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   My House

   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 Harmanci

   photos by: Doug Adesko

   01.15.09

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   My House

   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 Trimble

   photos by: Nick Bowers

   01.14.09

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   My House

   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. Bernstein

   photos by: Raimund Koch

   01.15.09

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   My House

   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 Moreno

   photos by: Dean Kaufman

   02.26.09

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   My House

   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 Gardiner

   photos by: Raimund Koch

   01.18.09

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   My House

   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 Manaugh

   photos by: Dean Kaufman

   03.05.10

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   My House

   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 Hall

   photos by: Paco Perez

   04.14.09

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