When code prohibited the addition of an entirely new master bedroom suite to this Cold Spring, New York, residence, Jennifer Marsh, of Mowery Marsh Architect, proposed that the client invest in an elegant new bathroom instead.

Close to downtown Phoenix, local firm [merz]project was hired to design an addition to a single-family bungalow in the city’s Ashland Historic District.

Set on the shore of Lake Okoboji in rural Iowa, this residence was conceived as a series of spatial sequences that flow into the lake beyond.

On a 20-acre site in Southern California’s Santa Ynez Valley, Frederick Fisher and Partners designed a large house open to its surroundings, taking advantage of the area’s balmy climate and stunning landscapes.

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.

“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. 

For her Manhattan kitchen, Emmett Roepke’s film-producer client wanted a modern overhaul that was nonetheless mellow enough to let her cooking take center stage.

Painting pictures with words would seem to be a lawyer’s strength. But when a single father of two contacted Bethesda, Maryland–based Shinberg Levinas two and a half years ago requesting a master suite for his house nearby, partners Salo Levinas, AIA, and Antonio Vintro were given no hint that this suburban spread was dismal.

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.

From the third floor of a 102-year-old town house in San Francisco’s Cole Valley, seeing is unbelievable.