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An Urban Garden in Philadelphia

Otto Architects creates a tiny backyard oasis.

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Thicker Cabinets from Minimal

A thicker veneer makes for stronger cabinets from this Italian kitchen and bathroom products designer.
Watermark’s Zen Bath Fixtures

Watermark’s Zen Collection uses a rare earth magnet to eliminate screws in these bath faucet handles.
Kauri , Emil Ceramica

These eye-catching tiles mimic the timeless beauty of fossilized wood.

Kiawah Island Custom Home Connects to Nature

A coastal Carolina residence by Thomas & Denzinger Architects protects against storms while nourishing the soul.

Slideshow of the Week

Grown-ups aren’t the only ones in need of home office space. This charming homework spot for a family with three kids provides storage, lighting, and built-in pegboards.
Project: Sunset View, Rockford, Mich.; Architect: Visbeen Architects, Chicago; Builder: Insignia Homes, Kentwood, Mich.

Design Details: Home Offices

Home offices are taking on new shapes to meet the needs of buyers of all kinds.

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Kiawah Island Custom Home Connects to Nature
A coastal Carolina residence by Thomas & Denzinger Architects protects against storms while nourishing the soul.
Case Study: Kafka Residence Kitchen
A Southern California kitchen blends seamlessly into a living/dining room and deck.
Case Study: Kohout Residence Bath
A modern master bath frames a prairie view.

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Kitchen

Case Study: Kafka Residence Kitchen
A Southern California kitchen blends seamlessly into a living/dining room and deck.
Case Study: Arts and Crafts Kitchen
An Arts and Crafts kitchen renovation in Minneapolis, Minn.
Seattle Kitchen and Bath Maximize Water Views
This home's kitchen and master bath both capture panoramic water views and simultaneously propagate intimacy, privacy, and noise abatement for the homeowners.

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sustainable

Active House Enters Testing Phase
Ultra-efficient and healthy home to be monitored for a year post-occupancy.
Philadelphia Gets Its First Passive House-Certified Homes
Opening next month, the Stables net-zero-energy townhomes will be the city's first residential Passive House project.
Textile-Covered Soft House Opens in Hamburg
An international team led by KVA MATx and 360grad + Architekten designed ‘soft’ domestic infrastructure for a set of live/work residences that embraces carbon-neutral lifestyles.

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Blog: As We See It

Prefab Pavilion Highlights Salvaged Materials

Reclaimed wood and glass bottles make up a 213-square-foot outbuilding.
Marianne Cusato on the American Dream Home

Designer and author Marianne Cusato spoke recently at the National Building Museum.
A Burning Topic: Charred Wood

Architects are warming up to burned wood siding.

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As We See It

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Dollars for Density

Strategies for growth and wellbeing.

Practice

Social Justice Propels Today's Young Design Professionals
When pursuing jobs in the design profession, young graduates want to bring their conscience to work.
How to Talk to Clients
Architects are trained to use esoteric language to establish their authority. But to get things built they need to both inspire people and put them at ease.
What Will the Future of Residential Architecture Bring?
In this industry moment poised between post-crash and comeback, it's a good time to pause, look around, and ask how we'll move forward.

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Up Front

Power Struggle
Today's kitchen command center is a tangle of mobile devices vying for a place to plug in.
It's Time to Build Houses Again
What we need are some compelling reasons in our arsenal to convince people to go ahead and build that dream house. Here are a few of those reasons.
Why Continually Build and Renovate When We Can Design For Flexible Function?
The problem we and others face is the inherent inflexibility of conventional architectural design and construction.

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Current Issue

March-April 2013

In this issue we give you Washington, D.C.'s promising young modernist firm David Jameson Architect, new products fit to print, three case studies in kitchen and bath, and more.

Monograph: David Jameson Architect

The Washington, D.C.-based firm's work shows a bold inventiveness driven by a persuasive architectural logic.
Case Study: Arts and Crafts Kitchen

An Arts and Crafts kitchen renovation in Minneapolis, Minn.
An Urban Garden in Philadelphia

Otto Architects creates a tiny backyard oasis.
Workspace: LopezLopez Arquitectura

A young Spanish firm transforms a dark office space.

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Architect Adele Chang works directly with residential developers to push better design through to larger numbers of Americans. Recorded at Residential Architect’s Reinvention Symposium.

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