Framing Nature with TEN Studio
Jenn Thornton
A patch of land on Avala Mountain in rural Serbia sets the stage for a gridded, steel-frame structure by TEN Studio.
Northern Exposure: The Rock by Gort Scott
Fixed to a rocky crag above Alta Lake in the Canadian mountain resort of Whistler, a truly exceptional private house surveys the mountainous landscape from which it is quite literally inseparable.
The Bourse de Commerce Reborn
Located in the heart of Paris, France, the former 19th-century commodities exchange building, with architectural associations to the Medici column and an astonishing metal and glass dome, now houses a range of contemporary artwork within historic walls.
Craig Steely: Radical Transparency
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 natural and built environments.
Sean Anderson: A Mood for Beauty
A remarkable stillness seems to settle over the gracious, stone-edifice, richly windowed home in the Vestavia Hills neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, with interiors by Sean Anderson.
Mid-Century Modernized: Miller Hull’s Loom House
The world’s first residential remodel to earn Living Building Challenge certification, based on the performance categories of Place, Water, Energy, Health and Happiness, Materials, Equity, and Beauty, Loom House is the embodiment of impact design.
MR Architecture: David Mann for All Moments
Founder of Manhattan firm MR Architecture + Décor, David Mann’s more minimal brand of architecture would seem, on the surface, at odds with 18th-century anything, not least the red-bricked house he shares with his partner Fritz Karch.
Clayton Korte: Going Underground
Wine, from its earliest days, required the storage of its age, with solutions both inelegant and sophisticated. The Egyptians had mud-bricked and limestone cellars, the Romans fumitories and catacombs, the Italian’s damigiana.
Summer Thornton: Tropical Fantastical
Everything Chicago interior designer Summer Thornton touches turns fun, fresh, and in the case of the Naples, Florida vacation house, a beachy fantasy allowing her maximalist tendencies to flourish.
Jennifer Bunsa Takes The John Lord House Into A New Age
Originally built in 1790, the John Lord House has aged gracefully, but not always cohesively, given its many changes in ownership over two centuries has been overhauled by designer Jennifer Bunsa of Miami-based Bunsa Studio.
