It Was an Abandoned, Barely Built Mansion. They Made It a Real Home Embracing the idea of a modern ruin, a Northern California couple carve a house out of the incomplete concrete garage and...
A Resilient Residence Replaces a Home Destroyed by Wildfire in Northern California After a devastating blaze, a Napa Valley couple rebuild with durability in mind.
Expanses of Glass and Broad Trellises Bring Clarity to a Renovated Home in San Francisco Architect Anne Fougeron softens and brightens a ’60s-era residence, adding a new glass pavilion.
A Silicon Valley Home Splits Around a Magnificent Blue Oak This sun-filled residence brings a suburban California site closer to its untamed roots.
This “Well-Behaved” Home Hides an Ocean of Blue Behind Its Doors Behind a subdued exterior, a San Francisco townhouse designed by OPA expresses its wild side.
An Architect Couple Open Up a Hilltop Home to Commanding Views The Berkeley aerie captures dramatic views and casts an eye to the future.
Before & After: A Data Scientist Renovates His Childhood Home in San Francisco Sprucing up the Cole Valley residence, which was built by the homeowner’s parents in 1939, was a matter of navigating treasured...
A Vancouver House Connects a Family Generations come together in a pair of homes on a single property in Vancouver.
A Modernist Dream House Makes the Most of a Rare Double Lot in Palo Alto After a few stabs at realizing their dream home, a couple hit the mark with a richly textured dwelling.
Space and Storage Needs Guide the Expansion of a Cottage North of San Francisco A family finds a place for everything as they expand their cramped Mill Valley home.
Devising Clever Solutions For a Small San Francisco Loft A software engineer outfits his tiny apartment with flexible design ideas.
Water Sports Energy-smart technology makes managing a Sausalito floating home easy, even from 6,000 miles away.
Domino Effect: How a Bedroom Refresh Jump-Started a Whole-House Remodel For a Tech Exec How a bedroom remodel jumped the threshold and infiltrated every room in the house.
Check Back After a stealth makeover, a California Craftsman gains light, space, and a partial facelift.
A Meadow With Amenities The owners of an airy woodland retreat can fit its caretaker in a pocket.
This Endless Playscape Is Complete With a Bamboo Forest and Trampoline A pleasure garden in northern California is rich in whimsical surprises.
A Couple Cuts Their Commute and Designs All Day When your house includes an industrial design studio, architecture office, and metalwork shop, what more do you need?
In a San Francisco Workshop, Kids Take on Carpentry with Mini Chisels and Saws A San Francisco woodworking studio for kids a both carpentry skills and an appreciation for design thinking.
A Prefab Texas Boathouse Gets Delivered to Lake Austin Designed as a prefabricated monolithic steel grid, the boathouse’s orthogonal frame was delivered from Houston by truck and then...
Project Runaway Driven by the death of several appliances, a San Francisco family finds that a spanking new kitchen delivers a good dose of...
Victorian Revival A couple’s dinner out at their neighborhood bistro provides just the right impetus for their restaurant-inspired kitchen...
Where the Sidewalk Ends After taking on San Francisco City Hall, architect Jane Martin helped spawn a movement that has rendered the city’s sidewalks...
The New Suburbanism When an urban expat couple decided to build the suburban house they wanted rather than the one their neighbors expected, they...
Worth the Wait Tucked into the side of a scenic San Francisco hill, one of the city’s more diminutive houses battles everything from dry rot to...
Model Worthy The true test of a kitchen’s mettle is not how it looks brand-new, but how it looks after a decade of wear and tear from heaving...
Bulthaup's B2 Kitchen System With its updated version of the old walk-in hearth, Bulthaup deconstructs the kitchen into a freestanding system fit for a modern...
Open Kitchen A San Francisco architect turns his “inefficiency” kitchen into a modestly scaled and well-lit place to cook, eat, work, and...
Johnny Grey on Kitchens of the Future The nephew of food guru Elizabeth David, Grey found validation for his design approach in the field of neuroscience.
Daniel Patterson on Kitchens of the Future According to this chef who routinely pushes the boundaries of how food is prepared and presented, the ideal kitchen will look...
Cardenio Petrucci on Kitchens of the Future Cardenio Petrucci has seen the kitchen assume increasing prominence, to the point where it’s akin to a piece of fine furniture.
Christine Rosen on Kitchens of the Future “Looking at the data, we will continue to eat more convenience foods and to gather less as a family, just as our kitchens become...
Antonio Citterio on Kitchens of the Future “As the kitchen assumes its place as the most important part of the home, we are thankfully moving away from the idea of...
Scott Hudson on Kitchens of the Future About eight years ago, Scott Hudson founded his Seattle-based company Henrybuilt (named for his grandfather) to try to fill the...
An Introduction to Kitchen Design The kitchen has evolved from a closed-off satellite to the most open, doted-upon room in the house—and repository of our dreams...
The Ungreening of America We asked Charles Birnbaum to point us to five unique landscapes that we can still take a peek at. He explains: “I’ve chosen...
The People's Park An amorphous profession, landscape architecture embraces everything from civic plazas, highways, and landfill reclamations to the...