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Adorable Beach Homes

These beachside houses artfully engage the natural world—an activity we can all dream of this winter.

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What types of small, easy, or even invisible updates to cities can support our environment in the long term? @thisisheatherc: Design should work with, not against, its location. Local, sustainable materials, native plants, etc., make a difference @OlyTsav: Water retention, solar panels, and wind harvesting. Just basic energy renewal. @Adrian_Benepe: No spot in a city is too small to capture storm water & help reduce flooding and water pollution
What types of small, easy, or even invisible updates to cities can support our environment in the long term? @thisisheatherc: Design should work with, not against, its location. Local, sustainable materials, native plants, etc., make a difference @OlyTsav: Water retention, solar panels, and wind harvesting. Just basic energy renewal. @Adrian_Benepe: No spot in a city is too small to capture storm water & help reduce flooding and water pollution
Even Sweden has its beaches: this vacation home is a five hour drive from Stockholm. The clients, an active outdoor family, live in the 2,500 square foot residence for several weeks each summer.
Even Sweden has its beaches: this vacation home is a five hour drive from Stockholm. The clients, an active outdoor family, live in the 2,500 square foot residence for several weeks each summer.
It was the surf and the artsy vibe that attracted Eric Grunbaum to Venice Beach, California, 18 years ago. An avid surfer and creative director for an advertising agency, he thrives on lively environs. So it’s no surprise that he turned to the Los Angeles–based architect Barbara Bestor to design a house for him near the Pacific. Bestor, the chair of graduate studies at Woodbury University School of Architecture, has a formidable reputation in Southern California for her bohemian modernism, and for Grunbaum, she created a 2,000–square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bath home that harbors a traditional sensibility with a contemporary heart. From the deck off the master bedroom, Grunbaum looks across his front yard. Bestor designed the second story to float over the ground “like a cloud.” Grunbaum guides us on a tour of his modern surf shack.
It was the surf and the artsy vibe that attracted Eric Grunbaum to Venice Beach, California, 18 years ago. An avid surfer and creative director for an advertising agency, he thrives on lively environs. So it’s no surprise that he turned to the Los Angeles–based architect Barbara Bestor to design a house for him near the Pacific. Bestor, the chair of graduate studies at Woodbury University School of Architecture, has a formidable reputation in Southern California for her bohemian modernism, and for Grunbaum, she created a 2,000–square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bath home that harbors a traditional sensibility with a contemporary heart. From the deck off the master bedroom, Grunbaum looks across his front yard. Bestor designed the second story to float over the ground “like a cloud.” Grunbaum guides us on a tour of his modern surf shack.
"I think an architect’s job is to celebrate what people really care about and simplify and streamline the rest.” —Page Goolrick
"I think an architect’s job is to celebrate what people really care about and simplify and streamline the rest.” —Page Goolrick