Author: Jenn Thornton
Heath Ceramics: A Cabin As A Physical Extension
Whether modest A-frame or A-level chalet, the cabin is one of the most democratic forms of architecture ever imagined and, perhaps because of its historically e...Read More
The Darling of the design world: Atelier Vime
French renaissance is underway in Provence, where, in the village of Vallabrègues, Benoit Rauzy and Anthony Watson happened upon an 18th-century hôtel Particuli...Read More
Tadao Ando: The Poetics of Primitive
Coherence, as a word, does not elicit an animated response, nor should it particularly. It is a fixed and broad-shouldered term, reliant as a new day. Used in a...Read More
The Hill House: Preserving A Landmark in Scotland
The Hill House had seen better days when its steward, the National Trust for Scotland, first conceived of a solution to protect it, the Box. In the annals of ar...Read More
John Wardle Architects Create Fluency Between Old And New
On a windswept cliff-edge of Tasmania’s Bruny Island, an architectural remnant of an earlier age asserts itself utterly without ceremony, but rather as a though...Read More
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy Evolved With High Meadow at Fallingwater
If not hyperaware of the elephant in the room—Frank Lloyd Wright and his architectural opus Fallingwater—the design team at internationally recognized architect...Read More
Caitlin Flemming and Julie Goebel Bring Us Destination Design
No place like home? The question for mother-daughter design mavens Caitlin Flemming and Julie Goebel is more complex and interesting. If “home” means one rich i...Read More
Hotel Mar Adentro’s Very Own Universe
If Hotel Mar Adentro looks like a set piece from a sci-fi epic, this is not because of its reasonable proximity to Hollywood. The modern architectural masterpie...Read More
Foster + Partners Create A Temple for A Tech Giant
Washington DC has no shortage of statues and memorials and museums—the nation’s capital is nothing if not in love with its institutions. Among its most impressi...Read More
TWA Hotel Has Landed
At the midpoint of the 20th century in this country, few figures were as high-flying as billionaire business magnate Howard Hughes, who brought his flair for Ho...Read More
Don Francisco’s Coffee Casa Cubana
“It’s great time to be a designer in Downtown L.A.,” says Norella Carboni Amiel, director of design for Omgivning, a practice that is on the march in architectu...Read More
Ike Kligerman Barkley Rethinking An Iconic Vernacular
Flashy isn’t the word, and mundane, too exactly that. So flexible, while neither flashy or mundane, is a fitting description of the wooden shingle, an everyday ...Read More