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Jenn Thornton

Writer, Editor, Editorial Consultant
The Webster, David Adjaye, Los Angeles, LA, fashion, pink, purple,

Richly Pigmented Spaces Show a Fresh Chromatic Confidence

Jenn Thornton September 18, 2024
With bold strokes and cool-to-hot hues, prismatic minds Olson Kundig, David Adjaye and Thiel Architecture + Design have produced distinctly vivacious designs in Seattle, Los Angeles and New York City, respectively, bringing a little more color to the urban cityscape.
Studio Rick Joy, Tubac House, Tuscon, Arizona, Architecture

Studio Rick Joy’s Tubac House: Of the Heavens & Earth

Jenn Thornton September 4, 2024
Even by Studio Rick Joy’s standards, Tubac House is of uncommon stature. Located south of Tucson, roughly 25 miles from the northern Mexico border, the project exploits and explores a relationship to worlds both immediate and distant.
vincent van duysen

Vincent Van Duysen: Redefines Minimalist Design

Jenn Thornton August 21, 2024
Architect Vincent Van Duysen adds another honest intervention to his repertoire of understated designs with his tour to de force transformation of a 19th century convent into an urban hotel.

Clayton Korte: Going Underground

Jenn Thornton May 15, 2024
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.

Rock Formation: OPEN Architecture’s Chapel of Sound

Jenn Thornton May 1, 2024
Located in rural Chengde, China, at the base of a valley with ruins of the Great Wall, the almost alien-looking performance venue Chapel of Sound, which hosts concerts in warmer climes and contemplation year-round, is an architectural opus by Beijing-based OPEN Architecture.

Northern Exposure: The Rock by Gort Scott

Jenn Thornton April 17, 2024
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.

Neri&Hu Architects: Making Memory

Jenn Thornton April 3, 2024
A contemporary take on traditional Chinese courtyard house by Neri&Hu, a typology based on Confucian ideals where different generations live under the same roof, the structure was built for three siblings, with a memorial garden in tribute to their late mother.

Framing Nature with TEN Studio

Jenn Thornton February 7, 2024
A patch of land on Avala Mountain in rural Serbia sets the stage for a gridded, steel-frame structure by TEN Studio.
The Exterior of The Cotswolds Home by Architect Richard Found

Timeless Fusion: The Cotswolds Home by Architect Richard Found

Jenn Thornton January 10, 2024
Architect Richard Found’s contextual country home in the Cotswolds encapsulates the essence of minimalist design within an 18th-century edifice. Located in the picturesque Cotswolds, this project by Found Associates breathes new life into a derelict gamekeeper’s cottage, blending modernist architecture with the vernacular stone construction of the region.
Electric Bowery Venice Victorian pathway

Venice Beach Elegance: Explore Electric Bowery’s Victoria Residence

Jenn Thornton November 15, 2023
The Victoria Residence, a masterpiece by Los Angeles Architecture and Interior Design Studio Electric Bowery, nestled in the vibrant enclave of Venice Beach. Led by co-founders Cayley Lambur and Lucia Bartholomew, Electric Bowery crafted a contemporary hacienda-style home for a creative couple deeply rooted in the arts.

Weave House by The BAD Studio: An Ode to Indian Ikat Patterns

Jenn Thornton November 1, 2023
Weave House by The BAD Studio seamlessly blends contemporary design with traditional Indian craftsmanship, creating a harmonious living space inspired by the region’s rich textile heritage, the house features an embossed brick and diamond façade reminiscent of Indian ikat patterns. The architecture coexists with the surrounding landscape, offering an organic lifestyle and smooth transitions between indoor and outdoor spaces.