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Creative Commons
Craving not just a home but a proper piece of architecture, a handful of design- and business-savvy Dutch families banded together, hired an architect, and set about forming the community that...
written by: Jane Szitaphotos by: Dean Kaufman11.16.09 -
Greener Pasture
Like a little chapel on the prairie, architect Jean-Baptiste Barache’s simply elegant retreat in the tiny Normandy town of Auvillier is a modern play on centuries-old forms and technology.
written by: Michelle Hoffmanphotos by: Céline Clanet11.10.09 -
Farm Fresh
Nobody ever said farming was easy, but the rewards of a homegrown harvest are great. On six acres of fertile land in the heart of rural Iowa, Geoff and Joanna Mouming mix modern home design with a...
written by: Georgina Gustinphotos by: Mark Mahaney10.29.09 -
Domestic Ribbon
Armed with a masters in architecture from Columbia University and only 3 years in the field, architectural designer Alan Y. L. Chan renovated a wreck of an apartment in an early 1900s building on...
written by: Erika Heet10.08.09 -
The Shipping Muse
Shipping containers are ubiquitous in Houston, though unlike the four that make up this new home, they're usually filled with foreign goods rather than flourishing lives.
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Jack Thompson08.31.09 -
Casa Study House #1
Traditions collide in Los Angeles when architect Jeremy Levine hotwires SoCal Spanish with international haute-moderne. The resulting house of courtyards, shelves, and even some repurposed car...
written by: Frances Andertonphotos by: Tom Fowlks06.17.09 -
One Room Fits All
New Yorkers often work, eat, sleep, and entertain in a single room. But for Milan Hughston, a renovation turned that predicament into a pleasure.
written by: Virginia Gardinerphotos by: Grant Delin05.04.09 -
Worth the Wait
Tucked into the side of a scenic San Francisco hill, one of the city’s more diminutive houses battles everything from dry rot to obstructionist neighbors in order to grow up.
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Zubin Shroff04.30.09 -
Go With the Flow
Along the ever-expanding coastline of Hawaii’s Big Island, an architect and his family exchange fast-paced city life for a different kind of flow—the geological kind.
written by: Sam Grawephotos by: Linny Morris04.28.09 -
PISE Does It
From an ecological perspective, pneumatically impacted stabilized earth (PISE) is a nearly perfect building material. A new house, halfway between Carmel and Big Sur, near California’s...
written by: Adam Fisher04.14.09 -
Inside Job
Designing an innovative house is a rite of passage for many young architects. But building in a city doesn’t always make experimentation easy; after all, neighbors have their own ideas about...
written by: Alex Bozikovicphotos by: Juliana Sohn03.04.09 -
Echo Logical
Los Angeles is not all mini-malls and highways. As Eric Garcetti, president of the City Council, shows, it is eminently possible to live green in the City of Angels. By putting solar power and...
written by: Frances Andertonphotos by: Misha Gravenor02.26.09 -
Mission Statement
A house that survived the Great Quake and the intervening decades is reborn after a serious intervention by a modernist architect. David Baker’s carefully crafted rehabilitation kept the...
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Dave Lauridsen02.26.09 -
Straight and Narrow
Behind an unassuming 19th-century facade in Singapore's Joo Chiat neighborhood, Ching Ian and Yang Yeo's renovation of a typical shophouse venerates tradition while looking squarely to the future.
written by: Daisann McLanephotos by: Richard Powers02.26.09 -
A Stable Office Environment
Giorgio Baravalle originally had a true home office—a space inside his house in Millbrook, New York, that was meant to be a private place to work, but instead served as a traffic circle in...
written by: Deborah Bishop02.01.09 -
Winds of Change
Caught in the grip of the worst drought in a century, Australians are showering together.
written by: Karen Pakulaphotos by: Brett Boardman02.01.09 -
Plains Gold
Architect Jamie Darnell had a simple plan for his family’s home in Kansas City, Missouri, but the result is anything but plain.
written by: Georgina Gustinphotos by: Chad Holder01.22.09 -
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 -
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 -
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
