Articles by Sarah Amelar

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

May 21, 2015

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

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.

Shulman Home & Studio by Raphael Soriano and Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects

Los Angeles

Sarah Amelar

April 16, 2015

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A photographer's midcentury house, little changed over the decades, is sensitively restored for a young family.

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.

Belluschi House Additions and Restoration

Sarah Amelar

February 15, 2015

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A house designed by Pietro Belluschi in Portland, Oregon, has been renovated and expanded with sensitivity and imagination by his son Anthony.

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

Sequoyah School Expansion by Fung + Blatt Architects

Pasadena, California

Sarah Amelar

January 16, 2015

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Located near a major freeway, a school becomes an unexpectedly protected and inviting enclave for learning.

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.

Exhibition Review: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz

Sarah Amelar

October 20, 2014

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Playful yet menacing, the fangs of a grinning dragon greet you as you enter @Large, dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s extensive installation at Alcatraz, the notorious former prison in San Francisco Bay.