Table of Contents May 2000

from the editor

• Hold On To Your Work

  How can you hold on to your work? How can you preserve it for yourself, your family, your prospective clients, your biographer?

   

practice

• Busting the Builders

  Like most architects in this time of booming home sales, Ann Capron is busy--too busy, she says, to chase builders who are copying her plans without her permission.

   

residential architect design awards

• Sharon's California House II, Manhattan Beach, Calif.

  When architect Gerald Horn saw the views of the Pacific from his clients' new property in Manhattan Beach, Calif., he knew just what to do: Turn their world upside down.

   

• Marek House, Chaska, Minn.

  On their 11 acres of agrarian land, these clients wanted to build "something simple and with good proportions."

   

• Ranch Shelter, Tom Green County, Texas

  The simplest things are sometimes the most powerful.

   

• Urban residence, Baltimore

  Old and new coexist happily in countless renovations, but rarely are they juxtaposed so ingeniously as on this home in urban Baltimore.

   
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  Blueprint 2000, Chapel Hill, N.C.

  When the editors of Better Homes & Gardens asked architect J. Carson Looney to design the ultimate house for the new century, he thought he'd be bound by tradition.

   
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  Desert Hills at Desert Mountain, Scottsdale, Ariz.

  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.

   
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  Charleston II, Kentlands, Md.

  Kentlands, a Neo-Traditional community on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., just keeps on winning accolades--for its master planners, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. (DPZ), and for the architects who've followed their guidelines.

   

introduction

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  Provence at Anthem, plan 2, Las Vegas

  In our first annual design competition, judges selected 24 projects for awards, out of more than 300 entries.

   

project of the year

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  Withers Residence, Accokeek, Md.

  Judges chose as project of the year a modest structure covered in asphalt shingles and corrugated metal, built for a bargain $80 a square foot.

   

renovation

• Hanson Sciannella Residence, Rockville, Md.

  The judges admired this interior transformation of a formerly dark, chopped-up ranch house.

   

• Weiner Residence, Washington, D.C.

  The program for this Washington, D.C., remodel was out of the ordinary, so architect Mark McInturff came up with a fittingly unusual solution.

   

• Private residence

  From the front, this suburban Boston remodel doesn't appear too different from its "before" photographs.

   

multifamily

• South Side Housing, Pittsburgh

  For designing urban expansion that enhances the community, South Side Housing takes top honors.

   

• Brezza Condominiums, Kirkland, Wash.

  Italy's celebrated hill towns were the inspiration for Brezza ("breeze" in Italian) Condominiums, a multifamily complex located on a steep hillside above Kirkland, Wash.

   

• Museum Heights Condominiums, Brentwood, Calif.

  What do you do with a site that is superbly located down the road from the J. Paul Getty Museum, but is also steeply raked and adjacent to one of the nation's busiest freeways?

   
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  The Gate, Hoboken, N.J.

  Dean Marchetto did his homework before embarking on the design of this 10-unit, Arts-and-Crafts influenced apartment complex in Hoboken, N.J.

   

Affordable

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  Villa Flores, Los Angeles

  Villa Flores isn't just a multiple-award-winning affordable senior housing community. It's also the prototype for a group of projects to be built on the same church-owned block in downtown Los Angeles.

   
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  Urban residence, Lawrence, Kan.

  Looks like a bunch of friends got together and put something really unique together, the judges said. "It's a slam dunk."

   
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  West Boulevard, Los Angeles

  West Boulevard's boldly striped entry and mix of unit types captured the judges' attention and imagination.

   
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  Midway School Apartments, Midway, Ky.

  In 1926, when the Midway School's first students were gazing wistfully out the windows, who knew they might live there someday as senior citizens?

   

on the boards

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  The Saulet, New Orleans

  Like many tourist meccas, New Orleans faces the thorny problems of overcrowding and urban growth. So our hats are off to James, Harwick + Partners, who offer a head-on solution with the Saulet.

   
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  McAllister Point Model Homes, The Ford Plantation, Richmond Hill, Georgia

  Ferguson Shamamian & Rattner's graceful concept for McAllister Point Model Homes, a master planned community on the grounds of an 18th century plantation, befits the project's historical setting.

   
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  Picard/Samsel Residence, Dewees Island, S.C.

  Designing a residence for tiny Dewees Island, near Charleston, S.C., has presented architect Whitney Powers with a host of challenges.

   
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  Mansion Condominiums at Playa Vista, Los Angeles

  The judges applauded the romantic contextuality of the Mansion Condominiums at Playa Vista. "It is L.A.," said one.

   

doctor spec

• Winning Metals

  New-look metal roofing offers a broad range of styles, reliable performance, and easy installation.