Vernacular Studio’s 101 Lounge + Café is a destination for downtown Raleigh’s young professionals – and for the politicians who represent them at the state capitol. It celebrates the transitions around it – and revels in its own dualities. “There’s a lot of ‘form meets...
Photographer David Lena had the good fortune to shoot a classic mid-century modern in Southern California recently – and the sensitivity to appreciate its rarity. “It was striking how stark and clean the geometry was,” he said. “There were dark wooden beams that created a frame of walls and ceilings...
It may look new, but architect Chad Everhart’s “Farmhouse Redux” is built largely out of recycled materials. He and his wife bought the two-and-a-half acres where it stands near Boone, N.C. – along with an original 1930s-era farmhouse – in 2007. “We looked at it, and it was the cheapest...
New Canaan has its Glass House, and Miami its Pink House. Now Durham has its Cassilhaus. In a dynamic intersection of trapezoid-induced planes, architect Ellen Cassilly and her husband Frank Konhaus have stretched the boundaries of interior spaces to enrich the bonds between artists and collectors. Cassilhaus...
Nathan Wieler has rethought the links between ideas and the resources that make them real. He’s no stranger to cutting-edge concepts for 21st century living. In 1999, he developed Zoom Culture, a precursor to YouTube. In 2005, when he built the Original Dwell Home in Chatham County, N.C., The Washington...
Up until 2001, the Rockefellers used to slip away to a former dude ranch near the Grand Tetons, on a vast tract of land John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought in 1927. Over time, the family donated most of that land to the National Park Service, hanging on to 1,100 acres, until Laurence S. Rockefeller finally...
Think of the home that Carol Richard designed for herself and her husband as a carefully crafted light box. It’s sited on a tiny, 50- by 130-foot lot on Ross Street in the Sunset Hills neighborhood of Madison, Wis., facing due south. She placed it there to align it with the positions of the earth […]
What Tina Govan likes about the “Broken China” Farmhouse she designed and built in rural North Carolina is its strength and simplicity. “The structure and the materials speak for themselves,” she said. “It’s really clear how this building was put together.” It was built with a frame and lightweight,...
Boulder’s Barrett Studio Architects designed the Wee Ski Chalet for a client who dreamed of living at high altitudes – without high impact. Tucked into a ski resort, it’s accessible only by snowmobile during winter – a cozy retreat that doubles as a zero-energy home. It’s insulated...
