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At Home in the Modern World

2008 Issues »
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Renovate It!

Modern Homes With Old Bones

June 2008, Vol. 08 Issue 07,

My House »

Hive Minded

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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!

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

Detour »

Madrid, Spain

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

Off the Grid »

Boston Translation

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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. The adaptive reuse of…

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Taylor Made

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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

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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

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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…

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Dean's List

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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.

Process »

Mademoiselle Pillow

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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?

Outside »

Park 'N Play

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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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