Notable Architecture Archives

SAOTA’s Floating Glass Box in The Hollywood Hills

Karine Monié September 21, 2022

Based in Cape Town, architecture studio SAOTA has projects all over the planet. The firm made its name through projects with pure lines and a

Light Touch: Studio William Hefner’s Palisades Ranch

Jenn Thornton September 7, 2022

With the clean lines of a modern aesthetic balanced with the warmth of traditional style, Palisades Ranch is a characteristically sunny Southern California house designed

The Pillar of Peloponnese: Tainaron Blue Retreat

Jenn Thornton August 24, 2022

Tainaron Blue Retreat is quite literally a hotel for the ages. Lovely and romantic, it is infused with ancient myth and has patinaed with time.

Neuendorf House, Caroline Neuendorf, Claudio Silverstrin, John Pawson, Majorca, Spain, Mediterranean, Minimalism

Neuendorf House: Mediterranean Minimalism

Jenn Thornton August 10, 2022

Finished in 1989, an often aesthetically garish era, the Neuendorf House was destined to stand out, a work of committed minimalism by the now lionized

Annie Barrett & Hye-Young Chung: A Home Within a House

Karine Monié July 13, 2022

With its minimalist rectilinear form clad in charred shou sugi ban rain screen siding, the house by Annie Barrett & Hye-Young Chung contrasts with the

Hauser & Wirth Remaking in Menorca

Jenn Thornton July 13, 2022

Isla del Rey in Menorca, Spain, a decommissioned naval hospital established by the English in 1711 is now a contemporary art center for Hauser &

A Place and Time: Dorte Mandrup’s Ilulissat Icefjord Centre

Jenn Thornton June 15, 2022

Placemaking is of foremost importance to Dorte Mandrup, the founder and creative director of Danish architecture studio Dorte Mandrup A/S and Monocle’s architect of the

CLB Architects, Grand Teton National Park, Jackson, Kevin Burke, Wyoming

A Private Paradise in Wyoming by CLB Architects

Karine Monié May 4, 2022

Located in a flat sagebrush plain in the bed of the historic Snake River, just across from Grand Teton National Park, this 4,700-square-foot, four-bedroom house

Abramson Architects: Living with Art and Nature

Karine Monié April 6, 2022

Situated on a quiet cul-de-sac in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles and designed by Abramson Architects, this house has an ideal location that invites

Craig Steely: Radical Transparency

Jenn Thornton April 6, 2022

With Pam and Paul’s House, an unambiguously work of modern architecture in Cupertino, California, architect Craig Steely is in his element—at the intersection between the

Autocamp, Ana Digiallonardo, Cape Cod, Catskills, HKS Architects, Jaque Fragua, Joshua Tree, Mark O'Dell, Narrative Design Studio, Neil Dipaola, Palm Springs, Russian River, Shannon Niehenke, Yosemite, Zion

The Spirit of the California Desert: AutoCamp Joshua Tree

Karine Monié March 24, 2022

Spread over 25 acres, AutoCamp Joshua Tree comprises 47 Airstreams, four accessible suites, and four X suites—with outdoor showers in some premium units and with

California Retreat: SkB Architects’ Sonoma Farmhouse

Karine Monié March 24, 2022

Built in 2018 on a 25,682-square-foot plot surrounded by oak and fruit trees—which were preserved as much as possible—the property comprises two main structures: the