Historic overlays govern many neighborhoods across the country, prescribing and proscribing many characteristics of new home construction and remodels. The…
FEATURED CASE STUDIES
The logs were long gone by the time Richardson Pribuss Architects was invited to renovate this 1,600-square-foot cabin, the last…
Marrowstone Island is a remote finger of land surrounded by the waterways of Puget Sound above Seattle. It sits just…
Wabi-Sabi, a house for a young family tucked into Utah’s Emigration Canyon, could also be called Yin-Yang. Yes, it revels…
RD ARCHITECTURE AWARDS
The RD Architecture Awards recognize excellence in custom residential architectural design. This is a different kind of awards competition that…
Fourteen feet wide and about 100 feet long, this skinny house on a 3,000-acre working cattle ranch ups the ante…
“In Texas, when it rains, it pours,” says architect Cotton Estes. This suburban house for a young couple (one is…
With its lofty views of the San Francisco skyline, this otherwise banal apartment unit was ripe for reinvention. Low‑ceilinged and…
“When our clients approached us about doing this house, they told us that they liked our work, but they really…
Mark McInturff, FAIA, renovated this condo-with-a-view three times and for three different owners over a 20-year period. The third time…
INDUSTRY NEWS
Catherine Forster Connolly is the owner and CEO of Merida | Natural Rugs. Their mission is to be a counter-cultural…
NAHB’s analysis of Census Data from the Quarterly Starts and Completions by Purpose and Design survey indicates custom home building expanded during…
Demand for design services from architecture firms softened considerably in October, according to a new report from The American Institute…
For the twentieth consecutive month architecture firms reported increasing demand for design services in September, according to a new report…
Private residential construction spending declined 0.9% in August, as single-family construction spending slid amid surging mortgage rates. Private residential construction…
Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove have announced the Global Winners of the 2019-2021 Kitchen Design Contest at the Winners’ Summit and…
RD INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Historic overlays govern many neighborhoods across the country, prescribing and proscribing many characteristics of new home construction and remodels. The…
What is a library in the age of streaming information and entertainment? This question looms large at the public scale…
Somewhere between a folly and a guest house, this rugged little structure on Whidbey Island near Seattle distills shelter to…
Austin’s exponential building boom is leaving no neighborhood ungentrified, and that certainly makes it tough for anyone who needs affordable…
When life throws you curves, sometimes the best choice is to respond in kind. When Wheeler Kearns’ clients approached the…
Washington, D.C., has no shortage of distinguished older houses in lovely, leafy neighborhoods close to downtown. Most are worth saving,…
ON THE BOARDS
When we dream of living at the beach, we often think of gazing at wide, open water. But the reality…
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When the October 2017 Tubbs Fire tore through this property in California Wine Country, it destroyed the guest house and…
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The vibe on Block Island, Rhode Island, couldn’t differ more from nearby Newport. Yes, there are extravagant summer mansions here,…
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Rising waters will eventually inundate many desirable seaside locations, and there are as many ideas about how to cope with…
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When he launched ThinkMakeBuild in Washington, D.C., in 2010, Darren Kornas made two decisions that now seem prescient. One was…
After 37 years in practice, Heidi Richardson has a large body of award-winning work to look back on and learn…
Those of us who have endured the years 2020 and 2021 will look back upon them as a turning point…
With its balance of culture and outdoor recreation, the Twin Cities area is luring many young people away from the…
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