Residential Architect Magazine: Arizona

Barrio Historico House, Tucson, Ariz.

Tue, 5 Jun 2012 03:49:22 EST

The 2012 Custom Home of the Year is a brilliant reinterpretation of the traditional urban courtyard house.

1st Avenue Commercial Office, Tucson, Ariz.

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:45:25 EST

An old fried chicken restaurant becomes a new light-filled architecture studio and workshop.

Barrio Historico House

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:10:44 EST

2011 Annual Design Review: Live: Citation

Cedar Street Residence, Tempe, Ariz.

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:43:59 EST

Separate buildings facing a private courtyard form an innovative suburban live/work dwelling.

the villas at golden eagle village, superstition mountain, ariz.

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 02:40:41 EST

This project's unusually strong relationship to its desert site in a master planned community near Scottsdale, Ariz., earned it winning marks. "It's contextual with its surroundings and sits gently on the landscape," said one judge.

terra firma

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:22:37 EST

Bill Mackey, RA, and his wife, Rachel Yaseen, are true urbanists. The Tucson, Ariz., residents don't own a car, preferring instead to walk or to get around on bicycles or via a golf cart—which, apparently, is street-legal there.

the six, tucson, ariz.

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:09:17 EST

Ibarra Rosano Design Architects, Tucson. The houses in this Arizona infill development didn't have anywhere to turn. Built on the back sections of deep lots, four of the six face private drives and the fences of nearby buildings.

desert gate

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:17:37 EST

Luis Ibarra says courtyards are the best “technique for living in the desert climate.” In fact, his latest development project with partner (and wife) Teresa Rosano, RA, LEED AP, counts on the appeal of courtyard living to sell six spec houses.

designbuild collaborative

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:18:03 EST

When three architectural firms needed new offices for their respective practices, they joined forces to find an old building in an urban setting.

hassayampa academic village at arizona state university, tempe, ariz.

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:14:01 EST

Machado and Silvetti Associates + Gould Evans, LLC, Boston. The judges loved the shocks of color that distinguish the three courtyards at this campus housing complex in Tempe, Ariz.

the duke, scottsdale, ariz.

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:08:51 EST

These townhouses contribute vibrancy to a mixed neighborhood of light-industrial structures and multifamily residential buildings of the clay tile-and-stucco variety. Our judges praised the project's “remarkable color” and “beautiful elevations”; one note

xeros residence, phoenix

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:13:39 EST

residential architect's Project of the Year exhibits a startling originality that elevated it above the rest of the winners. “There's stuff in here I've never seen before,” marveled a judge, and the other jurors agreed.

Ibarra Rosano Design Architects

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:18:04 EST

Husband-and-wife architects Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano, RA, LEED AP, didn't need a lot of elbowroom for their five-person firm, but they did want separate public and private realms for their at-home office.

two townhouses

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:13:17 EST

For Teresa Rosano, RA, LEED AP, and Luis Ibarra, designing a home is about more than just eye-catching aesthetics. The couple strives to produce spaces that actually improve their occupants' quality of life. And apparently, they're so good at achieving both lofty goals, they inspire missionary zeal in others—among them, former clients Desi and Jerry Winter. Moved by the house the firm created for them, the couple offered to support the architects' own dream projects. Page Repp Jr., a trained architect and builder in Tucson, also joined in the venture and thus, Dreamspace, the design/build/development company, was launched. The ambitious name spells out the company's two-pronged goal: to make thoughtfully designed and well-built urban infill houses and, ultimately, to improve the built and natural environment of their hometown. “We like doing custom work, but those sites are out in the desert, and all of us believe in living close to work, shopping, and restaurants,” Rosano explains.

Sausalito, Calif., Residence

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:47:56 EST

Architect Mary Griffin had lived in this house—the oldest in Sausalito, Calif.—for 15 years by the time she remodeled it.

barrio metalico, tucson, ariz.

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:17:27 EST

These nine homes were conceived as idiosyncratic, low-budget specials to jump-start a mixed-use neighborhood while the architects worked on an adjacent three-year conversion of an old icehouse into lofts. Rob Paulus, AIA, put a premium on light, volume, a

winter residence, tucson, ariz.

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 02:42:38 EST

The spa sybarites who commissioned this master bath remodel are so taken with the experience they're considering a plunge into the spa business.

Desert Hills at Desert Mountain, Scottsdale, Ariz.

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:21:02 EST

Desert Hills' Scottsdale, Ariz., setting is filled with scenic views of the Sonoran Desert, but they alone didn't satisfy project architect Rick New of Downing, Thorpe & James.