Articles by Sarah Amelar

Frank Gehry's Winton Guest House to Move...Again

Sarah Amelar
May 21, 2015
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Once valued at $4.5 million, the 1987 Minnesota residence sells at auction for a $905,000 and will be transplanted to upstate New York. Photo © University of St. Thomas The Frank Gehry-designed Winton Guest House—which was moved 110 miles from its original Minnesota site barely five years ago—sold at auction May 19th with the condition that the new owners must transplant it yet again. After just four bids at Wright’s auction house, the hammer came down at $750,000, setting the final sale price (which includes an additional transaction fee) at $905,000. While that figure falls short of the $1-to-$1.5 million expected—and
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Barneys Beverly Hills

Retail Therapy: A New York architect transforms unused spaces to give Barneys' Beverly Hills outpost a sumptuous makeover.
Sarah Amelar
May 16, 2015
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A New York architect transforms unused spaces to give Barneys' Beverly Hills outpost a sumptuous makeover.


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Pico Branch Library

Food for Thought: An inventive new library, in a park with a greenmarket, aims to be a beacon for a challenged community.
Sarah Amelar
March 16, 2015
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An inventive new library, in a park with a greenmarket, aims to be a beacon for a challenged community. The Pico Branch Library, a recent work by Koning Eizenberg (KE), is the first new public library branch in Santa Monica, California, in nearly 60 years.


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Clock is Ticking on Two Important Houses

Sarah Amelar
January 20, 2015
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Photo © University of St. Thomas Frank Gehry’s Winton Guesthouse on the University of St. Thomas campus, 2011.  Most buildings never leave their original sites, but Frank Gehry’s 1987 Winton Guesthouse may be facing its second move within six years. And another remarkable house from the banks of Minnesota’s Lake Minnetonka—the 1972 Dayton House by Romaldo Giurgola—is poised for an ambitious relocation of its own. Photo © Rollin R. LaFrance/Courtesy Mitchell|Giurgola Architects Romaldo Giurgola’s 1970 Dayton Residence in Wayzata, Minnesota There, wealthy shoreline communities have a history of great architectural patronage, as well as stunning losses. In Wayzata, Frank Lloyd
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Lake Minnetonka Retreat Home

Sarah Amelar
November 15, 2014
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Though inspiration sometimes emerges slowly, it can also flash unexpectedly, like a bolt of lightning'as it did the first time architects Julie Snow and Matthew Kreilich caught a glimpse of their clients' site along Minnesota's Lake Minnetonka.


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