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Villa Meindersma: Dutch Doughnut House
The New York Times 9.11.08

Check out this circular family dwelling in Haaksbergen, the Netherlands. The New York Times shows us how the Meindersma family lives in one continuous modern space that curves around an outdoor cour...

Modern Hamptons Home, Half Underground
The New York Times 7.24.08

Karin Waisman and Carlos Brillembourg built a narrow house on a narrow lot in Southhampton. The sparsely furnished home takes advantage of vertical space and is nestled into the ground to add square...

Customized Hong Kong Apartment
The New York Times 07.23.08

Joanne Ooi is the creative director of Shanghai Tang, a large retailer that specializes in modern Chinese clothing (there is a New York location on Madison Avenue). The New York Times give us a peek...

Built-in and Rotating Bookshelves at the Franz Kafka Society Center

The pictures of the newly renovated Franz Kafka Society Center in Prague left us swooning for a built-in bookshelf budget of our own. Designed by architects Steven Holl and Marcela Steinbachová, th...

Light-filled California Home
The New York Times Magazine 6.15.08

This angular home, perched on a hilltop in Southern California, was designed by architect Tom Kundig to take advantage of its unique position and embrace the indoor-outdoor life. Pilar Viladas of Th...

The 2008 Architecture Issue
The New York Times Magazine 6.8.08

Did you catch the recent Architecture-themed issue of The New York Times Magazine? If you missed the printed edition on Sunday, you can still find it online. With a broad theme like Architecture, we g...

Queens Modern
New York Magazine 5.19.08

Here's another unexpected home featured in New York Magazine: The Hsu family built a modern home in Flushing, Queens with the design help of architecture firm Grzywinski Pons. The high-design aesthe...

White Lacquer Apartment
New York Magazine 5.19.08

We were especially excited to see the newest New York Magazine in our mailbox on Monday — it's their Interiors Issue! Flipping through the six featured homes, we read the White One first. Totally ...

Modern Connecticut Country House
The New York Times 5.4.08

The Connecticut weekend home of Style Guy Glenn O'Brien and Gina Nanni was our favorite part of the latest T Style Magazine from The New York Times. A modern renovation of a 1940's two-story house, ...

Sketchpad: Garden Apartment
The New York Times 5.4.08

The most recent Sketch Pad feature from The New York Times highlights a one bedroom apartment with garden space in the Flatiron District. This garden level apartment has an additional studio buildin...

Inspiration: Small Parisian Garden Shed Apartment

This dwelling was created in a backyard shed for use by a teenager. The structure, divided into four stories, is both extremely small and undeniably cool. Made entirely of birch plywood, the interio...

House Among Rocks
The New York Times 4.24.08

A New York sculptor who works with stone, Elyn Zimmerman built a new home and studio among the rocks in Oaji, California. The New York Times gives us a peek inside the modern and "disciplined interi...

Townhouse Transformed
New York Magazine 4.13.08

The new issue of New York Magazine features their special Vu. real estate section which is always chock-full of fascinating projects. Our favorite? The transformation of Adam Gordon's Jane Street To...

Modern Family Home
The New York Times 4.13.08

The Radziner-Cottle home in Venice California was recently featured in The New York Times Magazine and we found it very inspirational. Though the house is large, the abundance of large windows and s...

Modernlink Duplex Loft
NYT 4.6.08

The downtown home of William Lee, founder of NoHo's Modernlink, was featured in The New York Times, yesterday. We've always been a fan of Modernlink and it's a great treat to see how someone with an...

Saving Downtown Syracuse & Restoring an Eames Lounge
NYT House & Home Roundup 4.3.08

The picture at left is the home of the Dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture, Mark Robbins. The New York Times shows us how Robbins has helped to jump-start the Syracuse community into ...

Funhouse in East Hampton
NYT House & Home Roundup 4.3.08

For those that found yesterday's post on purposefully crooked frames hard to swallow — turn away! You are likely to go into shock. The Bioscleave House in East Hampton was designed by artists Made...

Timber Loft in London

In a shell of an existing loft space in South Kensington, London, Hogarth Architects have created a beautifully warm interior with the addition of a two-floor timber structure. The timber structure ...

Rhode Island Firehouse
NYT House & Home Roundup 3.20.08

The artists Wendy Edwards and Jerry Mischak have transformed an old firehouse in Rumford, Rhode Island into a building that houses both of their studios and their home. The New York Times is sure to...

West Village Modern On the Cheap
NYT House & Home Roundup 3.20.08

This look into the West Village home of Suchitra Van and Nette Gaastra should be popular with AT readers. The New York Times shows us the results when the couple transformed their 435-square-foot st...

House Tour: Chicago Green Experiment
NYT House & Home Roundup 3.13.08

Today's New York Times features a thoughtful and beautiful modern redesign of a warehouse. Frances Whitehead and James Elniski, faculty members at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, embrace...

Sketch Pad: Harlem Townhouse
NYT 3.2.08

This month's Sketch Pad feature re-imagines a Harlem Townhouse designed by William B. Tuthill, the architect for Carnegie Hall. The architect for this hypothetical project is Geoff Lynch of 3 Hardy ...

House Tour: Industrial Work / Live Space
NYT 3.2.08

Reinventing space takes great vision. Sometimes the simplicity of raw materials like cement, concrete block, white subway tiles and even rusting metal panels can be used to elevate a space. A former...

Lumen Box Room System
Time Out New York 2.27.08

This design is a quick and cheap fix to create a separate space in a larger room of an apartment. Featured in this week's Time Out New York, the Lumen Box Room System design comes from architect Fre...

House Tour: South Street Seaport
Metropolitan Home: March 2008

The March issue of Metropolitan Home is full of ideas for small spaces. In addition to showcasing beautiful homes, the issue offers a roundup of small-scaled furniture and the editorial staff's own ...