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Jenn Thornton

Writer, Editor, Editorial Consultant

708 The Strand: A Rare Manhattan Beach Oceanfront Gem

Jenn Thornton October 30, 2024

An exclusive opportunity awaits at 708 The Strand in Manhattan Beach, offering a rare combination of prime oceanfront living and an enviable lot advantage. Located in the heart of The Strand’s most coveted section, this custom-built home by renowned architect Mark Appel boasts sweeping ocean views, elegant indoor-outdoor living spaces, and one of the last rooftop decks in the area.

An Elevated Vision: 401 N Dianthus Street

Jenn Thornton October 2, 2024

Discover the epitome of coastal modern farmhouse style blended with sophisticated city chic at 401 N Dianthus Street in Manhattan Beach. This 6,300-square-foot masterpiece, crafted by a renowned design-build team, features six bedrooms, a grand living space, a game room, and a luxurious master suite. With its striking white shiplap, black trim, and exquisite finishes throughout, this home radiates elegance and custom detailing.

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.

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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.