Mint green-painted ironwork and tiles connect the indoors to the outside more fluidly.

The Max-A studio is also built with a pine frame, though it has pine panelling on the ceiling, while the main house ceiling is painted a warm white.

Oman and his partner Andrej Gregoric had the cupboards, stairs, and bed all custom-made. The interior casework provides storage and adds warmth to the concrete walls.

The home's exposed concrete skeleton, wrapped in oak, creates a warm, layered space for living. Oman split the floors by function, with common areas on the ground level, followed by the kids' rooms and then a third-floor suite for the parents.

99 by Von Tundra and Lydia Cambron $13,000 Oregon-based Von Tundra’s unit combines three different storage options—a rack, drawers, and boxes—into a multipurpose dresser.

The simple yet spacious master bedroom opens up to a private terrace.

Rok Oman of OFIS Architects started the renovation of what would become Villa Criss-Cross by tackling a thorny site issue. Since it is located close to the street and perpendicular to the old Roman wall near Ljubljana's ancient fortress, zoning laws require buildings to be set four meters back from the street. By maintaining the original wall and adding steel panels, Oman grandfathered in the new structure and maintained the original orientation.

In the master bathroom, wrapped in custom oak casework, plenty of natural light permeates the steel panels.

The view from the living room shows how the exterior allows for plenty of light yet maintains privacy. The structural steel brace outside repeats the cross-hatch motif, and a cantilevered overhang provides a shaded outdoor patio underneath.

Wood, carpet, glass, and concrete: the entryway is a nexus of material and textures.

Perforated steel panels provide a contrasting sense of roughness and lightness, which Oman played with throughout the home's design. The skin adds transparency and graphic energy to the exterior, though Oman did worry about people fixating on the tic-tac-toe element. "It's like calling a rectangular building the Tetris house," he says.

Though the minimal layout maxmizies open space, moments of contrast, such as the wood grain against the perforated metal divider, animate the interior.

Lightroom 1.0, a photography studio, is a freestanding structure on the property. “Together, they represent an autobiography of my career,” Carpenter says.

CROSS SIDE CHAIR From eco-friendly Juniper, the Cross Side chair takes its inspiration from the symmetry of an hourglass. Two interlocking profiles connect in perfect balance reducing the form to its most essential––and making the Cross Side Chair a perfect fit for stacking.

Both the sitting and standing versions of DESK 01, a collaboration between Artifox and IdeaPaint, are outfitted with dry erase surfaces for recording sudden bursts of creativity.

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External shutters and screens allow the homeowners to manage the sunlight and cross ventilation in certain rooms. Manos Mavridis, also of OLA Studio, explains, “There was a preference for the screens to be manually operated to minimize ongoing maintenance costs and encourage user engagement with their environment."

Driven by data found on the site, the architects decided to merge the traditional red wooden cottage archetype with the modern box home.

"The shape of the bar was created by excavating a solid volume of material in our studio to create a model of an uneven, excavated landscape," Snarkitecture says. "From that we cast a negative in order to make two equal and opposite halves. A final positive was sent to Dandelion, where they transformed it into a vacuum formed mold for the actual chocolate to be poured into."

The Break Bar, a collaboration between Dandelion Chocolate and Snarkitecture, came about when Cool Hunting sought to create an unexpected connection between design, food, and culture. “Dandelion makes some of our favorite chocolate. Snarkitecture continues to shake up the art and design world," stated Evan Orensten, Cool Hunting's co-founder and self-professed chocoholic, in a news release. "We wondered what kind of magic could be made if they met?” The chocolate is made out of cocoa beans sourced from South America. "Maya Mountain Cacao ferments and dries beans purchased from over 200 small farmers in Southern Belize," says Dandelion's Jennifer Roy. "This batch detects a green grape start before the signature notes of pineapple and honey, followed by a slightly tangy finish."

Anna: Breaking Bad's Reality In the spirit of the Breaking Bad season, I tend to frequent anything and everything on the internet having to do with Mr. White or Pinkman. Here is an interesting project created by filmography student Ariana Gonzales where she compares the real Albuquerque, NM locations used on the show against various screen shots from the scenes, ala: the "Time Frame" page of Los Angeles Magazine.

While architecture and chocolate seem like an unliekly pairing, it was a natural exploration for Snarkitecture. "Much of our work looks to existing, familiar architecture or objects and explores ways to alter or reimagine their material to create something new and unexpected," the firm says. "Given the chance to work with Dandelion and use chocolate as a material was a completely new opportunity for us. The design we developed creates an element of surprise while referencing the preexisting proportions of Dandelion's standard chocolate bar. When you unwrap the bar, a fracture running around its edge is revealed. When pulled apart along this fracture, two perfectly opposite landscapes come into view. This break at the edge and the excavated surface texture of the two halves play on the idea of a 'broken' object that is, in fact, completely functional, and, in this case, also happens to be delicious."

Dandelion plans to produce about 500 of the limited-edition, six-ounce bars, which retail for $47 on dandelionchocolate.com. Proceeds benefit the non-profit arts organization Southern Exposure.

In a Wonka-esque move, Dandelion is packaging five "white tickets" into the batch of 500 bars that can be redeemed for a non-edible sculpture that has the same form as the bar.

Prints of Herem's London landmark drawings, like King's Cross railroad station, are available on his website.

Italy on the Cross, 2010. Urethane resin, wood and stones. 4.6’ x 4.5’ x 4.5’ maquette. Photo courtesy of Gaetano Pesce.

A cross-sectional rendering of the Pompidou Center in Paris, designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano. Image copyright Rogers Strik Harbor + Partners, courtesy of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Top 9 Kitchens of 2020: The nominees for this year’s Dwell Design Awards are the epitome of style and function.

Lauren and Brittan Ellingson, the owners of Notice Snowboards, a custom snowboard and wakesurf company in Whitefish, Montana, approached Workaday Design and builder Mindful Designs to concoct a new lake home for their family. The brief was, perhaps unsurprisingly, focused on getting the family outdoors as much as possible.

The Lofthouse is built one of the many hills separating it from the couple’s main residence. "Excavation was a challenge, as we wanted to maintain as much of the existing landscape as possible, but needed to clear out trees for the foundation," says Tarah.

Parota wood continues in the spacious kitchen. Marisa and Christopher found the blue tile that runs throughout the home on a trip to León, Mexico. "It called out to us," says Christopher. Festooned with small stars, its tone matches the color of the ocean perfectly.

The architects designed the home’s expansion with the knowledge that the owners plan to continue the renovation when their budget allows it. "We wanted to put everything in the right place so it doesn’t have to be undone later," says Corti.