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Explore - Renovation
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City Modern Home Tours: Brooklyn
A rainy start to the Brooklyn Home Tour—the closing event of City Modern—didn't deter those who turned out for a peek into five unique homes in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, and Boerum...
written by: Sara Dierckphotos by: Sara Dierck10.12.12 -
Keep Your Eye on the Balto
Coffee shop and bakery owner Greg Martin kept baker’s hours to whip this chimerical Minneapolis building into a modern confection.
written by: Georgina Gustinphotos by: Cameron Wittig01.16.09 -
New Prospects
A Brooklyn architect shows what a little elbow grease, a healthy dose of naïveté, and a decade can accomplish.
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Dustin Aksland08.13.11 -
Method Lab
Designer Jennifer Siegal’s own house is a modest 1920s Spanish bungalow on the leeward side of busy Lincoln Boulevard in Venice, California, that looks nothing like what she makes at her day job. A...
written by: David A. Greenephotos by: Dave Lauridsen01.15.09 -
Apartment Decorated by Gaultier
Stepping into the freshly decorated apartment by Jean-Paul Gaultier at Trocadero in Paris, I felt as if I had been transported into a quixotic dream, complete with a choppy journey through a triage...
written by: Tiffany Chuphotos by: Tiffany Chu08.11.10 -
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 -
The Director's House: Cranbrook
After fifteen years of disuse, a Saarinen-designed house on the Cranbrook campus has been renovated and updated by the school's Director, Reed Kroloff, and interior designer Lynda Charfoos.
written by: Dwell Staffphotos by: Justin Maconochie12.18.11 -
Solar Inspiration
A husband-and-wife architect team proves a house can be good for the environment—and look great too.
written by: Sydney LeBlancphotos by: Marvin Rand01.19.09 -
Double Time: Bungalow Redux
Upon the birth of their first child, artist Stas Orlovski and food stylist Alise Arato felt that their 700-square-foot 1930s bungalow in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles was too small to...
written by: Erika Heet08.09.10 -
Vertical Challenge
In the lofty Amsterdam apartment of Texas-born Hunter Hindman and Shelby Carr, mid-century modern mixes freely with contemporary Dutch design in a setting transposed from the 17th century.
written by: Jane Szitaphotos by: Rene Mesman01.22.09 -
IdeaGarden Eco-Farmhouse
After Will Rosenzweig and Carla Fracchia bought this 100-year-old farmhouse in Healdsburg, California, they hired Arkin Tilt Architects and Earthtone Construction to make an eco-friendly example...
written by: Jaime Gillin10.13.11 -
Our Renovation
Every night I said, “Trust me, sweetheart, this is going to be amazing, beautiful, fantastic
written by: Peter Moore Smith02.26.09 -
Walter Gropius, Hagerty House
Walter Gropius wanted the Hagerty House, his first commission in the United States, to be as close to the sea as possible. He sited the structure a precarious 20 feet from the shore and let the...
written by: Jaci Conryphotos by: Dean Kaufman01.14.09 -
San Juan, PR
After three rainless weeks a welcome tropical shower blew into San Juan, Puerto Rico, one afternoon last May, awakening Casa Delpin with the sound of trickling water.
written by: Michael Cannellphotos by: Raimund Koch02.26.09 -
New Prospects: The Sherman Residence
In this video accompanying our September 2011 My House story, architect Jeff Sherman guides us through his airy Brooklyn rowhouse—a onetime dilapidated dog kennel—which he painstakingly renovated...
08.15.11 -
Glazed Old Fashioned
On a shady street just off the main drag of Melbourne, Australia’s hippest inner suburb, a pair of creative types and their two kids have made a bright, cheery home by renovating an 1860s...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Stephen Oxenbury07.22.10 -
The Penthouse Has Landed
In Vienna, a dazzling penthouse by Delugan Meissl has boldly inserted itself between traditional rooftops of the city’s Wieden district like a recently landed alien intruder.
written by: Alastair Gordonphotos by: Hertha Hurnaus07.15.09 -
Marcel Breuer Hooper House II
A new owner with a light touch has kept Marcel Breuer's 1959 Hooper House II a marvel of the mid-20th century whose life will extend well into the 21st.
written by: Philip Kennicottphotos by: Zubin Shroff02.08.09 -
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 -
A Narrow Victory
Living small is par for the course in New York City, but accommodating a family of four in under 700 square feet rarely looks as effortless as in this storage-smart renovation.
written by: Sarah Richphotos by: Raimund Koch05.13.09





