“This project was a study in urban bachelor-pad living,” says architect Cass Calder Smith of a two-story San Francisco house he built for a single 30-something.
Casa Domus was just another model home in another Mexico City-area subdivision when an Italian furniture importer and her husband purchased it, and subsequently asked the developer to leave any outstanding interior work unfinished.
In renovating a historic Vancouver residence, local firm Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden achieved a deft melding of old and new that centers on an exuberantly hued, light-strewn kitchen.