Berkeley-based Terry & Terry Architecture designed a single-story addition and renovation to an existing mid-century ranch house owned by a retired couple in Menlo Park, California.
Robert Gurney’s Wissioming2 is a suburban refuge outside bustling Washington, D.C., with Mondrian-inspired windows and cubic volumes nestled in the Maryland woods.
While Washingtonians haven’t exactly led the pack in their desire for modern residences, Robert Gurney, a D.C.-based architect, says that has dramatically changed since he began his practice in 1990.
Architect Jon Frishman spent more than a decade building his own 1,400-square-foot home and studio located on a steep parcel in Laurel Canyon, the increasingly pricey Los Angeles neighborhood bordering West Hollywood.
Completed in November 2009, the pool house is the first phase of a larger single-family residential building project on a large flag-shaped lot in South Pasadena, just northeast of Los Angeles.
Located in Toronto’s Summerhill neighborhood, this single-family 4,000-square-foot, four-story house overlooks a forested ravine to the south, taking advantage of views of the city skyline during the winter months and the lush ravine in summer months.
Since 2008, Australia has been a cautious bystander to the worldwide recession, and the city of Perth in Western Australia has pressed ahead with several major building projects, including a new 45-story office tower and plans for a six-star, 500-room luxury hotel in the city’s outskirts.
While it is the view that draws most visitors to the New Heights Restaurant, located on the top floor of the Renaissance-style Three on the Bund building in Shanghai, there is now one more reason to make a stop—a striking new bathroom design by Shanghai-based Neri & Hu Design and Research Office (NHDRO).
The remote northeastern peninsula of Furillen, on the island of Gotland, is about as far as one can go in Sweden before the Baltic gives way to Eastern Europe.