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South Bay Digs • October 31, 2025

DIGS October 29, 2025

ON THE COVER | Riverwave by Kerimov Architects: A Bold Vision for Modern Living – Kerimov Architects’ Riverwave, a residential project in Texas, exemplifies the firm’s organic and fluid design philosophy, harmonizing with its riverside setting. Inspired by water and nature, the award-winning design features a dynamic, transparent façade, a sculptural roofline, and a central courtyard with existing pine trees, seamlessly blending the built environment with the natural world while prioritizing sustainability and a sense of open privacy.

An eye-level exterior view of the Riverwave house by Kerimov Architects, showing its sweeping glass facade and organic roofline blending into a forest of tall pine trees and natural landscaping.

Riverwave by Kerimov Architects: A Bold Vision for Modern Living

Jenn Thornton October 29, 2025

Kerimov Architects’ Riverwave, a residential project in Texas, exemplifies the firm’s organic and fluid design philosophy, harmonizing with its riverside setting. Inspired by water and nature, the award-winning design features a dynamic, transparent façade, a sculptural roofline, and a central courtyard with existing pine trees, seamlessly blending the built environment with the natural world while prioritizing sustainability and a sense of open privacy.

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.

Specht Architects: The Modernist Marvel of New Mexico Residence Sangre De Cristo

Jenn Thornton May 17, 2023

The New Mexico Residence Sangre De Cristo, designed by Specht Architects, offers a modernist twist on Santa Fe’s traditional adobe style. Situated on a hilltop, the house harmonizes panoramic mountain views with the need for shade and climate protection. Specht Architects creatively embraced the region’s architectural restrictions while infusing fresh elements.

The Abilene Paradox: Why People Choose to Conform Rather than Speak Up

Warren Dow March 22, 2023

The Abilene Paradox is a phenomenon in which a group of people makes a unanimous decision that goes against their individual wishes and interests. It is a failure to manage agreement and is often a result of the pressure to conform in group decision-making. Today, this paradox is all around us, especially on social media platforms where members seek conformity at all costs, choosing to join the herd and acting against their own interests.

Ed Kaminsky Founder of The Kaminsky Real Estate Group

Constance Dunn December 8, 2021

Decades after entering the burgeoning real estate scene of the South Bay in the late 1980s, Ed Kaminsky has seen just about everything in the business. He consistently sells over 100 properties a year and has created a slew of companies in the real estate sphere.

Texas-based Architectural Firm Lake|Flato’s Horizon House

Jenn Thornton August 5, 2021

Soon to debut, Lake|Flato Houses: Respecting the Land (Rizzoli) is the latest foray for the firm, which was named AIA’s Firm of the Year in 2004, and whose remarkable, environmentally sensitive, and astute structures explore an intimate relationship to site and surround.

Dancing Light, Brent Kendle, Kendle Design Collaborative, Paradise Valley, Arizona, David Michael Miller, GBtwo Landscape Architecture, architecture

Vision in the Desert: High Design Meets Exceptional Natural Beauty

Karine Monié May 27, 2021

There is something about the desert that makes you want to spend time relaxing, observing and exploring. The colors and smells of the landscape, and the harsh yet beautiful environment where life surprisingly exists, among rocks and cacti, all contribute to this fascination. The architecture and interior design of these hospitality and residential projects perfectly capture the unique character of deserts across the West and Southwest.