These initiatives on state ballots will decide questions about rent control, property tax, and urban development.
While the homeowners initially hoped to renovate and add on to their original home, a review of multiple renovation strategies revealed that it would be less expensive and less time-consuming to start from scratch and use a custom-designed prefab.
The 2,420 square-feet
After an unprecedented year of earthquakes, hurricanes, and fires, a bright light has been shed on the benefits of building with concrete.
Mid-century designer Jens Risom's A-framed prefab family retreat, located on the northern portion of Block island, is bordered by a low stone wall, an aesthetic element that appears throughout the land.
This 3,200-square-foot structure was assembled with a prefabricated foundation, concrete panel siding, and efficient built-ins, minimizing construction debris and toxins—such as concrete foundation tar—on the site.
Juliet Gray, Mathias Kolehmainen, and their sons Cooper and Cyrus have a new favorite hangout: the wide back steps on the addition, which double as theater seating. (They project movies from the second-floor balcony onto an out-building across the yard.)
The resulting building, its angular form inspired by Japanese origami—was designed and built in two and a half months in early 2007.
While most homes have their front doors centered on a flat wall, this home in Canada by Omer Arbel is entered through two solid walnut doors at the corner of the home.
Streets and houses radiate outward from this hexagonal suburb in Florida. Gielen’s perspective reveals the patterns formed by the streets (and yet invisible from street view). Photo by Christoph Gielen.
Voted "Cool School of the Month" by pop-culture barometer Teen People, DASH opens up the world of design to students who "are not the type to fit in a typical high school."
Cubicco’s prefab houses, like the Cabana Beach model, are built with laminated veneer lumber, an engineered material that uses up to 90 percent of a tree—compared to typical wood timbers that use only 60 to 70 percent. Modules can be disassembled if the owners relocate.
An enclosed courtyard, bordred by ipe, is arguably the most distinctive feature of the house that the Phil Kean Design Group created for Adriana De Azevedo, Daniel Coelho, and their two daughters in Winter Park, Florida.
The guest room doubles as a home office. Here, too, are cypress built-ins framing glass panels that look out onto the sea. The architects call them "St. Jerome boxes," which is inspired by the classic image of St. Jerome at his desk, lost in thought, with the landscape framed in a picture window beside him.
Massive sun shades designed by Piano are set up on the piazza; when it's time to process the grapes, they protect the fruit from the intense sunlight. At left, on the ground, is a narrow channel that opens to receive the grapes, which travel down a chute to the vats below.
Meet Rolf, an OSB (oriented strand board) chair by Malmö–based industrial designer Maria Gustavsson of Swedish Ninja. The piece, along with an armchair and a bench, comprise her candy-colored collection, called Forest in New Form.
A shot of the Salone Satellite floor. Over 700 designers were present, and many had traveled across the world to be here with their creations.
Pasadena–based designer Cory Grosser conceived the installation, which is entitled Tell Me Your Dreams. He was among five designers asked to create a public space that defines their home continent.
A huge chalkboard marks the entrance to Salone Satellite. Pieces of chalk suspended by string hang from the ceiling, and passersby are encouraged to record their scribbles.
An Artichoke lamp by Poul Henningsen, 1958, hangs inside the Brdr. Price I Tivoli restaurant in Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen.
Inside one of the six U-shaped barracks that artist Donald Judd transformed into an art museum, The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati, to house his works.
The atrium of the Jepson Center, 2006, by Moishe Safdie. Savannah, Georgia.
The sunlight, which burns bright and then disappears quickly behind the clouds, sends an ever-changing array of shadows onto the piazza.
When the skylight at center is open, the mirrors send a ray of light that hits the middle at a perpendicular angle. The barrels are moved in and out of the space by huge machines with telescopic arms.
Next stop was Superstudio Piu, where Tom Dixon set up shop to showcase his new collection, Industry.
Women's bathroom at SFO, monumental but yet, not overbearing.
"For most people, the letters and numbers do not jump around on the page and the colors remain the same— it is simply a break-down in communication between the eye and the brain. For most people, one can see the information, one can see perfectly each and every letter form, but there is something in one's mind that is stopping or slowing the process of information. For most, this is dyslexia." — graphic designer Daniel Britton, who created a special font to help educate people and raise awareness about dyslexia, the most common learning disability. www.danielbritton.info
Tasked with creating a multi-use guest pavilion on a relatively small Northern California vineyard lot that could also host sit down dinners for up to 60 people, designers at Anderson Architects started by asking the key questions: “Where should it be within the property?” “How much floor area do we need for a 60 person dinner?” “How much volume do we need for a basketball court?” “We also always tell ourselves to look at the landscape first, let it dominate and lead it through. The building took the form of a large Napa Valley barn.
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