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BAR Architects' office occupies a light-filled former warehouse in downtown San Francisco

BAR Architects works out of a renovated 1920s warehouse in San Francisco.

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Reinvention 2011: Phoenix Housing Tour

Residential architects and designers from across the country grabbed a boxed lunch and climbed aboard buses for the popular housing tour that kicks off Reinvention each year.

design portfolio: high-rises

one madison park (left) cuts a svelte figure in the manhattan skyline thanks to a design concept in which pods cantilever from the buildings main shaft.

One Madison Park, New York

One Madison Park is a study in proportion and lightness.

22 west condominiums, washington, d.c.

Shalom Baranes Associates, Washington, D.C. The site for this luxury condo building is...

cantilevered balconies and floor-to-ceiling windows give each unit glorious views.

contemporaine, chicago

Not since the glory days of Modernism have high design and high-rise housing often...

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Double Loft in Providence, R.I., by 3six0 Architecture

3six0 tailors a 4,000-square-foot loft into two distinct spaces for a husband and wife.

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Tea House, Bethesda, Md.
This elegant pavilion by David Jameson Architect takes the tea ceremony to a new level.
Steel Stair, Seattle
A stair of perforated steel and solid steel plate brightens a once-dark stairwell.
Kit of Parts, Washington, D.C.
Simple materials combine to form a flexible and elegant storage solution that leaves the existing interior architecture intact.

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Mixed-Use

The Family Business Comes Home In This San Francisco Mixed-Use Space
A remodeled San Francisco building houses work and living spaces for a creative and enterprising family.
Locust Street Addition, Philadelphia
Two architects inserted a sliver of an addition into an existing commercial space.
Hancock Mixed-Use, West Hollywood, Calif.
This West Hollywood, Calif., project combines an impressive mix of uses in less than an acre.

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Shelter Lab

A Mixed-Use Building Serves Cycle Commuters
An energy efficient, transit-oriented apartment building taps the cycle-commuting market.
Solar Decathlon entry will become Habitat for Humanity duplex
A project entered in the Solar Decathlon will be moved to a Washington, D.C. neighborhood to become a net-zero energy, Habitat for Humanity duplex.
A sheer twist on infill housing in San Antonio
A perforated aluminum wrapper elevates a San Antonio project.
Architect Matthew Hofmann's Airstream Is Both Home and Office
A remodeled Airstream trailer provides a cozy, portable live/work space.
An ambitious effort by two New York architects to make good design more available.
Architects Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen of workshop/apd envision a simpler, more sophisticated process for customized residential design.

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Practice

When dealing with clients and banks, architects need to be smart about what's normally routine paperwork

How architects are navigating today's precipitous lending landscape.
Is it time to regulate residential design?

The debate of architect vs. designer has taken on new fervor in this cutthroat economy.
U.S. Architects Take Business Overseas

With the economic recovery stuck in low gear, U.S. architects are looking overseas for commissions.

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Everyone must be an entrepreneur as traditional paths of doing business disintegrate across professions.

Adapting to an unpredictable economy means finding your inner entrepreneur.

Architects' Choice

Studio D'Arc Architects

Gerard Damiani and Debbie Battistone pick their favorite low-cost and high-end products.

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New Material

Moen's Viq Collection

The Viq Collection is a minimalist stainless steel hardware series.

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In this issue we feature a "chicken chapel" from a student design/build program, a San Francisco firm creates layered experiences within polished spaces, an energy-efficient, transit-oriented apartment building taps the cycle-commuting market and more.

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Summer design/build studio creates a refined chicken coop

The partners at Moskow Linn Architects have created a unique summer design/build program.
Aidlin Darling Design creates practical poetry

Work by San Francisco's Aidlin Darling Design appeals to both the eye and the soul.
A Mixed-Use Building Serves Cycle Commuters

An energy efficient, transit-oriented apartment building taps the cycle-commuting market.

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ra50: the short list

ra50: Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects

Turnbull Griffin Haesloop deftly weaves architecture into the landscape, and vice versa.
ra50: Studio Pali Fekete Architects

SPF:architects produces work that's notable for both its power and its restraint.
ra50: Stuart Cohen & Julie Hacker Architects

Stuart Cohen and Julie Hacker set the standard for creativity within a traditional vocabulary.
ra50: Shope Reno Wharton Architecture

Shope Reno Wharton Architecture applies contemporary standards of performance and space planning to classically based architectural styles.

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From the Editor

Despite the recession, too much compromise can be bad for business

Sticking to your guns in tough times is tremendously difficult, but the alternative may be worse.
The Internet can do a lot to help businesses, but many have yet to feel the sting of its dark side

Thanks to the Web, your next design critic is powered by Google.
Feud Between Architects and Their Unlicensed Competition Continues

No debate in the profession has raged louder or longer than licensed architects versus designers.

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Virtual Reinvention 2010: Architect +/- Client

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Inside the Home: Charles Village Townhouse

Senior editor Nigel Maynard visits Baltimore, Md., to tour a townhouse renovation by Alexander Design studio. Nigel meets with the principal and project lead to find out how they transformed a typical row house into a well-lit, environmentally sensitive, modern home for owners moving back to the city after a life in the suburbs.

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