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• Aging Gracefully: How Architecture Can Make Nursing Homes Obsolete

  

  When architect Matthias Hollwich turned 40, he was confronted with what it means to age in America today. Rather than quietly accept a slow decline, he decided... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Make Your Parents Happy by Building Them a House

  

  The house Amanda Yates (with her partner, Adam Rose, and their baby, Awa) designed for her parents, David and Christine, occupies a hillside site with views ove... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• A Little Apartment Gets a Solid Renovation

  

  Cabinet LevelThe centerpiece of Lukáš Kordík’s new kitchen is the cabinetry surrounding the sink, a feat he managed by altering the facing and pulls of an... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Daft Punk Could Play at This House

  

  From the deck off the master bedroom, Eric Grunbaum looks across his front yard. Barbara Bestor designed the second story to float over the ground “like a cloud. Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• A Minimal Yet Mighty Brooklyn Apartment

  

  The Mandayam–Vohra family gathers under one of Workstead’s signature three-arm chandeliers, shown here in its horizontal configuration. Image courtesy of matthe... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Lounge and Snack All at Once

  

  Teaming up with architect Craig Steely, an industrial designer and a mechanical engineer found just the right design for a striking home on a San Francisco hill. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Photo of the Week: Rocking Walnut in All the Right Ways

  

  Existing within a home designed by Strand Design is this handsome kitchen that was sent to us by photographer @joshgrubbs. The custom walnut and steel cabinets... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Peek Through the Trees and Spot a Modern Dream Home

  

  TACT Design created this 3,600-square-foot house for a couple who wanted to set up a permanent home on the shores of Georgian Bay, Ontario, after relocating... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• How a Bungalow Went from Bland to Brilliant

  

  Streetside, foliage and a concrete wall by artist Evan Holloway camouflages Anthony Pearson and Ramona Trent’s low-key Mar Vista home. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• A House Worthy of James Bond and More

  

  Palm Springs knows no shortage of domestic modern-ist gems—the desert community flourished under the direction of many mid-century masters and remains an oasis... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• This Shape-Shifting Apartment Lets an Architect Work from Home

  

  Shibata made the 10-person dining table using $130 sawhorse legs from Maruki Wood Products Company topped with a sheet of birch plywood. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Love at First Sight

  

  In the living room of the Barcelona apartment designer Elina Vila D’Acosta-Calheiros shares with her husband, Ginés Gorriz, Arne Jacobsen Swan chairs join a sof... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• A New Home Tries to Camouflage Into the California Coast

  

  On a windswept plot on Northern California's Point Reyes Peninsula, architect Gustave Carlson integrated a three-bedroom home into the landscape using rough... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• An Industrial Loft Fit for a Globetrotting Architect

  

  Kitchen ConfidentialFour years into his tenure at a former metal factory, revamped a decade ago 
by the architects BOB 361, architect Julien De Smedt is enjoyin... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Professor Knows Best

  

  From the mezzanine of his 450-square-foot apartment at La Esquina, an eight-unit live-work building in San Diego’s Barrio Logan neighborhood, designer, artist,... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• San Diego Teaches Us How Micro-Living Can Thrive

  

  From the mezzanine of his 450-square-foot apartment at La Esquina, an eight-unit live-work building in San Diego’s Barrio Logan neighborhood, designer, artist,... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Get a Little R&R by Going Off the Grid

  

  Pine was used for the exterior siding and the lower perimeter base is lined in reinforced concrete. Nearly 200 miles from Santiago, Chile, in an area known as... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• The Obstacles That Drive Wheelchair Users Crazy

  

  An architect shares a few major problems with our buildings. In our upcoming May issue, we visit a barrier-free house in Livermore, California, designed for ... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• It’s Always Happy Hour at This Apartment

  "I think that small spaces inherently demand inventiveness," architect Michael Chen says. So when a client presented him with a brief to create a... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Hard to Believe This Home Dates Back to the 1820s

  

  Built in the 1820s, and then added to in the 1830s, 1970s, and 1990s, this Ontario home could never get the kitchen quite right, until interior designer Sarah... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2016 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN