When life throws you curves, sometimes the best choice is to respond in kind. When Wheeler Kearns’ clients approached the…
ARCHITECTURAL INTERIORS
Washington, D.C., has no shortage of distinguished older houses in lovely, leafy neighborhoods close to downtown. Most are worth saving,…
Architecture is an art for Jennifer Luce, FAIA, one she embraces with a sculptor’s sensuality and an engineer’s precision. Every…
It can be a blessing or a curse to remodel the work of another architect, but for Mark Wellen, FAIA,…
RURAL / SECOND HOMES
The French Broad River is one of the oldest in the world—it twists and turns its way through the ancient…
Perched high above Table Rock Lake in the Missouri Ozark Mountains, the Terraced House proves there’s more than one way…
Designed for art collectors who split their time between Los Angeles and Napa, this project presented a puzzle familiar to…
From the outside, this gabled house is of a piece with the land and Cordillera Ranch, a resort community of…
URBAN
Architecture is an art for Jennifer Luce, FAIA, one she embraces with a sculptor’s sensuality and an engineer’s precision. Every…
Architects Joe Sadoski, AIA, and Kipp Edick met as teenagers at the Rowmark Ski Academy in Salt Lake City, which…
“The most common building type in America is a modest house in a modest neighborhood, and yet architecture seldom results…
Butting up against the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Boulder is a city whose residents take outdoor recreation seriously. With…
RENOVATION
The tension between pretty good and absolute perfection is something architects must resolve before undertaking any significant remodel. For budget…
It can be a blessing or a curse to remodel the work of another architect, but for Mark Wellen, FAIA,…
Butting up against the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Boulder is a city whose residents take outdoor recreation seriously. With…
When this 1950s midcentury modern house was designed for its hilly, wooded site in Mountain Brook, Alabama, it was a…
ON THE BOARDS
EYRC knows its way around iconic modern houses—whether it’s renovating them or designing them from scratch. The firm is also…
Although not a vacation home, this house for a couple and their young daughter is designed to live like one,…
When you design houses in the mountains, you master a whole new vocabulary to describe building sites. This new house…
This hillside lot in Austin’s highly desirable Barton Hills neighborhood offered panoramic views and “particularly bad soil conditions,” says Kevin…
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Architect Robert Gurney leverages a site’s steeply sloped terrain to transform a suburban Maryland home into a tranquil oasis that takes its cues from nature.
When he was brought in to design a modern home in Palo Alto, California, Tai Ikegami knew he’d have to…
Job location: Ann Arbor, MI DESIGN CHALLENGE When a Michigan family started the journey of updating the home they built…
The “modern farmhouse” is an exceptional design concept that is sought out because of its perfect blend of old and…