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Jenn Thornton

Writer, Editor, Editorial Consultant

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 not walled off from the world, Abraham Cota Paredes’ Natura House is a bold rethink of privacy.

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 & Wirth with gleaming-white galleries, artfully drawn gardens, a nautically touched restaurant and a craft-filled gallery shop.

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 80 percent landscape project, with a vast, 100,000-square-foot botanical garden by Mexico-based practice POLEN at its heart.

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 home thrives in sub-tropical temps.

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 year. Her repertoire of highly contextual works includes a growing number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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 glass dome, now houses a range of contemporary artwork within historic walls.

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 natural and built environments.

Sean Anderson: A Mood for Beauty

Jenn Thornton March 24, 2022
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

Jenn Thornton March 9, 2022
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

Jenn Thornton February 23, 2022
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.

Summer Thornton: Tropical Fantastical

Jenn Thornton February 9, 2022
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

Jenn Thornton January 12, 2022
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.