Jenn Thornton, Author at Digs.net

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.

2727 Cardwell Place: Hilltop Oasis in Hollywood Hills West

Jenn Thornton August 24, 2022

There is a lot of glitter over Hollywood Hills West. A residential berth in this high-profile enclave is coveted for, among other incentives, the convenience

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

Neutra Renewed: Donald M. Goldstein’s 3707 Oakfield Drive

Jenn Thornton July 27, 2022

A showpiece on stilts in Sherman Oaks, 3707 Oakfield Drive is a house of considerable architectural stock, a Platform House originally designed by Austrian-American modernist

Blanc Canvas: Abraham Cota Paredes’ Natura House

Jenn Thornton July 13, 2022

That these clean-angled constructions are strenuously minimalist makes them more interesting and dynamic than one expects to find in a gated community. Robustly walled, but

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 Mexico Immersion: Paradero Todo Santos

Jenn Thornton June 29, 2022

Located on the historic, 5-acre La Mesa farming fields, flanked by cacti forests and backdropped by the Sierra Laguna Mountains, Paradero Todos Santos is an

Pitched Black: Edition Office Talks Federal House

Jenn Thornton June 29, 2022

Federal House makes good on Edition Office’s commitment to sustainability. Relying on cross-flow ventilation as a cooling mechanism rather than air conditioning, the highly insulated

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

The Bourse de Commerce Reborn

Jenn Thornton April 20, 2022

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

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