Milan-based architect Matteo Thun strives to “respect the soul of a place.”

This month’s selection features innovative textures, soundproofing, and state-of-the-art bonding — bringing glass to a new level of clarity, functionality, and aesthetics.

These window products have savings in mind. For some, it is about saving time, money, labor, and maintenance, as with a reassembled unitized-curtain-wall system. Others are concerned with saving energy, the environment, or even lives.

Who was it who said, “God is in the details”? The Pavlovian response is Mies van der Rohe, who was purported to have said it during a 1959 interview with theNew York Herald Tribune.

From rain-screen technology and whole house dehumidification to enhanced sheathing and roof underlayment, this month’s selection homes in on excessive moisture and humidity—whether it’s pounding the exterior of a structure or coming from within the building itself.

From rain-screen technology and whole house dehumidification to enhanced sheathing and roof underlayment, this month’s selection homes in on excessive moisture and humidity—whether it’s pounding the exterior of a structure or coming from within the building itself.

Part of a re-design for a lackluster but well located town house in the center of downtown Toronto, this efficient yet kitchen provides the owners with a formal dining/entertaining room and an area for casual eating—both indoors and out.

Los Angeles, California Swift Lee Office Textural elements modify stark simplicity. Photo ' Elon Schoenholz This basic white kitchen, part of the rehab of a 1960s Beverly Hills residence, pushes all the right buttons with it’s monochromatic palette, floating work stations, wall of tall cabinets for storage and appliances, lots of natural light, terrazzo flooring, and a dimensionally textural wall made of a custom masonry veneer that mimics an existing pattern along the home’s west exterior wall—once again proving that over used axiom, “God is in the details”. Architect: Swift Lee Office Interior Designer: Carole Katleman General Contractor: Hans J.

Designed for a concert cellist cum underwater photographer, this kitchen in a 1910 San Francisco loft is part of a residence/gallery/recital space meant to be as public as it is private.