Residential Architect Magazine: colorado

Colorado Mountain Home in Aspen

Fri, 7 Jun 2013 01:48:14 EST

A stacked-log Colorado mountain house is a year-round retreat and takes its cues from the great lodges of the western United States.

EHDA Grand Award: Phantom Canyon Ranch

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:50:10 EST

Nestled inside Colorado's Phantom Canyon Ranch Preserve, the LEED-Gold home offers unobstructed views of the Rocky Mountains.

venice beach lofts, venice, calif.

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 02:39:58 EST

Steven Ehrlich Architects' design for this four-unit loft project caught the judges' attention with its high level of livability.

casas de rio grande, del norte, colo.

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:46:29 EST

Sometimes limitations can produce poetic results. Take Del Norte, Colo., affordable senior housing community Casas de Rio Grande, where Ron Faleide, AIA, used budget constraints as a framework for the building's clever floor plan.

wildcat ridge residence, snowmass, colo.

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:46:36 EST

Bartholomew Voorsanger, FAIA, says this 200-acre site in Snowmass, Colo., is “easily one of the most spectacular I've worked on.”

bluff calling

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:54:20 EST

The restaurateurs who own this Colorado home wanted a house that could absorb entertaining on a grand scale while also serving as a quiet refuge for their family of six. A 12-acre parcel of ranchland edged by sandstone bluffs gives them the peace they see

the museum residences, denver

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:19:53 EST

Designed by Studio Daniel Libeskind, Architect with Davis Partnership Architects, The Museum Residences complements the extension to the Denver Art Museum, acr

the wellington neighborhood, breckenridge, colo.

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:13:44 EST

The Wellington Neighborhood stands out not only for its architecture and master plan but also for its reclamation of a truly hardscrabble site. Previously home to a dredge mining operation, the land was severely damaged and pocked by great boulders.

belle creek, commerce city, colo.

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:20:03 EST

Arlo Braun wanted to design a community that integrated types and prices of homes on a "finer grain" than most planned developments.

paradise loft

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:55:03 EST

Before Semple Brown Design got to it, this downtown Denver loft in a former saddle factory counted as many minuses as it did plusses. Original exposed-brick walls and cast iron–clad timber pillars defined its 1,530 square feet of space, giving it the lived-in patina that makes lofts such a hot property type. But it only received sunlight from the north side of the building and contained little separation between its public and private spaces.

kitchen: small wonder

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:55:18 EST

Can you really squeeze a family of four and their Aspen accoutrement into an 1,100-square-foot condominium renovation? No problem, says architect Scott Lindenau. Well, the masonry block construction, low ceilings, and paucity of windows were a conundrum, but you wouldn't know it by the result—especially the clever kitchen-in-a-mahogany-box solution.