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2008

Renovate It!

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Modern Homes With Old Bones
June 2008,
Vol. 08
Issue 07.
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Hive Minded

Openshop|Studio’s design for a hivelike structure in the middle of a Brooklyn loft creates a chrysalis of comfort for a couple and their baby.
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Your Toast!

Any way you slice it, toast makes the most of any loaf. But which of these worthy appliances will make toast of the competition?
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Madrid, Spain

Architect and designer Andrés Jaque takes us on a tour of pre-modern Madrid, highlighting the spaces where progressive design is breaking the mold.
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Boston Translation

Boston's rich history is potently infused into its dense, bustling neighborhoods, where the same brick walls that once contained cobbler shops now house Internet startups.
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Taylor Made

Architect Piers Taylor's renovation of an old gameskeeper's cottage, complete with a castellated roof and sweeping meadow below, is an exercise in dramatic modernization, one that takes advantage of…
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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.
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Mission Statement

A house that survived the Great Quake and the intervening decades is reborn after a serious intervention by a modernist architect.
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Dean's List

When Architect Qingyun Ma became dean of architecture at the University of Southern California in January 2007, he came to the job with a uniquely exciting body of built work behind him.
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Mademoiselle Pillow

Looolo—When we think about products and their life cycles, textiles aren’t the first things that come to mind. But what went into your shirt?
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Park 'N Play

It could have been a Sheetrock box, but as the house’s most frequently used point of entry, it deserved the same architectural respect.
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Learnings from Nantucket

I am looking at my favorite photograph of my summer house in Nantucket. It is not a particularly pretty picture. It was taken on a cloudy and gray day.