose to Kirsten Axelsen, he was at home in Manhattan and she was in Ethiopia, working to eliminate trachoma (the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness). No...
written by: Fred A. Bernsteinphotos by: Raimund Koch01.15.09 -
Twice as Nice
Within the mix of warehouses, detached brick bungalows, and dusty pubs of the Sydney, Australia, suburb of Alexandria, local architect David Langston-Jones has built an intricate and finely...
written by: Marcus Trimblephotos by: Nick Bowers01.14.09 -
Top Notch
Tom Hanks is not known for horror films, but his 1986 flop, The Money Pit, has a terrifying premise: A seemingly small renovation consumes a couple’s life, devouring their reserves of time,...
written by: Reyhan Harmanciphotos by: Doug Adesko01.15.09 -
Time Is on My Site
In Galileo’s day, men counted their pulses to tell time. In 2 A.D., Ptolemy, who understood more about the movements of the sun and the earth than most of us do today, designed a tool called...
written by: Shonquis Morenophotos by: Prakash Patel01.16.09 -
The Raiser's Edge
Mike McDonald, an Oakland, California–based builder, faced a common problem for Bay Area homeowners: an aesthetically pleasing, historically significant, but structurally shaky Victorian.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Jason Madara01.15.09 -
The Pace of Portland
When creative director Ben Watson and his partner, painter Claudio Tschopp, relocated from Basel, Switzerland, to Portland, Oregon, three years ago, they had been told about Portland’s Pearl...
written by: Brian Libbyphotos by: John Clark01.01.09 -
The Manhattan Transformation
As head of retail development and legal counsel leasing for American Apparel, Michael Pozner spends a lot of time sorting out the details when a new venue is chosen for the brand’s purposes....
written by: Marc Kristalphotos by: Raimund Koch11.04.10 -
Take Me Home
A “tree house” of clean lines, ample glass, and thoughtful ingenuity lets a Washington, DC–area family and a stream of weekend guests enjoy prefab living in an unlikely locale:...
written by: Jeremy Berlinphotos by: Chris Mueller01.08.09 -
Sustainability in Stages
"Personally, I’d rather be living outside,” says architect David Hertz. As a young man surfing in Bali, he was impressed by tropical village compounds where indoors and out flow into each other. ...
written by: Sydney LeBlancphotos by: Misha Gravenor01.20.09 -
Surfer's Turf
It was the surf and the artsy vibe that attracted Eric Grunbaum to Venice Beach, California, 18 years ago. An avid surfer and creative director for an advertising agency, he thrives on lively...
written by: Paul Youngphotos by: Ye Rin Mok02.08.10 -
Suburban Flight
It’s become an all-too-familiar scenario all across America: A city’s downtown, once a thriving place to live and work, has slowly withered and become decrepit.
written by: Amara Holsteinphotos by: Juliana Sohn01.16.09 -
Stow Aways
How do you squeeze maximum functionality out of minimal space? Rosa and Robert Garneau make it happen with multipurpose furniture, a hydraulic Murphy bed, and secret compartments galore.
written by: Heidi Mitchellphotos by: Ian Allen02.17.11 -
Startin' Spartan
When Jay Atherton and Cy Keener met in grad school at the University of California, Berkeley, they discovered in each other a rare constellation of common interests: minimalist architecture, rock...
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Ye Rin Mok11.22.10 -
Spanish Idyll
The internationally acclaimed designer Jaime Hayon takes us on a personal tour of his newly renovated home in Valencia, Spain, offering decorating tips along the way.
written by: Zahid Sardarphotos by: Nienke Klunder05.23.12 -
Something Old, Something New
For a vintage design dealer seeking a respite from the city, architect William Massie conceptualized a mostly prefab home around a carefully curated furniture collection in upstate New York.
written by: Erika Heetphotos by: Karina Tengberg02.27.13
